When we talk about photographic applications, we immediately think of Instagram as the best and most used. Instead it is not so, Instagram is above all a social network to share photos, but in addition to some vintage effect, it does not allow you to edit or improve photos in a full way.
The most powerful and most downloaded app in the world is called SnapSeed, already an app for iOS devices (iPhone and iPad) and now also available for Android phones and tablets, in all its power, for free .
Snapseed has a variety of awesome photo editing tools with lots of photo filters, effects and frames to make your pictures more beautiful.
What makes the app the best among the many existing photo editing applications is its ease of use with your fingers.
The user interface on Android and on iPhone or iPad is immediately showing all its features, both basic and advanced.
On a photo, taken or uploaded to the device, you can choose whether to apply effects of the type:
- Automatic (color and contrast adjustment).
- Selective adjustment (to edit only part of the photo).
- Fit Image (brightness, contrast, saturation. White balance, atmosphere).
- Straighten and rotate
- Cutout
- Details
- Black and white
- Vintage
- Drama
- Grunge
- Focus
- Edges
- Tilt-Shift
The supported image formats are JPEG and TIFF.
Take, for example, automatic correction.
By moving your finger up and down, you choose whether to change brightness or contrast while moving your finger left and right increases or decreases the intensity.
If you take the tool to rotate a photo, you can orient the image using two fingers, as if you were holding it.
The vintage or grunge filter tool allows you to select some preset styles or edit them using your fingers, always with the up and down, right and left modes.
At any time you can touch the Compare button to see how the photo is changing compared to the original version.
Among the tools, all easy to use quickly, there are some that deserve special mention such as the selective adjustment, the Tilt Shift and the Drama and Black and White filters, truly remarkable.
The only thing you cannot do is zoom the image, which can be a problem for selective changes on small images, where instead a magnifying glass appears to better see a detail.
Once the modification is complete, you can save your work on the device and share the image on Google+ (this is because the company that develops this app was purchased by Google).
Photos are saved in a separate Snapseed folder on the SD card or mobile phone memory.
Snapseed is a serious candidate for the first place among the best apps for editing photos for Android and the best apps for photos and images on iPhone and iPad, using your fingers on the touchscreen of a smartphone or, better yet, a tablet.
Snapseed can be downloaded for free from Google Play (Android 4.0 or higher only) and from the iTunes Store, always free of charge, for iPhone and iPad.
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