I am unable to recall when was the last time I picked up my Canon Point and Shoot to snap myself. As mobile phones continue to evolve digital cameras might get redundant for common consumers. Gone are the days when people had to run to their laptops or MacBooks to edit their grainy photos before sharing them with the world through social media channels.
Nowadays, with the emergence of various Photo Editor Apps for iOS, Android, and Windows platforms users can edit images to create a perfect profile picture for Facebook and Twitter profiles. If you are still accustomed to desktop softwares, here are a few smartphone apps you must try.
1. Snapseed
Google’s Snapseed is one of the most accessible photo editing apps for Android, with a wide range of features for experienced users and newcomers. The editor has basic automatic color, contrast enhancement, cropping, sharpening, selective color adjusting, and much more.
The app is an all-in-one photo editor for everyone. Snapseed has 29 different tools and filters to take advantage of, also one can create custom filters that can be applied to other pictures inside the app. The app is completely free to download and play around with. It can be downloaded from Google Play Store.
2. Google Photos
Google Photos is one of the best places to store all your pictures and videos so they are backed to the cloud. With recent updates, Google Photos has started offering suggestions about editing an image. This allows the editing of pictures at your fingertips. New editing features like sky suggestion filter, styles collage templates and more have been made available, but these are only for Google One Subscribers. Non-Pixel users who have a Google One subscription can even use Pixel-exclusive features like Magic eraser.
This app makes photo editing a breeze. The app allows the undoing of options so you can quickly and easily make changes and share them with various social media networks. It can be downloaded from Google Play Store.
3. Instagram
Although Instagram is a social networking app, it still allows a ton of options for some great editing. When you upload an image, you can select from some different filters to apply, and add fun stickers, special effects, music, gifs, and much more.
You can then post this photo on your feed for the world to see or save it to your phone gallery. Photos can also be posted to Instagram stories, reels sent privately to groups, and more.
Instagram keeps adding more features regularly. It allows editing of a photo without destroying the originality of it. One can tweak photos’ color temperatures, add vignettes, sharpen, and introduce tilt-shift effects. Instagram is available on Google Play Store.
4. Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Lightroom is a part of Adobe’s suite of photo editing apps. The app has a simple interface for everyone to use. From in-depth RAW photo editing to applying filters, Lightroom has all the tools one needs regardless of skill level.
The app can take a few minutes to get used to, but after that, it will be smooth sailing. At the bottom of the screen will be a bar with settings that can be applied with a tap. Select the category of the tool you want from adjusting the photo itself to cropping or adding gradient.
Lightroom allows you to view finished products in comparison with the unedited version, so you can see how different the two images are. You can use this tool to go back and edit something that you forgot as well. Lightroom has been updated so you can use it as your camera app and import pictures directly to Lightroom. It is available on Google Play Store.
5. Fotor
Fotor comes with one-click enhancements that make it easier to edit your photos, regardless of how the photo turned out when you clicked it. There are 13 such options to choose from. It is easy to use and allows you to choose from an array of special effects, borders, and stickers and create collages. It can be your all-in-one photo editor for your Android device. Edit functions can be customized as well within the app. Fotor is available on Google Play Store.
6. Glitch Lab
The Glitch Lab application allows you to take your regular picture to the next level. You will be able to explore the world of glitch art, as there are more than 100 different effects available. You can make your clicks look unrecognizable but unique. Using this app you can bookmark an image as you are editing the photo to save your progress or to use the same effects as a mask for other pictures. Over 100 different effects are divided into various categories, with a simple and easy-to-use interface. Glitch Lab is available on Google Play Store.
7. Pixlr
Pixlr is one of those all-in-one photo editors that don’t need an account to get started. Download the app, open it, upload your picture, and start editing. A variety of tools are available including double exposure and others. One photo can be edited with more than 2 million different combinations of free tools such as effects, filters, and more. The interface is simple and all the tools are available at your fingertips. The edited pictures can be shared on various social media platforms as well. It is a fan-favorite app for those looking for free photo editing services. The app allows basic editing as well as different effects, overlays, filters, and more.
8. TouchRetouch
TouchRetouch allows you to go back and remove those unwanted subjects or items that are spoiling your photos with just a few swipes. The app comes in handy when sometimes you come across a potential image that is almost perfect, only to realize that someone walked through the picture at the last minute. You just have to open the picture in the app, highlight that person and remove them, giving a perfect click. The app can get rid of unwanted items and also remove any blemishes if you are taking some portrait photos. It can be downloaded from the Google Play Store.
9. Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop Express gives you all the necessary tools needed for photo editing. You can create custom collages with built-in grid layouts, spot healing, adjusting contrast or exposure, and more. You can download or import an image to the app, edit it, and then save it to your device. You can also send the image to any social media platform. It is the mobile version of the popular desktop app. It can be downloaded from Google Play Store.
10. Photo Director
Photo Director is one of the best free photo editing apps available. It is easy to use and comes with powerful AI tools and features. The app is apt for beginners and experts alike and its studio quality-powered features allow you to remove unwanted objects, and create AI avatars and cartoon caricatures of yourself. It can be downloaded via the Google Play Store app.
11. Aviary
Photo Editor by Aviary is available on all three platforms iOS, Android, and Windows. The app has gained popularity by banking upon astonishing editing effects that are on the app. Its user interface lacks the vibrancy of Snapseed, but it is quite easy to figure out how to operate it. This photo editing software has a combination of vintage and other stylized filters coupled with color correction, cropping, and other image editing tools.
12. EyeEm
Like Instagram, EyeEm is another social photo app that can be downloaded on iPhones, iPads, Android, and Windows phones. More or less, it draws its inspiration from Instagram. This app features a list of powerful photo filters and also connects its users with a global community of photographers. EyeEm also lets users capture photos and edit them with a quick couple of swipes. Like Tinder, this app also has a swipe right or left feature. In Tinder, we swipe right to like someone’s profile and left to pass it but here when you swipe left or right it will apply different filters on the open image.
