Add Stunning Art Filters to Your Photos with PORTRA

I've tried this app with some of my own photos and the effect is truly stunning. So many filter choices and each one looks amazing.

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Friday App of the Day - LightX Photo Editor

One of modern life's joys is messing around with your phone's photos, amirite? Here's a free app that'll do very cool stuff like remove backgrounds, create collages, change hair color and a whote lot more!

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Do Very Cool Stuff with your Photos with Filterloop

Once you've snapped that photo, don't think that's the end of it, no sir. That thing needs to be massaged to perfect coolness via your powerful, almost omnipotent smartphone apps.

This is one that gives over to us humans such power. Please use it wisely!

From the developer:

Filterloop is a premium all-inclusive photo editor that you will fall in love with!

In the latest version of the app we’ve expanded the adjustment kit, added loads of new free and paid packs (now available through Filterloop Store), and updated the interface.

MAKE ADJUSTMENTS
Precisely adjust saturation, contrast, hue, exposure, brightness, and more. You’ll get an ultimate toolkit to make your images flawless before moving on to filters.

EMBRACE NEW TRENDS IN PHOTOGRAPHY
Have you heard about glitch art? Even celebrities apply distortion effects to their pictures. These effects will sure add a fresh angle to your Instagram gallery. Tip: TV Glitches textures work miracles with portraits!

ENHANCE PICTURES
When Instagram filters are not enough, Filterloop filter packs come to the rescue with amazing color filters that give your photos that beautiful finishing touch. Our filters are so subtle and focus on enhancing the image rather than altering it.

DEVELOP YOUR OWN PHOTO EDITING STYLE
You are free to apply filters with varying opacity levels, and layer effects and filters in any combination and volume. This means millions of different effect combinations for your images. Create your own unique photo editing formula that will be hard to copy!


SHARE YOUR PHOTOS
You’ll find it super-easy to share pictures to Instagram or Facebook. Look up #filterloopapp and @filterloopapp on Instagram for inspiration and filter combo ideas! Make sure to tag your pictures with #filterloopapp to showcase your photo editing talent and impress other Filterloop users!

Get Filterloop for free now to create impressive pro-level photo edits

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Best Android App for Photo Editing & Graphic Design - Canva

Post a lot on social networks? Then this app is for you. Canva is the best Android app I've found for creating and sharing the most coolest postcards. It allows you to create them using your own photos, or just the amazing graphics and text you've ever seen, right from the app.

You can edit just about anything in their huge selection of cards for any occasion, and there are no ads or attempts to get into your pocket. Awesome!

Get it on Google Play here!

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Bestie by Camera360

Bestie by Camera360

Bestie – Best Selfie Every Time!

Developed by Camera360 team, Bestie is not just a selfie app with fun and easy to use functions. It is also your best friend who loves all your perfect imperfections, all your moods and personality, even your questionable obsession.

Bestie provides you with the most impressive selfie experience. Just tap with your fingers to start the journey of beauty and enjoy best selfie every time!

======FEATURE HIGHLIGHTS========

-Real Time Preview
Slide up and down to adjust skin smoothing in real time. Capture a perfect selfie just as what you see!

-Awesome Selfie Filters
26 specially designed filters, 26 different moods and personalities:
Alice: warm, energetic
Bella: graceful, beautiful
Chloe: smart, intelligent
……

-Excellent Face Retouching
Leading technology powered by Camera360 enables you to perfectly retouch more details of your face: optimize skin tone, slim face, enlarge eyes, remove acne, highlight bridges and more…

-Blur & Vignette
Turn on vignette or blur to highlight the focus of the image. Make your selfie look more glamorous!

-Random Filter
Can’t decide which filter to use? Be spontaneous and just tap the random button to explore more possibilities.

-Perfect Night Selfie
Auto night mode noise reduction and get a stunning selfie even in low-light environment!

-Switch Camera Mode
Shake your device to switch between front and back camera, find out more creative choices for selfies!

