BOTH New and Older Apps (that still do a great job)

Rita M Skarbek

How To Choose The Right Photo Apps

So many photo apps.

What/how many do you actually need?

How do you know which apps to choose?

Simple Answer:

definitely

definitely

maybe

Why “maybe?” for additional Camera Apps?

•New smartphone user/amateur photographer/take minimal images?

•Camera app on your new smartphone/iPad/Tablet is adequate for most folks

The“maybe…not” FOR IPHONE USERS with 7+ or newer phones:

• Easy to capture high-quality photos and videos

• Easy to blur the background with Portrait mode (7+ or newer model)

• Easy to create moving images with Live Photos

• Shoot incredible action photos with burst mode

• Shoot HDR photos with perfect exposure

• Great pano mode, slow-mo and time exposure modes

Android: so many different phone options

• Google Pixel 3—great zoom, night mode, numerous manual controls

• Huawei P20 Pro—3 lenses, great low light mode due to 40MP RGB sensor with a 20MP black and white to process pics with much less noise

• Huawei Mate 20 Pro—Leica lens, 3 lenses including macro, portrait, wide angle

• Samsung Galaxy S9 Plus--uses two 12MP sensors paired together,one with aperture of f/1.5 so great for low light

• Others: OnePlus 6T, Moto G6 Plus (best cheap phone), Sony Xperia XZ2 Premium (for video especially)

BEST CAMERA APPS

FOR YOUR iPhone or Android

BEST CAMERA APPS

• iPhone:

• VSCO-Manual control of focus, shutter speed, ISO, and white balance

• Camera+2-best for Long exposures and controlling background blur in portraits

• ProCamera-DSLR-like controls

• Also: Camera360, Obscura, Camera+

• Android:

• Camera FV-5--full control over ISO, light-metering focus, white balance, shutter speed, etc. (3.95 for premium version)

• Camera MX-- live shots, GIF, Gallery, and the ‘Shoot The Past’ feature option where you can select the perfect moment for the photo even after taking the picture

• Also: Open Camera, Candy Camera, Cymera, Camera Zoom FX, Z Camera, Camera 360

Most Popular PHOTO SHARING APPS/SITES

Social Media and Websites

Most Popular PHOTO SHARING APPS/SITES 2019

• Instagram

• Facebook

• Pinterest

• Twitter

• Snapchat

• Tumblr

• 500px.com

• Shutterfly

• 1x.com

• Medium.com

• Photoblog.com

• Behance. Com

• Photobucket

• Imgur (pronounced “image-er/im-ij-er.” “ur” your image)

• Photoshop.com

• Smugmug

• Google Photos

• Snapfish

Instagram-- Photo sharing app with editing tools and filters

• Largest photo sharing platform with over 800 million users

• Share your photos and build an Instagram following

• Discover images from photographers all over the world

• Direct messaging facility for private conversations or just make your account private

:

• Edit your photos right before sharing them

• Selection of color and black & white filters

• Editing tools for exposure, color, sharpness and more

Some new apps …you definitely should check out:

Focos-for the iPhone 7+ and higher

• Brings DSLR-like photography to your dual-camera iPhone and iPad Pro (thanks to new file type)

• Simulates Bokeh effects (out of focus points of light) usually achievable only with professional large aperture cameras

• Using the technology of computational photography, you can make unlimited changes to your photos: • Change Focus after the fact• Change the aperture repeatedly • Add multiple lights in 3D space

Focos-for the iPhone 7+ and higher

• Take photos with shallow depth of field, without manually painting or making selections

• True 3D imaging

• Import existing portrait photos and customize the bokeh effect

• Re-focus portrait photos that have already been taken, with a simple tap

• Choose from various simulated aperture settings to generate different bokeh spot effects

▪ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APtE_K3LXoo

Snapthread (iPhone only)

• Stitch Live Photos into a 30 second video (free version)

•Convert Live Photos to videos- Merge Live Photos and/or standard videos- Export in landscape, portrait, and square formats (1080p)- Trim, mute, and rearrange clips- Add titles and music- Share your creations or save them to your photo library

Enlight Pixaloop-Creates animated images from your photos

•Any photo element: strands of hair, waves, water, clouds, or clothing can be animated

• Choose the speed of movement you want to create moving masterpieces(subtle flicker of a candle flame, cascading waterfalls, two-way escalators, etc.)

