photo editing

While there are a ton of photo editing apps that we've recommended, there's a new one made just for families that we think you'll be particularly interested in. Not just because it was created by Soleil Moon Frye, who's reinvented hersel…

I am now one of PicMonkey 's biggest fans along with the rest of the Cool Mom Picks crew. It's easy to make collages. It's easy to edit photos. But one thing that's always been challenging is doing both together. Argh. Well no more! Just…

Let's say your fireworks get rained out tonight. Or...your kid falls asleep before they start and you miss them. Fear not! There's an app for that. Or really, a website that can take your photos and make them as All-American festive rah-…

I have a sizeable collection of photos and videos on my iPhone, mostly of my kids. While I access my camera roll pretty frequently to find old pictures, show people my kids, watch past videos with my kids, etc., I love apps that take exi…

Despite the easy filtering and editing of Instagram, I still find some of my favorite photos come from photo apps in which I can choose the film and lenses right in camera before the shutter snaps instead of editing photos afterwards. We…

There are so many fun photo apps that we have covered on Cool Mom Tech-- Afterglow , BeFunky and myMosaic , to name a few. But I've recently started playing around with another iOS photo app called Split Pic 2.0 that not only offers fun …

I have taken so many pictures of my kids on my iPhone that I tend to group them into "series." There's the Florida series, the winter snowstorm series, the soccer game series, and so on. So I'm excited to have found a new app called Pice…

Ready for one crazy addictive app for you iPhoneographers and world travelers? Halftone lets you iOS users turn your pictures into pages straight out of a comic book. The colors are bright and vibrant, the fonts are straight out of an ol…

Now that I've started posting photos of my family on the Internet, I've been thinking much more about how to watermark my photos. Thankfully, it's not nearly as complicated as I thought, especially with the help of my go-to photo editing…

I've never been a huge Instagram user, which I guess after recent major changes to the Instagram Terms of Service , isn't a bad thing at all. But I am a fan of good quality photo editing apps, especially when they're free. We have been k…

Q: You keep posting all these awesome must-have apps , but what about for those of us who have Windows phones? I am looking for a photo app. Do you know of any that are worth getting? Right now I just send all my pictures to Facebook, wh…

Whether you take all your photos right on your smart phone, or you carry your trusty DSLR wherever you go, there are so many photo editing and sharing services now (a must for parents!). Here are our very favorite from this past year. Kr…

After hearing about the new Instagram Terms of Service changes that announced yesterday, so many of you are writing to us asking for an alternative. And while they've updated with an explanation (sort of) on the Instagram blog that's a c…

If you're looking for a fun way to mix up the tens, hundreds (or thousands in my case) photos in your camera roll, this cool new photo app is an inexpensive way to take your bevy of pictures and turn it into a work of art, Chuck Close st…

I admit that I am really bummed about not being able to post Instagram photos on Twitter anymore. But now that Twitter redeemed itself with adding photo filters , it looks like Instagram might be moving back into favor with me as well th…

Oh Appy Day! gives you the scoop on the coolest apps from some of the coolest people anywhere. This week we're thrilled to welcome photographer Nigel Barker , who may have answered this question faster than anyone else! I absolutely love…

Are you following us on Pinterest ? Come join us, and check out great finds like these every day. 1. One of our all-time favorite photo apps is now free. Hooray! 2. Yes, we know it costs more than the iPad it carries, but wow, this case …

Like so many parents, I have pretty much relied on my iPhone for taking pictures for the last few years. While the convenience is great, there are definitely times when I want to revert to the quality of my previous digital SLR camera, b…

We're seeing more and more moms slowly untethering themselves from their trusty smartphone cameras and going back to real cameras for special events that require oh, slightly better resolution and maybe even a zoom lens that works? I rec…

Here's to a ghoulish day that we hope is filled with your favorite candy, lots of awesome photo opps, and relatively painless sugar highs. And if you want to make a bewitching photo of yourself or your kiddos, you can use the Halloween t…

If you're already a fan of the Keepsy app for creating photo print books directly from your iPhone, your world is about to get seriously rocked. It isn't enough that Keepsy allows you to create printable photo books directly from your iP…

As much as I wish I were a scrapbooker--or, OK, even the kind of mama that actually puts photos into an album more than once a year--I've made my peace with the fact it's probably not gonna happen. So I flock to cool apps like Martha Ste…

Kapu Tickle Toy Camera is a new app that is so fun that you just want to laugh out loud. I'm serious. It's weird but watching someone get tickled is funny. Funnier still is when your child has the ability to turn the animated kooky chara…

Oh Appy Day! gives you the scoop on the coolest apps from some of the coolest people anywhere. This week, Christina Applegate shares her favorite. I love Oldbooth . You take people's faces and put eighties hair on them. It's awesome. - C…