Microsoft's weekly app discounting initiative, Red Stripe Deals, is now in its second week. This weeks offerings include Pictures Lab (a pictures effects app, with an easy to use UI, that lets you apply multiple filters), Tiki Towers (puzzle game that sees you building bridges and towers to rescue monkeys), and Doodle Devil (an evil alternative to Doodle God that sees you combining elements to create rather unpleasant things).

If we were going to pick one of this week's deal to take up, it would defintely be Pictures Lab. Here's how we reviewed the app in 2011 (90%):

It's a simple to use application, but the results are stunning. If you want a quick tweak, you can. If you want to spend more time sorting colour levels, sharpness, depth of field effects, and other esoteric subjects, then Pictures Lab will let you throw that challenge at it, and it will deal with it swiftly, smartly, and superbly.

Very, very much recommended.

Here's how the Windows Phone blog describes the weekly deals:

Each week the Store’s Red Strip Deals Collection will feature three popular apps and games—typically one Xbox game, one indie game, and one top-rated app—for at least 50% off the original price. (In case you’re wondering, the collection name derives from the red stripe you’ll see around each discounted app’s icon in the phone Store).

The Red Stripe Deals can be accessed via the Windows Phone Store collections feature, either via the desktop website, or via the Store app on any Windows Phone device.