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Channeling my inner Bob Ross, to answer some recent questions I’ve gotten on how I edit photos before sharing them on Instagram. Our cameras can deliver some terrific shots, so here’ how I tweak them before uploading to a service which cuts all our shots into squares, and HEAVILY compresses the image quality!
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Alcatel has packed some great specs into the Idol 3 for budget smartphone shoppers. Did they sacrifice camera quality to reach this price point? Let’s take a look!
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Gallery of still photos from the Idol 3.
Hello Folks! We’ve been having a blast running the LG G4 through tests and comparisons, and here’s our mega collection post of everything we’ve shot on LG’s newest flagship phone!
Are you curious about camera performance, how it compares to other phones, speaker performance, or want to see our review? We’ve got that! It’s embedded below for your enjoyment! Remember, sharing is caring, especially if you know anyone shopping a new phone!
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LG has a monster smartphone on their hands this year. The G4 refines everything we liked about last year’s G3, while improving the screen and vaulting their camera into one of the best performers of the year.
AT&T has just started pre-ordering for the phone, but if you’re really lucky, you might be able to win a G4 from Big Blue. Every 4,000 seconds they’re going to give one away. There’s also a grand prize of an LG 4K TV which will be given away at the end of the month.
You can catch our full review of the LG G4, and links to our full collection of comparison videos below!
LG G4 4K Seconds Contest (AT&T)
LG G4 Camera Review
LG G4 Speaker Test
LG G4 Front Facing Camera Test
G4 vs Galaxy S6
G4 vs LG G Flex 2
G4 vs Galaxy Note 4
G4 vs LG G3
G4 Camera vs Lumia 930
G4 Camera vs Galaxy S6
G4 Camera vs DSLR
The iPhone camera is a mid-pack performer, but there are some great tools to improve things like macro performance and shooting wider angle shots. Ztylus has built an entire photography system into their Metal case which can really help you take your mobile photo game up to the next level!
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At their developer conference today Google unveiled a new Photos app focused on improving search and organization.
Without having to tag or manually identify faces, the new Photos app will group photos for users automatically based on people in the photos and locations pictures were taken.
Editing tools will be built in to the experience, and users can produce videos out of the content shot from their phones easily.
New sharing features will deliver full resolution pics to anyone regardless if they use Google Photos or Google Plus with no restrictions on who or where you can share those photos.
Most exciting is the support on the back end for these cloud sync services. Starting today Google Photos will enable unlimited storage for free on iOS, Android, and on the web. Pictures are saved at up to 16MP quality and video will be saved at 1080p.
This makes Drive and photo sync on Android a lot more valuable and makes Google Photos more competitive against OneDrive and Flickr photo sync.
You can see Google’s teaser vid, and read their full press release below!
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We’ve been playing with more polls, and we started off with a doozy.
Shooting individual comparisons between some of the top smartphone cameras on the market, we put the results up to you our readers and viewers. Galaxy S6, Lumia 930, LG G4. Which phone came out on top? Based on your vote, The LG G4 is currently the best camera available on a smartphone today!
The G4 goes on sale early next month, but we’ve already got the most in-depth review of LG’s newest shooter available online. Hit the video below, and if you want to see the individual comparisons we’ve got them linked underneath.
Congratulations LG!
Galaxy S6 vs Lumia 930
Lumia 930 vs LG G4
LG G4 vs Galaxy S6
Instagram continues to ignore some of the best smartphone cameras on the market by letting their BETA app on Windows Phone continue to rot. With no updates for well over a year, we can hope they’re working on a Windows 10 app (at least porting over their iOS app), but in the meantime we have Windows Phone developer extraordinaire Rudy Huyn.
His third party Instagram client for Windows Phones 6Tag has long been the gold standard for sharing higher quality pics on Microsoft’s OS. Now his latest update brings video uploading to the table, alongside a few new photo filters.
6Tag has always been able to shoot video, but it was unable to upload previously shot video. A new video editing menu in 6Tag replicates that functionality from Instagram’s app on iOS and Android.
This feature is brand spanking new, and Rudy has already announced a minor bug fix has been submitted to Microsoft, but in the meantime, we’ve had no complaints using it on a Lumia Icon.