This time we'll touch on image applications again, but from an editing perspective.
So, there is a scenario: take a photo with a camera or open a photo from the gallery in the editor, make it brighter, add text and graphic annotations, correct red-eye, save the file in in the required format and then mail or post to in social networks.
Obviously, there is no suitable program included in Android. Therefore, from the most rated and popular editors on Google Play were selected universal applications that will allow you to solve these problems:
The following application capabilities will be discussed in detail:
- adding images: upload methods (from gallery, camera, third-party services)
- basic editing: changing geometry, color
- tools for quick correction (whitening, red eye removal, etc.)
- the use of filters or effects (here you need to pay attention not only to their quantity, but also to their quality)
- additional tools: creating annotations, collages
- working with various image formats, importing and exporting, publishing on social networks
Attention will also be paid to the interface: grouping functions, working in landscape and tablet display.
The following programs will be mentioned separately:
- Photo Grid - Collage Maker
Two years ago, Google acquired Snapseed, a photo editor. At that time, it took root well on the iOS platform. The Android edition (you'll need Android 4 or higher to run) is also popular.
Adding Images
In the Snapseed editor, there are two ways to open an image for editing - uploading through the gallery or taking it with your camera. In the second case, you can use the standard Android camera or any alternative installed on the system.
Basic Editing
Conventionally, in Snapseed the program tools can be divided into basic and creative parts. First, let's talk about the basic options that allow you to change the picture. This is cropping a photo, rotating and straightening the image. All operations are conveniently implemented through gestures.
Parameters that relate to color - brightness, saturation, white balance, shadows, temperature and non-standard ones - for example, atmosphere.
Quick correction
If the photo was taken on camera, it makes sense to use auto color or contrast correction in Snapseed. The application determines the optimal settings and applies them to the image. If necessary, you can use selective transformation (applying changes to the selected area, for which the special U Point function is responsible).
Applying filters
Effects are the part that receives as much attention as the basic editing tools. Snapseed offers Black & White, Vintage Films, Details, Center Focus, Frames, Retrolux, Drama, Grunge, Tilt- Shift and other effects whose names speak for themselves and are familiar to those who have used a desktop editor or viewer like XnView.
Management of this arsenal is very simply organized: all modifiers are placed on the bottom panel of the application without any grouping, linearly.
One of the main advantages of the application is the ability to configure filters in detail. Each of them has parameters that can be adjusted using sliders (while other editors focus on the number of available filters without any controls).
Additional tools
There are no backgrounds or collages in the Snapseed editor, although the same frames are available. Of the more significant commands, there are no tools for creating annotations. Therefore, for the most part, this editor is not ideal for publishing photos on photo services and social networks.
Export
Publishing photos is possible via Google+, email and other social networks. Services. Publishing options are implemented via standard menu Share. Google+ has a separate publish button on the top bar.
Export is limited by the fact that you cannot select a saving format. As a result, the user needs to turn to other applications or be content with the proposed format - JPG. One of the resulting disadvantages of Snapseed is the lack of any saving options at all: the quality and resolution cannot be specified.
Summary. The Snapseed editor is suitable for basic photo processing - it offers convenient control using gestures. Various filters are also useful - the user can adjust them at his discretion. Among the shortcomings: the toolbar does not group functions, save formats other than JPG are not supported, there are no tools for annotation. Overall, the editor lacks flexible settings.
BeFunky Photo Editor - graphics editor for Android OS 2.3 and higher. Effects, editing functions and publishing of images on photo services are available. Additional features include creating collages.
Adding Images
The application is clearly divided into sections: “Camera” (taking photos), “Gallery” (viewing pictures and transferring them to the editor), “Collage” (editing pictures) and “Browse” (Internet functions). Everything about the sections is intuitive, but, unfortunately, Russian localization introduces its own nuances. As a result, the purpose of some commands needs to be guessed (“Editing”, “Improve”, etc.).
After opening the image, a toolbar is available at the bottom of the BeFunky window. There are a lot of positions here, so they have been divided into appropriate sections, this allows you to manage the tools more intuitively - unlike the Snapseed editor, where there is no division into sections at all.
