Best photo editing apps

Summer is the time for vacation and we can all agree that vacation means a lot of pictures. Smartphone cameras have become so awesome that the majority of people don’t even use or have cameras as all the photos are taken on the phone. Usually pictures taken on the phone stay on the phone or in a cloud storage, that’s why it is very convenient to edit photos right on your smartphone.

The key to success is to have a decent free photo editor at your service. Today we will speak about the best photo editing apps for iOS and Android.

Snapseed (iOS, Android)
Snapseed is a simple-to-use photo editing app that can help to perfect your images. The original image is kept unchanged so there is no need to worry if the results of your edits turn out not the way you expected them to. The program offers such features as tune, crop, transform, rotate image, and usage of tools like selective, vignette, brush and spot repair. Various filters can be applied and the following image properties can also be adjusted: brightness, saturation, contrast, style strength, scratches and light leaks.

Snapseed is a great and simple app for increasing the quality and impression of your images. Finished photos can be saved or shared right from the application.

VSCO Cam (iOS, Android)
VSCO Cam is an image editor that is also integrated with social networks. The app offers its own unique filters that can’t be found in other photo editing apps. Each filter has 12 levels of saturation. Brightness, balance, contrast and other standard features can be adjusted as well. VSCO Cam can be used while taking images and exposure and focus of the camera can be adjusted; simply tap on the screen to place the marks for these 2 camera options before you create a photo. As for the social part, this app offers their own photo sharing network called Grid, where you can follow other users of this app and share your own pictures. The discover tab shows the best photos created with VSCO Cam selected by the app’s team.

VSCO Cam is a great image editor and camera adjusting app with unique photo filters that also offers social integration and a simple-to-use interface.

Adobe Photoshop Express (iOS, Android)
The name of this app speaks for itself -- this photo editing app is the mobile version of the original Adobe Photoshop. This app offers plenty of features, however it is highly intuitive thanks to in-built tips. Users are capable of cropping, rotating, straightening and flipping images, adding filters, effects and borders and making adjustments using exposure, tints, saturation and contrast. Red-eye and blemish removals are also included in the list of features. Needless to say, finished photos can be shared and settings have an intensity grade -- move the slider to make them more saturated or lighter.

Adobe Photoshop Express is a great photo editing app with the most in-demand major features and options to apply to your photos.

Photo Editor by Aviary (iOS, Android)
Photo Editor by Aviary is a nice suite of image editing tools for super simple photo quality improvement. You can use features like enhancement, effects, frames, stickers, crop, focus and others. Cropping is available in custom mode and users can select from the already offered image sizes. As much as 12 filters can be applied to the photos, and standard photo settings like brightness, saturation, contrast, sharpness and warmth are also at your service. The addition of text and custom drawings is also possible by means of this app. The blemish tool helps to get rid of red-eye, remove blemishes (obviously) and whiten teeth.

Photo Editor by Aviary is an impressive and easy-to-use kit that features all the most important tools for fast but efficient photo editing.

PicLab -- Photo Editor (iOS, Android)
PicLab -- Photo Editor is a photo editor to create artistic posters and inspirational photos. One of the features that makes it stand out from the other reviewed apps is that it has a typography feature (addition of text of various fonts, resizing, rotation, addition of opacity and shadow and multi layering is possible), a stickers and artwork feature, and an overlays and masks feature (borders, shapes, overlays and more to be added to your photos). In addition to that there is an in-built collage maker and 20 photo filters available to choose from. Such photo effects as contrast, saturation, and brightness can be easily applied to your images as well as in any other photo editing app.

PicLab -- Photo Editor will serve you greatly if you need an artistic photo editor offering you a bit more than color balance and cropping features.

There are several more programs that are not full picture editors, but are still very handy for various uses.

Perfect365 (iOS, Android) -- a must-have tool for all the selfie makers. Makes faces flawless in several easy steps without offering too many useless and complicated features.

InstaCollage (iOS, Android) -- a must-have for fellow Instagrammers. Dozens of various collages templates and frames are available to combine to make a perfect picture to post on Instagram.

Photosynth (iOS) -- a must-have for travelers who want to shoot perfect panoramic images.

Photo Wonder (iOS, Android) -- an awesome set of filters and tools to polish all your pictures and add saturation to them.

As you can see, there are sufficient tools to conduct decent image editing right on your smartphone. Perfect your photographs on the go like a pro with any of these apps mentioned.

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