There are people reporting issues with the app. That's expected if you ask me. What app doesn't have release bugs? The app has crashed several times when I have been editing. That will get worked out on their first update. At least that's what I expect from a company that is all about a quality product. That is why they pushed the release date of the app. They strive for quality!

So what do you get?

When you open the app, it defaults to the camera screen with an overlay grid. I wish the grid was off by default instead of on. You have the option of turning off the grid in the options button. You can turn the flash on and off and reverse the camera. Once you take a few photos, you can view them in a grid or you can double tap a photo to view it in full screen and then swipe to scroll through them.

You get several icons along the bottom of your photo when one is selected in the small grid view or in full screen view. Those icons are:

1. Magnifying glass - This returns to the small grid view
2. Paintbrush - This is the edit button
3. Talk bubble - This is your share button for email, twitter, facebook and instagram
4. Frame with an arrow - This is to process the image and save it to your phones library. You can select multiple photos to process at one time
5. Trash can - This deletes a photo

When you choose the photo you want, select it and hit your little paintbrush. It will take you to a new screen with 3 black and white choices and 7 color options. Just tap on the numbers until you get a look that you want. You also get the option to reset the image or undo. If you are happy with the image, hit done. It will apply what you have done to the photo and take you back to the grid view of your photos. If you want to tweak the image further, just hit the little wrench to fine tune.

The wrench icon is their way of giving you a toolkit like in Lightroom. The options they give you are fade, grain, contrast, temperature, fill, exposure, vignette, saturation and highlights. This gives you more control over the look you are going for. That pretty much sums up the app. Simple and to the point.

I think they did an awesome job on the release of this app. The colors you get are awesome. There are a lot of apps out there, but this app gives me more of what I am looking for when processing images on my phone.

Here is a small list of things I want to see added to the app:

1. A crop tool with aspect ratios (They mentioned that they are going to be working on it)
2. A straigten tool
3. A brush feature. This would make this app so much more bad ass
4. Maybe an option to publish to tumblr
5. Save to Dropbox
6. This might be way to much to ask, but a folder system to organize photos. I can dream, right?

Here are a few samples from a quick walk in downtown Oklahoma City

This is the first of several projects we have been talking about. I can't wait to share what we have been brainstorming about. Desmond is a super cool guy. He's creative and full of ideas. I love it! Here are a few from the shoot.

Here is the original photo I took

I got to see a bunch of people I haven't seen in a while. It was fun hanging with GRPFLY Clothing who was also there selling his gear.

This was also a good chance for me to try out the new Canon 5D Mark III in low light and the new VSCO Film for Lightroom 4.

We ended up having to leave the show pretty early because we had another event to go to, but while we were there we had a blast.

MUSIC - Persistence by Lowercase Noises. Check him out on twitter at @lowercasenoises

I have decided to stop caring about all of that. I will strive to be the best I can at what I do and not try to be better than others in my field. It’s really pointless. It takes away from you being a creative person. Making money from taking pictures is pretty awesome, but that’s not what keeps me motivated. Snapping a few frames of someone and saving that moment forever keeps me motivated. Taking pictures is not the only thing that keeps me motivated. You have to have something more.

I recently read an article about “having an and”. I wish I had the link to reference it. This is something I have been doing for years and I didn’t even know what I was doing until I read that blog post. Basically it talked about having an "and" plus having what you do for a living. So for me, it would be photographer and artist or photographer and designer. You could be a musician and programmer, painter and cyclist. It could be anything. I’m not saying don’t spend more time on your passion, I’m saying have another source for creativity to keep you fresh and motivated.

Over the years I have been a graphic designer, web designer, video editor and artist, outside of photography. Before I got back into photography, I didn’t have anything outside of the field I was in. In return, I got burned out on what I was doing for a career. I could write it a million times. You need an "and" or an "out". Whatever you call it, you need it. If you don’t, you run the risk at getting burned out and not being 100% at what you are passionate about.

By having an “and” or "out" does several things. It keeps you fresh on the thing you are most passionate about. It opens doors for inspiration and creativity in other areas that you never thought you would get inspiration or creativity from. It also gives you another area that you can make money for you and/or your family. You never know when a client might want something more than you offer.

Right now I am a photographer and artist. This means I will do things outside of photography like doing video projects and making art. Sure it’s all art, but not the same art. Spending several days on a video project then returning to taking still photographs is refreshing for me. I will even continue to work on some web and design stuff. I can write about this forever because I believe it’s very important but I won’t. I will end with challenging you to spend 30 minutes to an hour a day on something other than your money maker. You will be surprised at what it can do for you.

I think as long as you do everything on the phone then there is no cheating. There are so many awesome apps that give me so much control over my image. Here are a few that I have been using lately.

• Image Blender
• Photo fx by Tiffen
• Decim8

I have probably 20 photo apps on my phone, but I have a few that are my favorite. All of the images I post are edited in one of the three listed, the filters in the app or no filter at all. You should check these people out on Instagram @popesaintvictor, @meagancignoli, @micahbickham, @fosteraddington , @jeremycowart

These 15 images were all edited on an iPhone 4s. No photoshop. It's pretty amazing were we're at in technology, that we can do stuff like this on a phone. You can see more of my Instagram images at @travisclancy or view my images online.