Selfie Camera Features We Can't Live Without!

**We live in the age of the selfie; no longer can we make a trip to the shops or hit the town without at least one or two selfies making their way onto our smartphone’s photo album. **The word selfie was even inducted into the English Dictionary and was one of the words of 2013, so it’s safe to say we won’t be seeing them fade away anytime soon.

But with their popularity improving, our demand for better selfies has grown, as have the amount of uses we have for them. So how can our phones help us out with our selfies? Well we’ve found some features and apps that could help your selfies become Mona Lisa-esque works of art!

Selfie Alarm –Samsung Galaxy K Zoom

The Samsung Galaxy K Zoom is arguably the best camera phone on the market, featuring an optical zoom weighing in with 20 megapixels. So, with all this power, why should we let it go to waste by using a smaller lens on the front side of the phone?

Selfie Alarm works by letting you line up your selfie on the main screen with the front lens, and then lets you turn the phone around to use the better lens, letting you know when the picture is lined up with an audible tone. You don’t even need to hit a button, and the K Zoom’s xenon flash makes you feel like a real celebrity, as well as making our pictures look better than ever!

CrunchFish Go Cam App – iOS

Sometimes our human arms simply aren’t long enough to fit all of our friends in our selfies, and whilst there are products we can buy to hold our phones further out, we don’t always fancy hitting the club with a big stick protruding from our bags. Step in the CrunchFish Go Cam App for iOS!

This intuitive app lets you place your phone up to 3 metres away, letting you and all your friends squeeze into frame, and then can be triggered to take a snap by a simple hand gesture. No longer will you have to explain why half of your best friends face isn’t in shot!

Flash for Selfie – LG G Pro 2

It’s not very often that we find ourselves with the best lighting conditions when we’re taking our selfies. It’s a common occurrence to see blurry, dark and downright useless pictures pop up from nights out in our camera roll, but LG is putting an end to that.

Flash for selfie works by using the LG G Pro 2’s rather large screen, brightening up the edge of the display to act like a light source when you’re taking your selfie! It won’t matter if you’re in a dingy downtown nightclub, or if you’re stuck at home during a power cut, your selfies will come out looking as bright as a summer’s day!

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Lookout Security – Android + iOS

Selfie’s aren’t all sunshine and lollipops you know. Sometimes selfie’s can prove the difference when you’re tracking down a wanted criminal, and that’s what Lookout Security does. The app recognises when something fishy is going on, whether someone’s entered the wrong security pin a few times, or if they’re trying to remove your sim card, the app will secretly take selfies of the perpetrator and then send them to your linked email address.

It doesn’t stop there either, in your email you’ll also be given a location of your smartphone when the pictures were taken, giving you a lead to follow! Burglars beware, because the selfie could well prove your downfall!

Beauty Mode – Huawei Ascend P7

Of course, the main aim of a selfie is to make the user look as good as possible for their next Facebook profile picture. The Huawei Ascend P7 recognises this, and has included a Beauty Mode just for all of you good looking guys and girls out there.

Beauty mode works by automatically editing your selfies to help you show your best side, without turning you into a Barbie doll lookalike. On a gauge of 1-10 it alters your pictures, giving even your granddad the ability to pull of that Justin Bieber look.

Sketch Guru – iOS + Android

Sometimes a standard selfie snap isn’t going to cut it, sometimes it takes something really special to turn that good picture, into the best Facebook profile picture ever. The Sketch Guru app gives you this opportunity.

The app can turn any so-so selfie, into a true masterpiece, adding filters to make the picture look hand drawn or even painted. No need to pay hundreds of pounds for an artist to come and paint your mug, with Sketch Guru it can do it for you, and in the blink of an eye as well!

Stacheify – iOS + Android

Super Mario, Hulk Hogan, Lionel Richie, Tom Selleck, and Ron Burgandy… What do they all have in common? You guessed it, moustaches.

Let’s face it, not all of us can grow one, they often come through patchy, uneven, or sometimes your gender won’t quite allow you to give one a go. Well with Stacheify your problems are solved, the app gives you, your mum, even your pet dog a fancy moustache of your choice, ready to share all over social media! Beats getting trimmer out!

So there you have it, just some of the great selfie features we could find! Now you have no excuse not to grab a selfie the next time you hit the town!

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