Fun iPhone Photo Apps
Who says you need an expensive editing program on your computer to do amazing things to your photos? Think again. Not your garden variety editing apps, you won’t find cropping, rotation, flash, or blemish removal here. This is the fun stuff.
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ToonPAINT
by Toon-FX
Cartoon and comic apps have just exploded in popularity. One of first apps on this trend was ToonPAINT. First, watch your selected photo transform into a black-and-white cartoon. You can leave it as is, or paint it as desired. You can move the slider around to create any hue of the rainbow, so your color choices are unlimited. You don’t have a be an artist -- if you can color in a coloring book, you can ToonPAINT!
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Halftone
by Juicy Bits
Speaking of cartoons, have you ever wanted to be the star of your very own comic strip? Well, now you can. Using an aged half-tone style printing effect on your photos, this universal app effectively makes your photo look like the pages of an old comic book. With tons of different comic art effects, fonts, papers, speech bubbles, and more, you'll have a ton of fun creating your own comics with Halftone.
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3D Converter
by AR Vision Inc.
When you were a kid, did you ever have have those comic books that came with 3D glasses that you would don to see your favorite characters jump off the page? You’ll find 2 fun effects inside 3D Converter. Yes, you can turn your photo into an actual 3D photo, if you have the red/blue glasses with which to view it. Alternatively, you can turn part of your photo into a “wigglegram” -- no glasses needed. This makes the subject in your photo (or whichever part of the picture you choose) wiggle rapidly.
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PhotoTropedelic
by Larry Weinberg
Now that we've done comics and cartoons, how about a pop-art poster? Turn any ordinary picture into a piece of colorful, psychedelic 60’s pop art. Simply choose a photo and universal app Phototropedelic does all the work for you.
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
by Warner Bros.
Moving on to newspapers, even fantastical ones: this is much more than a photography app, but for the purposes of this list, I’ll just discuss the photography part of it. You can create a virtual newspaper just like the ones you see in the Harry Potter movies. Pick a headline, such as “WANTED: Convicted Murderer, Suspected Death Eater” and snap four pictures. The app puts them together into a sepia animated photo on the front page of a newspaper, just like one would find in Harry Potter's world.
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PhotoFunia
by Alexey Ivanov
Now that you've put yourself into a magical newspaper, try putting your face on a billboard, a stamp, or in a Warhol-like work of pop-art. Become the Mona Lisa or a bodybuilder. You get over 100 scenes to play with. You’re not cutting and pasting; instead, the app “finds” the face in your photo and integrates it with the scene of your choice.
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PhotoChop - Chop Photos to Make Crazy Pics!
by Pinger, Inc.
PhotoChop is an app that lets you put yourself into interesting places. Chop your subject out of a boring picture -- and paste him/her onto the interesting background of your choice! Put yourself on top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa or in front of Taj Mahal. Pit your friend against a sumo wrestler or a shark. You can even select the backgrounds from your own photos to combine your pictures in interesting ways.
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Unicorn Disco: Music and Dance Visualizer - Now Featuring Instant Music Videos
by Unicorn Labs, LLC.
Here is another place you probably haven't seen yourself - in a dancing puppet! Unicorn Disco is absolutely riotous, absurd fun. Grab a face from your photo library and create a character with silly costumes and wigs. Make videos with up to two of these characters, add your favorite music, and watch those little guys or gals dance! An update brought the most requested feature: now you can save and share these your videos.
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LEGO Photo
by The LEGO Group
With the above apps, you've seen yourself in a lot of interesting places. But have you seen yourself in Legos? Turn your photos into a cute lego mosaic masterpiece. Press a button and the legos fall into place with a satisfying clinking sound.
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MyPictureMosaic
by GroovyApps
Speaking of mosaics, you've probably seen those pictures that have been created from hundreds of other tiny pictures. Now you can do that with a touch of a button. Create an authentic photo mosaic using the photos in your photo library! You select the number of tiles to be used in the mosaic, up to 100x100. This app is universal so it can be used on any iDevice.
