iPhone apps – Top 9 photos

Instagram – Snap a photo with your iPhone, apply one of the smart filters that can be chosen and then send the picture to Twitter, Facebook and/or Flickr with a simple press of the button. You can also follow your favourite people directly on Instagram where you can also post comments and give the thumbs-up or thumbs-down  to people’s pictures.

-          http://www.instagr.am

Photosynth – With Photosynth, you are able to take seamless 360° panoramic images. Start the app, select the frame for the first image in your 360° image series, move the mobile to the edge of the new picture you want to take and align the frame with the edge overlap from the first image. Photosynth then senses this and automatically shoots a new frame as soon as you’ve stopped moving the phone. This process continues until you come back to where you started (i.e. after 360°). When you have the images you want ready, Photosynth automatically stitches them together and, hey presto, you have a panoramic image of your entire surroundings.

-          http://www.photosynth.net/

Tiltshift – Tiltshift is an effect that became really popular last year. What it does is that it applies fake blurring over an image leaving in focus only that part of the picture you choose, causing the eye to perceive it in high detail (producing an optical illusion of a miniaturised scene). Naturally it is possible to utilise this for greater artistic effect than merely by highlighting some feature in a picture. The effect is really cool.

-          http://itunes.apple.com/se/app/tiltshift-generator-fake-miniature/id327716311?mt=8

Oldbooth – Do you sometimes wonder how you would have looked if you had lived in a previous time? Oldbooth enables you to choose between more than 60 different mask styles. Simply import a photo of the particular face you wish to move back in time and have the app handle the rest. You can then navigate around the different masks to see the person chosen in a whole host of different semblances.

-          http://www.oldbooth.com/

Fatbooth – Import a photo of a friend’s face, press the button and see your friend morphed into a supersized version of his or her true self!

-          http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fatbooth/id372268904?mt=8

Camera +  – This is an app loaded with a mass of functions to make it as simple and user-friendly as possible to take beautiful photos. It has everything from an extended digital zoom to a stabiliser to achieve enhanced focus to a function that enables you to adjust the exposure yourself. This is a good app for those of you who aspire to taking slightly better pictures with your iPhone.

-          http://www.campl.us/

Hipstamatic – The king of analog camera filters. I would go so far as to assert that this is the best app I have tested to reproduce the look of analog photography in my iPhone.

-          http://hipstamatic.com/the_app.html

iSwap faces – Swap the heads of two different people. Really simple to use and watch the crazy and hilarious results you can achieve.

-          http://itunes.apple.com/se/app/iswap-faces/id305557780?mt=8

Night camera – If you want to take photos when it is dark outside then Night Camera is a sensible choice. The camera in iPhone is rather slow in operation; this means that images taken in the dark are often somewhat fuzzy owing to one happening to move when the shot is taken. What Night Camera does is to wait until one is quite still; then it shoots the frame automatically as soon it senses that the iPhone is no longer in movement.

-          http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/night-camera/id296186779?mt=8