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Best Free Image Editor for Android
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Smartphones. When we think about them we think about applications, calenders and their high-quality cameras. It is a pain to connect these phones to a PC or Mac to edit photos, and it is far easier to use an application. Today we will look at four of the best free image editing applications for Android Smartphones. |
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This app makes full use of multi-touch gestures and is designed with ease-of-use in mind for editing your digital images on the go. You can just drag and drop a handle to crop your photo to a smaller size, touch and turn it clockwise or anti-clockwise to rotate, straighten a shot, or swipe up/down or left/right to flip an image. Best of all, you can get fine-grained controls for exposure, saturation, tint and contrast by simply sliding your finger across an image, and as you're doing so, you see your editing result on the spot. Some basic built-in effects and borders are included for quick alternations in this app although it has fewer choices than those available in other apps such as Pixlr-o-matic.
PicSay is jam-packed with effects as well as enabling you to add text and speech bubbles to pictures, making it perfect for e-cards and presentations on the go. All you need to do is tap the picture to bring up the menu giving you the options of; effects, word balloons as well as titles, stickers, export via Bluetooth, gmail, google+, MMS as well as options to share it via installed apps that support photos. One of the most amazing features of this software is the ability to "fix" photos using classic features of editing software such as tint, hue, saturation and toning. This enables you to clear up blurry or discolored photos Many features are included in the free version. This software is ideal for anyone taking casual pictures to send to friends or family while on holidays or away from home. One of the only issues I had with this software was the image quality was restricted to SD, with the only available resolution being 427x320,with High (640x480) and Maximum (1024x768) Definitions only available in the Pro version.
This software is extremely good, giving you access to features usually only featured in Pro versions, including the ability to save high definition photos. On the downside, buttons are fixed to the size of the screen instead of a default size, meaning that on smaller screens the text becomes to read. Ways to send these photos are more limited than PicSay, making it a better choice for home users than for users on the go.
PicSay: 0.48 Secs If you are looking for fun, casual photos when you have plenty of time, I would suggest Pho.To Lab. If you are looking for something a bit more personalized, I would recommend one of the above applications.
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I went on something of a quest for the perfect Android photo editor a while back, and I was disappointed, most of all, that there's not really a good, simple, straightforward, basic photo editor without it also trying to be something far less serious...
...like, for example, the very thing which PicSay suggests is its biggest feature: The cartoon bubble thing. Ugh. I just wanted a SERIOUS photo editor, not all the silliness. That's, in fact, the thing which so disappointed me about Pho.to Editor, given its dev and how serious is his similar app for Windows.
So, anyway, I confess that at first, I didn't give PicSay the chance it deserved. I looked elsewhere. And, boy, did I look, and look, and look. And I found some interesting stuff, too.
But, you know, when you net it all out, and if you really and truly give PicSay a shot at being one's only (or at least primary) photo editor...
...I'll be darned if it doesn't have almost everything anyone could need. The whole cartoon bubbles thing, in fact, is misleading because it distracts from what it's actually capable of doing. Granted, I ended-up upgrading to the paid version for the additional features, but even the freeware version is a pretty potent tool, as this article clearly illustrates!
So, surprise to me that it ended-up being, PicSay, of all things, is my go-to editor. I have other tools which have some editing capabilities, but when I need the closest thing to a true photo editor -- as all of us around here understand that term on, for example, Windows machines -- PicSay, feature for feature, comes the closest. And, again, no one was more surprised, once I realized it, than me!
Hope that helps.
Gregg DesElms
Good work. May I suggest you to add PicsArt? I have been using it for a while and I am more than happy with the results. Even though it needs an active internet connection to work at its fullest, it works fine offline (some features get limited, however).
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