App Love!

Today I want to share a few of my favorite photo apps. I love to take pictures but I will be the first to admit that I don't always get the best lighting or frame the shot just so. These apps are great for those little tweaks! I usually take my photos on my iPhone and edit them on my iPad mini. I love Apple's Photo Stream feature - that's how you can access your phone pictures on your iPad or computer. It makes the editing process so easy!

Rhonna Designs ($1.99, App store)
I am IN LOVE with this app. It's a full-featured photo art app with thousands of choices. You can go as simple as a frame, or as complex as a photo that looks like a mini scrapbook layout! I particularly love that you can crop, re-crop and move your picture around throughout the process. Also great: no additional in-app purchases necessary (apparently they will have some available in the future - hey, a girl's got to have options!) Visit Rhonna's Blog to learn more.

A Beautiful Mess ($0.99, App Store, Android soon)
This app is great for adding colorful doodles and text to your photos. I love the many border effects! It has a limited color palette, which simplifies the process for people like me who can never choose -just- the right color. You can purchase additional fonts, borders, doodles etc for 99 cents each. The new undo-redo feature is just what this app needed! I love their blog by the same name.

Adobe Photoshop Express (Free, App store)
The mac daddy of photo editing software, Photoshop has come to your phone or tablet. Love that it is FREE! I did purchase the Adobe Camera Pack, which allows you to use denoise - an essential tool for me. If you just want to crop and fix the lighting, this app is great! I would still recommend saving heavy duty editing for your desktop/laptop computer.

Padgram (Free, App Store)
While this isn't a photo editing app, I couldn't post about apps without including this! If you have an iPad you are probably well aware that Instagram is not yet optimized for iPad. Instead of having to hit the 2x button and viewing grainy Instas, I love checking in with my friends pics on Padgram. You will still need to post any pictures from the iPhone app - Instagram doesn't allow any 3rd party services to post pics. Highly recommend this over any other Instagram viewer. Many others charge you to search by hashtag - boo! Padgram includes this feature in the free version.  They offer an upgrade for $2.99, but I haven't found any reason to upgrade.

What are your favorite photo apps for your phone?