Enhancing photos taken with your mobile phone can mean two things:
- Improve the blurred or grainy photo, to make it more defined and of better quality.
- Improve the photo by adding filters, effects and changes to make a normal shot special and fantastic.
In both cases there are numerous programs and tools that can be used, including some smartphone applications that make the job of improving photos super easy and fun, both in the case of normal photos and those that have gone wrong.
Below, therefore, we are going to list the 10 best applications to improve photos on iPhone and on Samsung Galaxy, Huawei and any other smartphone that is not iPhone, that is, with Android operating system .
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1) PicsArt Photo Studio, free for Android and for iPhone is certainly one of the first apps to be installed on a smartphone.
It is a very powerful, simple to use editor, with many automatic tools to improve image quality and add effects such as frames, borders, stickers, text and much more.
The app also includes the camera to be able to apply the effects in real time, directly on the shot.
2) Google's Snapseed, for Android and iPhone, has been one of the best photo editing applications for years, making even the most complex effects easy to apply.
You can correct bad photos with this application, even blurry or grainy ones and then add special enhancement effects such as black and white, such as filters, such as changing the hue and brightness.
Unfortunately, it lacks a bit of appeal in the interface graphics and is a little less spectacular than others like PicsArt.
3) Pixlr by Autodesk, for Andorid and iPhone, is another of the fantastic apps in the photographic field, which provides many photo enhancement tools and many effects to add a special and unique touch to each image.
Among the main features in this application we have the tool of creating collages, color balance with automatic correction, improvement of selfies and removal of skin imperfections and red eyes, frames and edges.
4) Photo Lab, free for Android and iPhone, is an app with more than one million installations that allows you to create easy photo montages.
Among the special functions of Photo Lab we have those to create photomontages by putting yourself inside a virtual postcard or other fun scenarios, the possibility of creating frames and collages, filters to add and then also the possibility of adding mustaches, hair to the face to stand alongside a celebrity and to enter a photo by exchanging someone's face with ours (faceinhole).
This is one of the best photo montage apps for iPhone and Android.
5) Adobe Photoshop Express, freely downloadable on Android and iPhone smartphones, is by the same Photoshop developers even if it has nothing to do with the famous photo editing program.
The Photoshop Express app, in fact, is very simple to use, requires no specific skills and can be used to quickly apply filters, effects and enhancement and beautification changes.
Among the best features of this application we have tools for cropping, straightening and rotating photos, red-eye removal, automatic correction of the contrast of a blurred photo, correction of skin, dirt and dust defects, filters, frames, RAW format support .
5.1) In addition to Photoshop Express, Adobe has also released Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for free for Android and iPhone which is certainly one of the best to improve photos rather than to apply changes, due to the presence of tools aimed at correcting image quality.
5.2) Photoshop Fix for Android and iPhone is another Adobe app specifically designed to correct photo imperfections, lighten them, make them more defined, correct edges, thin faces and much more.
This is also one of the applications capable of removing people from photos and to change or remove the background in photos.
6) VSCO Cam is a very powerful app for Android and iPhone, which allows you to apply filters and effects when shooting.
This is definitely one of the best camera apps for Android for taking photos with your mobile phone.
7) Facetune, for Android and iPhone, is one of the best applications to modify the selfies taken and create portraits as you prefer, correcting skin defects, removing spots and dark circles, brightening the eyes, whitening the teeth, applying makeup effects and also reshaping the face to make it thinner or to improve the smile, raise cheekbones and eyebrows and much more.
This is one of the apps awarded as best of 2018 by Google.
8) PhotoDirector is a very popular Cyberlink app that can be downloaded for free on Android and iPhone mobiles.
With this application you can improve the hue of the colors, adjust the saturation and the white balance and apply photographic filters of various types, using simple sliders with real-time preview.
The app also has a camera for seeing live effects before shooting.
9) YouCam Perfect, is a free application for Android and iPhone specialized in the correction of selfie photos, to make yourself more beautiful.
This is one of the best apps to correct face and skin imperfections and photo defects (Android and iPhone).
10) Fotor, for Android and iPhone, is a less popular but very powerful app, similar to Snapseed.
This photo editor has the main features of the automatic focus enhancement, for grainy and blurry photos.
There are also many special effects, basic editing tools such as rearrangement and rotation, the possibility of adding borders, frames and writings, the possibility of creating collages and much more.
11) AirBrush by the Japanese of Meitu is a photo editing app for Android and iPhone specialized to improve photos and people in photos.
You can therefore whiten your teeth, make your eyes brighter, make your skin smooth and perfect, blur the background to give depth, add beauty filters.
Finally, I also remember two other rather well-known apps such as:
- Prism to turn photos into paintings
- Polar Express to improve the quality of the photos
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- Improve the blurred or grainy photo, to make it more defined and of better quality.