Basic Editing
Among the editing tools (they are placed in the “Editing” section), cropping, alignment, and rotation of the image are available. In the same section, color parameters are detected (contrast, saturation, temperature, etc.).
The “Enhance” function was misleading: it only affects the contrast of the image. At the same time, interesting filters are available in Montage: softening, blurring, and smart sharpening.
Quick correction
For retouching there is a standard and simple toolkit - red eye removal, highlight removal, whitening (red eye reduction, blemish fixer, flashspot remover, teeth whitener). In this regard, there is a slight complaint. On the compact screen of the BeFunky smartphone, landscape mode is not available, the image looks small. Therefore, it is not always obvious to make various cosmetic adjustments.
Applying effects
There are 32 photo effects available in BeFunky Photo Editor. They will help you make your photo “vintage”, “film”, atmospheric - in general, everything is traditional.
By selecting a preset from the list, you can set the intensity of its application. More than 65 additional effects are available after purchasing Befunky Pro.
Additional tools
The editor has the ability to use photo frames and overlaps. Overlays (aka overlays) are templates and blanks, substrates that allow you to enclose a photo in a geometric figure, symbol, silhouette, etc.
Among the additional tools, annotations are perhaps the most useful. You can choose one of the system fonts or those offered by BeFunky. However, it must be taken into account that Russian characters in the latter case will not be available.
And the final function that can be noted in this series is the creation of collages, including dynamic ones. One collage can contain up to 9 photos, various backgrounds, text, stickers. Here you can arrange images in a given quantity by selecting a blank, changing the proportions, adding templates and shapes. In general, creating collages is convenient even on a small smartphone screen - partly because the designer does not force you to “jump” from one dialogue to another.
Export
Quick publication of results on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr is supported. To do this, you need to connect the appropriate accounts in the settings. In addition, the file can be saved locally by specifying the resolution (up to 8 MP). Image format selection is not available.
Summary. At first glance, BeFunky is an application just for entertainment. But, in fact, it is also a convenient photo editor with an intuitive interface. BeFunky is equally suitable for editing camera images, gallery images, applying effects and retouching. Wide variety of available effects and tools. You can not only edit photos individually, but also create collages and publish the results on the Web.
Adobe Photoshop Express is not “Photoshop” or a desktop edition of the famous package. It would be more correct to assume that this free editor with some basic photo editing features. To run it, Android version 4.0.3 and higher is required.
Adding Images
First of all, it should be noted that Photoshop Express works not only with jpg formats and png. A separate list includes raw formats of digital cameras: arw, cr2, crw, dng, erf, raf, nef, nrw, srw, etc. The application uses an engine that easily processes and displays panoramic photos and large files.
Thus, photos from cameras can be imported and edited in Photoshop Express. There are three ways to add images for further processing: actually take them on camera, upload a file from an external gallery, or open them through the Adobe Revel web service.
Photoshop Express offers shooting with your own camera. At the same time, real-time display of effects is available. This function is practically useless on low-power devices (for example, shooting on Samsung Galaxy S3 with effects enabled makes no sense: not enough resources).
The Adobe Revel social service is designed for publishing videos and photos, maintaining family albums, discussions, etc. Revel offers unlimited file storage for a fee, with free .
Basic Editing
Basic editor operations: cropping, straightening, rotating, flipping photos horizontally and vertically. Gesture control is quite convenient, and there are no operations that would require high precision. To confirm this, the layers and brushes familiar from the desktop version of Photoshop are absent here (in this case, we can recommend paid application Adobe Photoshop Touch).
As for adjusting the color of the image: clarity, contrast, shadows, temperature and other color parameters are adjusted. Some of these options are available for a fee and, in fact, cannot be configured in any way, with the exception of the Auto option and the general regulator. For example, for shadows this is clearly not enough. If we mean raw formats, then the question arises: why use the stripped-down Photoshop Express if you can turn to more convenient desktop tools.
Quick correction
The Auto-Fix function is responsible for quick (one-touch) correction of contrast and shutter speed. There is no white balance option, but according to the description, the Auto-Fix function involves adjusting it. Other correction tools include blemish and red-eye removal - separate for people and pets.
Applying filters
Panel Photoshop tools Express is divided into “images” (Looks and Premium Looks) - free and paid filters. They are accessible through the editor interface on the bottom panel.
