Smartphone Photography Apps
Today’s smartphone cameras are starting to sound a lot more like point and shoot cameras—with phones like the 8 MP iPhone 6, 16 MP Galaxy S6, and the 41 MP Lumia 1020 on the market, it’s no wonder that the app ecosystem is filled with camera apps to help you quickly process and post those photos to social media. Instagram filters already have a cult following, many a teen knowing them (27 and counting) by heart. Then there’s Flickr, the household brand for photo enthusiasts, which has always allowed you to retain the full resolution of your photos. In general you can cut, crop, lighting and color corrections and add filters. The mobile offerings of professional image processing suites like Lightroom and Photoshop Touch are a good place to start for the more serious photographer. There are also no shortage of apps that let you instantly slap on a nostalgia filter, draw in color, or make quick minor edits. Oggl, EyeEm and Repix are good places to start. If you just want to make collages, Pic Stitch and Picture Collage Maker are good picks as well.
Photoediting through your Browser
Sometimes you don’t want to go through the hassle of downloading photo manipulation software just to crop and overlay an image. Maybe you’re at the office and you don’t want to bug IT to install Photoshop at your desktop computer. For situations like these its great to have free online picture editors that allow you to touch up your photos in your browser. If you have a gmail account you already have access to Google+ Photos which in addition to the basics, allows you to clone and touch up using control points. Pixlr, Polarr, Photoshop Express, and Sumo Paint are all either free or have free versions available, and all give access to crop, color contrast, saturation, white balance, and other basic image editing tools. Pick the interface you like the best.
