photography – PSafe Blog https://www.psafe.com/en/blog Articles and news about Mobile Security, Android, Apps, Social Media and Technology in general. Thu, 19 Jan 2023 14:49:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 https://www.psafe.com/en/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/cropped-psafe_blog_purple-shield-32x32.png photography – PSafe Blog https://www.psafe.com/en/blog 32 32 <![CDATA[The Best Photo Storage Apps for Your Device]]> https://www.psafe.com/en/blog/best-photo-storage-apps-device/ Wed, 19 Oct 2016 11:24:21 +0000 https://www.psafe.com/en/blog/?p=4875 Photos and videos can suck up huge amounts of your storage space, leaving you without enough room for new apps. Limited storage space makes your entire system slow to a crawl. Luckily, there are plenty of cloud apps that let you store your photos away from your phone, freeing up extra room on your device. Here are three of our favorites.

Amazon Photos
With this app, you’ll have unlimited space to store your photos. This app also offers a feature that lets you automatically sync your photos to your Amazon Cloud drive. The app works really well unless you try and download a larger image, at which time the Cloud drive will automatically make the picture smaller. Although, most phone cameras capture smaller images, some Android cameras can capture large megapixel pictures, so this might not be the app for you. If you’re an Amazon Prime member, the Cloud Drive Photos is free to use. If you’re not, you can buy the app and cloud storage for $11.99 per year.

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Google Photos
Google Photos is an editing app that helps you store and sort your photos on cloud storage. Although the app is already the default photo editing app on most Android phones, it’s also a good app to store and edit your photos. In addition to offering cloud sorting and automatic sync, the free Google Photos app lets you work with automatic editing features and search your photos using an image analysis.

Uploadr
The mobile app paired with the popular photo sharing community Flickr works so well because you can set it to automatically upload your photos in bulk. Flickr gives you tons of free cloud storage, too — 1TB to be exact, which stores more than 300,000 average-sized photos. To scroll through and share your photos, Flickr has the technology down pat. While the phone uploader is free, you’ll have to pay $5.99 per month to use the uploader for desktops. One problem with Flickr, however, is that it won’t accept RAW files. Plus, Yahoo doesn’t always provide excellent customer service to Flickr users.

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<![CDATA[How to Make the Most Out of Your Pinterest Account]]> https://www.psafe.com/en/blog/make-pinterest-account/ Tue, 20 Sep 2016 17:45:40 +0000 https://www.psafe.com/en/blog/?p=3837 It doesn’t matter if it’s the latest tech, slow cooker recipes, or shabby chic do-it-yourself home decor — chances are, you have already created an account on Pinterest, and have already made a slew of boards surrounding your interests.

But Pinterest is far more than another social media network and a place to hold ideas you may never get around to actually completing. Read on for tips on how to make the most out of Pinterest.

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It’s All About Organization
Pinterest is a tool that’s an incredibly beneficial way to keep things organized, without the mass of sticky notes. If you are moving to a new home or apartment, for example, you can pin related things that you want to remember for the next place. It could be a board devoted to moving, featuring tips and tricks for a seamless transition. You could create another board that deals with how you plan to decorate your bedroom or your home office.

Private Boards
You don’t have to air all of your boards. Sometimes, you want a little privacy — and as your followers grow, you may want to keep some things to yourself, like your obsession with Justin Bieber or Pokemon GO. Create a private board to hold things that you don’t want the world to see, or that you only want to share with a select few.

Collaborate on Projects
More than just a solo deal, Pinterest invites collaboration. If you were beginning a business, you could pin decorating and business ideas, then share the links with your partner or family member. This way, you are always on the same page, and can comment back and forth about the shared pin easily. Do you plan events? Do you have an upcoming wedding, a birthday party, or a family reunion? Whatever it is, you can use Pinterest to store those ideas and share them with relevant people.

Complete Your Profile
Don’t leave Pinterest browsers guessing who you are and what you are about. The best reason to have a complete profile is so that you will gain new followers. These people will likely be fellow pinners that are interested in what you are sharing — so you can then click on their profile to check out their shares, and view similar pins that reflect your style.

