Decluttering Your iPhone & iPad

With the sheer number of apps available, it's fun and often inexpensive to try out new, exciting apps. It can easily become a bit of an addiction (do you ever feel like an appoholic?), and you wind up with so many apps that your smartphone (or tablet) becomes a cluttered mess. 

Just like on your computer, unused software takes up extra room on your tablet or smartphone’s storage and makes it harder to find the apps you do use. Cleaning out and organising the apps you use frequently makes it easier for you to focus and find what you need and enjoy to use. It also frees up extra space and helps your device run smoother.

Decluttering your iPhone. Deleting apps you no longer use. 

Deleting Unused Apps

To uninstall apps on your iOS device (iPhone, iPod or iPad), press and hold the app you want to remove until it "wobbles" and then tap the small “X” that appears in the corner to uninstall it. 

What if I Change my Mind? 

If you change your mind you can restore an app that you used to have, directly from your iPhone, iPod or iPad. You won't be charged twice for an app or in-app purchase, provided you use the same iTunes account login. Open the App Store, search for the app and reinstall it. It’s that easy. 

Resources for Mobile Photography

I'm putting together a new free Resource Section with essential tools and tutorials for mobile art and photography. The first part is a list of go-to apps for your mobile photography. 

The next part will be a selection of superb apps for artistic photo-manipulation and editing, the third part will be a roundup of fantastic apps for painting or applying painterly effects, the fourth will list excellent sources for royalty free textures and clipart and the fifth will be a list of the key resources I use for my creative business. 

Focus is around the best photo apps for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, but when possible, I also list apps for Android, Windows Phone, Samsung Galaxy, BlackBerry and Kindle Fire, as well as desktop companions for Mac, Windows and Linux. 

When I've completed all of this, I'm going to create free PDFs for Members of Club Marmalade Moon, that you can save and refer to over and over again.

Here's the first part: 8 Essential Apps for Mobile Photography. This is a list of top apps, 8 must-have apps in any mobile photographer’s tool kit. Check it out! 

Tidbits

Oh no, is your iPhone out of space? Find out why and what you can do!

Beautiful iPhone photography experiment with Camerabag 2 and Picfx Winter Wonderland Inspiration

Curious how to make your own inexpensive iPhone accessories? Find out How to Turn Your Phone Into a DIY Photo Projector for $1 make an iPhone Paper Clip Stand or Create Your Own Macro iPhone Lens.

Congratulations to the winners of the mobile photo awards 2013!

Your iPad: The Creative Tool You Didn't Know You Needed

Your iPad: The Creative Tool You Didn't Know You Needed. Photo Anne Wilemsons. 

What's it like to use an iPad as your creative tool? How is it different using your iPhone as your main tool? How do you deal with transferring your images and what are some of the advantages with the larger screen?

I asked Anne Vilemsons, who got an iPad for Christmas (!) if she'd be kind enough to write a review, and here it is: 

I Got an iPad for Christmas!

It was cold, heavy and neat. I was told it would be great for my new hobby – IPhoneography. And the day after I got some more presents for the ipad. A cover and a stylus for my iPad. 

I was a bit shocked by the gift. I just looked at it and put it in a safe place. After a few days I got help to get into it. The first thing was to transfer all my photos on to the iPad. First send the photos from the iPhone to the computer and then from the computer to the iPad. And the other way around if I edited some photos in the IPad. 

iPad, iPhone and laptop. Photo: Anne Vilemsons

Editing images on an iPad. Here's an example of an image where I discovered minor mistakes when using the larger iPad screen. Photo by Anne Vilemsons. 

It was like crystal on a frosty winter morning

Then I opened all the Apps that I already had on my iPhone. All of them didn´t work in the iPad. At first I was really disappointed because one of my favourite apps, Camera+ didn´t work on the iPad. Later on I realised that there was a separate iPad version for Camera+. That can be good to know for someone who's new to the iPad.

The screen is great on the iPad. It was like crystal on a frosty winter morning. I saw minor mistakes in some photos and how beautiful others were. 

The iPad has a camera as well as the iPhone. Thats great but a bit strange I think. Who takes photos with that? It´s not very handy. I would only use the camera in the iPad at work to take photos of the whiteboard after conferences. Maybe.

I love to edit photos on the iPad

Anyway I love to edit photos in the iPad. All apps are better to work in the iPad than on the iPhone. The Apps Meritum Paint and Touch Retouch are two of the apps that are really good on the iPad. These two are also great when I edit with the stylus i got for iPad. 

Using the iPad to create mobile art and photography. Photo: Anne Vilemsons. 

