Top 5 Photo Editing Apps
My iphone is constantly telling my I can’t take a picture, due to storage limits. That’s because I have thousands of pictures on my phone and I hate deleting them, even though I know they’re all synced to my iphoto library. Such trials and tribulations. Part of the reason it fills up is because I have multiple versions of every picture. Some cropped, some with filters, some with text. I can’t seem to leave them alone. But I think we can all agree that filters are magical and these programs can take a boring phone photo into something wonderful. Right?
So here are my personal favorites, but I’d love to hear photo editing apps you’re using!
1. FaceTune
My photographer-best-friend told me about this one. If you want to perfect your selfie by touching up your skin or whitening your teeth (Yes, really) this one is for you. My personal favorite feature is the blur functionality, because you can create a really cool soft focus. The filters on here are pretty good as well.
2. Afterlight
This one great for resizing photos because it has a bunch of different templates for things like phone wallpaper and twitter sizing. You can even do circular photos that work on Instagram. It’s also a great one for filters and backgrounds.
Created by these lovely bloggers, the app allows you to add filters, text, and doodles to your photos. That’s what I used for all of the images on this post. Their fonts are really fun and it also has a collage app built in, which is nice. This is my favorite for adding text.
4. VSCOCAM
Ok honestly, this would be my all time favorite for filters. The downside is, it takes a lot of storage space on your phone… something I’m clearly lacking. When I have space for it, this is the one I use. When I get a “not enough storage space available” I move on. If you do have the storage space though, the filters are fantastic.
My number one reason for using this app is the timer feature. You can set it for as many seconds as you need. This is hugely helpful when you’re trying to fit everyone in a photo and you need to hit the timer and run into the shot. I’m not a huge fan of the filters, but the timer is so worth it.
Here are some examples of photos with each photo editing app:
Awesome!! Thanks for sharing! I finally have the Beautiful Mess app now that its available for android 🙂 SO excited that you are coming next Thursday!!!
XO Samantha
vscocam is my go to!!! i am addicted, like really! LOL!
Thank you for this post. I am always on the look-out for the perfect photo editing app that I can use right before sharing some photos on Instagram. I really like a beautiful mess and think that the timer app will come in handy as well. Great tips.
I love camera apps!! My fav (besides what you’ve already mentioned) Photoblend (let’s you put images on top of eachother– great for quotes) and InstaSize (let’s you resize for Instagram!)
Oh cool!! I will have to try photo blend!
is it odd that i haven’t heard of *any* of these? i feel like i’m out of the loop. i love love love picstitch and photoshop and.. well… i’m gonna try out these suggestions of yours 🙂
VSCO has to be my all-time favourite app for photo editing. Im a photographer and since discovering VSCO as an editing tool my images have come on so much – people have notices that too. LOVING VSCO!
It’s definitely my favorite of all of them, I just need more space on my phone to use it! 🙂
Huge fan of THIS post for obvious reasons 😉
This is SUCH helpful post!! Since I basically only post photos to instagram, I use the instacollage app, which has some great filter choices as well as the ability to add text and such 🙂
I love making collages! Definitely a fun feature 🙂
Oh I needed this, I’m still getting the hang of my new smartphone! I hardly have ANY space though and have already had to delete a few apps :\ Lame!
I use Camera+, love PicTapGo, and VSCO. Now I’ll *need* to download some of the other recommendations!
Ohh I’ll be checking out PicTapGo! I hope you like some of these others 🙂