A couple of weeks ago we told you all about a really clever little app to add label style fonts to your photos- Labelbox.  However if you want just a really good, general font app then you really need to be checking out Phonto.  Phonto is by far the best font app I have found although there are quite a few out there.

There are literally hundreds of different fonts on there, and they certainly aren’t boring- in fact there is loads of choice.  You can choose the position of the font, the size, the way it tilts, the colour, the background colour and the style.   It is really easy to use, you just click on the screen to add a font, scroll through the fonts you want and then you can position it by dragging it across the screen.  In fact it is so easy it doesn’t even need a tutorial.  You can really go to town with the colours as you can tweak them and make them match any of the colours in your picture.

Here are some examples of some photos that I have used with Phonto.

These are just some really quick examples but if you check out Phonto you will see the huge variety of styles you can use for your photos.

Best of all?  It is completely free!  I guarantee it will be one of your favourite apps for its easy of use.

It was while ago now that we first talked to you about a new feature we were planning on starting called I Heart My Edit. But today we are here with the first ever I Heart My Edit; a feature which we hope will see some of our lovely readers getting involved and showing off what they can do.

So what is I Heart My Edit? It is basically a chance to learn about how people have managed to achieve certain affects with their photo editing. We are providing an original photograph and then asking people to edit it however they would like and simply let us know what they did.

This week, it’s our first time. So the I Heart Snapping team are editing this time. But next time it could be you. We were really impressed with all the people offering to take part when we first mentioned I Heart My Edit, rest assured your details are all safely in a spreadsheet and we WILL be getting in contact.

So without further ado, there is the first I Heart My Edit…

Original Image

A daisy photo taken on a Nikon D5000 with an 18-55 lens with macro filter.

Katie’s Edit

I basically used idarkroom app and added the cross process filter.  This made it really green so I wanted to dull it down a little.  I used the Photoshop Express App to slightly adjust the contrast (to make it look more dream like).  Finally I added a white border to bring out the vibrant colour of the petals.

Lucy’s Edit

I used Camera+ first of all to crop the image so that it obeyed the rule of thirds a bit more, and I applied the clarity scene filter. I then used BeFunky to edit it further, by using the vibrance filter and I added the grunge1 border to it to frame it and finish it off.

We both went for phone apps to edit with, just to prove that you don’t need fancy expensive editing software to make your images look lovely.

If you haven’t already been in touch with us and you want to be involved, then let us know.

I often get people asking how to add text to photos.  Well today we are going to let you into a little secret and that secret is the Labelbox app.

Labelbox is perhaps the most simple app in the world to use and you can create some really great looking text for your photo captions.

It really is as easy as that.  Swipe the tape across the screen to place it where you want, type the text and voila….a really easy way of putting funky text on to photos.  Here is us playing around to give you some examples of the labels you can use.

Best of all?  Labelbox is completely free.  You get eleven free labels with the free version but if you want any of the others you will have to pay for it.  However there is a wide range with the free version as shown above.

We would definitely recommend Labelbox as a quick and easy way to write on your photos.  As always if you use it on any of your blog posts let us know and we will RT your link.

I stumbled across this app a while ago, and while I was secretly tempted to keep too myself, it is too good not to share!

Meet Cinemagram- quite possibly my most favourite app I have downloaded in a while.

If you follow my personal blog Mummy Daddy and Me makes Three you will know that I am a big fan of GIFs- moving images that can spice up your blog posts.  I use Photoshop to make my GIFS but they can be complicated to do if you don’t know how, and also we are aware not everyone can afford the hefty price tag for Adobe Creative Suite- I am lucky I have a designer husband!

However you can make great little GIFS for your blog using Cinemagram.

Here are some examples of some of my Cinemagram’s.

I am sure many houses up and down the UK are looking forward to the long bank holiday weekend, after all it is rare that we get two days off in a row.  Even if you aren’t in the UK, I am sure you have seen something about the Jubilee celebrations- HRH Queen Elizabeth has been on the throne for 60 years.  Wowee.  We are looking forward to seeing some lovely photos of what you got up to on the long weekend but without further ado here are my favourite links of this week.

We love these photos that Lauren took at the beach.  So cute and doesn’t it make you want to go and visit the seaside?

We love this post from Charlotte, how cute is her birthday party theme?  And I love that she had a photo shoot for the bears too!

Found this blog via Kelly’s and we love it.  Check out Happy Jax if you get the chance.

It is the last week to vote in the Mad Blog Awards.  If you fancy voting for Mummy Daddy and Me makes Three or Dear Beautiful Boy we would be so grateful.

