Please help! Photo edits lost when opening in other apps...

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Hi!
I just got back from our first family road trip vacation. I took about 1000 pictures and edited them each night and as we drove to our next location. Today, when I tried to open them in other apps, the edits were gone. They show in the albums but when the file is transferred, the original one is sent. All my work was for naught! Unless you know of somehow to have the edits stay? I'm really hoping you know of a fix for the issue. When I tried to look up a fix, I just found sites of others complaining. I'm on the latest IOS--I think is 6.0.3 or something like that. Can you help? :)