The Walgreens drug store chain has long offered an online photo printing service, and today they’re expanding that service to include 3rd-part apps.

TechCrunch is reporting this morning that Walgreens has launched a QuickPrints SDK, a handy little service which will let app developer integrate Walgreens’ photo printing service into their apps. Read more

Have you ever wanted an app that combined the photo-editing aspects of Instagram with the social network of Pinterest? You can now find that app in iTunes.

Pinstagram (the iPad app, not the iPhone app) doesn’t build a new network. instead this app lets you view your previously taken Instagram photos in a Pinterest inspired layout. It’s intended to work with the other services, not replace them, and in fact you can sign in with your Instagram account.

I’m not big on photography, myself, but even I can the the value here. Pinstagram looks to be intended to take up where Instagram leaves off. One is for takijg the photos while the other is better at organizing them afterwards.

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Authenticity in photography has been an issue that long predates the ability to digitally edit photos and images, but once Photoshop was released the problem got much worse. For decades now we’ve had to ask ourselves if something was the real deal or if it was photoshopped. While sometimes you can catch a hint that the image editor made a mistake, often times all you had was the question.

And now it looks like there might soon be a definitive way to answer the question. Read more

The world’s second best camera (the one which wasn’t sold recently for a billion dollars) got an update today. The highly rated Android version of Paper Camera got a number of new features in this most recent update and just looking at the list tempts me to buy it.

You can now use your front-facing camera to take photos, and you have the images you can share them via Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube from inside the app. And there’s a new “Control Freak” upgrade that you can buy which will let you you to enhance all existing effects. The updated app also has a number of bug fixes as well as better integration with Android OS. You can now open Paper Camera from 3rd party apps and via the “Share as” option.

I’ll confess to not really being into photography apps like this one, so I don’t know how they compare. Which is better, Instagram, Paper Camera, or some other app?

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If you’ve ever been interested in how a landscape changes over time (changes caused by people or by weather) then I have an app for you. HarperCollins UK has just released a new iPad app called Fragile Earth.

This app, which draws on the previously published book by the same name, shows before and after scenes of our natural world. Detailed ecological snapshots – from as far back as 1914 to the present day – depict rivers which have dried up or flooded, erupted volcanoes, glaciers in the process of melting, and cities sprawling outward. Through these thought-provoking portraits from across the globe, the app captures the world’s beauty, vastness and vulnerability. Read more