Can you take better photo's on your iPhone? Yes you can!

If, like me, you like taking photo's on your iPhone, there is a way to get better quality pictures than you would normally get using the default iPhone camera app. This article gives some pointers around how to do this.

With the release of iOS 10 comes the ability to take photo's in raw. This type of photo is captured directly from the camera sensor without any of the usual processing that the phone's software normally carries out. The downside to this is that this processing normally means that the file size of each photo is greatly reduced compared to a raw photo as this is unprocessed when it saves to your camera, so you do need to make sure that you have plenty of space. The upside is that the increased file size does give more flexibility to editing.

The current iPhone camera however, doesn't in itself support the taking of raw photo's so you will need to download an app to be able to do this such as Adobe Lightroom or Manual. Please also note that you can only take raw photo's on the iPhone 7, 7 Plus, 6S, 6S Plus, SE or the 9.7-inch iPad Pro. So if your running iOS 10 on an iPhone 5S for example, it's not going to be possible. Some apps like Manual do save the photo's to your camera roll, so just be aware that if you decide to edit them there using the usual editing tools within the app, you will end up with a lower quality JPEG image, so it's best to edit using a different tool such as Snapspeed.

If you want to edit on your computer rather than directly on the phone, if your a Mac user, you can AirDrop the files straight on to your Mac. If using AirDrop isn't something that your familiar with, then click here to see an article that I posted recently on using it.

Happy snapping!