Many Nokia phones can make excellent compact cameras. The better models have Carl Zeiss optics and more megapixels than you can shake a stick at, but even the lower end phones can take a decent snap with practice. What your Nokia can do that your pocket camera typically can't is run apps that can enhance your pictures and help you to get the most from your efforts.
Here are four of the best photo apps available from the Ovi Store.
Price: Free
Type: Photo & Video
Size: 0.14 MB
Snapfish is an online photo printing service that can turn your digital snaps into proper prints or turn them into gifts like mugs, tshirts and mousemats. The Snapfish app makes it easy to upload photos, share them through the Snapfish gallery and turn them into prints. If you sign up now you can get 50 free 6x4" prints.
Price: £1.50
Type: Photo & Video
Size: 3.37 MB
This fun app grabs faces from your photos and lets you put them in amusing backgrounds. Turn your subjects into pirates and monsters or make your own Anne Geddes-style baby pictures by sticking their faces on flowers and animals. Images can easily be shared from within the app.
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Type: Photo & Video
Size: 0.24 MB
If you own an HP inkjet or photo printer then you need this app - its that simple. iPrint Photo will make printing your snaps an, er, snap. The app will automatically find any printers on your home network using your phone's wi-fi connection and quickly send out photos to be printed.
Price:
Type: Photo & Video
Size: 0.87 MB
Citizen journalism is all the rage with 24-hour news channels. Send them your pics of current events and they will stick them on screen, getting free airtime from your efforts. Its all very well, but the makers of fizwoz think you would-be paparazzi should be able to earn a bit of cash from your photos. Use fizwoz to upload your pics to news agencies and photo bureaus, automatically. The app will handle the tricky parts and if your pics get picked up the app will let you auction them to the highest bidder.