The mobile phone camera has become one of the concerns of many manufacturers. They are betting on increasingly innovative technologies, dual cameras, Leica certification… However, beyond the hardware, the software also matters, how you take the photo or what are the apps to resize photos you use and other ways to edit them.
There are many options to turn your mobile phone into a small pocket computerlo and be able to take the perfect photo. If you add your ability to edit photos to the increasingly better imaging technology that phones incorporate, nothing can go wrong.
Applications to edit photos
In the Android application store there are many options so that you are not satisfied with just taking the photo and sharing it. You can add better lighting, crop what is left over, improve the framing, go for warmer or cooler tones or even add as many filters as you can think of until the result is what you like.
Afterlight
If we had to choose just one Android retouching app, Afterlight would be a near-winning candidate. The application allows you to retouch all the aspects of the image that you can think of. You can improve lighting, contrast, saturation and any other parameter from the application and without diminishing the quality of the photo.
He too Afterlight editor It has filters that provide different finishes to your photo. Almost 60 filters for you to retouch all your images until they convince you. You can also put, if you want, lighting effects or textures. Afterlight also allows you to put frames of any type and shape.
Afterlight is not free. The application has a price of 0,72 euros to be able to download it but it already has more than 500.000 downloads and it is, without a doubt, one of the best applications for editing photos.
Snapseed
Snapseed is a very interesting and free option for your Android phone. In addition to being able to improve the photo and adjust the levels of brightness, contrast, saturation or shadows, as in other applications, you can do much more. Snapseed It has interesting tools such as, for example, Stain Remover or the Brush.
The Snapseed Brush allows you to selectively retouch, through this tool, saturation, brightness or exposure. You can make the whites of your images completely white and not yellowish or grayish. All you have to do is pass the brush over the areas that you want to be lightened and repeat the process until the lightening is complete.
Also Snapseed allows a Stain Remover option that it will allow you to remove something from the image that does not convince you. If someone has made a "photobomb" you can delete it and upload it to your social networks without the typical funny man appearing.
Among other options you can also blur the parts you want or add filters, frames, etc.. A free and very interesting option which is a "must" on any Android phone if you like photography. Snapseed is compatible with versions higher than 4.1 of Android and already has more than ten million installations from the Google Play Store.
VSCO Cam
Another classic is VSCO Cam. An application that triumphed on iOS and ended up on Android at the request of users. The application, free, allows you to include different types of filters in which you can adjust the intensity. You can also download new filters from the app store or buy some for a fee.
In addition, like the previous ones, it allows access to all kinds of editing tools that will allow you to adjust saturation, temperature, brightness, contrast, etc.
VSCO also has a social part similar to Instagram, VSCO Grid, where users can upload photos retouched with the app or view images of other users and photographers.
Aviary
Aviary is the photo editor for Android owned by Adobe. An application that pIt allows infinite options and resources, possibly the most. One of the most interesting applications to edit photos that you will find. You can do with the images practically everything you can think of: add filters, tweak the parameters, add text, stickers, draw on them, make automatic enhancements or you can even create a meme.
The application is free Although it has purchases within the app to be able to access filter packs, stickers or new functions, for example.