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<![CDATA[Best Apps to Upgrade the Quality of Your Photos]]> https://www.psafe.com/en/blog/best-apps-upgrade-quality-photos/ Wed, 10 Aug 2016 21:38:18 +0000 https://www.psafe.com/en/blog/?p=2831 Many people use their smartphones to take photos. But sometimes, the photos your Android takes can be lacking that extra something. Maybe you need a camera that gives you better focus. Or you want to be able to take pictures with a wider variety of exposures. Or you just need more emojis to stick over your friends’ faces. We don’t judge. Whatever you’d like your phone camera to do, one of these high-quality apps can deliver. Read on to choose your favorite.

1. Camera FV-5

Price: $3.95

Best features:

  • Gives you control over exposure, ISO, focus mode, light metering mode, and program mode.
  • The viewfinder display lets you see exposure time, stop display with EV, and control aperture.
  • You can create time-lapses and time-controlled picture series with the camera’s intervalometer.
  • Gives you long exposure times – up to 30 seconds – so you can take night photos.
  • Has a more evolved digital zoom, with capabilities to zoom up to 35mm.

2. Candy Camera

Price: Free with in-app purchases

Best features:

  • A fun-oriented camera offering many stickers that users can resize and move.
  • The camera’s collage mode lets you choose from grids and styles – for example, photo booth – to create photo series.
  • Allows for photo editing with original features including concealer, slimming, and lipstick options.
  • You can swipe between filters when taking selfies.
  • The silent camera shutter is designed to let you take selfies wherever you go.

3. A Better Camera

Price: Free with in-app purchases

Best features:

  • Take panoramic shots of up to 360-degrees.
  • Allows you access to all camera controls, settings, and functions.
  • Offers burst and expo-bracketing possibilities.
  • Your photos can have additional HDR capabilities with brighter colors and richer details than with the factory-setting Android camera.
  • Allows for video recording, pause, and photo time-lapse.
  • Its multi-shot features let you take group portrait and sequence shots, as well as removing unwanted objects.
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<![CDATA[How to Take Advantage of Android HDR]]> https://www.psafe.com/en/blog/take-advantage-android-hdr/ Fri, 08 Jul 2016 13:07:19 +0000 https://www.psafe.com/en/blog/?p=2015 If you’re finally getting comfortable with your Android camera, maybe it’s time to try something new, experiment a little, and take your photos in a different direction. Enter HDR, three simple letters that stand for high dynamic range, and prepare to have your pictures changed for the better:

HDR for Android

HDR is the range of light and dark elements that exist within an image, continually taking Android photography to the next level. With HDR, images become more saturated, greatly enhanced, and gain a richness in color that can make even the most simple scene look otherworldly. It can also appear way too overdone if the HDR is used incorrectly, or with the wrong type of image.

HDR methods require three different shots of the same subject in three different tones (underexposed, normally exposed, and overexposed) which are then merged together to form one ultra enhanced image.

Is it possible to get an HDR effect with your Android camera phone? You bet’cha! Grab your Android smartphone, and look to see if HDR is available in the settings. It may be found under shooting mode, settings, or camera scenes, depending on the make of your phone. It may also be termed “Rich Tone,” as it is in Samsung models.

However, not all camera phones offer this function. If your smartphone does not, you can easily snag the same setting by downloading one of the many camera apps that contain this feature.

Read More: 4 Best Android Camera Apps

Using HDR Mode

HDR is best for unbalanced landscapes, like when the sun is making your subject too dark. It’s also a great way to bring out a drab sky. Portraits with an overly bright background can benefit from a little HDR action, smoothing out the exposure so features, and colors become bold. Really, many low-level light issues could take advantage of HDR.

If, however, you are taking a shot where the colors count, like with a sunrise, or a bird or cat in the garden, you may want to turn off the HDR function so you can let the true colors shine through.

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