Method 01.
Setting Up Your Phone
for Better Pictures
1. Clean the lens.
Over time the camera lens can collect lint and create a blurred image. Just give it a good wipe with a clean cloth.
2. Set your phone to its
highest picture quality and resolution.
You might end up taking a good enough shot that you want to print it out; you won't be able to do this if you only have a low-resolution version of the photo.
You might end up taking a good enough shot that you want to print it out; you won't be able to do this if you only have a low-resolution version of the photo.
3. Turn off picture
frames.
A normally great shot may be ruined by a cheesy frame or background; if you really must have one, add the frame after you take the picture.
A normally great shot may be ruined by a cheesy frame or background; if you really must have one, add the frame after you take the picture.
4. Turn off any other
effects.
These include black-and-white, sepia tones, inverted colors, and so on. These aren't as necessarily as cheesy-looking as frames and have their place; nonetheless, these things are much better done in photo editing software later on than on board the phone. You may find, for example, that when you view your photo on a large screen that the colors in your scene are far too good to lose to black-and-white.
These include black-and-white, sepia tones, inverted colors, and so on. These aren't as necessarily as cheesy-looking as frames and have their place; nonetheless, these things are much better done in photo editing software later on than on board the phone. You may find, for example, that when you view your photo on a large screen that the colors in your scene are far too good to lose to black-and-white.
5. Set the white
balance.
The human eye usually adjusts for lighting, and so white appears white in any kind of lighting. A camera, however, will see that a given subject is redder than normal under normal incandescent household lighting. Better camera phones will give you the option to adjust the camera for this. If you have such an option, use it. If you're not sure what setting to use, experiment.
The human eye usually adjusts for lighting, and so white appears white in any kind of lighting. A camera, however, will see that a given subject is redder than normal under normal incandescent household lighting. Better camera phones will give you the option to adjust the camera for this. If you have such an option, use it. If you're not sure what setting to use, experiment.
Tips
Make sure your phone has enough free memory to keep taking pictures. If your phone is full, download some of the pictures from the phone to save room. Most mobile phones nowadays support Micro SD or other memory cards that allow the phone's capacity to be raised. Even something as small as a 1GB Micro SD card can hold hundreds more pictures.
