Four of the best casual photography and filter apps for iPhone
If you're a seasoned iPhone pro, or a new user, the vast amount of simple photography apps can be staggering — AppleInsider picks out four cheap or free ones for you to try.
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Mike Wuerthele
Apple deploys updated Photos iCloud app with Sierra-like album browsing
Apple on Thursday officially rolled out a new version of its Photos Web app for iCloud, introducing an interface similar to macOS Sierra.
Roger Fingas
iPhones account for 8 of top 10 cameras in 2016 Flickr report, Apple celebrates by offering Portrait mode tips
Photo sharing site Flickr noted that Apple remains the leading camera brand among its users, filling eight slots of its top ten most popular cameras. iPhones now account for 47 percent of its photographers, compared to 24 percent using Canon cameras and 18 percent using Nikons.
Daniel Eran Dilger
Apple adds basic support for Touch Bar in beta Web-based iCloud Photo Library
Very recently, Apple updated its beta iCloud site with support for the Touch Bar on the 2016 MacBook Pro — but the support is bug-laden, and not fully implemented.
Apple's iPhone 7 camera delivers nice slice of enhancements, but iPhone 7 Plus takes the cake
Apple's latest iPhone 7 and 7 Plus make significant strides in improving the quality and versatility of photos you can take, as well as in reproducing them in Wide Color. You can capture more detailed and nuanced pics in low light, you can confidently pull out your phone in wet environments, hand jitter is cinematically smoothed away and the new dual camera system on iPhone 7 Plus opens up entirely new ways to shoot.
Inside iOS 10: Examining the new smart Photos features
With the new iOS 10 and macOS Sierra updates Apple introduced a set of automated Photos tools, like new machine learning algorithms that automatically identify faces and places, that combine to make image search and organization easier than ever.
Ashley Wright
Apple's Photos apps for iOS 10 & OS X 10.12 to restore iPhoto editing features - report
Apple is said to be planning big changes in its Photos applications for both iOS 10 and OS X 10.12, more closely aligning the capabilities of the iPhone and Mac apps, and also restoring some absent functionality that was previously found in iPhoto.
Neil Hughes
Holiday Buyer's Guide: iPhone accessories for photographers & filmmakers
There's lots of gift options for aspiring filmmakers and photographers on your holiday list. Here's a selection of imaging accessories for Phone users.
Apple invention automatically shares photos based on facial recognition data
In an invention published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday, Apple outlines a process of identifying individuals in a digital image using facial recognition techniques and sending a copy of the photo out to those people by associating contact information pulled from an app like Contacts.
Mikey Campbell
AppleInsider Staff