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Percolator
by Tinrocket, LLC
Percolator is something like a mosaic. Inspired by the bubbles on the surface of a cup of coffee, Percolator adds a bubbly creative touch to your photos. The results are reminiscent of a mosaic except with circles instead of squares. Mix and match different colors and types of bubbles for an unusual and fun take on your photos.
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MyCeleb
by MyHeritage.com
And now for something totally different. This is a fun app to whip out at parties. Snap someone’s picture and run it through MyCeleb to find their celebrity “twin”! I tested it on a real celebrity: I ran into Gene Simmons, took his picture with my iPhone, and later put it through MyCeleb. Sure enough, it did indeed choose Gene Simmons as his own “twin”. Try it on yourself and your friends just for laughs.
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Neon Motion
by Reallusion Inc.
So, what are some other neat things you can do to photos? Drawing on your photos with glowing, neon doodles would be pretty cool by itself. But Neon Motion animates your artwork! Press play and see your masterpiece recreated, stroke by stroke, again and again. Try the lite version for free.
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Puri! Lite 2.5
by Think Bulbs Ltd.
What are some other silly things you can do? Purikura is the trendy photo booth art from Japan favored by teenaged girls (and girls at heart). You can add frames and stickers. Doodle and add cartoon speech bubbles. Bypass the expensive Purikura photo booths and do it yourself on your iPhone!
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MoreNoel
by More-thing Company Limited
Speaking of girly, this oddly named app actually adds tons of sparkle and light to your photos. You get two filters with this app: Night Glare (colorful bubbles of light) and Star Effect (turns points of light into stars). Sure, there are apps to add “flash” to underexposed photos, but this is a lot more fun.
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Tiny Planet Photos
by infoding.com
Want to go a little more highbrow? Turn your world into a tiny planet! This nifty, free app turns any photo into convex or concave sphere. This works best with landscapes, properly lined up to create a perfect little planet, but you can experiment with any sort of photo for fun effects.
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iDroste
by Pavlos Mavridis
While we're twisting the world around, check out iDroste. This is a modern art creation app. Turn your photos into interesting repeating spirals, like the art of M.C. Escher. You control the spiral’s parameters for just the look you want.
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3D Photo
by Unit9
If iDroste is inspired by M.C. Escher, you might say 3D Photo is inspired by Picasso. Turn everyday objects into 3D or cubist art. Choose from 15 different 3D templates! Use photos from your library or take photos in app to create your masterpiece; share them directly to email, camera roll, Facebook, Twitter, or Flickr.
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Decim8
by Kris Collins
The previous two apps are inspired by modern art, but this one definitely has more of a post-modern inspiration. This is most certainly not an app for everyone. You know how sometimes your tv or computer will go on the fritz and show some kind of weird, glitchy screen? Well, the developer of this app finds a post-modern beauty in that, and designed this app to mimic that effect on your photos.
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Videoscope
by 7twenty7 LLC
Videoscope draws inspiration from a variety of modern art sources. It is simply an incredibly fun app. See your world through an entirely different lens! The app comes with four different scopes: Kaleidoscope, Pinscreen (3D pins), Impressionist (accelerometer-controlled particles), and Brick Breaker (a mosaic you can break with your finger). All of the effects happen live through your front or back camera. You can play around with them and snap the photo at will. Alternatively, you can choose a photo from your photo library and add these effects after the fact. More scopes will come in future updates. There is a free version you can try out, but it is ad-supported and only includes the Kaleidoscope.
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Color Range
by SSA Mobile LLC
Finally, I think that by now, everyone must be familiar with "selective colorization". You know, turn your photo black and white, and then paint the color back into selected parts of your photo. Color Range is the best I have found in the genre, as it both simplifies the process and allows you far more flexibility than most. Instead of having to carefully paint your color in or out, you can simply toggle selected sliders to remove the colors of your choice. Also, you are not limited to the true colors of your photos. Sliders let you choose any color of the rainbow, for a personalized selective colorization effect that really pops.
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