Filters (one-touch filters) - more than two dozen, about 15 frames, corners and vignettes. When you purchase the premium edition of the editor, two dozen more decorations become available. To one degree or another, they change the atmosphere of the photo: pinhole, sepia, black and white/infrared processing, etc.) and are suitable for quick photo processing. A slider is provided to adjust the intensity of the filter - the only available option.
From a practical point of view, the most useful package is the Noise Reduction Pack, which eliminates noise in night photos - but it is only available in the paid version of Photoshop Express.
Export
Publishing photos to social services is done through the standard Share widget. In addition to Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, there is a separate option for publishing on Adobe Revel. You can export files to the service confidentially - in a private album.
Summary. Photoshop Express should be regarded as a photo editor that is suitable for working not only with mobile images, but also with raw formats. Theoretically, integration with Adobe Revel would not be superfluous, although this service is relatively not so popular.
On the other hand, the Photoshop Express toolkit is narrow to talk about professional processing photo. Yes, basic instruments and effects are available. But many features require additional options rather than one-touch action. Finally, there are no layers or brushes - and this is the main gap of the editor.
Worthy of attention
The AfterFocus editor specializes in blurring the background of images and creating DSLR-style blurry photos, allowing you to flexibly adjust the focus area, determine the level of blur, and other visual parameters. Essentially, it is enough to specify the focus point or designate the blur zone. In addition, AfterFocus allows you to customize filters for the background and foreground, and adjust image contrast using brushes.
It can be argued that the dslr effect looks convincing at least on mobile device screens. At the same time, there is sufficient support high resolutions- up to 3264 pixels.
The pro version of AfterFocus implements an interesting experimental feature - “double photo”: one picture is superimposed on another, with the same object. After analysis, the closest object for focusing is selected - accordingly, the user does not need to specify the focus.
Photo Grid - Collage Maker
As the name suggests, this app specializes in making photo collages. Using Photo Grid, it is quite easy to create a “mix” of several photos, apply several effects, filters, add annotations and stickers, and publish the results on the Web.
A few words about the application tools. For convenient placement of photos, a grid is provided in various variations. Albums are used for convenient categorization. Finally, Collage Maker allows you to create presentations using photos, audio and text. All effects, filters and other templates are systematized and available in many variations. In addition, Photo Grid allows you to create a filmstrip - a tape with a plot that includes photos, text and stickers.
Although the application includes standard tools (for example, cropping and zooming), the main function is entertainment. You can also use the application in " field conditions"when you urgently need to make a presentation. Moreover, the toolkit allows you not only to use a variety of tools and available workpieces, but also to export them in optimal quality. Image format: JPG and PNG, video - resolution up to 2048P.
Photo editor with gentleman's set filters, frames, stickers, tools for fixing artifacts and basic editing tools - changing color (temperature, contrast...), annotations and drawing.
A quick inspection allows us to conclude that Photo Editor is still not strong in photo editing (despite the tools listed), but it is quite suitable for using “lazy” filters before sending to social networks - for example, Instagram.
Vignette photo effects - replacement for the standard Android camera. First of all, it will be of interest to fans of analogue and film photography. The camera quite reliably imitates the style of plastic lomo cameras (Diana and Holga), Polaroid photos, cross-processing effects and tilt-shift lenses. In total, the application's tools contain about 70 filters and fifty frames.
When it comes to the camera's actual functionality, it's not much different in design from a number of alternatives in this category. There are zoom options, delayed shooting and a timer. Remote shutter activation using Bluetooth or a headset is also available.
Until recently, a computer or laptop was the main tool of a graphic designer. But technology is rapidly developing and alternatives are emerging with which designers can realize their ideas. Today, a smartphone or tablet is relatively inexpensive; these are no longer “elite” devices. Manufacturers are releasing entire lines of smartphones for users with low incomes; a smartphone is no longer something inaccessible.
With the advent operating system Android has created a veritable ecosystem of apps. You can do literally anything with these apps, so it's no surprise that there are dedicated Android apps for designers.
