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"If you like taking pics on your device as much as we do, then you\u2019re always looking for apps that will help you produce stunning photographs. We\u2019ve provided 5 iOS apps and 5 Android apps that offer gorgeous effects, sexy filters and uploading to the cloud.\r\niPhone &amp;amp;amp; iPod touch\r\nColor Splash\r\nColor Splash helps iPhone users achieve a popular wedding photography trick in seconds.\u00A0 Have you ever seen a professional wedding photo of a bride in black &amp;amp;amp; white with her bouquet in colour?\u00A0 That\u2019s the effect this app will produce, and without the use of a professional editor like Photoshop. This app turns your image into black &amp;amp;amp; white then allows the user to splash some colour back on the image with their finger.\u00A0 I had a chance to use this app in the summer during a wedding and I was really taken back with the quality.\r\n\r\nThis effect adds a level of drama to a photo as well, a picture of the family in black &amp;amp;amp; white with the Christmas tree all in colour could potentially be really beautiful pic. While a user is in the process of editing a pic, Color Splash allows for zooming to ensure the user doesn\u2019t go over the lines or colourizing something by accident.\r\n\r\nUsers can paint in both colour and black &amp;amp;amp; white, so re-touching mistakes is quite easy.\u00A0 All in all, this app is fantastic and one I\u2019ll be adding to my arsenal of photo-editing apps over the holidays. This app has both a free and ad-free paid version for .99.\r\nToonCamera\r\nToonCamera turns both images and live video into rad looking cartoons.\u00A0 This app would still be great if it was strictly an image editor, but its ability to record live video of the cartoon effects is outstanding.\r\n\r\nThis is an interesting way to spruce up family videos, and the video itself can even be uploaded to YouTube within the export options. Users can modify the look of the cartoon-effect by tweaking the line widths or by playing with different styles; cartoon, sketch and stipple styles. At first glance, viewing the cartoon effects through the camera is really cool, the default effect available when the app is launched, appeared to have a sort of SinCity-ish look.\r\n\r\nThe other added features have completely different styles including; black &amp;amp;amp; white sketches, over saturated drawings and comic book. The quality of the effects are excellent and images and video can be later shared with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube or via email.\u00A0 And, If you have an iPhone 4, you can also switch between the front &amp;amp;amp; back cam.\u00A0 Across the board, it\u2019s a sweet photography app, and it's only .99\r\nCameraBag\r\n\r\n\r\nCameraBag for the iPhone has multiple filters to help you add some character to those bland holiday photos.\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s an extremely straight-forward app that offers 14 high quality filters\u00A0 Using one of the filters called 1962,\u00A0 a user is capable of taking a boring pic of grandma and making her look worthy of a vintage Rolling Stone cover --it\u2019s impressive.\r\n\r\nEach one of the filters also comes with pre-set boarders and crops although they can be turned off/on within the CameraBag settings.\u00A0 Another nice thing about this app is how quickly users can preview filters. After taking a pic/selecting an image from the device\u2019s photo library, a user can fly through the previews by using a flick gesture on the screen.\r\n\r\nOutput sizes can be adjusted before exporting/saving a photo however there are no options to share the photo with social networks, only email. If you have an iPad, I\u2019d suggest you grab the iPad version, it\u2019s stunning.\u00A0 With the iPad version, you\u2019ll still receive the filters but it offers options to upload photos straight to popular photo storage sites such as Flickr. The iPhone version is $1.99.\r\nInstagram\r\n\r\n\r\nInstagram is a free photography app with a social twist, it enhances photos and it connects you with your friend's photography. After logging into Facebook or Twitter within Instagram, the app searches for people and common users within its service. And once a few friends are added, their images can be browsed, rated and commented on.\r\n\r\nThere are also quite a few neat filters to alter photos and a few different ways to discover new photography. Images can be browsed by friend profiles, the friend feed, popular images or by a user\u2019s profile page. The entire stream of pics a user has taken is posted on the profile page, it\u2019s similar to a Facebook wall but it only contains pics.\r\n\r\nBy using one of the 12\u00A0 filters, users can alter their photos in a variety of artistic ways, one of the better filters called \u201C1977\u201D will transform the image into an oldschool vintage looking pic. Overall most of the filters I tried were groovy and the added value of having a social network built-in is great. The user interface is pretty slick and the service itself is addictive. Instagram is a major win, expect for the fact that users are \u201Cforced to browse and navigate solely from the iPhone&amp;quot;\r\nPhotogene\r\nPhotogene is a full featured, user-friendly photo-editor for the iPhone an iPod touch. This app is jam packed full of features like customizable backgrounds and stylized filters coupled with tools to crop, resize and rotate images. In fact, it offers so many features, I often use this app instead of firing up one of my robust desktop editors.\r\n\r\nAfter launching the app, users can take a pic within the app or choose an image from the device\u2019s photo library.\u00A0 The user interface is highly intuitive and it displays the entire toolbar flush to the edge of the screen.\u00A0 With all of the tools visible and readily available, it makes photo-editing really snappy.\u00A0 Photogene\u2019s cropping feature works very well with the use of the multi-touch screen. To crop, users simply preform a pinch-to-zoom gesture on the screen -- it even shows the image dimensions as you move the cropping tool over the image.\u00A0 This app is also great for adding boarders and comic speech bubbles, both of these tools have a wealth of different styles within.\u00A0 After a user finishes editing, the resolution of the pic can be tweaked and shared through email, Facebook or Twitter. Photogene is available for $1.99.