Tips and tricks

Is iPhone notes one of the best free mobile drawing apps?

In the last 4 years I downloaded every free mobile drawing application that the expanse of my App Store has to offer. Interestingly, after each trial and glitch, I became less satisfied with the result and I found myself going back to the built in notes app on my iPhone.

There’s something about the simplicity in the selection of tools at your disposal. Although limited in the choice of colours and width of brush and pen size, [...]

20 friends. Seven days. One adventure. All captured on an iPhone 6 from iStore by Brent Spilkin.

Watch what went down – and sideways and upwards – on their trip of a lifetime at Club Med Val Thorens in France.

Get creative with your Camera and these helpful hints

With the powerful Camera [...]

You’ve taken a great photo, shared it online, now what? Here are some tips from printing company Printwild, who have suggestions for how to turn your images into decorative art, physical memories, and even gifts.

As you know, phone cameras make it very easy to capture top-quality images, and while we sometimes share them with friends and followers, we seldom get around to printing them. We all seem to have the same reasons:

• Lost digital fi [...]

Thoban Jappie is a Cape Town Instagrammer and iPhoneographer who was one of our winners in last year’s iPhoneography competition. Here he tells us why he enters each year, how he captured his winning pic, and the tips and apps that can elevate every shot.

Divine Cape Town from Silvermine by Cathleen Hughes

Lighting is arguably the most important element in photography. The word photography is derived from Greek roots: “photos” meaning “light” and “graphe” meaning “drawing.” Without light, a pitch black room is simply that. Black.

There are many elements to discuss when it comes to lighting and photography. Lighting can alter the way the exact object and scenery looks. That is why natural light plays such a key role when s [...]