The best photo editing and sharing resources: Editors Best Tech of 2012
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...
The Flickr app: Is it a viable Instagram replacement?
After hearing about the new Instagram Terms of Service changes that announced yesterday, so many of you are writing to us asking for an alternative. And while they’ve updated with an explanation (sort of) on the Instagram blog that’s a combination of...
mymosaic brings Chuck Close style artistry to iPhone photos
If you’re looking for a fun way to mix up the tens, hundreds (or thousands in my case) photos in your camera roll, this cool new photo app is an inexpensive way to take your bevy of pictures and turn it into a work of art, Chuck Close style. Creating a mosaic is...
What to expect from the new Instagram update
I admit that I am really bummed about not being able to post Instagram photos on Twitter anymore. But now that Twitter redeemed itself with adding photo filters, it looks like Instagram might be moving back into favor with me as well thanks to their new big...
Oh Appy Day! featuring Nigel Barker’s favorite photography app
Oh Appy Day! gives you the scoop on the coolest apps from some of the coolest people anywhere. This week we’re thrilled to welcome photographer Nigel Barker, who may have answered this question faster than anyone else! I absolutely love Camera Plus for...
5 of our favorite techie pins on Pinterest this week
Are you following us on Pinterest? Come join us, and check out great finds like these every day. 1. One of our all-time favorite photo apps is now free. Hooray! 2. Yes, we know it costs more than the iPad it carries, but wow, this case is a stunner. 3. This...
The Samsung Galaxy Camera: The reinvention of the camera in an internet age
Like so many parents, I have pretty much relied on my iPhone for taking pictures for the last few years. While the convenience is great, there are definitely times when I want to revert to the quality of my previous digital SLR camera, but don’t want to deal...
The Olympus PEN E-PL3: A dandy camera when a point-and-shoot just won’t cut it.
We’re seeing more and more moms slowly untethering themselves from their trusty smartphone cameras and going back to real cameras for special events that require oh, slightly better resolution and maybe even a zoom lens that works? I recently spent some time...
Have a perfectly creepy, evil, spooky, and ultimately safe Halloween.
Here’s to a ghoulish day that we hope is filled with your favorite candy, lots of awesome photo opps, and relatively painless sugar highs. And if you want to make a bewitching photo of yourself or your kiddos, you can use the Halloween themes from...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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