This amazing photo app for BlackBerry is probably a worthy contender to iOS’s Instagram. With impressive filters and effects fully integrated with BlackBerry’s own operating system, PhotoStudio is one of the most downloaded photo app in the App World. Apart from the standard image editing tools for red-eye removal, resizing, cropping, rotating, brightness, contrast and color adjustment, the application also boasts around 70 different effects that can give your photo the personalized look you want. It offers filters for “Vintage” look, “Summer Look” or “Old Style”, just to name a few. You can also set frames around your edited pics to give it the final touch before saving or uploading. Perhaps the only thing it was lacking was its quick social networking integration, much less to BlackBerry’s own BBMessenger Application.

Now comes version 0.9.8.17. Whether the developers have realized that social media is now where the whole tech competition happens, or that users have simply demanded the upgrade to social networking integration, the new PhotoStudio official update offers this option now. With users hanging out more at social networking sites, it will now be easy to show off the snapshots you have taken for the day.

Here are the main features taken directly from the BlackBerry App World for the new version:

- BBM Connected! Share your photo directly from Photo Studio.
- Base photo operations: brightness, contrast, RGB color adjustment, hue, saturation and many more.
- Transform operations: resize, rotate, crop.
- 70 unique effects in categories: ‘Simple toning’, ‘Old Style’, ‘Vintage’, ‘Summer mood’, ‘Sketch’, ‘Lomo’, ‘Blur’ and ‘Art’.
- A set of frames. Apply set of beautiful digital frames to your photos.
- Combine operations: Apply single or multiple effects to one image.
- Several output formats: Save the result in different formats: ‘Small’, ‘Normal’, ‘Large’ and ‘Original’.
- Share photos with Facebook, Twitter and Messages applications installed on BlackBerry.

I’m sure you’re itching to get this app now, especially that it’s free. But if you already have this amazing app, then it’s definitely time for the update. Visit this site and click DOWNLOAD: http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/50941?lang=en

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