Everyone’s a bit of a professional nowadays it seems. If you write a blog, you’re a writer, if you have a smart phone you’re a photographer but what sets apart the hopeful amateur from the professional? Skills and experience.

Well, that and amazing technology. In a world where you don’t have to have years of experience to produce amazing websites, blogs and Insta-worthy photos, there’s so much tech out there that does a lot of the work for you.

We look at some apps that are changing the landscape for budding photographers, musicians and writers:

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Music

If you play one or more instruments than apps such as Walk Band, which allows you to add levels of instruments one by one, are going to change the course of making music.

You can compose as you go, no longer do you need to sit in a studio waiting for inspiration to strike. Also on the market are apps such as edjing Mix, just waiting for budding DJs to download and to start remixing a few classics.

The beauty of a lot of these apps is that they also allow the user to upload their creations in a variety of formats perfect for reaching out to differing platforms.

Photography

Naturally we have the staples still on the market but there are plenty of new kids on the block, offering powerful editing and retouching software to give the originals a run for their money.

You can change tone, add filters and remove unwanted content from photos using a huge variety of online tools.

In-platform editing is also playing a huge part with Instagram alone offering seemingly endless features to draw out different effects. On Macs and even some PCs, the software package comes with a basic photo editing tool. There’s no excuse for not producing amazing visual images for your personal blog or social media accounts.

Writing

Everyone loves a blog but you don’t have to be held back by poor grammar or spelling, which is great news if you’re dyslexic and just need a little extra support to get your words and thoughts out to the world.

With online tools such as Sublime Text your writing, coding or markup can be error free. Grammarly will pick up any glaring errors and there are a host of other sense checkers to help you through.

If you’ve got something to say, something to show or something the world simply must listen to then there’s no excuse for holding back.

You don’t need to be a photography purist with a bag full of lenses to produce stunning and sublime visual images, neither do you have to have a degree in classical music and composition to produce something that will have people tapping their feet in admiration. If you’re a writer with something to say, say it and harness the power of online editing to help mould your writing into something inspirational and significant.

If you’ve got untapped talents dying to get out, let them loose today and see who you can become tomorrow.