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Handy iPhone Photography Apps
With over 3,000 iPhone photography apps to choose from, you might ask which ones are vital. The following two iPhone apps are both useful and easy to use and can help you get just the photo you want. [more…]
Using Depth of Field Techniques with the iPhone's Camera
The depth of field in your photography can have a dramatic effect on your subjects. A focus distance of four feet or more with the iPhone 3GS/4 means everything to the horizon will be in focus. But a focus [more…]
Tips for Steadying Your iPhone to Get Good Photos
Holding your iPhone securely while taking a photo without getting in the way of the lens takes some getting used to. Remember to keep your elbows tucked into your body. [more…]
iPhone Photography & Video For Dummies Cheat Sheet
If you own an iPhone, then you're never without a camera to snap a photo that catches your eye. And if you have an iPhone 3GS or iPhone 4, you can record digital video to document a spontaneous event. [more…]
How to Play Slideshows on Your iPhone
If you store a lot of photographs on your iPhone, you can run slideshows of those images. Not only does iPhone let you run slideshows, it gives you a variety of controls to run a slideshow just the way [more…]
How to Focus Your iPhone Camera
If you have an iPhone 3GS or 4, you can take advantage of the Tap to Focus camera feature. By using this feature, changing the default focus area is as easy as tapping. [more…]
How to Find a Song on Your iPhone by Title
By using your iPhone, with its iPod app, you can find a song by its title and play that song. Tap the Songs icon at the bottom of the iPhone's iPod screen, and a list of songs appears. [more…]
How to Take Pictures with Your iPhone
You can use the Camera app to take pictures with your iPhone. The iPhone Camera app icon appears on the Home screen, and unless you moved things around, it's positioned on the upper row of icons, all the [more…]
How to Import Pictures into Your iPhone
If you have photos on your computer that you want to import to your iPhone, you simply need to sync your iPhone with that computer. You can synchronize photos from a PC or Mac by using the Photos tab on [more…]
How to Use iPod Playlists on Your iPhone
The iPhone has an iPod app that allows you to play music, including any playlists you've created. If you've used playlists on an iPod or iTunes, you know the basic iPhone playlist procedure. [more…]
How to Browse YouTube Videos from Your iPhone
Apple has afforded YouTube its own cherished icon on the iPhone Home screen. Many millions of videos are available on the iPhone — nearly the complete YouTube catalog. So where exactly do YouTubers find [more…]
How to Find a Song on Your iPhone by Artist
In your iPhone's iPod app, you can find and play a song ordered by artist name. The iPhone allows you to search for an artist or browse to their listings by first letter of the artist's or band's name. [more…]
How to Shoot and Edit Video on Your iPhone
The iPhone 3GS was the first iPhone to let you shoot video, and then the iPhone 4 joined the video party. When you shoot video on a 3GS or 4 iPhone, you can capture it in portrait or landscape mode: [more…]
How to Share (Or Block) YouTube Videos on Your iPhone
You can put your iPhone's color screen to good use by watching YouTube videos on it and, even better, sharing those YouTube videos while you're watching them. Your iPhone makes it easy. While you're watching [more…]
View and Share Photos and Video with Your iPhone 5
The iPhone 5's Camera Roll is the place to visit if you want to review and share what you've taken. You can get to the Camera Roll from the Camera screen: Tap the thumbnail at the lower left. Anytime you’re [more…]
How to Play Music and Movies on Your iPhone 5
If you bought movies or music from the iTunes Store, you can watch or play them on your iPhone 5. Your iPhone can sync with the music you've added to your iTunes music library on your Mac or PC. Your iPhone [more…]
Your iPhone Photo App's Tap to Focus Feature
When composing your shots, you can take advantage of the Tap to Focus feature on your iPhone. Normally, the camera focuses on a subject in the center of the display, which you’re reminded of when you momentarily [more…]
How to Capture Panoramic Shots on Your iPhone's Camera
In some situations, you need the panorama feature in iOS 6 (iPhone 4S and 5 only). This feature lets you shoot up to 240 degrees and stitch together a high-resolution image of up to 28 megapixels. [more…]
Where to Find Pictures on Your iPhone
So where exactly do your pictures hang out on the iPhone? The ones you snapped on the iPhone itself end up in a photo album appropriately dubbed the camera roll [more…]
How to Share Photo Streams on Your iPhone 5
An impressive and aptly named solution for sharing photo streams called Shared Photo Streams arrived on the iPhone with iOS 6 (and a bit earlier on Macs running OS X Mountain Lion). The feature lets you [more…]
Picture Controls on Your iPhone
You can take advantage of the photos on the iPhone in several ways. In each case, you tap the picture and make sure the picture controls are displayed. Then tap the action [more…]
How to Play Video on Your iPhone
The iPhone is not going to replace a wall-sized high-definition television as the centerpiece of your home theater, even on the larger 4-inch screen of the iPhone 5. But on that glorious widescreen display [more…]
How to Shoot and Edit Video on Your iPhone
The 3GS was the first iPhone to let you shoot video. Then the iPhone 4 joined the video party. More recently, the iPhone 4S and the iPhone 5 took the device to new heights. [more…]
How to Find Songs by Artist on Your iPhone
You can find and play a song ordered by artist name rather than by playlist on your iPhone. Tap the Artists icon at the bottom of the screen and an alphabetical list of artists appears. [more…]
The iPhone Music App's Cover Flow Feature
Finding tracks on your iPhone by playlist, artist, or song is cool, but finding them with Cover Flow is even cooler. Cover Flow lets you browse your music collection by its album artwork. To use Cover [more…]
