Photo Fun

As summer wanes and photo libraries swell with magical images from vacations and staycations, the potential for digital debris anxiety syndrome is serious. We asked professional photographer Sean Cope of Sean Cope Pictures which apps he likes best for shooting, sharing and storing.

 

Shoot and Share

CAMERA+ A top choice: You can adjust exposure and focus and use the full suite of editing tools and filters once you’ve taken the shot. Then seamlessly share on your favorite social media networks.

PIC JOINER Combine multiple images into a collage, add effects and borders, and share directly to the social site of your choosing.

GOOGLE+ PHOTOS Want to animate your vacation photos with special effects like falling snow and floating pink and red hearts? Google+ Photos lets you do that and more.

Store It

PHOTOBUCKET Two gigabytes of free storage and helpful icons on the site make it easy to share each and every one of those bytes on Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Tumblr, Reddit, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, Digg and many others.

FLICKR Photo sites have come and gone, but Flickr has lasted and improved in the last decade; here you can upload, edit, organize and share.

PHOTO SHELTER This site offers tons of professional tools. Cope uses it to host his website as well; it enables him to share private galleries with clients and facilitates downloads, e-commerce and more.

 


Mimi Towle

Mimi Towle has been the editor of Marin Magazine for over a decade. She lived with her family in Sycamore Park and Strawberry and thoroughly enjoyed raising two daughters in the mayhem of Marin’s youth sports; soccer, swim, volleyball, ballet, hip hop, gymnastics and many many hours spent at Miwok Stables. Her community involvements include volunteering at her daughter’s schools, coaching soccer and volleyball (glorified snack mom), being on the board of both Richardson Bay Audubon Center. Currently residing on a floating home in Sausalito, she enjoys all water activity, including learning how to steer a 6-person canoe for the Tamalpais Outrigger Canoe Club. Born and raised in Hawaii, her fondness for the islands has on occasion made its way into the pages of the magazine.