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Filters are fine, but take your Instagram posts to the next level with these editing apps.

easy steps until you're shooting magazine-level pics.

Apple on Tuesday released its annual "Best of 2014" list for the App Store's most-downloaded and highest-grossing titles, revealing so-called "freemium" games as the year's biggest money-makers.

iOS 8 offers powerful new tools to developers such as extensions, which allow third-party iPhone and iPad apps to be more flexible and interconnected than ever before. AppleInsider offers a look at some of the best iOS 8 extensions available to download on the App Store right now.

This week's list includes the latest from Lego, Afterlight's Windows Phone debut and an app for texting tacos.

Post-processing is an important part of photography, and it becomes even more important with smartphone photos that may lack depth of color and and dynamic range. With the advent of Instagram and its imitators, filters have come to rule the day for most casual photogs, but many of us demand more control. Here are five great tools for making your photos sing to your very own tune....

In the midst of hype for new gadgets from the Consumer Electronics Show, Apple on Tuesday issued a press release to announce that sales from the App Store topped $10 billion in 2013, with $1 billion spent by customers in December alone.

While it is true that whatever camera you have with you is the best camera to have, not every photo you snap comes out the way you like. This list of apps will help turn those snaps into masterpieces.

There are more than 1 million apps in the App Store, and while we haven't tested them all, the Mashable staff had busy fingers in 2013 -- gaming, photo editing and posting away on our favorite iPhone apps from the bunch. One type in particular -- photo apps -- stole our hearts during the past 12 months. But of course, we found favorites across all categories. See also: 13 Tech Products That Stood Out in 2013 Above, check out our picks for the best iPhone apps of the year.

Instagram lets users capture, edit and share gorgeous images with a few swipes of the finger. But even the super popular app has its limitations. Apps like Diptic, Afterlight and Squareready can amp up the creativity of your Instagram shots by combining photos into collages, cropping them into appealing shapes like triangles, hearts and crosses, or simply preserving an image's original dimensions. Many of them also pack additional features such as custom filters, border colors and patterns.

Once upon a time, Instagram was a vibrant community of mobile photographers taking consistently great photos. The app’s meticulously crafted filters could make anything look good, it seemed. Years later, all of your friends and maybe even your parents use Instagram, which means it’s filled with photos of not-so-pretty things like oversaturated cloudscapes, blurry selfies, and group photos washed out by an iPhone flash. Seeing the same shade of Sutro or Kelvin grading the hundredth photo in a row has...

Thanks to our every four years orgy of public decision making, we finally know what president we'll be stuck with for the next four years. Well, at least technology can still set us free! Here's a week's worth of iPhone apps for you to enjoy!