Every time we use a social network, we do so to view or publish the content we like the most and motivates. When it comes to social media like Tik Tok or Instagram with visual content, the care of what we upload is even greater, because we want to impact our followers. This has made filters and now retro filters fashionable. let's teach you 7 aesthetic applications for Android.
These applications try to give a nostalgic image, of those years 70, 80 or 90. Filters that age the photograph or that give kinder tones, such as pastel colors, reminiscent of other times. This way of filtering images or videos has been called "aesthetic", which in its translation means "aesthetics". But this aesthetic has been attributed to this type of filter with a retro tone.
This time we are going to show you the applications that users are already more professional, as the "influencers" or users with few followers use. These applications are found in the Google store and most of them are free, although to have them fully they require a subscription or payments for more advanced filters.
VSCO: The professional filter app
This app is very known in the world of image filtering. Since, despite having a user-friendly way, if you dare, you can find a very professional way. The complete way of editing photography makes it a perfect tool for professionals. And it is also that it has a community of professional photographers and editors who dedicate their time to managing these filters.
The community is making combinations of filters, also aesthetic, so that users can use it later. As we have mentioned before, some of them sell these resources on their profiles. Since this is how they get their income. But if you want, you can make your own or take the default ones that are free. There are also users who give you certain filters in exchange for subscriptions to their newsletter or broadcast channels.
PicsArt, the photo editor
This application is one of the most used, since as in professional programs such as Photoshop, you can edit filters by layers. This will greatly facilitate the use of them, since you can carry out this edition by zones or you can remove a filter without having to touch another. You can crop and adjust as you like, to highlight a tone or specific part of your photo, create collages of the most varied or make stickers.
You can also make more complex editions such as double exposure. In this way, choose the silhouette of your photograph and add a forest background, making a fusion between the two so that it is totally “cool”. This will give a very professional image to the profile of your social networks and everything from a simple application.
Filter: Filter images and videos
This application has a great variety of retro filters. many of them famous like the Californian filter or Glitch. If you don't know what it is, glitch is an effect that is used like a television distortion. This effect generates a big generational jump, because the televisions of today do not have any of these types of problems that the old tube televisions had.
They also have filters with the photo frames, as if you made a photo on a photo or comic filters. This makes it appear that the person in the photograph is drawn. The good thing about this app is that you can apply this on videos as well. This application is widely used, since it has the most trending effects on social networks and It has a large community within Instagram They make tutorials on how to use it.
VaporCam Retro filter
This application performs (beyond a simple filter that changes the aesthetics of the photo) retro montages of your images. These assemblies are very diverse and have a very peculiar aesthetic. Adding many external elements to the original image or integrating it into some frames such as within a screen of an iMac G3 of colors.
There are also slightly more modern editions, but they always play with that specific aesthetic, such as modifying the cover of Kanye West on his album "The Life of Pablo". You can check it out on his own official VaporCam instagram.
Prequel: Photography Filters and Effects
This application It is simpler than others that we have commented. The application has some presets with which to configure your photography with filters. These presets can have Glow effect, VHS, VCR... among others. Its functions are to give a total aesthetic aspect, so it doesn't have any further configuration either. Or at least not as professional as it is with VSCO.
Now with AI call (Artificial intelligence) They also have more features such as knowing how your face would be performed by artificial intelligence. Also how you would be in anime mode or in filters that they call "fantasy". How can it be to dress up with a filter of the Avatar characters, now that they are so fashionable.
SNOW
This company, which has more than 200 million users with the application downloaded, helps you make filters and can even remove "imperfections" from your body or face. That is, if you want to remove some grain or want to look more or less thin, you can also edit. You can also add stickers or other elements to the photo, giving it an aesthetic touch as we have been talking about in this article.
Crystaliq
In conclusion, This application can be another complement to all the ones we have seen before. Because if what you want is give a touch of brightness to the photo or generate some mirror effects this is your perfect app. It is used to create effects that are so strange but look so good, such as a fish vision.
The application has tutorials of use for this type of effect on your instagram profile. So you can find a thousand ways to achieve the effects that you like the most.
