Editing Photos from the PC with iOS Photo-Apps

The iPhone is most probably not the only Camera you or your family might be using: There are also Samsung Galaxys, Nokias, SLR-Cameras and more. As a photo-lover or member of a family you might be taking pictures with different cameras and mobile phones.

Typically, all these photos are aggregated and stored either on your PC or laptop or on a NAS (Network attached storage), in many cases in Dropbox.

When putting together and selecting the best photos from a family-vacation to make an album more than once you might want to edit them in various ways like

• adding text
• cropping
• adding labels and stickers
• using various filters like Lomo-art, cross processing, vintage, black & white etc.
• applying effects such as tilt-shift

What are the issues you are facing?

• you might use different PCs to work on
• the variety of photo apps and photo editing software (for free or low cost) is not that large on the PC and Mac platform
• you have these photo-editing Apps on your iPhone anyway

But

• in order to use these photo-Apps, the photos need to be physically saved to the iPhone's camera roll
• photo-Apps do not allow to edit the photos within the Dropbox-App
• downloading many photos from Dropbox is not very convenient

Use the Pics2Phone App to download photos to your iPhone, then edit.

• Create a subfolder "Edits" within the Pics2Phone-folder in your Dropbox on the PC

• Place all photos there which should be edited on the iPhone.

With the Pics2Phone App, all Photos can then be downloaded locally to the iPhone's native photo-App for editing.

Just open the Pics2Phone App and press "Download", then open the respective Photo-App (see some of our recommendations for Photo-Apps here) and edit the photos as if they were taken with the iPhone itself.

When finished editing, use the Dropbox-App to re-upload the photos to the sub-folder "Edits" within the "Pics2Phone"-folder.