Top 10 Windows Phone photo apps

ProShot

	ProShot
	Introducing the first Windows Phone 8 Lens specifically designed for the photography professional! Unleash the full potential of your phone's camera with the ProShot camera OS, and discover new creative possibilities with Auto, Program, Manual, and two Custom modes, with the ability to manually adjust

With an app like ProShot, you can kiss your DSLR goodbye: this little beauty is a shutterbug’s delight. It gives you super control over all the settings you’ll need to take shots like a pro—white-balance, ISO, exposure compensation, flash, focus, grid-displays—and its custom mode lets you save your favourite setup for easy access.

PhotoBeamer

	PhotoBeamer
	PhotoBeamer is a new, innovative and easy way to show your pictures on any screen. Just point your Nokia Lumia at any screen displaying www.photobeamer.com and you can enjoy your photos anywhere with family and friends. It's a mobile projector that's available anytime, anywhere.

PhotoBeamer is one of the more space-age creations in our portfolio: a slideshow app that lets you display your photos on any web-enabled device. You load the PhotoBeamer website on the second device and it’ll display a QR code; then you scan that code with your phone and the two devices link up. Massively handy for sharing all those holiday pics with mum and dad!

Photosynth

	Photosynth
	Photosynth for Windows Phone is the panorama app that makes it easy and fun to capture and share interactive panoramas of the places, people, and events that are important to you.

This is the panorama app you’ve been waiting for. It pops up as a lens within your camera app; you tap the screen to select your first frame, move your phone up, down or around, and tap again to end. Then bingo, the app will stitch all the shots together into one seamless panorama. The best bit, though, for travel photographers, is you can geo-tag the results and upload them as interactive images to Bing maps.

Fhotoroom

	Fhotoroom
	Fhotoroom is a pro camera, photo sharing network and professional mobile photo editor.

Fhotoroom is an impressively comprehensive image editing package, just in case you haven’t quite nailed the shot with ProShot. It’s got all the usual tools you’d expect from a desktop programme, allowing you to adjust saturation, exposure, red-eye, light leakage and more. You can also frame and style your pics with various Instagram-like effects. A lot of bang for your buck with this one!

Blink

	BLINK
	With BLINK for Windows Phone 8, you'll never miss the best shot. BLINK captures a burst of images before you even press the shutter, and continues to capture pictures after you’ve taken your shot.

This is pretty basic, very easy, and very sweet: Blink takes a lot of photos, really fast, so you don’t need to ever worry about missing that crucial shot. It even records frames before and after you hit the shutter release. Magic, right? Just select the best of the bunch afterwards. Perfect for those with wriggly toddlers…

Phototastic

	Phototastic Free
	Create a collage using classic frame borders or choose from one of the film templates like Polaroid, photobooth or filmstrip or try out the new Facebook cover photo frames.

Phototastic lets you add effects to your photos (colours, vignettes, brightness, vintage appearances, etc), but, most importantly, it also lets you create collages of your pics. There’s a bunch of handy templates to help you arrange your shots, and, afterwards, you can upload the results to your social media accounts. Perfect for showcasing those unforgettable occasions!

Fantasia painter free

	Fantasia Painter Free
	The BEST and MOST COMPLETE photo/painting app for Windows Phone, now free!

Another photo-editing app, but Fantasia Painter one’s designed for budding artists. It’s got all the filters, colours, shapes and text tools you could ask for, and the range of brushes and fonts is great. The free version is just as good as the paid one, as long as you don’t mind ads. We don’t!

CameraPro

	CameraPro
	CameraPro offers fast access to most important camera features using an easy to use interface. Access to features such as focus distance, white balance, exposure time, and many others give you the tools to make outstanding photographs.

Like ProShot, this is another ace photo-taking app, and we think it’s a toss-up which is better… ProShot is a little more user-friendly, while CameraPro has a couple of added features, but they’re both all-round brilliant. We especially thought the self-timer and time-lapse options were great value for money.

Creative Studio

	Creative Studio
	Make more of your pictures with this quick and easy photo editor. Exclusive to Nokia Lumia, simply swipe through a series of creative effects, add focus blur or create an impressive colour pop effect.

An exclusive for Nokia Lumia users, Creative Studio is a photo-editing app that lets you do the usual in-phone fixing and trimming. A nice feature here is that the app keep the pics at their original resolution, so there’s no sneaky compression going on behind the scenes. You can access it from the Lumia’s native camera app (hit ‘edit’), and it’ll always retain your original image as well as the jazzed-up version. Quick and easy (you don’t need a degree in Photoshop to operate it), and, most important, free.

Lomogram

	Lomogram
	Lomogram is a photo editing app with more than 40 filters, lots of borders and light effects that can be combined in numerous ways to achieve unique look.

Thanks to more than 40 filters, Lomogram can make any photo look fantastic. With a ton of effects, light effects and borders, you can make an infinite range of original looks. Add to that auto-vignetting and brightness, contrast saturation, exposure adjustments and easy to share features, and you’ve got one of the best Windows Phones photo apps out there.