The Holidizer: Making your July 4 photos a little more cheesy and a little more fun

by Liz Gumbinner | Websites We Love

Let’s say your fireworks get rained out tonight. Or…your kid falls asleep before they start and you miss them. Fear not! There’s an app for that. Or really, a website that can take your photos and make them as All-American festive...

Time for a Qwiki. (That’s uh, iPhone photos and video sharing. It’s all SFW. And free.)

by Jeana | Uncategorized

I have a sizeable collection of photos and videos on my iPhone, mostly of my kids. While I access my camera roll pretty frequently to find old pictures, show people my kids, watch past videos with my kids, etc., I love apps that take existing content and do something...

KitCam Photo app gives Hipstamatic a serious run for its money. I mean…wow.

by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps

Despite the easy filtering and editing of Instagram, I still find some of my favorite photos come from photo apps in which I can choose the film and lenses right in camera before the shutter snaps instead of editing photos afterwards. Well now there’s a photo...

Clone yourself with Split Pic 2.0

by Jeana | Best Apps

There are so many fun photo apps that we have covered on Cool Mom Tech–Afterglow, BeFunky and myMosaic, to name a few. But I’ve recently started playing around with another iOS photo app called Split Pic 2.0 that not only offers fun filters, but lets you...

A photo app that makes you look a lot more organized than you really are

by Jeana | Best Apps

I have taken so many pictures of my kids on my iPhone that I tend to group them into “series.” There’s the Florida series, the winter snowstorm series, the soccer game series, and so on. So I’m excited to have found a new app called Picerty...

Your life…turned into a comic book

by Eva Glettner | Best Apps

Ready for one crazy addictive app for you iPhoneographers and world travelers?   Halftone lets you iOS users turn your pictures into pages straight out of a comic book. The colors are bright and vibrant, the fonts are straight out of an old Batman episode, and...

How do I watermark my photos for free? Easy!

by Kristen Chase | Tips and Tricks

Now that I’ve started posting photos of my family on the Internet, I’ve been thinking much more about how to watermark my photos. Thankfully, it’s not nearly as complicated as I thought, especially with the help of my go-to photo editing site,...

Free photo apps that will give Instagram a run for its money.

by Jeana | Best Apps

I’ve never been a huge Instagram user, which I guess after recent major changes to the Instagram Terms of Service, isn’t a bad thing at all. But I am a fan of good quality photo editing apps, especially when they’re free. We have been keeping our...

Best Windows Phone photo apps? Reader Q+A

by Cool Mom Team | Best Apps

Q: You keep posting all these awesome must-have apps, but what about for those of us who have Windows phones? I am looking for a photo app. Do you know of any that are worth getting? Right now I just send all my pictures to Facebook, which is annoying because then I...

The best photo editing and sharing resources: Editors Best Tech of 2012

by Cool Mom Team | Editors' Picks of the Year

Whether you take all your photos right on your smart phone, or you carry your trusty DSLR wherever you go, there are so many photo editing and sharing services now (a must for parents!). Here are our very favorite from this past year. Kristen Snapseed Since I...