Through the Lens
Shoot a selfie that doesn't suck
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Selfies are part of iPhone culture: Here's how to shoot one that makes you look your best.
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Camera & Photo Apps
Add some animation
Twitter adds new GIF button
Twitter is adding a dedicated GIF button that will allow you to search GIFs from Giphy and Riffsy to easily add them to your tweets. The new button will roll out over the course of the next few weeks to Android, iOS and web users.
HDR everywhere
Aurora HDR gets a Photos for OS X editing extension.
Macphun's Aurora HDR for Mac has been updated to version 1.2, bringing extension support for Photos of OS X
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Master Photography
How to create HDR photos with Aurora HDR [ebook excerpt]
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Want perfectly-lit holiday photos? You may want to check out MacPhun's Aurora HDR. Friend of iMore and contributor Jeff Carlson recently wrote a book on the app; here's an excerpt.
Top Dog
iPhone takes top spot in Flickr's most popular cameras
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Flickr released some interesting stats about the most popular cameras used on the photo sharing service throughout 2015, showing the iPhone to take the top spot.
Share all the photos!
With a simple drag-and-drop, FotoSwipe allows you to share images between iOS and Android devices. All you need to make the magic happen is the FotoSwipe app on each device!
Merge away!
PowerPhotos lets you merge libraries in Photos for OS X
PowerPhotos has been updated to version 1.1, hoping to fix some pain points with Photos for OS X by helping you merge your photo libraries.
Take all the photos
OnePlus releases new photography app called Reflexion
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Reflexion is a new photography app from the OnePlus team, available for both iOS and Android.
They're Alive!
Lively lets you turn Live Photos into animated GIFs and more
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Alongside the debut of Live Photos on the iPhone 6s and 6s Plus, we're starting to see a number of interesting apps that take advantage of the feature. Lively is no exception, allowing you to easily create animated GIFs and movies of your favorite Live Photos to share with friends.
How to share Live Photos to Facebook and Instagram
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Apple's Live Photos feature for the iPhone 6s isn't exactly a movie or a still image: it's a mixture of both. And until app developers build support for Live Photos in their apps, you can exploit that JPG-and-MOV-combination in order to share your Live Photos to the world in gif or movie form. Here's how to do it!