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Sharing photos from the iPhone to a friend’s TV

The next time your over at a friend’s house and want to share images from your iPhone, check out their TV as an option. Connecting will take a cable out of the iPhone to the TV’s input, unless they have a AppleTV2. With the AppleTV2, you can easily AirPlay from the iPhone to the TV via WiFi. You can actually share more than photos to the TV, it is also possible to share documents from your iPhone to the big screen.

This normally takes a few different apps or changing a bunch of settings as you go from friend’s house to another friend’s house… they all want to see your iPhone creations! I have started using TVOut Genie that handles all of the different kind of connections as well as different file types.

Adding text while enhancing your iPhone Photos

There is an app I use a lot for fine tuning my images, Camera+. I like the ‘Scenes’ options that allow the tune the lighting of an image. Effects is the app’s way of saying ‘Filters’ which work well. A little known feature of Camera+ is the ability to add text to images. It is hidden a bit so it’s easy to miss or even forget when you know about it.

When viewing a image to edit, choose the ‘Borders’ option, then when you choose a ‘Frame’ you will find a ‘Captions’ button. With this feature, you can add free form text, edit location and add date or time.

Moving photo editing between apps

While working on a photo in ColorSplash, I noticed that they are supporting cross app movement of the image.

A group of iPhone photo apps are using a common method of coding that gives you the ability to edit an image in one app and share it directly with another app to continue editing. You do not need to save the image from one app to the iPhone’s Photo Library then open it with another app to continue editing. From the apps’ Share option, choose to share the image with another app. You will then be presented with a list of apps on your iPhone that support the direct movement of photos between editors. I would expect the list to grow as other developers add the free feature.