5 tips for taking better photos with your smartphone

New Delhi: If you want to be perfectionist while taking a photo through your smartphone, then there are helpful lessons that can be applied to camera-phone photography. Here are some simple but effective ways to help anyone take better smartphone photos:1. Learn your phone's advanced camera featuresLots of new smartphones are coming with many advanced camera features in addition to the Automatic mode, which adjusts your environment to pick best images without any manual changes to settings. Spend at least half an hour to study the camera section of your device's user guide will pay off in spades. You can also learn them online. 2. Get CloseThe camera really starts to shine when you bring them in close to your subject. This is especially true for iPhone. When you get close, you have more control over the lighting of your subject. 3. Crop, Don't ZoomA lot of smartphones offers a digital zoom function, but you are better off not using it. When you're cropping, however, you're actually just sampling pixel info that was actually recorded. Given that many smartphones offer more than 8-megapixels of resolution, you can crop substantially and still have plenty of resolution left for display on the web. 4. Edit, Don't FilterRather than using filter option, it is better advised to get a full-on image editing app like the excellent SnapSeed, Photoshop Express, or iPhoto. These apps allow you to make reasonable adjustments, like contrast, sharpness, and color temperature. 5. Don't Add Fake BlurPutting a fake blur will make things worse. It looks unnatural. To make viewer focus on one thing, try to make it central object in the frame.