I’m seriously not trying to turn this into a blog about photo apps, really, honestly. At least this time around we’re not talking about girlie frames, stickers or effects. What we are talking about are serious actual editing photo editing apps.

Top apps lists are a dime a dozen, you’ll find best-of lists on practically any site that reviews apps, but today I bring you a list of apps that are the creams of the crops, the most popular and most powerful for photo editing. Seeing as how Photoshop Mobile is listed, you know the caliber is higher here.

These Apps were chosen as the most popular Apps as a part of the Adorama iPhone Contest.

I’m too lazy to paraphrase, so here’s a clip from the Press Release, but this information added by me.

Adorama (www.adorama.com), one of America’s premier photography and consumer electronics resellers, announces the winners of the first annual APPOS ™ – iPhone App Awards for Photography. The annual APPOS Awards are designed to spotlight the rapid rise in popularity of the iPhone as a new platform for digital point-and-shoot photography and to recognize developers of outstanding photo Apps.

The top 10 winning Apps were selected from among the most frequently used Apps in more than 17,000 images submitted into Adorama’s first annual iPhone Photography Contest. The winning Apps, available on the App Store at iTunes, are:

* Photoshop.com Mobile (Free, no iPad)
* CameraBag ($1.99 on iPhone, $2.99 on iPad)
* Best Camera ($2.99, no iPad)
* Photogene ($1.99, no iPad)
* TiltShift Generator – Fake Miniature ($0.99, no iPad)
* ShakeItPhoto (Free Version, or $0.99, no iPad)
* Hipstamatic ($1.99, no iPad)
* PhotoForge ($2.99 for iPhone, $4.99 for iPad)
* Lo-Mob ($1.99, no iPad)
* Photo fx. ($2.99 for iPhone, ‘Ultra’ $5.99 for iPad)

“Adorama’s first ever APPOS Photo App Awards not only honor software applications and their talented developers, it highlights the endless creative possibilities of using an iPhone as a point-and-shoot camera,” said Ahron Schachter, Adorama spokesperson. “The way users have embraced photo Apps to apply creative enhancements to their photography underscores the widespread acceptance of the mobile imaging platform as a worthwhile photographic tool for sharing images.”

With more than 2,000 photography-related Apps in the Apple iTunes App Store for photography, iPhone owners are using this software on their phones to expand and creatively explore photography in ways not even imaginable on a standard point-and-shoot camera, no less a cellphone camera. These Apps (software programs that load on an iPhone or iPod Touch) are turning the iPhone into a very powerful photographic tool for capturing, editing and manipulating all types of photographic images and graphics right on the iPhone or iPod Touch (no computer needed).

Now, ideally you’ll be using these on your new fancy 5Mp camera on your iPhone 4. Which is just great, but sadly i was mildly disappointed to find that only a small percentage of the above listed apps are on the iPad, I would love to see more of them because Universal. I’m already sick of apps discriminating against it because of its lack of camera. I get that photo editing on the iPhone is much easier though, so I understand – at least there are a few options.

The only other suggestion I can throw into the mix would be Plastic Bullet, but while it does give some fantastically artistic filters and effects for photography – it’s completely random and not customizable like most of the above-featured ones.

 

If anyone has any experience with the Apps above, please share your thoughts. Sadly I have not had the fortune of testing or trying any of the listed apps, however am entirely open to any and all developers of the above mentioned apps to contact me with free promo codes. You know how to reach me.

All Photos used in this post are from the Adorama Photo Contest, credit where credit is due.

PS: Happy Canada Day Everyone!!!