Top 5 photo editing app

 Advanced photo editing was once limited to desktop computers. Now, thanks to impressive performance improvements, not only can you capture high-quality photos on your phone, but also edit them directly on the same device. Despite the smaller screen and more limited processing power, the gap between what you can do on a phone and what you can do on a computer has narrowed considerably.

Google’s Play Store and Apple’s App Store have no shortage of photo editing apps to choose from. We have separate guides for the best camera apps for Android and iOS, but here we’ve compiled the best editing tools available on both platforms. Regardless of your choice of mobile OS, these are the apps you can count on.

Photo editing apps have become popular these days especially for Android smartphone users as these apps are more user-friendly. People want to up their Instagram game and add unique filters or create a collage of their photos. Since everyone cannot splurge big bucks on a smartphone with a flagship-level camera, these apps come in handy to change the contrast, brightness, sharpness of their photos without any hassle. However, with a ton of photo editors available on the Google Play Store, the users get a bit confused.

Here’s a list of five photo editing apps that you may look to install:

Adobe Lightroom (Free, $10/month subscription option)

Adobe Lightroom comes in two flavors, Lightroom CC and Lightroom Classic CC.Classic has become the gold standard for digital photo management and editing amongst professionals, but the simplified interface and wonderful cloud-syncing features of the newer version means it doesn’t take a pro to manage or edit photos.

Available on both Android and iOS, Adobe Lightroom CC is a full-featured photo manager and editor, complete with RAW photo support, presets, exposure adjustments, watermarking, and so much more. It’s free to download and edit photos in, but if you want the ability to sync your photos across devices and use the premium features, you’ll need to shell out for Adobe’s Photography Creative Cloud plan, which costs $10 per month and also gives you access to Photoshop and Lightroom Classic on the desktop.

And while Lightroom CC makes the list for photo edits, the app also has a built-in camera that can do more than your native camera app with options like long exposures, RAW photos, and more advanced tools.

ANDROID IOS

Snapseed (free)

Snapseed is a professional-grade photo editing app designed by Google. It features a massive amount of editing options to help even the most mundane photos jump to life. It gives you control over your images by including a host of sliders capable of altering a photo’s vignette, blur, temperature, and other attributes. You can also add effects like grain, 1960s-style film looks, or the unique Retrolux filter. You can even stack effects, similar to Photoshop layers, making it easy to produce a brand-new result each time you edit a photo.    More advanced options, like perspective crops, a healing brush, curves, and local adjustments are included as well, making it a solid option for users who don’t want to download multiple apps to edit photos. Outside of updates for device compatibility, however, Snapseed doesn’t see major updates very often. Still, for a free app, Snapseed has a lot of tools and features.

ANDROID IOS  

Photoshop Express

With a simple and minimalistic interface, Adobe Photoshop Express is a great Android photo editor for quick, easy, and powerful editing on devices. It is packed with essential features like crop, straighten, rotate, and flip photos.

Photoshop Express has one-touch filters, a variety of effects, colors, auto fix, frames, and also some advanced tools like Image Rendering Engine to handle large files like panoramic photos. Its Noise Reduction feature can minimize unwanted grain and speckling in night photos.

The app is free to download and is ad-free. Moreover, it provides you the service to share photos on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites.

Special Features Of Photoshop Express

• More than 80 filters for instantly editing photos.
• Photos can be imported and edited in RAW format
• Perspective correction feature for fixing skewed perspective photos
• Share the edited photos instantly to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other social media websites

                                                         

       

PicsArt Photo Studio

With over 100 million downloads, PicsArt is one of the favorite photo editing apps out there in 2019. The reason PicsArt is such a stand-out is due to the sheer number of options you have for customizing your photos. It comes with a built-in camera feature and a social network for sharing photos.

Other features include collage, draw, frames, stickers, and more. The app is available for free with some in-app purchases, though, you have to deal with ads.

Special Features Of PicsArt Photo Studio

• Brush mode for applying effects selectively on particular parts of a pic
• Rapidly evolving AI-powered effects
• In-built camera app with live effects
• Double exposures using layers and adjustable transparency.

PhotoDirector

PhotoDirector is a kind of multi-purpose photo editor app. It has a stylish and user-friendly interface where you can quickly adjust the colors and tone of your images with its simple, yet powerful tools. The app has an in-app camera feature where you can apply live photo effects as you snap your photos. You can edit images and share them quickly on Facebook, Flickr, and more.

This Android photo editor app is free to download with some in-app purchases and contains ads.

Special Features Of PhotoDirector

• Content-Aware tool for removing photobombers and unwanted objects.
• Artistic preset photo effects such as Lomo, Vignette, HDR and more
• Dehaze tool for removing haze, fog, and mist from images
• Photo fx for applying effects to certain regions in pictures