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Windows Phone Photo Panorama Round-up

By George Ponder, Friday, Jun 8, 2012 at 9:14 am

With the recent release of Microsoft's Photosynth to the Windows Phone Marketplace, there's really no excuse for anyone not to capture decent panoramic images. Photosynth joins a nice collection of in-house panorama apps and a decent third party app. But how do these panorama tools measure up against one another?

We took our handy-dandy tripod out to see if one shined brighter than the other. There's really not a bad panorama app in the lot but a few lined up a little better than others.

Samsung updates Photo Studio for Mango, gets front-facing camera support

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By Daniel Rubino, Friday, Sep 2, 2011 at 4:01 pm

Samsung just pushed out a nice little update to their super slick Photo Studio app. Now Mango-ized, the app supports fast app switching and even gets front-facing camera support. Tapping the button now just makes the screen blank and it circles back to the regular camera.

That can only mean one thing: Samsung's new offerings e.g. SGH-i937 will feature front facing cameras.

The app itself is pretty awesome, serving as a photo editor and PhotoFunia mix and with the ability to share to Facebook, Picasa and Photobucket, we really like to have this on our Focus. Grab the app here in the Marketplace.

Thanks, @UzEE, for the tip!

Samsung releases exclusive free 'Photo Studio' app for Windows Phone

By Daniel Rubino, Tuesday, Jan 25, 2011 at 5:08 pm

One area where we like to see OEMs hare at work is in the "exclusive" app department. Everyone except Dell has done a real nice job of offering unique programs on their phones, free of charge, to enhance the user experience.

Samsung's niche seems be photos as they have released 'Samsung Photo Sharing', 'Photogram' (see review) and now 'Photo Studio'. This new one is actually quite nice, allowing you to shoot in different modes, including Lomo, to speed of the process. From the app description:

Photo Studio is an all-in-one solution for taking, editing and sharing pictures though your WP7. Photo Studio allows the user to take pictures with effects such as LomoShot, Beautyshot and PlusMe. All pictures can modified with various photo effects. Users also can also easily upload their pictures to the most popular Social network services including Facebook and Flickr.

LomoShot: Users can vignette pictures in the style of softening or shading away the edges of the subject. There are four option modes: Normal, Gray, Warm and Cold

BeautyShot: Users can brighten and sharpen the portrait

PlusMe: Users can take two pictures separately and mix them together

Facebook, Flickr, Picasa, MySpace, Photobucket, Friendster support

The app so far is quite decent, especially for free, but real photo hounds will want to stick with Thumba (see review) for more fine-tuned control.

You can grab the app now in the Marketplace, but you won't see it under "Samsung Zone"--instead, enter the Samsung Zone, pick any app and hit "More from SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd." and now you should see it. Or just click this link.

via MobilityDigest