\r\nAndroid\r\nVignette\r\nVignette is overflowing with effects and customizations to beautify your holiday photos.\r\nImages can be taken within the app or imported from the device and it will automatically apply the effect selected within the settings.\r\n\r\nVignette has even included short cuts for the effect settings, this enables users to add a series of bookmarks to the desktop.  This is beneficial because the short cuts eliminate the need to switch back and forth between effects. If you know you want to use the \u201Ctoy camera\u201D effect as an example, instead of fumbling around for it in the app\u2019s settings, a user could just tap on the short cut on their desktop.\r\n\r\nA few of the effects available include; toy camera, vintage, lens effects, cinematic and infrared. Pics can additionally be exported to email or through social network apps like Flickr, Facebook and Twitter. There are so many stylized filters in Vignette, it would take you a great deal of time to try them all, and for a free app, that\u2019s impressive.\r\n\r\nThe paid version of Vignette is $3.93 and offers higher resolution images (up to 8MP) whereas the free demo version limits the jpeg settings to a smaller 0.3 megapixel photo.\r\nCamera 360\r\nCamera 360 contains tons of modes to create artsy, funny and dramatic looking pictures.\r\n\r\nWithin the app, the editing options are divided by modes and effects. The modes screen offers a few wacky effects like scenery mode. This may sound strange but \u2018scenery mode\u2019 produces a photo of an artist painting on a canvas,  it lets users view the camera through the artist\u2019s canvas and snap a pic.  The end result looks like the artist painted the image taken with the camera. As we\u2019d mentioned they\u2019re a bit wacky but fun.\r\n\r\nTilt shift is another great mode to play with, it transforms a pic into a miniature, basically making a pic of scenery look as though it\u2019s a tiny village.\r\n\r\nAside from the modes, there\u2019s a bank of effects and additional photo optimizing options.  Photos with poor lighting can be optimized with brightness or other corrective features such as white balance and focus.\r\n\r\nSending and exporting images to social networks and email is also supported. Camera 360 has both a free and paid version for $3.99 which is ad-free with a few more effects.\r\nPicSay\r\nPicSay adds context to holiday pictures through the use of text and speech bubbles. After grabbing an image within PicSay, users can apply various effects, word bubbles and humorous stickers for attaching pirate hats and horns onto family members.\r\n\r\nThis can add a great deal of fun to even the worst of your photos. I tend to end up with a lot of boring photos of my family over the holiday, but adding a word bubble can sometimes turn a worthless pic into a hilarious piece of art. There are about 15 effects within the free version and each one of the them can be altered to reduce or increase the strength of the effect.\r\n\r\nOne of the best effects is dizziness. This effect makes the pic look as though it has double-vision, it\u2019s a perfect effect when you match it up with an image of someone with holding a beer. Using PicSay, mobile photographers can have some serious fun with photos, an ideal app for the holidays. Two versions of the PicSay app are available; free and paid. The paid version is $4.10 and offers higher quality for imported images, more stickers and additional effects.\r\nAdobe Photoshop Express\r\nAdobe Photoshop Express brings users numerous tools and filters to touch-up images. Within edit-mode, users can use the pinch-to-zoom gesture on the screen to rotate, crop, straighten or flip images.\u00A0 The multi-touch screen provides an easy way to quickly crop out unwanted scenery, and the finger gestures work truly well within this app. To add flare to an image, a series of filters can by applied, vignette blue and a Warhol looking filter called \u2018pop\u2019 are just a few of the styles.\r\n\r\nFixing images that are too dark or dull can be altered by adjusting the brightness, exposure and tint. The strength of the brightness, as an example, will increase by simply tapping the image, and the more a user taps,\u00A0 the brighter it will become.\r\n\r\nOne of the best features within this app is batch uploading.\u00A0 Mobile photographers can\u00A0 send a group of photos simultaneously to their photoshop.com account or to social networks; Facebook and Twitter. After selecting a group of photos to upload, the app will display a preview list of the images with the added option to include photo captions. For a free app, it's great.\r\nPixelpipe Post &amp;amp;amp; Upload HD\r\nPixelpipe Post &amp;amp;amp; Upload HD assists users in sending photos to multiple networks like Twitter, Flickr, Google docs, Tumblr and Picasa\u00A0 This app doesn\u2019t have any filters or any fancy effects but it\u2019s the best Android app I\u2019ve seen for sharing images.\r\n\r\nPixelpipe will automatically display all of the images found on your device within the media screen. Within media, users can \u201Ccheck off\u201D which images they want to share, this is great because you aren\u2019t required to share one by one, instead it allows you to upload an entire batch.\r\n\r\nThis is especially handy over the holidays because people tend to be extra snap-happy and uploading can take forever.\u00A0 A plethora of social networks and photo management sites like flickr can be added through the use of pipes. Users can add as many pipes as they like and assign what images go to which site.\r\n\r\nImages can be viewed in an upload queue and users can add default tags to the batch of pictures. And if all that isn\u2019t cool enough, this app will also allow you to create and publish a blog post around the image.\u00A0 Bloggers can add a title, body of text and tags to the post and publish on the web. If you\u2019re blogging service isn\u2019t listed in the available pipes, users can add their own blogging site by punching in the url, username and password.\u00A0 If you think you\u2019ll be sharing family photos over the holidays, the app is going to save you a bunch of time, and it's free.\r\n\r\nDid we miss one of your favourite photography apps? If you know of a great app that we haven\u2019t listed or have a suggestion about mobile photography, please tell us about it in the comments."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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