Many of these applications are quite powerful and functional, and their emergence has allowed designers to create regardless of where they are. You no longer need to keep an idea in your head or make sketches on paper: all you need to do is take your smartphone out of your pocket and launch the right application and start working. FreelanceToday brings to your attention 10 Android apps for designers.
The recently released Infinite Design application is designed for working with vector graphics. With this application, graphic designers and web developers can create projects of any complexity using a smartphone or tablet running Android OS. This is not just a vector editor, the application allows the designer to create even three-dimensional images, all the necessary functionality is present.
In addition, Infinite Design has a number of innovative features such as infinite canvas, logical operations, grids and much more. The designer can add various effects when editing paths and control the process using the improved Pen Tool.
Another popular Android app for designers is Sketchbook Express. The application allows you to create quick sketches and simulates the process of painting with paints. This the best choice for those who cannot live a day without creativity and love to embody their ideas with the help of sketches. The application's tools include 15 preset brushes and an expanded color wheel. Features such as brush pressure effects and shape smoothing open up great possibilities for designers. Other features include multi-touch navigation, multiple drawing styles, transparency control, and layer state switching.
Artflow is one of the best drawing apps. The application was created with the goal of replacing traditional notepads and albums, and was originally developed for smartphones running Android OS. Artflow has over 70 brushes and has everything necessary tools for work. Using the application, you can create both simple sketches and complex graphic works.
The application has a user-friendly interface, which makes it accessible to all categories of users. The application can be launched if an eight-year-old child suddenly wants to draw, while at the same time, Atflow can be used by experienced designers to realize their ideas. Using the application, you can create files with a maximum resolution of 4096x4096 pixels, which makes it quite attractive for professionals.
The Paperless application is gradually gaining popularity in the design community and is one of the the best tools to create visual content. Paperless gives the user access to 6 various types tools with which you can create sketches and full-color illustrations. This way, the designer can add text annotations to the graphics. The application's capabilities allow developers to save their files as e-books.
With Paperless, developers can share their ideas with social media users - content can be shared directly from the application. This is a fairly simple graphic editor; you can create only three layers in it, but this is quite enough for creating simple sketches.
AutoCAD is one of the most useful Android apps for designers. AutoCAD allows developers to create, edit, view and share drawings. User-friendly interface and many useful functions significantly simplify the process of creating drawings. The application is highly specialized; it does not have many drawing tools, but it has everything you need. After all, AutoCAD 360 is “tailored” specifically for design and that’s all functionality designed to allow the application to create drawings of any complexity.
Developed by Adobe, Illustrator application Draw is a powerful vector editor running on a mobile operating system. Android system. Using the application, the user can easily create complex vector illustrations. The editor has an intuitive interface with convenient touch controls. The application has 5 built-in brushes with which you can create quick sketches. Moreover, Illustrator Draw supports the most advanced drawing tools such as Adonit Jot Touch, Adobe Ink, Apple Pencil, etc.
Using the application, you can implement even the most complex ideas, creating contours takes a minimum of time, Draw has many effects, one design project can include up to 10 layers, and it is also possible to import photos.
Developed by Appic Labs, the Camera MX application is designed for creating and editing photo and video content. Distinctive feature This application has a Live Shot function that allows you to save a few seconds of an image before capturing it. But the popularity of this application was brought by unique sets of effects, including the rotation effect, color toning, contrast control and video cropping.
As the name suggests, Fresco Paint Pro is an app designed for creating digital paintings. This is one of the best graphic editors for drawing that can be installed on Android smartphones. What's available: the ability to create 4 layers, there are 12 preset brushes and 21 filters. The application allows users to get a real drawing experience. Designers can also share images they post to Facebook, Twitter or Dropbox.
If a designer is a beginner, but wants to know more about typography and fonts, then he should install the Type:Reader application on his smartphone or tablet. This is very useful application, which will make the learning process more interesting. In fact, Type:Rider is a game that helps the user get acquainted with the history of typography, learn a lot about fonts and various symbols.
There are several proprietary image processing applications that allow you to do many of the things a desktop Photoshop user would want to be able to do on their mobile device. However, the app store is not limited to Adobe apps for Android OS. Today we decided to offer Android users five analogues of Photoshop that will help you “Photoshop” a photo no worse than the king of editing himself.