-Instant Selfies Sharing
Share your gorgeous selfies with your friends easily on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and more!

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Spinly

Spinly

Description

Spinly photo editor app provides you high quality filter effects for your Android photography. Spinly offers simple, powerful photo editing tools to help you to create most beautiful photos. It's the perfect photo editing app for quick, but powerful editing.

Apps simple design, paired with powerful tools, will give you beautiful pictures in seconds. Spinly comes with big collection of high quality photo filters. Don't be limited by one filter. Spinly offers option to use infinite number of filter on the same picture. Combine filters in most creative way to make your own unique photo style.

FEATURES:

✔ Collection of photo filters for any kind of photos. Filter strength is adjustable to perfectly match your needs and desires,
✔ Simple yet powerful editing tools: rotation, vertical and horizontal flipping, contrast, brightness, exposure, saturation, vignette and many more,
✔ Intuitive navigation,
✔ Save images in high resolution to your gallery,
✔ Share images on Instagram Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and to other social platforms,
✔ Beautiful light leaks and color gradient overlays,
✔ Crop your photos with quick and easy cropping tool with different presets,
✔ No shady permissions.

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Easily size your photos for Instagram with InstaSize! (Android and iOS)

Developer Quote: "InstaSize has been revamped to create a better Instagram experience for you. InstaSize is still the easiest and fastest way to post entire photos on Instagram without cropping. We now just do more!"

This is a great companion app for your Instagram needs.

Features:

• POST ENTIRE PHOTOS ON INSTAGRAM

Easily import photos from your albums or take a photo directly on Instasize. Click the InstaSize button and BAM! your photo is ready to share on Instagram.
• HIGH RESOLUTION

We export all your photos in high resolution at 1500 x 1500 pixels.


• SHARE TO INSTAGRAM

Sharing has been simplified. After you are done creating your masterpiece, just click the Instasize button on menu and export to add Instagram filters.


• SOCIAL NETWORKING

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Beauty Box Photo (iPhone/iPad) - Digital Makeup App

Developer Quote: "There's never been an easier way to make yourself look beautiful! You've seen Beauty Box Photo™ used on singers and movie stars on NBC, HSN, E! Entertainment, Universal Music...It's used by professionals every day. Now the same Digital Makeup™ technology is available in this great, free app for your photos!"

Presenting yourself to the world means putting your best foot, and face, forward, whether you're in person or digital. This app allows you to apply "digital makeup" so you look just like the people on TV. You didn't think they really look like that, did you?

Features:

- Fixes skin problems caused by camera flashes and other harsh lighting
- Smoothes out wrinkles and blemishes
- Digital Makeup technology is subtle and natural looking
- Lightens or warms up skin tones
- Reduces shiny skin caused by camera flashes
- 37 Creative styles and looks (17 in the free version)

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Snapseed (Android)

Developer Quote: "Now the Best Mobile Photo App of 2012 (TIPA) and iPad App of the Year 2011 is available on the Android Platform!"

Check it out! This amazingly powerful and versatile app has been beloved on the iPad, but now you can get it FREE on your Android device. With tons of enhancements, editing tools, sharing options and more, it will be the only photo app you'll ever need.

Just Some of its Many Features:

• Auto Correct - Automatically analyzes your photo and adjusts color and exposure to perfection. • Selective Adjust - Make precise selections and enhancements to specific areas of your photos in seconds with Nik Software’s revolutionary U Point technology. • Tune Image - Use Ambience to create depth and vibrancy that uniquely adapts to colors and textures. Adjust White Balance, Saturation, Contrast, more. • Straighten & Rotate - Rotate 90° and/or straighten photos with simple gesture controls. • Crop - Easily crop images to remove distracting parts of your photo with standard aspect ratios, or a free crop.

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Blux Camera (iPhone) - Intelligent Photographic Assistant

Developer Quote: "A revolution in camera app design, Blux Camera with P.E.A.R. technology is truly the world’s first intelligent camera!"

