Spend a few dollars on smartphone apps

Your smartphone is really the ultimate point and shoot camera. It’s ultra compact, it’s always with you, it has a built in processor that’s actually competitive with most computers and it’s connected to the Internet.

Don’t forget that adding apps to your camera can increase your phones abilities even further.

Most people are aware of filter-based apps like Instagram, but there are some amazing things you can do like panorama stitching, tilt-shift effects, color manipulation and correction, etc. There are even apps that allow you to manipulate the actual camera and control exposure, focus and what actually makes the shutter fire.

Some apps you might want to check out:

iPhone

Camera+
AutoStitch
TiltShift Generator
PhotoCopier
Tiffen Photo Fx

Android

Camera Zoom FX
Little Photo
After Focus
Panorama Pro
Pro HDR Camera

Windows Mobile
Apict
Thumba Photo Editor
Ztitch
Photo Studio