Every day mobiles improve in all their aspects, from their main features to an element as valued by users as the camera. Brands try to improve both the lens and the software that controls the cameras so that we can get the best possible photos.
However, the photos we take may not be as beautiful and spectacular as we expected, either because our smartphone does not mount the best camera on the market or even closely, or because our expertise is poor when it comes to taking snapshots. Thanks to the world of applications we can retouch those photos to get an excellent result, or at least improve the photo.
That is why today we are going to see the best applications that we can find in the Google Play Store To get our photos to look like they really deserve, and to be able to show off beautiful pictures with our friends and family, activate the flash and keep reading.
Snapseed
A well-known application that can improve your photos to unsuspected limits. If you dedicate a little time to it, you will be able to leave photos at a professional level with the touch-ups that this app allows us to do. This application was created by Google a long time ago, and it is still one of the most downloaded in the Play Store with more than one hundred million downloads and a rating of 4.4 stars by users.
Thanks to its "Improve photo" option we have a icon of a magic wand that improves the photo in a series of characteristics main ones, which already give it another aspect. But we have many options to retouch a photo and leave it as if it were a different one. Among them Snapseed this complete professional photo editor includes up to 29 tools and filters, including Stain Remover, Brush, Structure, HDR and Perspective.
You will be able to open files in JPG and RAW format, save a series of retouching options to apply them in general to other photos, if you liked the result. We have the option of Selective filter brush, retouches all styles in a precise and detailed way. Improve your photos by adjusting the exposure and color automatically or manually, a range of possibilities opens up.
Photoshop Express – Selfie
Another application with great experience in the panorama of photo retouching, which comes from the hand of the giant Adobe with a rating of 4,5 stars and over a hundred million downloads. If you need to make that change or improve the photo that we liked so much, this application will give you much better performance.
The Photoshop Express photo editing app has a wide variety of options when it comes to studio-quality effects and features. You will be able to edit those photos and customize them with stickers, overlays from other snapshots, blur, crop, and enhance colors, for example.
If you prefer, assemble a collage with your best photos, create funny memes and give it a special and unique touch for your social networks. If you want to go a little further you have a Premium version at your disposal, however, the free version gives you access to many tools with which you can edit photos in a simple and intuitive way.
Lightroom: edit photos and video
We continue with another application from the hand of Adobe, and that is that it gives us guarantee and experience in this world of photo retouching. Right now Photoshop Lightroom is one of the best photo editors we can find on PC, but its mobile version is not far behind.
This is a photo (and video) editor that It offers us a multitude of options, in addition to its option of being able to integrate it with the PC version It gives it a plus and point in favor, of course, to enjoy this option we will have to go through the checkout. If you use photo editing a lot, you may be interested since the photos on your mobile are automatically synchronized on your PC with this app.
The options that this application gives us are, among others, the Lightroom automatic editor, with which you will give an improvement easily to your photos, you have the option of precision regulators to modify light settings, such as contrast, exposure, highlights and shadows, you can even correct blurry photos.
Create original images with the color mixer option and color grading tools, It also has an "optimizer" with which we can vary the appearance of those photos that came out blurry thanks to the clarity, texture, object erase, haze, and grain sliders.
VSCO: Photo Editor
This application is another editor that has support for photos in RAW format, it also has to its credit a catalog of filters to apply to your photos with the possibility of regulating the level of intensity with which they are applied. It is true that since its last update it is not the same, it has also become more hardened in regards to the free service since it offers ten specific options.
These are such as the possibility of import and edit your RAW photos, It offers us the possibility of using editing tools such as Contrast and Saturation with which we can make special photographs stand out. Be sure to try options like "Granularity" and Fading to add texture and emulate analog film effects.
If you prefer to adjust or play with the perspectives of your photos, you have tools such as Crop and Shift. If you like the result of those filters and retouches you can save and recreate your favorite edits again on other photos With those settings thanks to the "Recipes" we can save.
We can use this application as a different social network (or not), in which we can share your photos with other users of the application. It's been on the mobile photo editing scene for a few years now and has always been high on the list. It is free, although now it has fewer free options, but it is easy to use and with a variety of filters with which to edit those images at the touch of a button.
Pixlr
This editor is perfect for those who don't have much idea when it comes to photo editing, it is even suitable for those who are knowledgeable in the matter. And it is that Pixlr is a great editor that we can to improve our best photographs and even the not so good ones.
All the tools available to it stand out, such as, among others, the automatic correction that gives an instant improvement to photos quickly and easily, with the fusion of several layers or the application of different styles we have one of the applications with more options for your enjoyment and image correction.
If you are an expert in the field or you like to delve into this world, you can make use of options such as the app's presets and advanced functions such as the creation of masks, if, on the other hand, you want something simpler and faster, you can go to the selection of filters it houses, since for non-experts it is a very good option, without the need to break our heads for quick and easy touch-ups.