We are all about sharing the tutorial love- Mammasaurus has started doing tips to help you too- we really like her first post on how to use google web fonts on your blog.

If you ever see any blog posts that you think our readers would love be sure to link them below.
Now do you want to join in the easiest peasiest photo linky in the land?  Just link up a photo or photos that you are especially proud of.  It can literally be anything.  And do make sure you share the blog love and comment on others too

Carrying on with our series of iphoneography apps that we just love, the next on our list is Pixl-o-Matic.  Made by the people behind the photo editing app Pixlr (more on that in another post) Pixl-o-Matic is a little gem that makes your iPhone photos great.  You can even use the app online as well, making it a hugely versatile package whatever your photo editing requirements.

The main thing to mention about Pixl-o-Matic is the filters.  There is a huge range to choose from, here are some of our favourites…

These are just from the free version, if you want to pay 69p you get lots more choice.

There is also a really large selection of light effects, they really can add a different dimension to your photos.  Here are just some of them.

There is also a large selection of frames, which again are useful if you like using them for your posts.  Like other app’s there is a random button you can press which does some really different edits that you might not necessarily think of yourself.

Pixlr-o-matic is in my top five app’s that I use for iPhoneography so it is well worth a look- the free one is amazing so I am sure that the paid one is even better and at only 69p it is so much cheaper than most of the other photography app’s out there. I think my favourite part of the app is the fact that there is such a large range of light effects and filters- there are some that are really different than the other app’s out there.

I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for an app that does a huge amount of filters and effects- it doesn’t have the functions like crop or basic editing- but I don’t think that lets it down as the app’s main selling point is the wide range of effects- and it does that side really well.

Next on our iphoneography must have list is the fabulous app PictureShow.  

PictureShow is very similar to the typical photo editing apps, but like all the others it has it’s little tricks and functions that mean it is well worth a look.  What I love doing is combining all the different apps to make a really great photo- yes it takes some time but the end results are usually worth it.

There are 5 camera lens which are good fun- including Quad, Vertical Quad and Halfshot.    There are also 45 Styles as well, and they all add a really different dimension to your photos.

Here is our quick guide to PictureShow below.

As mentioned above if you click the big red button on the top right of the screen it allows you to randomly add effects to your photo- it is really good fun and makes your photos look great.  By clicking on the heart on the left it will save it as your own combination if you like it for further pics.

 However the best part about PictureShow I think is the fact that you can access all the styles by clicking the words on the middle at the top.

Overall, I really like PictureShow.  It has lots of different effects and once you get used to it is quite easy to use.  It is up there in the top 5 photo app’s I use and I would recommend it to people who love photo editing.  The app does cost £1.49 but in my opinion it is definitely  worth the money.

Iphoneography is everywhere at the moment- you can’t visit a web page, blog or social media site without seeing some superbly edited photos.  As promised we are going to show you our favourites- Between us we must have about 60 app’s- some really well known and some not quite so, so hopefully over the coming weeks we will introduce you to some you haven’t used before.

We are starting on a well known one for most.

iDarkroom is in my opinion- rather fantastic.  It is really easy to use and makes photos look really great.  It is very easy to find your way around and there is a huge range of effects including 20 filter effects, 11 paper effects, 13 light leak and bokeh effects, 5 vignette effects, 4 noise effects and 10 frame effects.  It is the second ever photo app I downloaded and now in my top three.

We really recommend it as a really easy, straightforward app for those who want to give their photos a little bit of an extra edge.  Our favourite part is definitely the random editor- it chooses things that you might not necessarily think would go together and makes them look really good.

It is certainly worth a look if you want to take your photo editing to the next level and are bored with the filters that apps like Instagram provide.

We couldn’t run a website all about photography and design without talking about the new(ish) craze which is sweeping the entire world and having a huge impact on the look of blogs everywhere. Iphoneography. A crazy and lovely made up word which basically describes the fantastic and beautiful things that people are doing with their photographs using their iPhones.

Now I should confess right here that I actually do not own an iPhone. I know, shock horror. It’s not that I wouldn’t like one, but in all honesty I hardly ever have skin time with my mobile phone and am tied into a super long and super cheap contract. Besides, I own both an iPad and an iPod, and the fantastic thing about iphoneography is that you can still do it from these devices. And the advantage is that for me is that I use my good camera to take all my pictures and then edit them with an app after the event, which means that I have a better quality image to mess around with in the first place. The iPhone camera is good, and it’s handy but it’s not going to beat my digital SLR on picture quality so I kind of like the way I do things.

There are quite literally thousands of photo apps available and over this series of posts on iphoneography we are going to share some of our favourites. What we like, what we don’t like, how they work and share some of the effects that you can achieve.