5 Ways to Improve Your Camera Phone Pictures

Coming from Microsoft.com is a list of 5 tips to improve the images you take with your camera phone.

1. Adjust Image Compression
The JPEG format used by digital cameras is flexible in that it allows you to decide how much detail you want to preserve. If you want to preserve every last detail because you want to make prints, you should select the “super fine” quality level. Just be aware that you won’t be able to fit many pictures in your camera’s memory.

2. Frame Your Shot
You may miss a zoom lens. Few camera phones have a zoom lens, though many offer something called a digital zoom.

It’s better to use your camera phone the way it was designed: as a wide-angle lens. You’re going to have to get close to your center of interest—don’t try this with the moose—but the camera’s wide view will give you perspective.

3. Get Artsy
Even though the average camera in a Pocket PC or Smartphone won’t compete with a state-of-the-art digital camera, there are other possibilities. Set your camera on grayscale or sepia and play around with light and shadow.

4. Move Your Images from Device to PC and Back
You can also copy pictures from your PC to your device using a memory card. Insert the memory card into the memory card slot on your device and then copy the pictures from your PC to the folder you created on the memory card.

5. Share Your Images
Once you’ve captured your images, it’s time to share them with the world. If you keep a blog, you may want to use a program like PicoBlogger which automatically generates your moblog entries for you. Read more about mobile blogging, usually called moblogging.

Though I don’t know how sharing your images or moving them around will imrpove them, they are great tips none the less.

October 31st, 2005 Posted by David in Camera Phone, Article at 10:53 am 3 Comments »
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3 Comments »

  1. About #3 - Get artsy - is’nt this something for cameraphones:
    http://www.lomography.com/about/

    “picture communication from the hip”

    /muzagga

    Comment by muzagga — October 31, 2005 @ 4:48 pm

  2. There is a better way of improve your camera phone picture that nobody said, free for you,

    Use an external lense for myopia with about -3, -4 diopters before of the original lense of your phone.

    This is valid if you are taking a pic of a remote landscape/objet to more of 4, 10, 100 meters. Your pictures will be with more details, guaranteed.

    If you want to take a pic of an objet very close to your camera phone (5 cm) use another lense, but this time a typical magnifying glasse with about 10 diopters.

    You can get a lense for less of $4

    Consider that the original lense is designed to work with distances of two meters or less.

    You are welcome to visit this site.

    Comment by keylogger — September 20, 2006 @ 10:57 pm

  3. Correction: use a lense of less of -3 diopters, example: -1,-2, you should try severals values if posible. I depends of the distante of the target and your camera.

    Comment by keylogger — September 22, 2006 @ 12:25 am

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