Still Photo

Video of swirling water and cloud movement

▪https://www.facebook.com/enlightphotofox/videos/introdu

cing-enlight-pixaloop/336264417110730/

▪https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0oYWuFcZCE

Touch Retouch

•Only purpose: REMOVE unwanted elements from your photos• EVERYTHING FROM blemishes, power lines dust and any distracting objects•One-touch fixes make objects vanish immediately• Innovative line removal tool• Range of tools for selecting areas you want to erase• Clone tool for duplicating or removing objects• Price: $1.99

The app works by analyzing the pixels

around your selection. It then replaces the

selected object with pixels from the

surrounding area:

The line removal tool is perfect for erasing

power lines and telephone posts. You

don’t even have to be precise. Mark a

section of the line, and the app will

remove the entire line:

SOME ALSO INCLUDE COLLAGE MAKING AND CAMERA

BEST PHOTO EDITING APPS

BEST ANDROID APPS 2019SOME HAVE BEEN AROUND FOR SEVERAL YEARS BUT DUE TO THEIR

RECENT UPDATES THEY STILL MAKE THE LIST

Adobe Photoshop Express (also available for iPhone)

• Free and NO ADVERTISEMENTS

• Built in functions to directly share photos on Facebook, Twitter, and several other social networking sites

• Over 90 filters in the latest update

• Photoshop support importing any type of image formats, including raw photo format

• Perspective correction for fixing any skewed perspective photo.

• Edit images and Makes collages • Has the Basics: Crop, straighten, rotate, and flip photos

• Remove red-eye and pet-eye

• Auto-Fix: A one-touch adjustment for contrast, exposure, and

white balance

• Raw photo support: Import and edit photos in raw formats, Tiff,

and other file formats

• Blemish removal: Remove spots, dirt, and dust with one touch

• Text tool and Frames: variety of text styles and frames

ADOBE LIGHTROOM CC

•Simple interface

•Advanced editing tools (curves and color

mix tools)

•Selective editing, healing tool and

perspective correction

•Copy your favorite edits to entire albums of

photos

•Adobe Creative Cloud syncs edits between

iPhone, iPad, computer and web

•Built-in camera app which captures RAW

format images

•Price: Free with in-app purchases

RELEASED AS “FREE” ABOUT

6 WEEKS AGO

Exposure Lock

Pre Set Filters To Take Image

Aspect Ratio

Timer

Grids

Shows Highlight Clipping

Settings

CAMERA&

EDITING

PHOTOSHOP

FIX

Photoshop Mix lets you cut out and

combine elements from different images, blend layers and apply looks on your iPhone, iPad or Android device

SnapSeed (also for iPhone)

• Support Raw files

• A wide range of tools: RAW Develop, Tune image, Details, Crop, Rotate, Perspective, White Balance, Brush, Selective, Healing, Vignette, Text, Curves, Expand, Lens Blur, Glamour Glow, black and white, Tonal Contrast, HDR Scape, Grainy Film, Vintage, Double Exposure and more (

• Ad free

Snapseed

• Purchased by Google in 2013

•Made it FREE for everyone

• Abandoned it late May 2017 (no longer supports it with updates)

• Use it while you can

PicsArt Photo Studio (also for iPhone)

• Free but -- lots of obtrusive ads that never stop

• Very easy to use -- results are excellent in improving image

• Huge library of effects, filter etc. but some features are only available for premium members ($48.00 per yr)

• Brush mode– lets you apply effects selectively on any parts of a photo

• It has some AI-powered effects but does not support some file types.

• Built in camera app with live filters and many effects.

Fotor Photo Editor (available for iPhone)

• Free to download but numerous ads that can be annoying

• Excellent, easy to use camera with various grid options, stabilization features,etc.m simple photo editing features (not great for portrait), numerous filters and collage maker

• A feature like ‘slide on screen’ for instant adjustments is available

• Cons:

• Many updates, so limited data users may face the problem.

• Do not support Raw pic editing, also has a limitation in image format support, unlike Photoshop

AirBrush: Easy Photo Editor

• UI is very user-friendly and numerous tools for editing portrait images like blemish and pimple remover, teeth whitening and brighten settings for eyes, body slimmer tool

• The user can share any image instantly to any social networking sites

• Best app for adding natural-looking makeup within the pic

• Built-in camera feature take perfect portrait by setting filters prior to shot

• The body slimmer tool, colour changing tool for eyes and retouching effects are some of the best and unique options

• The app is free to use but contains ads in the free version

• Some really good premium features are available only for the paid users

Pixlr – Free Photo Editor (iPhone/iPad and Web Based)

• Auto-fix feature automatically balances the colour in any image

• Collage feature which allows for up to 25 photos, other layouts, and backgrounds

• Contains huge number of filters

• App is free but contains in app purchases and annoying ads

• Not robust enough for a user who wants to go beyond photo cropping, image mixing, or raw colour mixing within an image or other advanced photo editing but great for beginners

Canva—great for sharing with Social Media

• Can automatically crop photos to the correct dimensions for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and others, and there are tons of templates to choose from and personalize with your own pictures and text