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The chances are minimal that your mobile phone is the best camera; It does not zoom, cannot can not freeze action shots in low light, and is generally mediocre photos. But it is the camera that you most often have with you. No wonder mobile phones have become the most popular cameras on Earth.

In particular the iPhone. The camera is just OK - it is a 5-megapixel work with decent color and clarity, as long as the topic is still holding. But in recent times, apps have been this thing on the photographic show. The iPhone is, let's face it, really an iComputer. And because it can be controlled by software, the world's programmers have wasted no time in examining the iPhone camera and add or replace, its properties.

This is no niche software category; We are not discussing recipe management software or genealogy software. The category is photo apps in the app store teeming options - 4,000 of them price fixed at a dollar or two. 2,500 are free of charge, and they are very popular with iPhoners. To replace some of the apps from Apple camera app. Many more expand your creative options by adding filters, editing tools, quick motion features and panoramas. Most have tendrils fine, shoot right in Facebook, Twitter, Flickr and elsewhere cellphone photos online will be shared.

To save you it would take four years (and thousands of dollars) you to try out all 6,500 apps, here is a handy cheat sheet. This the coolest, best and most useful photo apps for the iPhone, like my ladies and gentlemen, my friends are recommended photographer and my twitter followers. These apps are, use the technical term, wicked-cool.

Camera APP replacement The iPhone camera taking app is in order. But it is to start slow, slow to a photo to focus slowly up. Enable or disable the Flash is clumsy, require two taps on transparent, hard to read buttons.

If you replace it with an app like QuickPix ($2), all of these problems disappear. The app opens much faster than Apple's, take pictures much faster and can even snap stills while you shoot video. The Flash is a single symbol, which you turn on or off tap. Set this to your home screen where Apple's camera app sits, drag camera in a folder somewhere, and much fewer pictures you'll miss.

People also swarms camera + ($2) - not because it is faster, but because it does so much more. The stabilising function ends such as blurry shots, because there the shutter not raised until the phone way and/or sensor detects that a second keep it still for the fraction. There is a self timer and two per-second burst mode. You can crop, rotate, or sharpen a photo, add a frame and apply effects to it (black and white, sepia, etc.) - and in contrast to most of the effects apps, this one you can control the intensity of the effect.

When you are finished playing, you can send your masterpiece on Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, or E-mail. Pro camera ($2) a similar, more crispy designed, more extensive app adds things like independent focus and exposure points (tap on the screen), full color correction and a 6 X digital zoom, which works surprisingly well. The amount of high end swears by it.

FILTER-APPS A filter in digital photo Lingo, is a special effect: rotate a photo in black and white, for example, or make it granular, looks oversaturated, faded, ancient or otherwise degraded. (For some reason are apps that your images look as though they, recorded by cheap cameras in the 1970s the latest craze.)

You can't beat the attractiveness and the creativity of 100 cameras in 1 for $1. It works with existing photos and new to take, and you can combine their effects (100 of them, get it?). The name of this filter are charming. They are called things like "rushed and the desire," "The warm chocolate, we ate that slowly" and "Bold something as soon say in the morning."

Your souped-up masterpiece sends a tap to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, SmugMug, dropbox, email, or a printer.

Hipstamatic ($2) is white-hot on iTunes these days. It is the screen of the iPhone in a perfect replica of a cheap plastic toy camera last days; swiping your finger over the lens or the Flash or the movie window, you can select different lenses, Flash units, or film type. It is just a glorified effects picker, and you have extra for additional options to pay. Nevertheless, it is cool and creative and really fun. (Some of the results see Flickr.com and search for "Hipstamatic.")