Using Android for Product Photography Teachers Pay Teachers

I remember the excitement of upgrading to a telephone in the early 2000s that had a camera. Imagine! Being able to take photos on-the-become.

Of class, back then the quality of photos taken on phones was really poor. You'd never recollect of using a mobile instead of a digital/traditional camera.

Luckily, things have changed and the quality of cameras on mobile devices continues to meliorate. What makes mobile photography fifty-fifty ameliorate, is the admission to a very broad range of apps.

There are and then many apps out there and the difficulty is often sorting out what the essentials are and what are not really valuable. Personally, I don't like clutter on my devices!

In this post, I'm going to share five apps to do with photography and images that I've been exploring lately.

I feel similar these could be useful to help teachers and/or students overcome certain obstacles … or merely take fun being creative.

1) Wifi Photograph Transfer

Wifi Photo Transfer is one of many like apps that allows you to easily access your photos that are on your phone/iPad from your computer. I tried a few and I like this ane because information technology's gratuitous, simple, and doesn't announced to have any significant restrictions.

Why it might be useful

• Say yous have some photos on your phone that you want to quickly access on your computer to add to a blog post or certificate. No need to plug your telephone into your calculator, email them to yourself, upload them to the cloud etc.
• You can access your students' images from their devices likewise (if they have the app and are on the same wifi network).

How to utilize it

You only open the app, enter the displayed URL in your browser on your computer, and your photos will exist there in your browser ready for y'all to download!

Details

Wifi Photo Transfer is but available for iOS but there are similar ones for Android. Just have a browse equally some of these sorts of apps but allow you to access a certain number of images on the free version.

2) Prisma Photo Editor

There are many apps out in that location that can put artistic filters on your photos. Prisma is 1 of the more than pop ones. It turns your photos into works of art using artificial intelligence and neural networks (algorithms that mimic the way the brain operates).

Why it might be useful

• In an art class, students could take photos of their artwork and transform it in a variety of means. They could even so try to paint or depict the image again in a unlike way.
• Many teachers also similar using this app when sharing photos of students publicly for added privacy. You tin can make the images distorted simply still bonny.

How to use it

In one case you open the app y'all either select a photo from your photo whorl or take a new 1. Filter options then pop up along the bottom for you to try out. When you're happy with your image, you printing the share button to salve it or share it to social media.

Details

I've plant the complimentary version of Prisma provides plenty of options although in that location are paid add-ons promoted throughout the app. This app is available for both iOS and Android.

Prisma Photo Editor is 13+ and users under 18 crave supervision.

Instance

I made this quick instance by applying different filters to a photo I took of the beach (top left image is the original photograph). I arranged them in a collage using Adobe Photoshop Limited (see number 4 below!)

3) Emoji Me Face Maker

Nigh people know what emojis are — the modest faces or icons used to express ideas or emotions. Emojis are incredibly popular, as are bitmojis. A bitmoji is like your personal emoji. It's a cartoon representation of yourself.

Emoji Me Confront Maker is just 1 app where y'all tin make your own personal emoji. It's animated in GIF format.

Why it might exist useful

At that place are so many ways you tin utilize these emojis. Please share any of your own ideas in a annotate. Here are just three uses:

• Students can comment their work with an expressive emoji. You might have heard of BookSnaps which was a concept Tara Martin devised? This is similar Snapchat where passages from books are annotated with bitmojis, emojis, stickers, and text.
• Teachers and students can create a personal emoji for an avatar instead of using a real photograph to protect their privacy.
• Students tin can get creative with digital storytelling, making comic strips etc.

Note: If you want to go further and make bitmojis on your computer, there is a pop Chrome extension and free Bitmoji app (you have to sign up for an account to utilise that app).

How to use it

Emoji Me Face up Maker walks you through creating an emoji very hands. Y'all choose a male or female and so are presented with various options to customise facial features, colouring, accessories, text etc. You can even upload an image of yourself to try to friction match the features. When you lot're washed, you lot tin save your emoji or send it via text bulletin, social media, email etc.

Details

There is a kid version and adult version of this app. The adult version has more options and too promotes paid content throughout.

I believe this app is but for iOS. If you can recommend a similar 1 for Android, do leave a comment!

Example

Here is an example I made with the regular/adult version of the app. If you save your emoji to your camera roll in the app, it turns into a JPEG (withal paradigm). I emailed this to myself to put in this postal service and it remained every bit a GIF (animated epitome). What a dandy way to personalise your weblog posts!

4) Adobe Photoshop Express

This app is a free tool from Adobe.

It lets you exercise all sorts of editing including:

• Basics and enhancements: Cropping, resizing, car and manual fixing colours, blemish removal etc.
• Customisation: Filters, stickers, borders, and custom watermarks.
• Collages: Arrange multiple images in a variety of ways.

Why it might be useful

A practiced photo editor is a must and this app is virtually a one-cease-store for decorated teachers or students. Images can be edited before being added to any digital work.

Collage apps are peculiarly handy. Students might want to share a collection of their work in a weblog mail service, digital portfolio, or other publication. A collage is a uncomplicated mode to do this. Likewise, a teacher can display work from multiple students in a single image when they're sharing to their blog, learning direction arrangement, social media account etc.

Unlike other popular apps, the collage feature here doesn't add together a watermark. This offers a cleaner await.

How to use it

Adobe Photoshop Express is pretty intuitive to figure out subsequently you spend only a few minutes playing around with the different icons on the lesser. The home screen gives you the choice of editing images or making a collage. You can add together your photos by tapping +.

Tapping the globe icon on the dwelling screen brings upwardly a 'observe' feed where you tin get inspiration from other users' creations (Note: When you save your epitome you lot can swipe to indicate whether you want your own piece of work added to this feed).

Details

Adobe Photoshop Express is available for iOS and Android.

This tool is 13+. While the bones features can be accessed without signing in, yous'll need to log in to utilize the free advanced features (you can use your Adobe ID, Google, or Facebook).

Instance

Here is an interesting collage I quickly made from some fairly boring images I took of ground cover.

5) Pixabay

I've written before well-nigh the dilemma that presents itself in many classrooms where teachers and students need to be able to quickly access images to raise their digital work. A neat solution is Creative Commons Null (CC0) images and you lot can check out my mail for a number of options for finding these free images.

One CC0 resource that has a designated app is Pixabay.

Why it might be useful

You might need some free images to brand blog posts or digital documents more than interesting. You can use the images yous notice on Pixabay however you like. You might as well similar to present your students with some interesting images for writing prompts.

The possibilities for using and adapting images are pretty endless!

While in that location are many websites that provide free images, the app allows you to quickly grab images on the get from your phone or tablet.

How to use it

Y'all simply open the app, search for the paradigm you desire, and the options will be presented to you. They're all free to utilize for personal or commercial purposes. When you notice an image you lot like, you simply click on the download or share icon. You can and then use it in your digital creations.

Details

The Pixabay app is bachelor for iOS and Android. This app is for ages 16+ so younger students wouldn't be able to access the images themselves. Recollect, if y'all need options for complimentary photos that younger students tin access, I've listed a couple of options in a previous post.

Example

There are so many stunning images bachelor on Pixabay. Hither are just a few examples.

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Over To You!

There are and so many wonderful free photography apps out in that location and it was difficult narrowing it downwardly to simply five for this post.

I'd dearest you to add your own suggestions!

Do you know any other apps that could be useful in classrooms? Have you used any of the apps in this postal service? Tell us about information technology!

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