In our top, we decided to collect not ordinary applications that have the functions of a simple graphic editor with support for cropping, color settings and that’s it, but those applications that, like Photoshop, support layer overlays and tools like stamping, retouching and background removal.
PicsArt
PicsArt is an excellent analogue of Photoshop for Android, the number of functions in which is simply huge and, although some of them are only available in the paid version, even the free ones are more than enough to return to PicsArt over and over again and make your photos even more beautiful.
At the bottom of the editor are all available tools just to name a few: stamp, warp and stretch tool, pixel resizing, curves, hue and saturation changes, and various artistic effects.
One of the main features of PicsArt is a smart algorithm, which, in the form of a special tool, can separate the person in the photo from the background and replace, for example, the background with any other one your heart desires. This algorithm works very well, but even if there are some inaccuracies after the selection, you can manually help it determine the edges of the image in the foreground.
PicsArt even has auto mode“beautification”, in connection with which you can, without selecting each tool separately, make changes to various areas of the photo, but simply select the automatic mode and everything will be smoothed out where necessary, using special algorithms. If you choose a tool for editing, for example, hair, then the program will independently determine and highlight only the hair in the photo.
This Photoshop alternative also supports frames, adding text, highlight filters, painting tools, image overlays, stickers, and more. The updated version of this application is called PicsArt Gold and it is free for three days, and then costs 159 rubles per month. With a full subscription, you'll get rid of ads, get premium filters, and dozens of premium fonts, overlay effects, frames, collage designs, and stickers.
PhotoDirector
PhotoDirector is another Android app that includes all the basic photo editing tools: cropping, rotating, transforming, straightening, mirroring, blurring, frames, drawing tools, and so on.
However, what sets PhotoDirector apart from Photoshop is its specialized tools that allow you to instantly remove objects from a photo, create color transitions, crop objects by removing their background, and overlay photos using special modes such as multiply and overlay, and insert the image into mockups prepared in advance (newspaper, billboard, etc.). PhotoDirector can also create collages.
IN full version The app has no ads, you can download all premium tools, you can use unlimited dehaze (change the intensity of photo fragments) and cloning tools, and you can also export to higher resolutions. The subscription is free for seven days, and then costs 249 rubles per month (or 196.67 rubles per month if you take three months at once).
PhotoLayers
PhotoLayers is one of the best analogues of Photoshop, and also one of the most simple applications to remove the background in Google Play. When you remove the background from a photo directly on your smartphone, it becomes transparent so you can overlay it on another image, as seen in the screenshots above. With PhotoLayers you can resize the image the way you need, adjust the brush size and easily take action if you suddenly did something wrong.
This app also has a Magic tool that allows you to select a color in a photo and it will be instantly removed. If the selection touches an area that you do not want to delete, you can edit the selection area or later use the recovery tool to return those areas of the image that were deleted.
Unlike some apps that let you remove the background of a photo, this one has a Cursor Offset option so you can specify how far away you want the cursor from your finger or stylus, making editing much easier.
PhotoLayers is completely free, but it does have ads.
Photo Editor
One of the features that makes Photo Editor great analogue of Photoshop, is that it has a really handy cloning tool that allows you to quickly copy pixels to any other area of the image. You can change the size, hardness, and opacity of the stamp brush just as you would in the desktop version of Photoshop.
Overall, this image editing app is easy to use because the toolbar is a scrollable list right below the image you're editing. Each item you touch will open a different set of tools in that category, and saving or undoing/redoing is just a tap away. You can even arrange the toolbar any way you like, so your favorite tools are right where you need them.
Photo Editor also has other popular editing tools: adjusting exposure, curves, brightness and contrast, as well as various effects (red-eye removal, perspective control, teeth whitening, drawing, straightening a crooked picture).
You can also configure several unique settings, such as maximum resolution, perform the “back” action as many times as you like, and set a custom file name when saving. There are also some additional tools available in Photo Editor, such as the ability to compress images into a ZIP file, create an animated GIF file, PDF conversion to JPG and saving web pages to an image file.
Finished image can be exported to various formats, such as JPG, PNG, GIF, WebP and PDF.
AirBrush
Another way to edit photos on Android is to use AirBrush. This monster is similar to Photoshop in many ways, as it has blurring and smoothing tools, as well as retouching tools and a teeth whitener.
