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Now that you've got some GREAT photos getting them printed is often the next hurdle for people. Touchnote is an app that lets you create postcards and greetings cards with your photos. Maybe you could use these as super personalised thank you notes to people who have helped. Or perhaps it could be as part of marketing an upcoming event at your centre.

As you can see below, the app lets you use a phone, add captions, and a message all within an easy to use app. When completed the finished product gets sent as a physical post or greeting card.

The cards are really great quality and typically take a week or 2 to arrive. This is because they're coming from outside of NZ. The price is reasonable and it is a fantastic way to say thanks with a really personalised touch. 

Sometimes photos don't look as you imagined they would when you're snapping them. It is something I find with most of my photos and I'm always looking for a way to have the picture in my head be the one that is actually taken.

Snapseed is an app for editing photos that makes it quick to adjust light, contrast, colours, etc. You can also add a range of different effects and tune the intensity. This means that in a minute a photo can go from this:

to this:

The holidays are approaching so we're going to feature some apps in the next couple of posts. Time off sometimes means that we have the capacity to fiddle around with our devices and learn new tricks. So the next few posts will feature apps that you can play around with from the comfort of your armchair (unless we get great weather, then it will be your deckchair)!

Quick is an app that lets you add titles and / or captions to photos. It lets you turn a photo into a statement really quickly. This is one of my holiday goals:

The last couple of posts have been about editing photos on your phone. Sometimes you don't need to edit a photo because it was such a great shot! You may want to caption it though. Get Involved or Come Along or another caption transforms a photo into a powerful message or marketing image.

How can you easily add a caption? Quick!

Quick is an app that makes it simple and fast to put some words onto a photo. You can do some basic formatting of the words, but the purpose of the app is to quickly (like the name suggests) get a caption (or title) onto a photo.

More of us do more on our phones than ever before. They're a really personal computer, a personal assistant, a productivity tool a camera and many other things. So why not get more done from your phone, especially when talking about photos.

Most of us can snap a great picture but with just a little editing (cropping or balancing) it can be transformed into an incredible shot. So why not do some photo editing on your phone? It is surprisingly easy even on a small (when compared to a laptop or desktop) screen.

Check out 12 great photo editing apps for mobile here.