Lighting, make sure you have a ton of it, if not, keep the phone even more steady.Sure you can straighten an image in post processing but why rely on that when you can do it by eye. Switch the grid on, it helps to keep things lined up.

Keep the phone steady, I always try to rest it on my leg, a wall, the ground even, anything to keep it still.I'm certainly no photographer so I can only tell you what I do to get half decent pictures (to me at least). I use stock rom and camera app set to 13mp (I prefer the 4:3 size and I can crop to any other aspect later). Don't be afraid of post! Google Photos is perfect for some quick edits, Snapseed is great for anything a little more intense, and Picnic is my favorite for adding some natural-ish life to dull photos.Be sure to manually enable the Location permission for the Camera app if you'd like location info (long,lat of where you took the photo, in the metadata) saved with the photos you take.ZSD (or zero-shutter delay) makes shooting multiple images quite a bit faster, with the UI and camera viewfinder staying active while the last photo is being saved.With HDR on, you can drag up or down next to the focus indicator (after tapping to focus) to manually adjust the focus: turn the brightness down and you'll get a little less blur, which I'd recommend doing most of the time since you can't get rid of blur in post very easily.It's great for completely still shots, but if you or anything in the photo is moving you should turn HDR off or risk a much blurrier photo.HDR takes 3 photos (one too dark, one about right, and one too bright) and takes the best parts of each to form a single image with brighter shadows and dimmer highlights than without HDR.Know when to use HDR mode and when not to.

Always tap to focus before shooting (this camera doesn't have the fastest autofocus, and sometimes it won't activate without being prompted to), and wait for the focus indicator to turn green to indicate a lock.

Double-click the power button to enter the camera app quickly.

The Atom doesn't really have that good of a camera front or back, but it does have a pretty nice/fast camera app going for it at least! After a few days with my lovely new Atom, here are my best photos.

Snapseed healing brush