True to its name, Layout gives you control over your collage's look, from background and border thickness to aspect ratio and photo fill settings. While the program ships with fully editable preset templates, you can also construct your own from scratch. I found it's way more fun to swipe and cut your own layout. The process feels like playing Fruit Ninja, albeit with more tactile results.

Layout does limit how much you can chop and divide your photos, and the manual swipe has some quirks. For instance, you must swipe in the center and then adjust the frame, rather than swiping where you want new divider to show--but that's an easy adjustment.

To add a picture to a section, just tap the empty space and a selection wheel will pop up. From the photo icon, you can access photos from your Camera Roll or from your Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, or Instagram feed. To access online photo services, turn on Enhanced Picker from the cog icon at the top left of the screen.

Juicy Bits Software, the developers of this app, really take advantage of the iPad's touch gesture abilities by allowing you to pinch and zoom in to your photos, and to drag and reposition your them within each frame. There's a face detection utility too, which zooms into faces, but be warned: The app will really zoom into your face, and even some photos I shot with a DSLR looked grainy when zoomed in that close.

You can also edit your photo from the app's radial menu. Just tap on the magic wand icon for a particular image and perform basic photo edits, crop or change the orientation, apply various filters or effects, and draw or add stickers on your photo. Oddly, you have to manually install the supplied sticker pack, even though it's free.