"I'm pretty sure you can do a bunch of stuff on the phone itself."
Yeah, right. Not. After a bunch of googling that mostly turned up other baffled iPhone users asking the same questions, I learned that no, you can't do much of anything with the photos on the iPhone. You can't rename them, reorder them, rotate them or even sort them into albums. The only ones you can delete are the ones you took yourself with the iPhone camera. Booooo. The "albums" created by the iPhone are like blocks of stone, can't even be manipulated by 3rd-party apps.
However, fortunately, it is possible for 3rd-party apps to copy photos from these albums and do things with them. I found the two apps I was looking for. PhotoSort ($1.99)lets you create new albums, arrange them in hierarchical folders, and populate them with pictures copied from the default Apple albums. Then you can sort and rename them.
Rotate&Crop (free!) does just what it says. It then saves the picture into the "Camera Roll," from whence it can be imported into the custom album you just created with PhotoSort. I think that with these two apps the iPhone becomes a useful enough camera that I may leave my Canon at home on my upcoming trip. First I'll have to deal with the limited battery life, though.
ETA: Thanks for the links, btw. I'm tempted by the ProCamera program on the "10 Must Have" page.
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Yeah, right. Not. After a bunch of googling that mostly turned up other baffled iPhone users asking the same questions, I learned that no, you can't do much of anything with the photos on the iPhone. You can't rename them, reorder them, rotate them or even sort them into albums. The only ones you can delete are the ones you took yourself with the iPhone camera. Booooo. The "albums" created by the iPhone are like blocks of stone, can't even be manipulated by 3rd-party apps.
However, fortunately, it is possible for 3rd-party apps to copy photos from these albums and do things with them. I found the two apps I was looking for. PhotoSort ($1.99)lets you create new albums, arrange them in hierarchical folders, and populate them with pictures copied from the default Apple albums. Then you can sort and rename them.
Rotate&Crop (free!) does just what it says. It then saves the picture into the "Camera Roll," from whence it can be imported into the custom album you just created with PhotoSort. I think that with these two apps the iPhone becomes a useful enough camera that I may leave my Canon at home on my upcoming trip. First I'll have to deal with the limited battery life, though.
ETA: Thanks for the links, btw. I'm tempted by the ProCamera program on the "10 Must Have" page.