6 apps for doing more with your photos

From adding text to creating collages, these apps let you do more with your images

Using filters to add that certain look to your photos is just the tip of the fun editing iceberg. The App Store is full of great photo tools that can do everything from add text overlays to combine multiple photos into impressive works of art.

Over (Free, Universal) is a simple yet powerful tool for turning photos into everything from backdrops for inspiring quotes, to greeting cards, to event promotions. It’s free and comes with a core set of tools to enhance photos with text, filters, graphics, and so on – but things get even more interesting with the add-ons (from 99¢), which add more advanced tools, stock photo directories, and a world of fonts. When a single photo won’t do,

Mixgram (Free, Universal) is a popular collage and layout app. It has a ton of templates for combining photos in just about any way you can imagine, as well as a respectable array of filters, fonts for text overlays, and stickers. Mixgram is a free download, and you can disable ads and start adding tools and content for just 99¢.

For fans of blurring the lines between photography and abstract art, Tangent ($1.99, Universal) is packed with a bunch of unique filters, 3D objects, and blending tools, allowing you to turn your photos into otherworldly landscapes and inspiring vistas. You get a lot with the $2 price, and more packs and styles can be had for just 99¢.

If you’ve ever wanted to create that effect where a wilderness scene appears in the silhouette of a person or a cityscape, Fuzed (Free, Universal) is the app for easily combining two photos in interesting ways. The free version has a bunch of blending modes and tools, and a variety of textures and photo packs can be unlocked starting at 99¢.

If your life sometimes seems straight out of a comic book, or maybe you just wish it was,

Halfto ne 2 ($2.99, Universal) is the answer. It has a bunch of comicbook-like layouts, filters, and BAM! POW! BONK! text and stamp tools. If you’re feeling ambitious, it can even handle video. Halftone 2 includes all tools and content for its price. If word art is more your thing,

WordFoto ($1.99, Universal) is worth a look. With a few simple color and text tools, you can overlay sentences or entire bodies of text onto your photos to create something unique and perhaps inspirational. There are no In-App Purchases – you get all the tools with the app. Part Over and part Tangent, Photo

Candy (Free, Universal) has great tools for adding text, quotes, and filters, as well as a modest selection of art and abstract objects. Each item you add is on a separate layer with its own individual adjustments, allowing for a powerful level of control. The free version has plenty of tools and art to get started with, and has a handful of add-on packs available at 99¢ each.

If you’ve found blending images too tricky before, try Fuzed, the “double exposure” app.

Editing images and playing with layouts is easy with Mixgram – as is sharing your work.

Give your images the “kapow” factor and use Halftone to bring a little comic fun to shots.