Please note that use cases include "Glasses of Tumblr." (Photo: Tumblr)

Some good news today if you're tired of relying on Instagram and/or that boring old smartphone camera to take breakfast pics for your Tumblr. The company has just released Photoset, a new app devoted wholly to "creating and sharing beautiful high-res photosets on your iPhone or iPad."

Those of us still pecking away on lousy old Androids must make do without, for now.

According to an announcement on the Tumblr staff blog:

"Photosets have been one of our favorite additions to Tumblr. You’ve surprised us a thousand times over with your creativity. It’s hard to imagine Tumblr without photos, and we love the power a set of photos has to tell a story.

The new Photoset app is an elegant way to create photosets, even if you’re not using Tumblr. Just tap and drag to lay out your photoset. Once you’ve got it just right, post to your blog or upload to photoset.com — where it can be shared with anyone, anywhere."

Use it to show off all angles of your sick ride. (Photo: Tumblr)

Photoset is already available for download in the app store.

Tumblr's stepping into a crowded space by releasing its own, standalone photo-sharing app--but then again, with Instagram now the property of Facebook, it's easy to see why the microblogging service slash social network would want something home-brewed.

As for why release a wholly new app without Tumblr branding, instead of improving the company's current mobile offering, Director of Special Projects Justin Ouellette told TechCrunch,

“It was really organic, we’re all about building cool things at Tumblr and it felt like a very natural thing to break out. One of our favorite features on Tumblr is photos, so we just decided to go for it.”

"Why the fuck not?" -- the new "just keep shipping"?

Such a good boy!

David Karp didn't get Tumblr's pageviews to look like a hockey stick by following the pack. So rather than cleave the internet's affinity for cat photos, Tumblr decided to go its own way and introduce a big upgrade to its Photosets feature using Mr. Karp's irresistible English bulldog, Clark. In a post today on its staff blog, Tumblr's creative director Jacob Bijani outlines all the new controls now available on Photosets. To illustrate all the "high-res glory," Mr. Bijani uses a set of squee-worthy images from Clark's "harrowing bulldog walk" through the picturesque, tree-lined streets of New York.

For Facebook users who've defaulted to using the social network as a glorified photo storage unit, the upgrade is certainly compelling. As Mr. Bijani explains:

Some moments deserve more than one angle. That’s why we’re ecstatic to give Photosets a huge upgrade today, giving you new levels of control to tell your stories the way you want to.

1) Photoset photos now open in all their high-res glory on the Dashboard and on your blog.

2) You can now pick a layout for your photos to tell the right story.

3) Tumblr Themes can now make Photosets look and work any way you please with a host of new theme variables.

Sorry, we were trying to pay attention, but it's hard when you're in the middle of plotting a dognapping.