Your iPhone or iPad as a camera? Absolutely! Not only has Apple put stellar cameras in its mobile devices, but the App Store offers some sweet apps that will turn your quick shots into works of art. Here is a short and elite list of the best iPhone photography apps. This article is part of our Best iPhone Apps series where we categorize the best apps for iPhone and iPad. Click here to find out more. And if you’re looking for solutions to store and share your photos online, check out are list of the Best Photo Storage and Sharing apps for iPhone and iPad.

Layout from Instagram – A fantastic collage app for iPhone

Chances are, you already have a photo collage app that you use to arrange your photos before posting to Instagram. But now Instagram has designed their own collage app called Layout, and it's really good. The app will show you your camera roll photos and then suggest ways to arrange ...
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Diptic – Create fun photo collages directly on your iPhone

If your not working with videos, Diptic is my favorite way to make photo collages. The interface is dead simple. Just choose your layout and then tap each area to add a photo from your library. Play around with Diptic as it totally lets you change most everything about the ...
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Photo Flashback App – Relive your photos on iPhone and iPad

Having a camera on us at all times has increased the amount of photos we take exponentially. The problem is that we might go back and view them once or twice, but after that they seem to be forgotten about forever. But Photo Flashback a fantastic way to be reminded ...
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Camera+ – A fantastic photo filter app for iPhone

Camera+ is a cool app that's been around for a while. It originally gained attention due to it's fantastic design element and allowing users to snap a photo using the iPhone's volume up button (now a native iOS feature). I especially love the Clarity filter which will, with one tap, ...
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PicPlayPost – Photo and video collages for iPhone

PicPlayPost is a neat app for prepping your photos and videos for Instagram. The kicker is that you can do both at once. Photos and videos can be combined in collages, you know the windowpane style photo arrangements you see your friends posting. But with PicPlayPost you can add videos ...
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Phonto – Great looking fonts for your photos

Sometimes you just want your photos to say something. If you search the App Store for apps that put text on photos, the results are overwhelming. There are so many apps that claim to do this well that you'll waste hours installing and trying them, only to find that they ...
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Tadaa SLR – Get DSLR depth on iPhone

Tadaa SLR gives you the depth effect of expensive DSLR cameras. Through the intuitive interface, color in the areas you want to be focused in the foreground. Then the app will blur everything outside of your subject giving the effect of depth achieved by expensive camera lenses. This blur effect ...
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Skitch – The best way to annotate your photos on iPhone and iPad

This is a neat iPhone and iPad app for marking up photos or screenshots for friends. Skitch lets users annotate images with arrows, shapes, and text in a super simple interface. It's a great choice for sending someone instructions on how to carry out a basic iOS task or point ...
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Pixelmator – Desktop-class photo editing on your iPhone and iPad

Desktop-class photo editing finally comes to the iPad and at a low price! Pixelmator has been renowned for years as a premium Mac photo editor. Now the developers have brought it to the iPad with, what could be called, an even friendlier interface. Open up any of your photos and ...
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Dynamic Light – Bringing your iPhone photos back to reality and beyond

Dynamic Light is the app that gets us the most "how did you do that?" questions from friends. Dynamic Light will take your ordinary photos and make them super-extraordinary-tastic! I hate it when my photos never look like the real thing. Dynamic Light will not only transform your photos into ...
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GroupShot – The best group photos app for iPhone and iPad

We all know the scenario. Everyone looks great in the group photo you just took...except for the one person who closed their eye, looked the wrong way, or didn't smile! No worries. Just take multiple photos and launch GroupShot. The app will pick the most similar shots, give you the ...
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