Artistic Lenses for Your Mobile Phone

Your smartphone camera may be upgraded in many ways. In one of our previous posts we’ve told about detachable lenses for smartphones which can turn a phone into a digital camera (in terms of capabilities and image quality). This time we are going to tell you how to bring more fun to your photography with unusual attachable lenses for smartphones.
 

Holga Lenses for Lomographers

If you wish to go lo-fi, detachable Holga lenses are what you need for your mobile camera! Holga solution is a rotating disk with 9 different lenses that can be used as color filters, vignette makers, etc.

The Holga kit with a number of detachable lenses for mobile phones

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Detachable Lenses for Mobile Phones: Traditional & Hi-Tech

Though nowadays we often take photos with our smartphones, it’s clear that the quality of a built-in mobile phone lens leaves much to be desired. This problem can be easily solved by using various detachable mobile lenses. Such miniature thingie can significantly enhance the quality of your shots; it also offers great new opportunities like shooting macro, tilt shift or fisheye. This post reviews several detachable lenses for mobile devices which can add ease and flexibility to your mobile photography experience.

A smartphone with a number of detachebale lenses

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Happy Birthday, America!

The 4th of July is on the way and we’d like to ask if you are going to put on some patriotic cosplay costume or 4th of July face paint and have fun this day. As usual, we have collected some tips and different ideas on patriotic makeup, outfit, face painting and, of course, patriotic photo editing!

Patriotic American girl celebrates the 4th of July with USA face paint

Get ready for Crazy 4th of July Cosplay Party

How to Take a Tasty Selfie

Do you want to get a new avatar and attract new likes and comments to your social page? Then take a selfie, but a good selfie!

A small doll taking selfie at her birthday party

Photographed by Dan Forbes, edited with “Birthday owls” photo template.
The article includes a number of tips on taking attractive selfies. We also edited some of the photos, just for fun. Enjoy our tips and tricks on how to make your photos “Simply the Best!”
Making your pictures alluring

Top 20 Photo Templates for Father’s Day Greeting E-Card

Father’s day is near at hand. Many of us are already looking for a good gift, planning holiday activities and family dinners. But what to do if you live far away from your parents? Call them, of course, share your warmest wishes with your dad, send him a present… and send an electronic greeting card as well.
By the way, publishing a greeting card on his wall on Facebook is a good idea at all rates, even if you live with your parents in one house: you’ll express your attention and care spending little to none efforts: making a personalized e-card for Father’s day won’t take much time. We’ll help you make a splendid card as we know well how to do it.

Father and son fishing

More Father’s Day cool greeting cards ideas

FIFA World Cup: Fun Facts Illustrated by Pho.to

FIFA World Cup 2014 is coming and in a few days all football fans will be stuck to TV displays watching exciting video translation from Brazil. Cafes, restaurants and breweries will be full of people, singing and even dancing, holding flags of their favourite team. Football unites people of various professions and makes us all feel as a single team. Small things, such as patriotic face paint and accessories that symbolize which team you prefer, help to keep the spirit and solidarity high.

A charming football fan who support Brazil team at FIFA World Cup 2014 smiles

The photo is edited with our new ‘Flag of Brazil‘ photo template. In this post we are going to tell you a few interesting facts on football and illustrate them with fun football Pho.to templates. Enjoy!

Ole-Ole-Ole!

The Trend of Mobilography

Mobilography is a relatively new trend (first official community was established in spring, 2004) in the world of digital photography that deals with photos taken by cameras built into various mobiles and originally not designed for professional photography.

A tasty pomagranate shot with mobile camera Sky shot inside of a tower

By Mikko

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Share.pho.to Learns Five New Languages

Good day everyone! We are glad to tell you that our web photo sharing service Share.pho.to becomes a polyglot: it has learnt 5 new languages, Russian, Spanish, French, German and Italian. The sixth is English which was its language by default. We hope you will enjoy the changes.

Free online photo sharing tool

 
Just in case you forgot what Share.pho.to is, we remind: this is a photo sharing service that lets you upload many photos at once. The number of uploads is unlimited. You can easily share uploaded photosets with your friends and comment on photos. The service is free, and the last but not least, it does not downsize your photos. You can find detailed manual on Share.pho.to in this tutorial.

Mobile versions of the service will be localized as well and quite soon.

phoTWO app: Make Cool Selfies and Bright Photo Stories

Do you remember we announced the release of our dual camera app for iOS? We are proud to tell all Android users that phoTWO is already available on Google Play! The app helps you make a stylish dual cam collages by adding a portrait photo to a previously taken image. You can also take photos with both front and rear cameras in optional order. Editor mode now works all the time. Besides, phoTWO for Android has acquired a decent collection of photo frames. You can share your photos to a number of popular social networks right from the app. The last but not least, phoTWO is absolutely free.

New dualcam photo camera app for Android

 
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