APPS

Adobe Photoshop Express touches your way to better-looking pictures with automatic fixes and filters. Get your pictures to pop! And after sharing, you’ll be the talk of your friends.

Adobe Photoshop Touch lets you quickly combine images, apply professional effects, and share the results with friends and family through social networking sites like Facebook.

Camera+ helps you use your iPhone to shoot the best photos you possibly can. Packed with several handy features that your standard camera app doesn’t include, your pics will improve the instant you start using Camera+.

Camera Awesome takes your photos to the next level by shooting faassst and taking sharper, better-exposed shots. Make your memories come alive with stunning professional effects, and 1-Tap sharing on the sites you love.

Fast Camera turns your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch into a powerful, professional tool. Capture live action, self-portraits, group photos, and even time-lapses at up to 800 pictures a minute with Fast Camera

PhotoCalc is a utility for iPhone and iPod touch for photographers to calculate depth of field (DoF),
exposure reciprocation, and flash exposure. CamCalc is the equivalent for Android.

PhotoSync is the first app that makes wireless transfer of your photos and videos from & to your computer, iOS device (iPad/iPhone/iPod touch) & favourite cloud service – a breeze!

Posing App is the ultimate posing reference for both photographers and models.

ProCamera Fast. Simple. Professional. ProCamera is a photo, video, and editing studio with state-of-the-art technology! ProCamera’s powerful editor ushers in a new generation of photo apps, and sets the standard for mobile photography. With its intuitive interface, the new ProCamera shoots stunning HDR photos. 
EXPOSURE SWIPE CONTROL: From the simplest selfie to complex action shots, each photo gets perfect exposure using easy swipe control. Set preferred shutter speed in Priority Mode, and ProCamera does the rest.
Recommended by Apple Store and National Geographic.

Slow Shutter Cam lets you create all sorts of slow shutter speed effects with your iPhone/iPod by using one of the following Capture modes: Automatic, Manual or Light Trail. Capture modes can be selected after tapping the Capture Settings button, which is located at the left end of the toolbar.

Snapseed from Google Nik Software is a powerful photo editor that lets users adjust photos with an impressive arsenal of tools and settings.

The Photographer's Ephemeris is a topographical map allowing the photographer to match the
sunrise/sunset and moon phases to a particular location.

MICROSOFT

Microsoft Photosynth can be downloaded for free. It looks for overlapping points in the images then
arranges them into a browsable 3D model.

Windows Vista RAW image codecs for viewing in Windows Explorer:
Canon (you'll need to navigate to the drivers for your particular camera model to check),
Nikon, Olympus, Sony

GENERAL

DxOMark Lens Test Database provides objective, independent, RAW-based image quality performance
data for lenses and digital cameras to help you select the best equipment to meet your photographic needs.

Depth of Field Calculator

Photodex ProShow Lightroom Plug-in

Having a Problem Reading Raw Files
from Your New Camera
provided by George Burke

Every camera has a different raw format.  As new cameras come out, Adobe keeps updating it's raw
converter to accommodate them.  However, these updates only work with the LATEST VERSION of
Photoshop.  So, you have to upgrade in order to be able to use the raw images from your new camera
in Photoshop.

There is a free solution.  Use Adobe's free DNG converter.  DNG is Adobe's  universal raw format.
It converts your existing camera raw files to ones that can be read by any version of Photoshop.
The DNG Converter is a standalone program that will convert an entire folder of camera raw images
to DNG type raw images.

You can get it for a PC at: 
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3941&promoid=DTEHR

The Mac version is available at:
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3940&promoid=DTEHQ

There are several advantages to using dng files, even if you have the latest version of
Photoshop or Elements.

  • DNG files do not have a "sidecar" (.xmp) file.  All the changes made in the raw converter and Lightroom are saved in the DNG file.  No more problems in sending raw files to someone, not sending the sidecar file (it's invisible), and having the recipient only be able to view the original unedited file.
  • DNG files are about 20% smaller than raw file formats from camera manufacturers. That saves a lot of hard disk space.
  • Adobe has put the DNG format in the public domain, so anyone can use it at no cost, and promises to maintain it forever. There is no guarantee that several years from now a camera manufacturer, will still maintain a raw format for your (by then) obsolete camera.  (Remember, every camera has a different raw format.)

AN ALTERNATE SOLUTION: Lightroom can import any type of raw image in a DNG file.