Here you can also find some filters and automatic tools, which will do everything for the entire image in a matter of seconds, such as skin smoothing, pimple removal, image brightening, teeth whitening, concealer application and face lifting. AirBrush also has a convenient button for comparing photos in “Before and After” mode.
AirBrush is completely free unless you need additional features and don't care about advertising. If you want to use this powerful tool to the maximum, you can subscribe for 1990 rubles per year or 899 rubles for three months.
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Many users often wonder: what is the best graphic editor for Android? And some people don’t even know what it is, so at first I would like to give a little information - a graphic editor allows you to edit photographs and other images, and is also capable of creating them yourself.
There are two types of editors - vector editor and raster editor. Using the vector option, you can create vector drawings yourself, and in the second case, you can only process ready-made photographs and drawings.
You must decide for yourself which is the best graphic editor option for your Android. Because there are actually a huge number of such applications. We can only give you an overview of the best representatives and suggest which program you can choose from the many options.
SketchBook Express
An excellent graphics application for professionals is SketchBook Express. It is simple in design, but very convenient - all the buttons are clear. There is no interference when creating drawings, and if necessary, you can enter the menu with one click.
You can also easily change settings and parameters. This program allows you to change the colors and sizes of brushes, font sizes and much more. If you install such a graphic editor on your android tablet, then you will soon be able to create real masterpieces. Anyone who has a keen sense of the world can accept this graphic editor as a friend who really wants to help, because users have detailed help (Help) with step by step instructions and a visual image.
This is very complex application, and it is used for tablets with good screens, but I would like to say that it will be for Android the best option when choosing a graphics editor nowadays.
snaptastic
The second popular software is Snaptastic. It, unlike the Autodesk Sketch Mobile described above, does not have such an abundance of functions and bells and whistles. We can say that the graphic application Snaptastic is the golden mean among those programs that are recommended to be installed on your Android tablet.
It is very light and simple, but at the same time powerful and convenient. Has a great interface design. The image that is in this moment processed, always in sight of the user. If you need to change the parameters, you just need to move the slider to the left or right, and the effect of the change will immediately be applied to the photo.
Another very important convenience is that if you don’t want to waste your personal time adjusting contrast, brightness and other parameters, the Snaptastic graphics editor will configure everything automatically. To do this, its settings provide eighteen templates that provide quick photo processing.
PicShop - editor for smart people
And one more unique new product, which is considered one of the best, which we recommend you install on your Android tablet or smartphone - PicShop. PicShop is a wonderful and original innovation in the world of graphic editors for Android.
Many users admit that this is the most powerful application among its kind, and in addition to this, it has an “ICS” interface. Only a few programs can boast of having such an interface.
The application has an excellent set of filters and a wide variety of tools for retouching, adjusting brightness and contrast, color range and rich images, sharpness and clarity. Considering that the filters are not strictly defined, it is possible to change the strength of their effect. The editor has the ability to rotate the image in different directions, as well as the “tilt-shift.” function, which is so loved by users.
8MP is the largest photo size allowed in this editor.
The PicShop application for Android also has additional functions - stickers and frames that can be used when designing and changing photos. If you decide to become a real healer, this editor is for you! In short, PicShop is an amazing program that will make your images unique and unmatched.
Fresco Paint – powerful and fashionable
If you have an Android smartphone or tablet and you want to create a graphic masterpiece, then you need to install a powerful and functional application. Fresco Paint for Android will be a good helper both experienced photographers and artists, and beginners.
This program has a very simple and user-friendly interface, and along with this there are very great opportunities for drawing and artistic design of photographs. The Fresco Paint application for Android is unique in that it has many features and settings: big choice brushes of different sizes, layer over layer, a variety of filters.
All tools can be customized to the desired size and texture, colors can be adjusted to the required shades and transparency. What's unique is that the program duplicates and hides layers, rotates and mirrors the image, as well as merges and scales.
If you install this application on your Android, you will be able to achieve originality and uniqueness in the design of photographs and the creation of drawings using a variety of filters. Sharpness and blur, saturation and exposure, brightness and posterization are just a few of the functions of the application.
