About this site

SmaPhoto Tips (Composition and shooting tips for phone photos) is a friendly smartphone-photo guide for everyday people who want to make their photos a little better with the stock camera. It isn't aimed at pros or camera hobbyists; it gently explains, from the ideas of composition, how to crop everyday subjects — food, products, cafés, social icons, flowers, landscapes — so they come through more clearly.

Three categories

• Solutions: the causes of "almost there" by subject, and the composition you can fix it with on your phone.
• Compositions: the basics one at a time — rule of thirds, center composition, negative space and more.
• Settings: the settings worth knowing first, like grid lines and brightness adjustment.

About the images

To make composition easy to see, this site uses illustrative examples, including AI-generated images. They are not actual smartphone photos. For details, see "About images (AI-generated)."

Operated by

SmaPhoto Tips is a related service of "Hibibako," a portfolio of practical media for everyday life and play.