My photo, by Glyn Evans

I've called this photo "Flying the Flag"

On my flight to PMA 2010 I took several photos as the plane began to descend in to LAX.  As you can imaging trying to keep the iPhone level was impossible, and so the following photo was the result.

So how did I get from this photo to the one i've called "Flying the Union Jack"?

First I used Straighten Image, to, you guessed it, straighten up the photo.

Then I used ColorSplash, bringing back the colour of the Union Jack on the wing tip of the Virgin Atlantic flight, before finally processing it in CameraBag, using the Colorcross filter.

And so that's how I created my photo, so if you would like to share your photo with the rest of us, then send me an email and I'll reply with details on how to submit.

iPhone App Review: Straighten Image

About a week ago the developer of Straighten Image made the app available for free for a couple of days, and so during that time I grabbed myself a copy.  It wasn't until I flew in to LAX on my way to PMA that I got chance to test this app out.  If I was being honest I grabbed the app because it was free, but never got around to testing, and even expected it to be yet another low-res app, how wrong I was.

The app itself is a no frills, one trick pony app, that lets you quickly and easily realign the horizon, and straighten out any crooked photos.

To use the app simply launch the app and you will be presented with an almost black screen with a circular button in the middle that says 'Open Image'. Tap on this, select a photo you want to correct and then use the slider and grid combination that you are presented with to make adjustments from -45° to +45° degrees.

Above: Click to open, grid/slider to straighten, tick to saveI was amazed at just how quick, easy and simple this app was to use, but the most interesting thing, and more importantly omitted from the AppStore description, is the save photos are upscaled, and so on my iPhone 3G, were saved at full-res.  Now I'm not sure if this app saves at full-res on the iPhone 3GS, so if anyone has an iPhone 3GS and this app, then maybe they could comment on the resolution.

Above: The original photo with a slight slant and I land at LAXAbove: The same photo without the slant, or loss of quality or file size, and then processed with Perfectly ClearSo what do I think of Straighten Image?

Simply put i think this app is great, and whilst it may be a one trick pony app, it does what it does, very well; and gets my recommendation.

AppStore Link: Straighten Image - Price £0.59/$0.99

Update on Thursday, February 25, 2010 at 9:30PM by Glyn Evans

Thanks to feedback from reader Deborah Lattimore, it looks like this app does support full-res on the iPhone 3GS.

New iPhone Photo App: Straighten Image

Description from the AppStore: The perfect tool to straighten an image.

Use the slider to straighten an image from your photo library or take a photo with your camera within the app. You can straighten crooked images from -45° to +45°. When you drag the slider a raster appears wich helps you align the image.

AppStore Link: Straighten Image - Price £0.59/$0.99

Editors comments: This looks like a useful tool, but I am not sure of the output size, and the developers website is nonexistent, so I can not check with them!!