As the secret weapon in many a great iPhone photographer's arsenal, Camera+ transforms that device's already excellent camera into a full studio. With a little savvy you can turn a spontaneous shot into a masterpiece.
Set the self-timer, frame your picture on a grid, and adjust the focus and white balance for several points in your image. But the fun doesn't end when the shutter closes. Camera+ comes with a powerful set of postproduction tools that let you crop, rotate, add borders, and massage colors, contrast, and brightness.
You can even go in after the fact and simulate how it would have looked using a flash. There's also an adjustment that jacks up light sensitivity to create some ersatz image stabilization — an amazing trick to have up your sleeve.
There are so many ways to tweak your shots, so many paths to photographic discovery, you'll swear the app has been updated every time you use it. In fact, if there's a weakness here, it's that it's too easy to get lost in the deeply layered menus or forget where you found that killer function the other day.
Luckily, Camera+ makes the photo's metadata — where it was taken, what the exposure and aperture settings were, and so on — readily accessible, a lesson that Apple could stand to learn when it comes to the iPhone's native camera. Deep integration with Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr lets you post your best shots directly to the web so you can taunt your fandroid friends, who can't yet get their hands on this iOS-only standout.
