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Photoshop guru Scott Kelby has released a …

Want to upgrade the camera on your iPhone for free? SmugMug has launched a new iOS camera app called Camera Awesome that puts a number of fancy features at your fingertips, including separate focus and exposure selection tools, a one-touch "Awesomeize" button, fancy guide lines (e.g. horizon, rule of thirds, golden rule), and effects (textures, filters, and frames).

Instant is a newly launched Mac application that brings an Instagram-esque, Polaroid-faking app …

After announcing its impending arrival last year, Adobe today officially launched Photoshop Touch for the iPad and Android-powered tablets. The app offers many of Photoshop's core tools:

Use Photoshop features designed for the tablet such as layers, selection tools, adjustments, and filters to create mind-blowing images. Use new Scribble Select to easily keep and remove elements of an image.

It's priced at $10 and is available from the iTunes App Store and the Android Market.

Photographer and developer Ben Syverson has created an iPhone camera app …

Smartphones are constantly getting better at imitating compact cameras, but so far we haven’t seen many cameras that attempt …

Want to travel the world through photographs? Wander is a new free app …

It looks like Microsoft is finally putting its war chest and brilliant minds to good use: the company has …

Instagram is holding onto its place as the darling of the mobile photo sharing world. After adding a whopping …

If you enjoyed the beautiful 360-degree helicopter ride video we shared earlier today, then …

HDR guru Trey Ratcliff of Stuck in Customs has just released a new iPad app called Stuck On Earth that lets you travel the world through photographs. In addition to being a gorgeous way to view travel photos, the app serves as a high-tech travel guide, allowing users build and plan "trips" (collecting photos into groups).

"Idea Mine" is an upcoming iOS app by Canon that helps photographers save and generate ideas. The idea is that photo ideas can always be broken down into four components: location, subject, feeling, and technique. Provide the app with these four things, and it will store your idea for you to come back to later on. If you need some inspiration, hitting the "randomize" button will fill in the fields for you -- kinda like a photographic mad libs.

Mirrorless cameras are designed to be compact, but how big are they compared to DSLRs? How big are popular DSLRs compared to one another? Camera Size is a website that helps answer these types of questions. It's a simple web app that shows you exactly how big digital cameras are compared to one another and compared to reference objects (e.g. a battery).

500px, quickly becoming known as the “Flickr for artsy photographers”, has released …

iPhone photography app Hipstamatic was the king of retro filters before …

Instagram released a new update today in response to user complaints regarding the …

Adobe has announced a new Android app called Photoshop Touch for tablet owners. Rather than provide a full suite of image editing features, the app appears to be more geared towards minor edits, effects, and sharing. It'll be released in the near future for Android at a price of $10, and an iOS version is on the way as well.

Fast Burst Camera is a best-selling Android app that upgrades your phone camera’s …

Color -- the much-hyped but largely ignored photo sharing app -- is back, and this time it's built entirely around Facebook. One of the main reasons for the app's failure the first time around was the fact that the photo sharing relied on proximity, a huge problem for new users when no one around is using it. Now, founder Bill Nguyen is trying to avoid the "ghost town" problem by harnessing the power of Facebook's social graph.

Today Instagram released version 2.0 of its …

Confused about what Google’s new Photovine photo sharing app is all about? Here’s …

Google’s new Photovine mobile photo sharing app for iOS is now out of …

Photo Stats is a new iPhone app that can help you visualize your iPhoneography habits by automatically generating interesting infographics showing things such as where you snapped photos and the time of day you shoot the most. You can buy it for $1 in the App Store.

What if every photograph included a short video showing the few seconds that led up to the shutter being pressed? That's the idea behind a new free iPhone app called GLMPS (pronounced "glimpse"). It's a camera app that stores a few seconds of video with each shot, letting users share the background behind each picture (try clicking the photo above). Unlike normal iPhone photos, displaying a GLMPS photo/video requires a special embed code, make it somewhat inconvenient to share. Wouldn't it be interesting if short videos could be stored in the metadata of photographs taken by all digital cameras? Seems kinda farfetched, but it might be possible as technology progresses.

If you’ve been dying to turn your Android phone into a remote for your Canon DSLR, today’s your lucky …

Here’s another nail in the fail coffin for the much-hyped but not-very-popular photo-sharing app …

If you're not convinced that Google is jumping into the photo-sharing pool head first, get this: the company has not one, but two stealthy photo sharing apps in private beta. Besides the Pool Party app that came to light at the beginning of the month, the rumored Photovine service has now materialized into a website -- well, a landing page, at least.

Facebook can't be too pleased with Google right now. In addition to releasing a Facebook competitor called Google+, the company has also beaten Facebook to the mobile photo sharing space with a new app called Pool Party. Like Google+, the app is currently invite-only, but if you can score an invite it's a free download for both iOS and Android. The app is based around collaborative group albums called "pools" that allow you to share pictures with friends and family in real-time.

I’m not sure how useful this would be for most people, but it’s a neat look at the kinds …

Shopobot is a new shopping tool that helps buyers determine the best price …

Flickr is a popular method of sharing photos, but the service doesn’t provide any easy way to download them …

Mobile photo sharing star Instagram just announced its 5 millionth member and will …

Textify.it is a neat little web and …

It seems every time we feature a fun or useful phone app, it’s for the …

Since we first covered its launch back in October 2010, Instagram …

Online SLR Camera Simulator is a neat flash app that helps teach the …

Slit-Scan Camera is a new app for the iPhone that lets you shoot trippy slit-scan photographs. Rather than capture a whole image at once, the slit-scan app exposes each scene through a "sliding slit", giving anything moving within the frame a strange, warped look.

Microsoft's jaw-dropping Photosynth technology has arrived on the iPhone as an app that allows you to easily create immersive 360-degree panoramas. All you need to do is load up the app and sweep your camera around in every direction, and the app automatically snaps photographs filling in the panoramic image (you can also tap it if it gets sluggish with its snapping).

As Instagram continues its meteoric rise, an ecosystem of third-party services is developing …

Adobe announced new tools today that lets developers create tablet apps -- called Photoshop Touch Apps -- that interact directly with Photoshop CS5. They also created a few apps to showcase some of the possibilities of using a tablet while working in Photoshop, including one called Adobe Nav.