Best Photo Editing Apps for Instagram, Meta, and Twitter
When Photoshop requires a monthly fee, what are some more accessible apps to edit your social media photos? Here, we've listed some of our favorite photo editing apps on iOS and Android to make your social media photos eye-catching and dynamic.
The importance of editing photos
For every major company, there is never an image NOT cut, colored, spliced, or blurred before it reaches the eyes of the Viewer. Photo editing can be just the slightest tweaking of brightness, saturation, or contrast in a photo. Regardless, it is a very important task to add cohesion and professionalism to your posts.
1. Afterlight
Afterlight is a powerful app to enhance your photos. It is currently free on the App Store and Google Play. The app includes high quality filter controls, light leaks, textures, and image adjustment sliders. Created by the Afterlight Collective, Inc., it's available with for free download, with a membership package for detailed users starting at $2.99 a month.
2. PS Express
PS Express is the mobile, limited version of Photoshop from Adobe. It's available for free on the App Store and Google Play by developer Adobe Inc.
3. TypeLoop
TypeLoop is a powerful story post creation tool. With built-in templates and presets, professional looking animated text and image story posts are at the tip of your fingers. TypeLoop is available for free on the App Store by developer Instasize Inc.
4. Lens Buddy
Lens Buddy is a camera app that enhances the settings on your phone's built-in camera. It increases the photo quality of your back-camera images. It's available for free on the App Store, by developer Adam Szedelyi.
5. VSCO
The app famous enough for its own self-titled era. VSCO is a popular filtering application to help users edit photos. Common filters can be found here using the app's built-in social feature. VSCO is available for free on the App Store and Google Play by developer Visual Supply Company.
6. Superimpose X
Superimpose X is a tool to cut out, layer, and collage images on top of each other. Whether you're creating a thumbnail for YouTube, a story image for Instagram, or a product photo for Snapchat, Superimpose X can help you get the job done fast and on-the-go. It's available for $4.99 on the App Store.
The first generation, Superimpose, is available on the App Store for $1.99 and Google Play for $0.99, by its developer, Pankaj Goswami.
7. Phonto
Phonto is a free app to add text to images on-the-go. You can import and use any font you have downloaded into the app.
8. Lightroom
Lightroom is the most professional on-the-go color grading app. Make your images look more dynamic, and high quality. It's available on both the App Store and Google Play for free, by its developer Adobe Inc.
9. Remove Objects
The Remove Objects app is a simple way to select and remove unwanted objects in a photo. Just select and remove each item you don't want in your photo. It's available on both the App Store for free, and on Google Play for $2.99, by the developer TAPUNIVERSE LLC.
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