Apple's iPhone has a 5 megapixel camera capable of taking still photos with decent quality. Once you have taken pictures, a variety of programs available through the App Store let you perform a range of dramatic graphic effects on them. In addition to standard editing tasks such as changing contrast and brightness, the programs can sharpen and blur images or give them the appearance of hand-drawn pictures.
Artistic Effects
Some of the more interesting transformations in the iPhone's software arsenal include the ability to convert a photo into a pencil sketch, line drawing or painting, with artistic styles including Impressionism, Expressionism and Abstract. Other effects include the ability to change the picture to black-and-white while preserving color for a few selected objects. You can give a photo antique effects such as sepia tone, or create a distressed look with scratches or water spots.
Distortions
Photo-editing programs for the iPhone can create distortions in selected areas of pictures, such as a pixelated block effect, blurs and swirls. You use these to preserve privacy by obscuring details such as tattoos, a face or background items. Company logos and other trademarks also frequently receive this treatment for images used for commercial purposes. You can also use these effects for a "fun-house mirror" treatment, humorously stretching and exaggerating a person's expression and features.
Everyday Edits
Frequently you may need to crop unwanted material from the top or sides of a picture, make it larger or smaller, sharpen it or increase contrast between dark and light areas. Photo editing apps for the iPhone commonly includes these features, fixing small problems with pictures. As with traditional image-editing software, these programs let you cut parts from one picture and superimpose them in another. You can take pictures and make changes right in the phone, without needing a desktop computer to do the editing.
Panoramas
Image-processing software for the iPhone lets you take several pictures of a scene and "stitch" them together into a single panorama. The software automatically detects the edges of objects in one photo and merges images from another, as long as they have overlapping scenery. You can even take a pictures in a 360-degree series and connect them into a continuous scene that appears to surround you.
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