The transferring bit was a bit annoying. Luckily I got help to find a better way of transferring photos. It was the Photo Transfer App. With this installed I can transfer my images by cable or Bluetooth instead. Great change. It was true – iPad is great for my iPhoneography. But honestly I am still a bit shocked.

About the author

Anne Vilemsons is a creative iPhoneographer. She uses the alter ego KislieKapusta for her creative work. She currently resides in Stockholm, Sweden. Read more about Anne's iPhoneography art show, and follow her on Instagram or Flickr. 

How to Save an Image to your iPhone, iPod or iPad ​

Saving pictures from websites or emails on to the iPad, iPod touch or iPhone is very easy and comes in handy when you want to change your wallpaper or create mobile art. 

How To Save Images from Your Browser

1. From Safari, navigate to the image you want to save
2. Tap and hold on the image until the pop-up selection menu appears, then tap “Save Image”
3. You'll find the saved image on your Photos app

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How to Save Images from Your Email

1. Open the email with the images
2. Tap and hold on an image and select “Save Image” from the pop-up menu. If there are several images and you want to save them all, tap “Save # Images”
3. Open your Photos app to find the images you saved 

How to save images from Safari to your iPhone, iPod and iPad

How to save images from email to your iPhone, iPod and iPad

Take a look at our roundup of all our Free Guides, Tutorials and App Tips for Mobile Photography and Art. 

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How to Change the Wallpaper on your iPhone, iPod and iPad

One of the fun things about the iPhone (iPad and iPod touch) is that you can customise the wallpaper to make your device personal. It can be a fun way to express your personal taste. You could use a photo you've taken yourself, or find a wallpaper you like at one of the many online resources for wallpapers, save it to your device and use it as a backdrop.  

There are actually two different kinds of wallpaper you can change. First the Lock Screen, the screen that you see when you wake up your iPhone to unlock it. Next the Home Screen, the image you see behind your apps. You can either use the same image for both screens, or use different ones for each screen. 

How to set your wallpaper

1. Tap on Settings
2. In the Settings screen select Brightness & Wallpaper
3. Tap Wallpaper
4. Now you'll have several options. This includes Wallpaper (Apple's pre-installed selection of Wallpapers), Camera Roll (pictures taken with your built-in camera), photos taken with any photo apps, or the names of folders you've synced to the phone. Pick the collection you want to use as a wallpaper by tapping it
5. Select the image you'd like to use as a wallpaper by tapping it. If it's a photo, you can adjust the photo by moving and scaling it (if it's one of the built in wallpapers, you can't zoom in or adjust it). When you're happy, tap Set (or Cancel if you change your mind).
6. Next, choose if you want to set this image for your home screen, lock screen, or both. Tap the option you prefer, or tap Cancel if you've changed your mind.

You're done! 

Tip

You can make a photo library in iTunes for your iPhone wallpapers and name it something like iPhone Wallpapers to easily find wallpapers you want to use on your iPhone.

Check out more of our Free Tips, Guides and Tutorials for Mobile Photography and Art. 

Tidbits

We're surrounded by images of more or less naked women, but images of naked men are still tabu. nude men examines how artists have dealt with the theme of male nudity over the centuries.

The Bamboo Solar Charger converts sunlight to battery power and will charge any and every camera phone. 

Beautiful, free, textures for digital artists: 8 Abstract Bubbled Textures & 7 Abstract Noisy Stripe Textures.

Bamboo Solar Charger

Special Event at Macworld / iWorld 2013 – iPhoneography: The Mobile Masters Sessions. Unveiling and celebrating all aspects of the rapidly growing art form based around Apple's iPhone, the Mobile Movement.

Holiday Cards + Instagram = HoliGram?! DIY: How to Turn Your Own Photos into Insta-Christmas Cards.

I was interviewed about mobile creativity by brilliant, inspiring life coach Suzy Greaves, ‘the top ten guru to change your life around’ on the topic of expressing yourself creatively with your iPhone. We talked about why the iPhone is a fantastic tool to harness creativity, what makes art created with your iOS device so unique and why creativity leads to a richer life. You can listen to the interview here. 

Christmas Card Workshop

Create and send your own beautiful Christmas Cards, directly from your iPhone, iPad or iPod!

Discover how fun and easy it is to use your mobile device to express yourself creatively and get your Christmas Cards both made and sent into the bargain! Work at your own pace in an online classroom. 
 
Online Weekend Workshop
Friday 2nd November - Sunday 4th November
No Prior experience needed. 

A Pay What You Want Event in the spirit of Christmas. 

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