Greetings all,
I'm new to smart phones and just getting into the good stuff. I'm here to learn more about android photography apps and how I can best use them to take the photos needed to create "flipbook" animations.
Phone used: Verizon Samsung Droid Charge
During my breaks at work I do not watch T.V. Lately I've hit upon the idea of doing some creative doodling during my breaks, using my phone to take pictures of the doodles, then editing, cropping, and compiling the photos into an animated short later on.
Here's my basic dillema. All the android photo editing apps that I have used seem to compress photos to the point where too much detail is lost. Therefore, I've given up on finding an app that can make the animations that I want to create.
My main focus then is how do I use my phone to take and store the highest resolution photos that it can produce? My intention would be to upload these images to a desktop computer that has the programs needed to author the highest quality resolution animations I can make given the limitations of the original images.
Should I,
SD Cards are inexpensive enough that file size is not an issue. My phone's native camera function creates JPEG files of roughly 3mb. When I enlarge these files to edit them I'm seeing digital noise that looks like artifacts from file compression. The doodles I am taking pictures of are mostly black line drawings on white paper with some small patches of color so they have a fair degree of contrast. Most of the noise is showing up as grayscale ditherings in the white areas adjacent to the black lines but there is also a fair degree of aliasing going on as diagonals are more jaggy than I think they should be. Are there any android apps that store pictures in a more lossless format than JPEG such as TIFF? Doesn't have to be a free app either as I am looking for the best solution.
Thanks for any pointers.
Flipbook
I'm new to smart phones and just getting into the good stuff. I'm here to learn more about android photography apps and how I can best use them to take the photos needed to create "flipbook" animations.
Phone used: Verizon Samsung Droid Charge
During my breaks at work I do not watch T.V. Lately I've hit upon the idea of doing some creative doodling during my breaks, using my phone to take pictures of the doodles, then editing, cropping, and compiling the photos into an animated short later on.
Here's my basic dillema. All the android photo editing apps that I have used seem to compress photos to the point where too much detail is lost. Therefore, I've given up on finding an app that can make the animations that I want to create.
My main focus then is how do I use my phone to take and store the highest resolution photos that it can produce? My intention would be to upload these images to a desktop computer that has the programs needed to author the highest quality resolution animations I can make given the limitations of the original images.
Should I,
- Use my phone's native 8mp camera function at its highest resolution?
- Download and use another app that can save the original images in a lossless format?
- Other?
SD Cards are inexpensive enough that file size is not an issue. My phone's native camera function creates JPEG files of roughly 3mb. When I enlarge these files to edit them I'm seeing digital noise that looks like artifacts from file compression. The doodles I am taking pictures of are mostly black line drawings on white paper with some small patches of color so they have a fair degree of contrast. Most of the noise is showing up as grayscale ditherings in the white areas adjacent to the black lines but there is also a fair degree of aliasing going on as diagonals are more jaggy than I think they should be. Are there any android apps that store pictures in a more lossless format than JPEG such as TIFF? Doesn't have to be a free app either as I am looking for the best solution.
Thanks for any pointers.
Flipbook
