In case you missed it a couple weeks ago, MacWorld’s Lauren Crabbe published a story online about using an iPhone for higher-quality image capture and editing – something that many of us already know about our cameras of choice, but might be of interest if you haven’t yet discovered some of the higher-end photo editors.

I agree with many of her choices, including using both PhotoForge2 and Filterstorm. Both apps have different uses in my toolbox. Her choice of ComicBook in an otherwise hi-fi-oriented article left me puzzled. Also, noting one of her oversights, Cogitap’s excellent Slow Shutter Cam () does support full resolution on an iPhone 4.

“Yes, it is possible to take good photos on your iPhone without shoving it through a lo-fi app. And as cool as it may seem to make your party photos look like they were taken in 1976, one can’t help wonder what we will think of them in retrospect.”

Click to read the entire post, “iPhone photo apps that go beyond the lo-fi” on MacWorld.com.

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Macworld contributing photographer, Peter Belanger, used basically the same rig he would have used to photograph the 4 with a Phase One P65+ digital camera. The main difference? He used tungsten lights because of the iPhone’s inability to sync with strobes.

To process the image, he used PhotoForge to remove a slight green cast from the image and Resize-Photo to bring the image to Macworld’s print specs.

Links to the Macworld cover are after the jump. >>>

In publishing, the cover is critical. It needs to be “pretty”. It need to pop. Often times, a magazine sits in a rack along with a hundred other magazines. The cover needs to be visible — to jump out and grab a reader. The Macworld cover looks great. The highlights look bright and the color saturation of the screen looks rich and natural.

Here’s the link to the Macworld article that discusses the iPhone 4 cover. Here’s the link to photographer Peter Belanger’s blog post describing the process. Both are good reads and give good insight into the entire process.

While the iPhone 4 won’t replace your Nikon body and thousands of dollars worth of lenses any time soon for commercial uses, I thought it was a really cool way to test out the iPhone 4 camera’s capabilities. Although a little coddling was needed, it looks like the iPhone 4 and photo apps passed with flying colors.

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Related Links: PhotoForge |   Resize-Photo