Not only for Instagram: 10 practical applications of your smartphone camera

In recent years, our camera phones have been a huge path of progress, changing from a fun toys into powerful tools with which some even manage to shoot a full-length movies. However, a huge number of people use the photographic opportunities only for one - to remove your breakfast or a seal and put in Instagram \ Twitter \ Facebook.

We want to introduce you, and some just to remind you that our camera phones are capable of much more. They can become our universal assistant in a variety of situations.

Remember the important things

For smartphones, there are dozens of different notebook, allows you to record your important stuff. But sometimes the image may be worth a thousand words. If you see on the street interesting ads, you need to remember the schedule of the institution, the street name, the color of the fence, and contact information, then simply take a picture of it. Take a photo more quickly, you run the application you want and try to enter the information.

Use as a mirror

You eat in the cafe, and you must see if you are soiled with this? Bitten by a mosquito or a wasp, and want to see the extent of the devastation on his face? It is necessary to check whether everything is okay with makeup and correct, if necessary? Or maybe you're a secret agent and you want to check the surveillance on his back?

In all these cases, you can help your smartphone. Just need to include a front camera and easy to learn yourself or what's going on behind your back. In any case, it will not attract any attention, so like a man looking at the phone screen looks quite natural.

Magnifying glass

Many products today are accompanied by such a small text on the packaging of its structure as if the producers do not really want us to read it. But we have a smartphone, and in it the camera with a zoom function. Turn on, direct the focus, zoom in and all the text in front of us at a glance. It is also, of course, we can try to consider any object that is too small for your vision.

screenshots

Sometimes there are situations when you need to make a screenshot, but conventional means this is not possible. For example, you write a description of the installation of the operating system or want to fix the error text, demonstrated on a blue screen of death. In this case, the easiest way is to use the camera lying next to the phone.

Process disassembly (and assembly)

It is said that the measure of a successful repair technology is the lack of spare parts. But practice refutes this claim and very often there are cases when there is a slide parts after assembling the device, and it works as if nothing had happened.

That would not break my head, what, how and where he was, it is best to fix the original state of the computer or machine in the photo. And in the process of disassembly done periodically photographs illustrating the process of your actions. As a result, you get the first, correctly assembled device, and secondly, a ready guide that you can publish on the net to help all confronted with a similar problem.

Digitizing texts

Scanners used to occupy a leading position in the ranking of computer peripherals. Now they have moved on long shelves, and they were replaced by smart phones with powerful cameras.

Just make a good picture of the desired text and save it by using an application like CamScanner in PDF format. By the way, free Google Drive can not only save your PDF in the picture, but also to recognize the text in it, if only the quality of the image allows it.

Defining colors

We saw a pale lilac flower and always wanted to use this color in the design of your blog? Do you want to clearly tell the designer, how do you see the color in your dining room? Just wondering how this is indicated in the figures, "caramel-creamy" hue?

Then install the application Color Grab or something like that and you know at the time and remember the designation of the color seen in real life. Simply bring your camera to it.

Tracking progress

The human eye does not notice the changes, if they occur rather slowly. Quite another matter unbiased objective view. Take a picture of yourself in the mirror every week and you will be surprised at how much you happen to be changed. Keep an eye on the growth of a flower on the window. Remove your child's growth or weather changes.

Secure your witness

The camera of your smartphone can literally save your life, health or purse. Remember that in any adversity in your pocket is a smartphone, which can be fixed all the circumstances of the case. Shoot number prune your machine, the circumstances of a traffic accident or a person holder of striped sticks. Remove scratches in a rented car, your documents in case of loss, suitcases when air travel and so on. Sometimes these images can save you a tremendous amount of time, money and health.

Watch out for health

One of the most important indicators of your health is heart rate. For its control your camera handy and one of the plurality of applications, eg this is. Just run the program, put a finger to the camera phone and soon you will find your heart rate. It is also possible to store the measurement results in a special journal. that allows you to monitor your health changes.

And what interesting applications for the camera, you know? Tell us about the practical case in your life, when the presence of the camera in your phone to help you out in a difficult situation!

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