How To Capture Great Images With Your Smartphone

We always want to take great photos with our Smartphone. But the camera quality may be less for some specific phones. So we want to apply some tips or tricks to improve our Photo Quality. Here, in this tutorial, I am sharing some tips to improve your Image quality. I am sure if you apply this tips wisely, you will see a positive improvement when taking images with your phone's camera. Hope you enjoy my tutorial and if you have any further doubts, please let me know it in the commenting section. I am happy to hear from you!

Light Source
It's important with all cameras to make sure your subject is facing the light source and you're not, but it's even more important with phone cameras (Unless, of course, you want to take a silhouette—like all rules, this can be bent). As I mentioned above, your phone's biggest weakness is its inability to take good pictures in low light, which means you generally will want to get as much light as you possibly can on your subject. This may require a bit more thought and a bit more moving around than it might with a point-and-shoot camera, but you'll thank yourself in the end.

Use HDR
The latest versions of the default camera apps for both Android and iOS now include auto HDR modes that apply a High Dynamic Range filter as and when the situation suits it. You can see the HDR toggle switch located right on the shutter screen itself on both OSes.

Clean Your Lens
Give your lens a wipe down before you start snapping photos with your phone. While most people are pretty good about keeping their grubby fingers away from camera lenses, it's not as easily done with cameraphones. If you have a dirty lens, none of the other tips in this article will make your photo look less like crap, so please keep it in mind.

Image Resolutions
Most camera apps have a setting that allows you to take pictures at differing resolutions. Low resolutions are nice if you're just sending a quick photo via MMS, and they'll save to your phone faster, but if you're taking a photo you want to keep around, you're better off taking it at a higher resolution. It's a simple and obvious tweak, but something you definitely want to check before you start snapping—there's nothing worse than taking a bunch of really cool pictures, only to find out once you put them on your PC that they're just 640x480.

Exposure
Exposure, by its most basic definition, relates to the amount of light that enters the camera sensor and its effect on overall image brightness. In a standard digital camera exposure is adjusted with a combination of aperture, shutter speed, and ISO. The three combine to dictate how much light enters the camera and how sensitive the camera is to that light. In a well-lit situation, a low light sensitivity is suitable for capturing the scene in plenty of detail.

Set White Balance
Most Android camera apps offer some form of white balance adjustment, though the level of manual adjustability varies. White balance is an important parameter for capturing colors accurately, determining the baseline temperature for white given the light source. Users are typically able to pick from a variety of preset white balance options based on various lighting conditions in addition to an auto mode that will adjust white balance dynamically.

Avoid Zoom
Unlike the normal camera that comes with optical zoom, most camera phones use digital zoom to zoom in your image. The effect of digital zoom has a tendency to reduce your image size and make your images look grainy and pixelated, particularly for a low-end camera phone. Filling up your view finder by getting close to your subject is usually recommended. Try not to use the zoom feature as much as you can.

Image Stabilization
Using soft natural lighting makes for beautiful product photos, but it often creates the need for image stabilization equipment, such as a stand or a tripod. Although smartphone cameras do contain internal image stabilization software, there will still be camera shake if you hand-hold your phone, resulting in blurry images.

Quick Launch
Launching the camera app is a lot quicker, but can still take a fair bit of time if you've locked the phone, for example. Most phones allow you to work around this limitation though, and quick launch the camera, so you can take pictures in moments.