10 apps to make your summer photos truly amazing

It's summer, and if you aren't reading this, then it's high chance you're hitting the beach. Summer is the time to take as many photographs as you can, but don't fool yourself into thinking that all it takes to document those good times is a smartphone and your genuine photographic talent.

The addition of these apps we scouted out will let you turn your photos into mighty impressive, finished works that you'll later see and share on social networks with real joy. These are apps for photo editing, collage making, social network sharing, beautification, and lots more. Don't miss them.

10 apps to make your summer photos truly amazing

Snapseed (Android & iOS)

QuickPic (Android)

Paper Camera (Android & iOS)

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Photoshop Touch for phone (Android & iOS)

10 apps to make your summer photos truly amazing

Snapseed is one of the best apps for easily adjusting photos right on your mobile screen. It lets you use in-built automatic correction mechanisms, make subtle tweaks with Tune Image, use its Selective Adjust function to edit specific sections or objects in your photo, and more. In addition, Snapseed has the obligatory photo filters, such as Drama, Vintage, Grunge, and the like. You can also add borders to the images and they'll be ready to be presented in your personal NYC gallery. If you have one, that is.

Snapseed has a clean, professional interface and a wealth of features. It's one of the most popular photography apps on Android and iOS for a reason.

Download: Android | iOS

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10 apps to make your summer photos truly amazing

1. Snapseed (Android & iOS)

2. QuickPic (Android)

All those warm and sunny photos you took have to be put in an album, too. QuickPic takes care of that. It's one one of the most popular gallery apps on Android, which has a lot to do with how much functionality it offers for free. It starts with cloud support for Picasa, Google Drive, Dropbox, and more. It works quick, being able to display thousands of photos without delays. There are an in-built viewers and slide-show which present images as clearly as possible. It also plays GIFs and videos. The app supports gestures for sliding, pinching,k and tapping. There's an internal photo editor with basic editing features. Photos and videos can be easily hidden from other gallery apps and protected with a password.

Need more? Get another app.

Download: Android

3. Paper Camera (Android & iOS)

Is your summertime in need of some cartoony mood? You can pay a random street artist to sketch you a souvenir, or install Paper Camera. The app will do a fine job at turning your photos into cartoon/sketch/comic book/half tone/noir/neon/you get the idea works of art. The app is real-time, which means you can take photos right from it and get the filter applied as you go. Of course, you can apply the same effects to existing photos as well. And all these tricks work for videos, too. Between pastel-perfect and regular ol' pen and paper, you'll surely find a look that matches your mood.

Download: Android | iOS

4. PicsArt Photo Studio (Android & iOS)

PicsArt is another popular photo editor and a distinguished free alternative to Photoshop on Android and iOS. It brings to the table tools such as a complete photo editor with masks, text tools, clipart graphics, and frames. A collage maker lets you arrange these photos in a grid, free form, or on a background. A drawing tool lets you draw on your mobile screen, and finally, there are the DrawCam and Social Network modes, which let you draw and edit freshly taken photos, and share the result on your social channels.

Download: Android | iOS

5. Real Bokeh

Real summer photographs need real bokeh. And this app is all about Real Bokeh. It delivers enough arsenal to supply a bokeh riot army - 23 light leak effects, 30 bokeh shapes, drawing bokeh with your fingers, 28 bokeh colors, three bokeh sizes, and opacity adjustments. It also lets you share photos on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Did someone say 'bokeh'?

Download Android | iOS

6. PhotoWonder (Android & iOS)

Have a few wrinkles or aching sunburns to disguise in your summer photos? Well, leave it to the Chinese - the original purveyors of smartphone front cameras with integrated beauty software - to craft an app that takes care of the problem. Well, sort of. Obviously, Baidu's PhotoWonder won't turn you into a front cover model, but it does offer beautification staples such as whitening, removing acne, enlarging eyes, and slimming (of course) in addition to camera filters, basic editing and artistic effects, collages, and the obligatory decorations with cartoony bunnies.

Download: Android | iOS

7. Pic Collage (Android & iOS)

Unlike PicsArt, this one is completely dedicated to the presentation aspect of your summer collage. This means stickers, text, frames, and social networking - Pic Collage is not just an app, but a place to share collages as well. Start by importing photos from your photo gallery, Facebook, and the Internet. Resize, rotate, and flick photos with simple touch gestures. Crop pictures, add frames, choose background and stickers, and share your creations. You won't find a collage app much better than this.

Download: Android | iOS

8. Over (iOS)

Do you want to turn your summer photos into timeless relics of visual and literary prowess? Haha, sure you do! And Over's the app for that. It spices up your photos with text and artwork and makes them available for immediate sharing on social networks. Hand-crafted icons, geometric fonts, positioning and editing, and a marketplace for art and font packs if you feel like you need more. Over is just awesome, but alas, it's iOS only.

Download: iOS

9. Shutter (iOS)

Shutter solves the fairly modern problem of running out of space on your device just before capturing that perfect moment. It lets you store unlimited photos and videos, regardless of length, in the cloud above. It also keeps an offline archive of the most recent 200 photos, so you can view them without a data connection. In addition, the app lets you back up your images and videos securely, and beam videos to your TV through AirPlay and Chromecast.

Download: iOS

10. Photoshop Touch for phone (Android & iOS)

There he is, the grand daddy of all image editing. Photoshop Touch is for the most demanding of you that cannot fathom sharing photos without extensive editing. The touchy-feely Photoshop version offers the most sophisticated image processing, including layers, precise adjustments, filter brushes, graphical text, quick combining of images, and lots more. It also comes with a free subscription to Creative Cloud, which lets you work on your project between your computer, phone and tablet. Just don't go spending all your summer editing photos!

Download: Android | iOS

posted on 09 Jul 2014, 06:33 2

1. itsdeepak4u2000 (Posts: 3718; Member since: 03 Nov 2012)

WP doesn't need such apps for tweaking :P ;), Nokia has its own Nokia Pro Cam, Nokia Camera.

posted on 09 Jul 2014, 07:03 3

2. arturmeireles (Posts: 20; Member since: 02 Jul 2012)

SO TRUE!!!!

posted on 10 Jul 2014, 03:06 2

3. 0xFFFF (Posts: 3806; Member since: 16 Apr 2014)

How about not buying any apps for summer and just going outside and doing stuff? Skip the summer phone upgrade and you can afford a lot more summer fun.