The best photo apps for Windows Phone

There are photo apps in the Windows Store like sand by the sea. Here we give you the five best panorama photo, collage and image editing tools for Windows Phone.

"Fhotoroom": A lot of space for individual image processing

The free Windows Phone app "Fhotoroom" is a relatively easy-to-use image editing tool, but it can do more than just optimize brightness, contrast or sharpness.

• The photo app comes with many photo filters. You will find some black-and-white effects and many color filters that make your photos shine in a completely different light. You can adjust the intensity with one finger movement.
• "Fhotoroom" gives you a lot of freedom to get creative yourself. You can use the "Tilt Shift" effect, use various lighting effects, such as hearts or rays of light, vignette, frames or textures.

Fotor: Edit photos and create photo collages

The free "Fotor" app for your Windows Phone specializes in collages.

• You can use the photo tool to crop, rotate or frame your pictures. Of course, "Fotor" also masters simple image editing, such as adjusting brightness or contrast. The many photo effects, such as retro, vintage or art filters, embellish your pictures in style.
• "Fotor" also creates beautiful collages from your favorite photos. You can choose from several templates and thus determine the number of images that you want to use. The frames of the collage can be customized in just a few simple steps. You can change the color, width of the frame or the shape.

PhotoFunia: Create funny photo montages with just a few clicks

The free photo app "PhotoFunia" is something for creative minds. If you want to turn your photos into works of art or funny photo montages, this Windows Phone app is for you.

• You will find many "normal" photo filters and frames in the app, with which your photos shine in new splendor. The filters are well chosen, because here you will not only find classics, but also many extraordinary color effects.
• The highlight of "PhotoFunia" are the numerous templates. For example, your portrait can decorate the cover of a newspaper, a movie poster or the cover of a book. You can also virtually push your photo into Barack Obama's hand.

Photosynth: the perfect panorama photo in just a few steps

With the free app "Photosynth" you can easily create panorama pictures.

• You take pictures of a room or a landscape and use the app to easily create 180-degree panoramic photos.
• While you are taking a lot of individual photos, the app shows you where you need to tie in with green lines so that the panorama image looks "seamless". The app then combines all the photos taken.

Photo Tiles: Decorate the start screen with your own pictures

With "Photo Tiles" you can attach photos to your home screen as tiles.

• You simply select any photo from the picture library. You can also import photos from SkyDrive or Facebook.
• With the app you can either create a simple tile or a live tile with up to nine photos. The latter changes the images and conjures up a slideshow on your home screen.

Adobe Photoshop Express with special effects

The name "Adobe Photoshop Express" alone suggests a lot behind the photo app. The free photo editing app is very suitable for standard photo editing, since everything is done quickly.

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• You get numerous effects included, which are quite impressive. With the various black and white or color effects, you can get the best out of your photo.
• You can also use the app to remove red eyes or use frames.

Photo editing for creatives with PicsArt

"PicsArt" is one of the most comprehensive photo apps for Windows Phone. Among other things, you can use the app to create collages and give your photos the finishing touch.

• "PicsArt" contains numerous photo filters and light effects. You can combine both very well and conjure something very special on your photos.
• With "PicsArt" you can also draw on pictures. So you can beautify the photos yourself or make things unrecognizable.
• You can also download countless extra frames and stickers - so-called cliparts - for various categories such as "Sport", "Nature", "Love", "Animal", "Baby" or "Birthday". And it's free too.

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The apps were tested with the Lumia 820 under Windows Phone 8 (GDR3). On the next page we also show you the best weather apps for Windows Phone.