Among the many applications that are available to edit photos, sometimes there is one that stands out more than the others for its ability to make simple operations that otherwise, using programs such as Photoshop, would be complex. The latest addition is available for all platforms (Windows, Android, iOS, as a web app and as a Chrome app), it is called Polar, and it is truly a photo editor app that is a pleasure to use both for experts photo editing is for those who want an easy-to-use editing tool.
Polarr Photo Editor 3 is a professional app optimized to be easy to use both from a PC with the mouse and from a tablet or smartphone using your finger.
You can download Polarr for free from the official website as an app for iPhone and Android, as a Chrome app (which also works offline) or you can use the web app from any browser, without downloading anything.
The purpose of the tool is to improve the quality of the photos by using the various adjustment sliders which are semi automatic and work wonderfully.
What appeals to the application is that every modification to the photo is previewed and it is therefore very easy to obtain the desired effect.
By opening the app you can immediately follow a mini tutorial that shows the position of the main buttons: on the left side there are the preset filters, on the right side the manual adjustments while at the top the keys for managing the file and the history of changes.
At the top, at the first start, a button appears that explains how to improve the quality of the photo and how to obtain a much brighter image, with more vivid colors and more defined details.
Using the tools on the right you can then remove the typical blurring of each photograph, increase the exposure of light, highlight the most lively areas, improve the contrast to avoid making the image look too artificial, darken or lighten the edges, change the saturation and hue of the photo.
With the buttons at the top right you can also crop a photo, add a radial mask and the gradient mask.
The application was designed with the obvious aim of compensating for the weaknesses of the most advanced photo-editing tools, such as Adobe Lightroom, a large and not at all easy to use program.
The Polarr application on Windows 10 (which is not free, however) has almost the same functionality as Adobe Lightroom while being faster, lighter and smaller, only 5 MB compared to the 2GB of Lightroom.
The filters on the left are preset, but you can also add new ones using the very intuitive and simple creation tool.
Polarr is an application for PCs, tablets and mobile phones that every photo editing enthusiast must try, perfect for improving the quality of each photo as a professional would do, without getting lost in complicated configurations.
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