- Improve the photo by adding filters, effects and changes to make a normal shot special and fantastic.
In both cases there are numerous programs and tools that can be used, including some smartphone applications that make the job of improving photos super easy and fun, both in the case of normal photos and those that have gone wrong.
Below, therefore, we are going to list the 10 best applications to improve photos on iPhone and on Samsung Galaxy, Huawei and any other smartphone that is not iPhone, that is, with Android operating system .
READ ALSO: Turn your smartphone into a professional camera
1) PicsArt Photo Studio, free for Android and for iPhone is certainly one of the first apps to be installed on a smartphone.
It is a very powerful, simple to use editor, with many automatic tools to improve image quality and add effects such as frames, borders, stickers, text and much more.
The app also includes the camera to be able to apply the effects in real time, directly on the shot.
2) Google's Snapseed, for Android and iPhone, has been one of the best photo editing applications for years, making even the most complex effects easy to apply.
You can correct bad photos with this application, even blurry or grainy ones and then add special enhancement effects such as black and white, such as filters, such as changing the hue and brightness.
Unfortunately, it lacks a bit of appeal in the interface graphics and is a little less spectacular than others like PicsArt.
3) Pixlr by Autodesk, for Andorid and iPhone, is another of the fantastic apps in the photographic field, which provides many photo enhancement tools and many effects to add a special and unique touch to each image.
Among the main features in this application we have the tool of creating collages, color balance with automatic correction, improvement of selfies and removal of skin imperfections and red eyes, frames and edges.
4) Photo Lab, free for Android and iPhone, is an app with more than one million installations that allows you to create easy photo montages.
Among the special functions of Photo Lab we have those to create photomontages by putting yourself inside a virtual postcard or other fun scenarios, the possibility of creating frames and collages, filters to add and then also the possibility of adding mustaches, hair to the face to stand alongside a celebrity and to enter a photo by exchanging someone's face with ours (faceinhole).
This is one of the best photo montage apps for iPhone and Android.
5) Adobe Photoshop Express, freely downloadable on Android and iPhone smartphones, is by the same Photoshop developers even if it has nothing to do with the famous photo editing program.
The Photoshop Express app, in fact, is very simple to use, requires no specific skills and can be used to quickly apply filters, effects and enhancement and beautification changes.
Among the best features of this application we have tools for cropping, straightening and rotating photos, red-eye removal, automatic correction of the contrast of a blurred photo, correction of skin, dirt and dust defects, filters, frames, RAW format support .
5.1) In addition to Photoshop Express, Adobe has also released Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for free for Android and iPhone which is certainly one of the best to improve photos rather than to apply changes, due to the presence of tools aimed at correcting image quality.
5.2) Photoshop Fix for Android and iPhone is another Adobe app specifically designed to correct photo imperfections, lighten them, make them more defined, correct edges, thin faces and much more.
This is also one of the applications capable of removing people from photos and to change or remove the background in photos.
6) VSCO Cam is a very powerful app for Android and iPhone, which allows you to apply filters and effects when shooting.
This is definitely one of the best camera apps for Android for taking photos with your mobile phone.
7) Facetune, for Android and iPhone, is one of the best applications to modify the selfies taken and create portraits as you prefer, correcting skin defects, removing spots and dark circles, brightening the eyes, whitening the teeth, applying makeup effects and also reshaping the face to make it thinner or to improve the smile, raise cheekbones and eyebrows and much more.
This is one of the apps awarded as best of 2018 by Google.
8) PhotoDirector is a very popular Cyberlink app that can be downloaded for free on Android and iPhone mobiles.
With this application you can improve the hue of the colors, adjust the saturation and the white balance and apply photographic filters of various types, using simple sliders with real-time preview.
The app also has a camera for seeing live effects before shooting.
9) YouCam Perfect, is a free application for Android and iPhone specialized in the correction of selfie photos, to make yourself more beautiful.
This is one of the best apps to correct face and skin imperfections and photo defects (Android and iPhone).
10) Fotor, for Android and iPhone, is a less popular but very powerful app, similar to Snapseed.
This photo editor has the main features of the automatic focus enhancement, for grainy and blurry photos.
There are also many special effects, basic editing tools such as rearrangement and rotation, the possibility of adding borders, frames and writings, the possibility of creating collages and much more.
11) AirBrush by the Japanese of Meitu is a photo editing app for Android and iPhone specialized to improve photos and people in photos.
You can therefore whiten your teeth, make your eyes brighter, make your skin smooth and perfect, blur the background to give depth, add beauty filters.
Finally, I also remember two other rather well-known apps such as:
- Prism to turn photos into paintings
- Polar Express to improve the quality of the photos
READ ALSO: Programs to improve photos on PC
