Polaroid is back in app form with the Polamatic App
Did everyone’s aunt have a Polaroid camera? Because that was the coolest thing I had ever seen sometime around 1978. The idea of seeing, capturing, and instantly sharing imagery certainly didn’t start with Instagram — Polaroid was the first to do...
The Waterlogue app turns your iPhone photos into watercolor paintings, without a drop of mess.
With so many photo editing apps, I try to keep it down to the ones that are really good, and the Waterlogue App is one spectacular addition that’s now on my iPhone and not going anywhere. When you mention watercolors to a mom, we all have visions of inky paper...
The new Camera+ App Version 5: Now even plus-ier than before.
I have long coveted a DSLR (and not just because I’d need a gorgeous camera bag to carry it). But thanks to the latest update to our beloved Camera+ app, I’ve got powerful photo editing features right on my smartphone. We’ve been fans of Camera+ for...
Statigram vs. Flipagram: Which is better for the end-of-the-year photo videos we’re seeing all over Instagram?
Just in case you needed another reason to check your Instagram feed over the holidays, now everyone is creating these adorable slideshows of their most liked photos of the year. And I have to admit, I’ve watched every one that’s popped up on my feed. I...
The 12 best apps for parents of the year: Editors’ Best Tech of 2013
When we look for the best apps for parents all year long, it doesn’t mean we’re only looking for baby journals and monitors. Although we like those too, parents are connecting, organizing, photographing, and sharing digitally like no one else. With that in...
Shadow Puppet: The app Steven Spielberg would have loved as a kid
If your kids are budding creative types, but they still love to get techy with their masterpieces, you’ll want to check out this cool new app that allows them to add voiceover narration to their photographs or artwork. Because next Spielberg or Scorsese or...
Polish My Pics: The quickest way to edit your photos into things of beauty is to have someone else do it for you.
Sometimes I scroll through my camera roll and find lots of semi-okay options that would be great for photo book gifts if it were brighter, if the pile of laundry wasn’t in the background or if Sam’s face didn’t have those gobs of chocolate on it....
Easy photo book gifts for all! Mosaic goes Android
I wrote last year about where to print Instagram photos, considering my penchant for taking adorable photos of my kids on my phone and then…doing absolutely nothing with them. Has anything changed for me in a year? Of course not. That’s why I’m happy...
Turning your photos into talking photos with the Shuttersong app
I love when I catch that perfect, precious moment of my sweet little guys and girl on camera. But the ability to add their adorable little voices to the photo? Stop it. The new Shuttersong app does this effortlessly. This is seriously ratcheting up the adorable...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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