The choice is yours
There are a lot of similar graphic editors that can be installed on Android. Which one to choose is up to you.
Here are some more of them that were not included in our review, but that you should pay attention to: Adobe Photoshop Express, Photo Studio PRO for Android, Moldiv - Collage Photo Editor, Pixlr Express - photo editing, Catwang for Android tablets, Camera FV- 5, Perfectly Clear for Android, Photaf 3D Panorama.
All graphics applications have unique functions and can make your photos original and vibrant, and your images and drawings rainbow-colored and extraordinary. Install a graphic editor for your Android and create new masterpieces!
Modern smartphones are necessarily equipped with a camera. This means that many users want to be able to edit photos. This can be done using the corresponding application – a photo editor. We'll tell you which photo editor for Android is better in today's review.
Photo editors have been around for decades. Initially, they were used by computer owners - in particular, everyone knows Adobe Photoshop, which has existed for many years. On mobile phones, similar applications began to appear after these devices began to receive a built-in camera. For example, the photo editor included firmware cell phones Siemens. And this was the first half of the 2000s!
Of course, since then such programs have become more convenient, more functional, and more powerful - from now on they can process even 24-megapixel images. So, let's find out which photo editors are the best. In this case, we will only consider applications designed for the Android operating system.
Unusual photo editor for Android – Handy Photo
A very unusual application. The fact is that it has a non-standard interface. Many of the tools here are on a virtual wheel that you spin. It's scary at first. But quickly enough you get used to this way of choosing tools. Moreover, you understand that it would be nice to implement it in some other programs.
What can Handy Photo do and why is this photo editor for Android better than others? The application can do almost everything. The program can even open a RAW file with a 36-megapixel resolution! That is, you can process photographs taken from a professional SLR camera on your smartphone. You can do a variety of things with images.
Wider functionality - only computer programs. Here you can perform competent retouching, adjust the brightness and other parameters of the image, apply numerous filters with frames, cut out objects and many other actions. Listing all the functions would take too much time. There is a version in Russian.
Unfortunately, this photo editor also has some disadvantages.
- Firstly, they ask for about 200 rubles to download it. However, the amount is not the largest - if you really do photo processing on an ongoing basis, you will definitely be able to afford such a purchase.
- Secondly, the application for some reason removes geolocation data from EXIF tags.
But this is unlikely to scare users - many people do not use geotags at all, often even turning off the corresponding item in the “Camera” settings.
A simple photo editor for Android Adobe Photoshop Express
If the program discussed above has very broad functionality, which will take some time to master, the same cannot be said about Adobe Photoshop Express. This application is created for those who want to process an image as quickly as possible. It uses the most simplified interface that supports the Russian language. The program can quickly eliminate red eye.
Automatic adjustment of brightness, contrast and white balance is also available. The application also includes color filters with frames. But their range when using the Adobe product for free is strictly limited. Want more and better? Then you will have to spend money, albeit small.
Photoshop Express still finds a response in the hearts of some users, despite its minimal functionality. This is explained by the ease of development. The application is also a favorite, where more sophisticated photo editors are slow.
Aviary is the best one-handed photo editing app
photo editor for Android Aviary A very decent application that allows you to edit images literally on the go. The interface is designed in such a way that you do not need a second hand to work with photos. However, this product is in no way professional. It can’t open RAW files, and you shouldn’t count on serious processing either.
The program is primarily designed to decorate photos before posting them on a social network. It’s impossible to make a masterpiece out of a picture, since professional tools here include only red-eye removal, teeth whitening, cropping (options with specific aspect ratios are available) and some other functions.
Mostly people who have downloaded Aviry use it to apply various stickers. It is also loved for the presence of a large number of color filters. In short, they use the editor to get the photo that will get the most likes on Instagram. There is no talk of any processing of pictures taken from the DSLR to the duty officer.
The application is distributed free of charge. However, you will have to pay for additional stickers and some other content.
Toolwiz Photos – free and advanced photo editor for Android
A very advanced product that can be downloaded for free and has no advertising inside. In total, the program includes at least 120 image editing tools. Yes, exactly “at least” - with each update this number grows. The user has access to cropping, rotating, mirroring a photo, working with color, eliminating digital noise, sharpening and other similar actions. In short, in terms of functionality, Toolwiz Photos is not very far behind computer photo editors.
