Afterall Photo: Before & After

Afterall Photo makes the "before and after" actually line up. When you come back to photograph your progress — weeks or months later — the app draws your earlier photo straight onto the live camera as a see-through ghost. Move until the two match, and shoot. A slider sets how strong the ghost is, so you can fade it back once you are close. That one trick is the whole point: an after shot taken from the same spot, at the same angle, turns a pile of photos into a result worth showing. WHAT YOU DO WITH IT • Start a project for each thing you're tracking — a garden, a room, a restoration, a new look • Shoot the before, then line up every later photo against it • Line up selfies with the front camera, at the same zoom as your before • Hold the phone as you did for your earlier photo, with the tilt guide (Pro) • Prop the phone up and use the self-timer or a Bluetooth remote, so a tap can't…