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Top 10 free photography category apps for Android

Editor’s note: The following app list, ratings, and descriptions were sampled from the Android Market website on Aug. 29, 2011. View an Inman News report on popular photography apps across several mobile platforms:"Top 100 most popular photo apps for iPhone, iPad, Android, BlackBerry ."

PicsIn Photo Studio
PicsIn
Rating: 4.4 stars (Above average)
(52,374 ratings)
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PicsIn is one of best and most complete photo editors available for free in the market for Android devices. Provides Drawing, Photo Editing, Photo Effects, FX, Artistic Filters, Camera Effects, Profile, Sharing, and Public Photos Gallery. Allows upload/share photos and drawings on popular social/picture sites like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, Dropbox …


PicSay – Photo Ed…
Shinycore
Rating: 4.5 stars (Above average)
(63,614 ratings)
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Spice up your pictures with the free edition of this powerful Photo editor. This is the free Lite edition, upgrade to PicSay Pro and get a host of extra tools, special effects, styles, stickers, and much more. Free lite version of the award winning photo editor. Color-correct your pictures and add word balloons, titles, graphics, and effects like distortion. All in a fun, intuitive, and easy-to-use interface …

Color Touch Effects
Swiss Codemonkeys
Rating: 3.7 stars (Above average)
(4,280 ratings)
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Color Touch Effects allows to recolor images and apply cool effects to them. You can select an image, turn it to gray (or sepia, ..) and bring the color back with your fingers. Easy to paint, move, zoom with your fingers; Two finger zoom; Many effects such as black & white, sepia or blur; Import easily from your photo gallery, camera or from Facebook; several cool image effects in the fx gallery; configure brush and opacity; add a caption / title to your image; Post to facebook, share via email, or send via MMS.


Adobe Photoshop E…
Adobe Systems
Rating: 4.0 stars (Above average)
(40,083 ratings)
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Edit and share photos virtually anywhere. Access them all on Photoshop.comEdit and share photos virtually anywhere. Touch to crop, rotate, adjust color, and add artistic effects. Access all your photos and videos directly from your free Photoshop.com account. Quickly share with family and friends. Requires SD card.


Action Snap
Oursky Ltd.
Rating: 4.2 stars (Above average)
(2,931 ratings)
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Simple camera app fantastic for capturing action and movement. Take multiple photos and combine. ActionSnap supports combining 4 or 9 photos. You can choose a time interval from 0.1s to 5s and start capturing photos by one click only, or you can use the custom mode to take photos one by one.


Pho.to Lab
VicMan LLC
Rating: 4.5 stars (Above average)
(17,907 ratings)
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Create cool photomontages and apply fun photo frames & effects to your pictures. Pho.to Lab – FREE Photo Fun Generator in your pocket! More than 400 awesome effects for your photos! With Pho.to Lab you can easily create fun photomontages, cool contact icons, animated effects, virtual postcards and phone wallpapers! You will love the user friendly interface and the ease of use Pho.to Lab provides …


PhotoFunia
PhotoFunia
Rating: 4.5 stars (Above average)
(40,200 ratings)
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PhotoFunia is a photo editing tool that gives you a fun filled experience. Put 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 150 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 …


FxCamera
ymst
Rating: 4.4 stars (Above average)
(81,329 ratings)
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FxCamera enables you to take a picture with various effects: ToyCam; Polandroid; Fisheye; SymmetriCam; Warhol; Normal. Ad-supported. Requires SD card …


Retro Camera
Urbian
Rating: 4.3 stars (Above average)
(41,986 ratings)
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With Retro Camera you’ll take delicious old-school pics your friends will drool over. 5 cameras, 5 sets of vintage vignetting, film scratch, black and white & cross processing effects for that off-the-hip analog look. Inspired by the Lomo, Holga, Polaroid, Diana, the toy cameras and Hipstamatic. Instant Nostalgia now free …


PicsIn Magic Effects
PicsIn
Rating: 4.4 stars (Above average)
(2,255 ratings)
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Awesome PicsIn Photo Effects. Artistic Photo Effects! Perfect addition for PicsIn Photo Studio! Many effects such as Stenciler, Cartoonizer, Sketcher, Orton, Lomo, Vintage, Cross Process, HDR, Fattal, Pencil, Holgaart and more!

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