Top 5 Apps For Amazing Holiday Photos

The options offered in this powerful little app are staggeringly awesome. The minute I started using it I was hooked and my love of photography seriously grew. KitCam offers a choice of over 50 lenses, filters and frames plus has live filters with manual exposure and white balance options PLUS full HD video. I loved the option for manual controls and continuous shooting as well as the unique camera modes and shot editor. A nice feature of the editor is that it has “non-destructive” editing, which means that your original photo is always preserved. Using this amazing app is the next best thing to holding a Nikon SLR in your hands.

Camera+ is one of the first photography apps I started using when I got my very first iPhone (many moons ago), and I love the ability this app has to “pretty up” photos quickly and easily. You can give your photos great effects, control your shots and put an end to blurry photos with the stabilizer. Photos can be shared easily to Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr or can be emailed straight from the app. Camera+ features a unique iCloud Lightbox sync, so you can shoot all day on your iPhone and then edit all night on your iPad. And yes, I do that a lot.

Technology is a wonderful thing, but sometimes there’s nothing cooler than using tech to go retro. Hipstamatic is a very cool app that makes your digital photos look like they were taken with an old fashioned film camera. Right down to the graphic that shows the back of an old camera and square viewfinder, Hipstamatic is a trip back in time. (Yes, I am that old). Lenses, flash, and film (what’s that?) can be easily changed and give a great variety of options for your photos, plus photos can be easily shared to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, and Flickr.

Let your kids try this one and give them a history lesson—they’ll quickly learn how cool it is to be retro with their photos.