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Apple App Store Rewind 2011 – Check Out The Hottest Photography Apps Of The Year From Around The World

Apple have published their best iPhone apps of 2011, the results vary from country to country store and we’ve taken a look at the Photography section of some of largest players in App Store terms. These include the UK, US, Canadian, Australian, Japanese and Chinese iPhone and iPad App Stores

Check out this awesome group below of wining apps from around the world.

UK App Store For iPhone

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Super 8 is the ultimate Super 8 camera emulator for your video-capable iDevice. Using Super 8, you can make your own vintage movies and add lens, filter and shake effects, arrange clips and scenes the way you want them; you can even add your own credits.

 This app retails for $0.99/£0.69, you can download it here.

Videolicious is the fastest way to create great looking videos — automatically! Turn raw video clips and photos into tightly edited masterpieces to share with your friends, in just three simple steps.

 This app is free, you can download it here.

Photogene is the ultimate tool for handling your iPhone photos.We know you take lots of photos with your iPhone – don’t let them just lay there in your camera roll. With Photogene you can easily browse, improve and export multiple photos.

We’ve spotted a mistake with Apple’s selection of Photogene, this app was updated and the one they have selected is the older version, which the developers recommend you don’t download. The new version is cheaper than the previous one and retails for $0.99/£0.69, you can download it here.

Snapseed makes any photograph extraordinary with a fun, high-quality photo experience right at your fingertips. 

Anyone can enhance, transform, and share their photos with ease using incredibly advanced features from the leader in digital photography software. This app retails for $4.99/£2.99, you can download it here.

360 Panorama turns your iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad 2 into a full featured 360 degree panoramic camera. Easily capture immersive panoramas in seconds and instantly share your 360 view with the world. This app retails for $0.99/£0.69/download it here.

UK App Store For iPad

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iMovie allows you to make beautiful HD movies anywhere with iMovie, the fast and fun moviemaking app for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad. Designed for the Multi-Touch screen, iMovie puts everything you need to tell your story at your fingertips. Browse and play projects in the Marquee view. Make a movie in minutes by adding video, photos, music and sound effects. Then give it the Hollywood treatment by adding a theme, titles and transitions. And you can share share your movie with the world – right from iMovie.  This app retails for $0.99/£0.69/download

Luminance gives you pro photo editing capabilities in a simple and elegant interface. Effortlessly add effects to your photos, choose from many built-in presets, crop the area you want, and copy edits you’ve made from one photo and apply them to multiple photos. This is a free app and you can download it here.

IncrediBooth – Show up with the party already in your pants. IncrediBooth is the hottest way remember any shindig. Your friends, co-workers, or future mate will be instantly impressed with your ability to capture fun. Be known as the life of every party! This app retails for $0.99/$0.69 you can download it here.

Strip Designer Impress your friends with your own personal comic strips, created on your iPad, iPhone or iPod using just the photos from your photo album or iPhone camera. This app retails for $2.99/£1.99 and you can download it here.

8mm HD brings your iPad and iPad 2 back in time to capture the beauty and magic of old school vintage movies. By mixing and matching films and lenses, you can recreate the atmosphere of those bygone eras with 42 timeless retro looks. Dust & scratches, retro colors, flickering, light leaks, frame jitters – all can be instantly added with a single tap or swipe. $1.99/£1.49/download

US, Canadian, Australian, Japanese and Chinese iPad App Of The Year

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Snapseed takes the overall winner position of iPad App of the Year in the US, Canada, Australia, Japan and China. It was listed in the winning listing for the UK App Store, see above.

US, UK, Canadian, Australian and Chinese iPhone App Of The Year

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This great award goes to Instagram, the definitive photo sharing app and one of the world’s fastest growing social networks.

Free/Download

US App Store For iPhone

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Similar to the listing from the UK app store without the Photogene mistake but also including Halftone and Photosynth.

Halftone adds an aged halftone-style printing effect to photos to give them a unique, vintage look. With 27 paper styles, nine built-in layouts, two caption styles, six different speech balloon styles, more than 25 stamps, and the ability to choose a font (including three embedded fonts), photos can be customized, then saved to the photo album, sent via e-mail, shared with friends on Facebook and Twitter, sent to other apps like Instagram, Camera+, and Color Splash, and printed. $0.99/£0.69/download

Photosynth v1.1.1 is now available and better than ever! The developers listened to the 4,400,000+ users who’ve downloaded their app and added some of the most requested features. They’ve streamlined the sharing experience and added the option to share via email. They added functionality to save cropped versions of panoramas to the phone’s camera roll. And you can check out the best panoramas others are creating from across the planet in the Best of Bing Maps. Free/download

US App Store For iPad

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Pretty much the same as the UK app store other than the US has included Comic Book! as opposed to Strip Designer of the UK.

Comic Book! Realistic comic styling with a wide selection of: image filters, comic fonts, customizable captions, a library of classic comic graphics and dozens of multi-panel page layouts. 

 $1.99/£1.49/download

Canadian App Store For iPhone

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Similar to a combination of the UK and US app store but Canada has also included PhotoForge2.

PhotoForge2 is the definitive photo manipulation software for iOS. Completely rewritten from the ground up, PhotoForge2 is a breakthrough for image editing on the go. Edit full resolution photos just like on your desktop. This app retails for $2.99/£1.99/download

Canadian App Store For iPad

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Again similar to the US and UK app store winners but Canada has also included CollabraCam.

CollabraCam provides a quick, easy and fun way to shoot and simultaneously edit live video from multiple cameras using iPhones, iPod Touches and iPad 2. CollabraCam links iOS devices running the app over local WiFi to create a video switcher and communication control room with a simple, yet powerful, live video editing workflow.

 $5.99/£3.99/download

Australian App Store For iPhone

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Similar to the aforementioned app stores but Australia has also included PhotoToaster.

PhotoToaster combines all the essential ingredients for photo processing in a single product. It employs fast non-destructive, high quality image adjustments and provides three different ways to adjust them. The Toaster can do everything from simple lighting adjustments and color corrections to elaborate effects. $1.99/£1.49/download

Australian App Store For iPad

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Again, similar to the above stores but this time also include Pixlr-o-matic.

Pixlr-o-matic turns your photos into cool looking vintage images – editing is as easy as one, two, three. With this fun and simple darkroom app, you can layer filters, lighting and borders to get that retro grunge look in three simple steps. So many options to choose from, there are 25,000 possible finishes for any one image! 

 Free/Download

Japanese App Store For iPhone

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Similar to the other stores but Japan has also included WordFoto.

WordFoto – You’ve probably heard the tired cliche about a picture being worth a thousand words. The developers have taken this phrase quite literally and created WordFoto, an app that turns photos and words into amazing typographic works of art.

 $1.99/£1.49/download

Japanese App Store For iPad

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Very similar to a combination of the above stores but Japan has also included PhotoShake!

Photoshake allows you to easily combine one or more photos to make exciting and fun new images. PhotoShake is a photo editing program that you can use to share photos with family and friends on social networking sites.
 $1.99/£1.49/download

Chinese App Store For iPhone

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Again, similar to the above but also includes a country specific app. It’s free and you can download it here.

Chinese App Store For iPad

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Almost identical to the US App Store for iPad, but China have included the iPad version of the country specific app, the same one they included in the iPhone round up. It’s also free and you can download it here.

Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)