The days are disappearing when photo editing was all about having a purpose-built desktop computer that was kitted out with all the latest upgrades and accessories. Today, an increasing amount of photo editors are using smartphone technology to take advantage of the very convenient packages they offer all while optimizing both the phone’s camera snaps and downloaded images from other sources. It’s all about finding the right app for the job though.
There are several different apps on the market today that are optimized for different feature sets and intended results of your photos, so it’s important to explore the app market to its full potential in order to find the right app to meet your specific needs as an editor. The right solution is out there, but it’s all about finding the right app that actually performs the function you’re looking for to the best of its programmed abilities. The following apps are well-worth considering as starting points:
Snapseed
Snapseed is hailed as the most comprehensive photo editing package inside of a smartphone app. It is based on Google technology, so provides a feature-rich experience that rivals the majority of photo editing packages on desktops today and provides users with an exceptional amount of features with the easy to use interfaces that Google software is known for.
The most exceptional of Snapseed’s package is its preset photo filters. While photo filters aren’t uncommon in the app world, the sheer volume of preset filters that are available through Snapseed can easily rival the best packages on the app market today. Users are also free to edit these filters however they please and can even create their own filters from the ground up, which can later be exported and be made into apps in their own right.
Snapseed also comes with all of what users will expect from their photo editing software: typical tools like crops and straighteners along with the ability to add text and images. It also has an advanced editing tool that allows users to mask certain fields of the image, which allow users to blur out backgrounds while keeping the object of the photo in focus similar to what professional photographers do to enhance their photos.
If users were to only install one photo editing app, then they’d find it hard to go wrong with Snapseed as a main starting point to find a feature-rich experience in one easy to use package. Tom from sellmyphone.co.uk agrees commenting “Snapseed has been one of the easiest apps for me to use when it comes to touching up my camera pics. My photos look a lot more professional considering I’m only using a typical 8 MP rear camera!”
VSCO
There’s no getting away from the idea that photos can be made better by applying simple filters. VSCO is a free photo editing app that provides a premium set of very attractive filters that make photos appear vintage and retro chic. This “classic photo” appearance makes your current digital camera shots look as if they were taken on an analog film camera decades ago and provide a very soft, subtle appearance to photos that go against the grain of the usually over processed Instagram presets today. The intensity of these filters can also be adjusted by using a slider while applying the filter to any photo. Simple photo editing tools also exist that make the package a bit more complete, but much less so than Snapseed.
Prisma Photo Editor
It takes only a few seconds to search the app market today and find a wealth of apps that turn your photos into artistic-style oil paintings. They’re popular, but the greater majority produce very ugly results that aren’t in any way worth sharing with anyone. Prisma Photo Editor is the exception to this rule by having a particularly advanced programming technology known as an “artificial neural network” that optimizes photos for conversion into paintings. While it seems like it’s a bit of a technical jargon that doesn’t have any real credence in the world, Prisma does provide exceptional results when users are looking to convert their photos into paintings. There are also other filters available free of change.
Adobe Photoshop Express
When it comes to the photo editing world, it’s hard to get away from the footing that Photoshop has on it. Adobe Photoshop Express takes a lot of Adobe’s leading features on Photoshop and crams it into a small, lightweight mobile app that allows you to edit your photos on the move. It has everything that a user would expect from a photo editor and also includes Photoshop’s exceptional red eye correction filters. It also has some unique “smart filters” that are particularly useful for smartphone photographers that corrects colour temperature and exposure problems that are usually associated with lightweight cameras.
When looking for the right photo editing app, it’s important to choose one that meets your needs and what you’re looking to see from your photos. You might even find that you need two or more to accomplish the end result you’re looking for. Enjoy the experiences that the app markets have to provide you today!