Of course, the application also has entertainment options. That is, the program will allow you to turn a photo into a drawing in a couple of taps. This should definitely please the user’s followers on Instagram and any other social networks. There are also numerous filters in the application. Their list is very large - in this parameter Toolwiz Photos is ahead of almost all competitors. There are also frames with stickers.
In short, this is a very good photo editor that supports the Russian language. It seems to us that it should be present on every device operating under Android control. He has no flaws. The only complaint I can make is the lack of the ability to open a RAW image. And the developers will someday eliminate this defect.
Photoshop Touch - Filters, Layers and Cloud
Another good photo editor for Android from Adobe. First of all, those who use computers should be concerned about downloading it. versions of Photoshop on a license basis. The fact is that the main feature mobile program is the ability to synchronize with Adobe Creative Cloud. This allows you to store all your work in one place, regardless of the device on which it was completed.
In terms of functionality, the product differs significantly from the Express version. There are filters, layers, selections, and many other tools familiar from the computer version of Photoshop. To create collages, you can use pictures found on the Internet - the program for these purposes has a built-in Google function Image Search.
In a word, this is a worthy application that can be called professional. After all, not every mobile photo editor supports layers! The only thing that can confuse smartphone owners is the absence of the program on Google Play. Yes, for some reason Adobe decided to abandon support and development of the program. You will have to download it from third-party sources. But you can use it for free - when distributed through Google Play, they asked for about 300 rubles for it. The program language is Russian, which is also important.
Snapseed – photo editor for Android, rated by Google
For some time now this program belongs to Google. Therefore, do not be surprised that it is distributed completely free of charge, and there are no advertisements inside it. The application contains rich functionality that is more familiar from computer photo editors. Here you can fully adjust colors, brightness, sharpness and many other parameters. And you don’t have to do all this manually - you can use automatic mode.
An unusual feature of the program is the “Brush”. With this tool you can try to select a separate object, and then apply certain effects to it. For example, among all the flowers in a vase, you can select one, immediately painting it a completely different color. The application also allows you to apply the HDR effect. In a word, Snapseed helps to improve not the most successful pictures - be sure to try this program in action! There is a Russian version.
Photo Lab – interesting effects
This photo editor for Android is designed in a very unusual way. It can help improve your photos by adjusting some image parameters. But first of all, this photo editor still serves another purpose. With its help you can turn an ordinary image into something completely unusual.
For example, you can place a photo of your favorite girl on a ball hanging on New Year's tree. Or arrange some photograph in the form of an illustration that is present in a book lying on a wooden table. And there are hundreds of such templates in Photo Lab! There are even covers of popular magazines.
In a word, this application was created for those who want to get an original picture. And we have some great advice for you. Create a wonderful collage with your girlfriend in this program. Go to the nearest photo center and print the image in the form of a calendar for next year. Then all that remains is to present the gift correctly!
main feature Photo Lab is that all actions here are performed intuitively. No special knowledge is required to use the templates. But money will be needed. Only a small part of the templates are distributed free of charge.
This photo editor for Android was created by Autodesk. Surely her name is familiar to many game creators and computer graphics. The main feature of the application is that it is very high speed image processing. All sorts of effects are applied in a split second. Collages are created very quickly. All sorts of tools work instantly.
The program strives not to lag too far behind its computer counterparts. Therefore, excellent color correction is available here. And if you have inspiration, you can try combining two, three or even more images. And this will not be an ordinary collage, where all the pictures are simply next to each other. In a word, what will appear is, if not a masterpiece, then a very interesting picture.
Pixlr is distributed free of charge. However, you will have to fork out some money to purchase most filters.
Summarizing
Oddly enough, we haven’t described even half of the worthy photo editors for Android. The fact is that many people buy new. In this regard, they also require photo editors. And if there is demand, then there is supply. Therefore, Google Play is literally flooded with applications of this type. And that is why such programs are most often paid or shareware. It’s impossible to say for sure which photo editor for Android is better. It's all a matter of taste and your preferences.
What application do you use? Perhaps you would recommend something to our other readers? We are waiting for your feedback in the comments.
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