It's one thing to apply filters and various effects to photos after you've taken them. It's quite another to be able to apply them as you're taking them. And still another to have an intelligent piece of software help you apply them effectively to produce stunning photos. That's what this app does in spades, for very little coin!

Features:

★ P.E.A.R. Technology
Developed by Blux Touch specifically for Blux Camera, this innovative technology stands for Photographic Environment Analysis and Recommendation.

★ Photographic Assistant
P.E.A.R technology includes a photographic assistant to analyze your environment and advise you every step of the way towards absolutely stunning photos.

★ Blux Mode
Randomly combines filters and modes for some really unique effects. Easiest way to capture visually stunning photographs. Just tap your way to amazing.

★ Creative Control
Blux Camera gives you complete creative control over your photos with filters, modes, real-time photo adjustments and more...

★ Imaginative UI
Super sleek 4-direction swipe interface with smooth touch controls and completely customizable user experience.

★ Retina Preview
Blux Camera takes full advantage of your iPhone’s HD retina display by giving you the power to see your photos in all their brilliance as you create and alter them in real-time.

★ Macro Shot
A fantastic macro shooting mode with magnified precision point focusing

★ International Filters
14 extraordinary filters named after world cities, custom made by photographers inspired by their travels around globe.

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PicsArt Photo Studio (Android)

Developer Quote: "Packed with more features than in many paid apps, PicsArt has rocketed to become the #1 photo app on Android by combining the best of what Photoshop and Instagram have to offer, all wrapped in a amazingly intuitive and easy-to-use user interface."

'Ain't no lie, friends, this is a photo editor and community all in one, and great at both. Take a look at the feature list:

* Camera - enables you to take a picture and apply various effects by enhancing your standard camera.

* Picture Editor - Tons of photo manipulations, masks, collages, frames, borders, stickers, text effects, clipart graphics, callouts, crop, rotate, color adjust and more!

* Magic Effects - awesome artistic photo effects such as a stenciler, cartoonizer, sketcher, Orton, Lomo, vintage, cross process, HDR, fattal, pencil, Holgaart, watercolor, contours, comic, neon, gouache, old paper, pastel, red eye remover, Popart 2, smart blur, face fix, color splash, paper
and more!

* Draw - Many drawing effects including: draw, sticker mode, callouts, artistic brushes and text styles! Draw on your Facebook friend's photos and share your artwork with the World!

* Sharing - quickly share with family and friends in PicsArt social network or by adding photos to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, Dropbox, Fouresquare, Tumblr, Blogger, Wordpress and DeviantArt or send photos by SMS and email.

* Live Wallpaper - enjoy amazingly funny color lines.

PicsArt is FREE on Google play!

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AnyShape - Photo Editor (iOS)

iOS 6 fever is in the air, but the great apps keep on coming. AnyShape makes a powerful bezier-style clipping and selection tool accessible to everyone, meaning you can use it to cut any shape out of your photos and use them to do amazing things. Here's the developer's description:

"AnyShape - Photo Editor completely revolutionizes selective editing on the go. The highly effective Bezier selection tool, previously only found in costly desktop programs like Photoshop, has been fully optimized for your mobile device. This is truly unique and far superior to what's currently available on the App Store i.e. your typical finger-smudging masking tool. Now you can create just about any shape imaginable in seconds and use it for irregular shape cropping, selective filtering, and selective colorizing. But that's not all, AnyShape is a highly capable editor that can process images up to 10MP/25MB and comes equipped with 20 awesome filters and 15 professional enhancement tools. AnyShape is a fully fledged photo editor that does it all and does it all very well! From enhancing to cropping to filtering to colorizing; consider all your editing needs met!"

AnyShape is currently FREE at the iTunes app store!

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PowerCam (iOS) - Power photography at your fingertips!

How will you use this power? Hopefully for good and not evil. Check out some awesome features:

•Improved image capture quality

•Photo Collage allows easy, customizable options to merge several images into a single image

•Feel the power of TRULY instant live filters. Magic mode (now, with face-tracking) lets you apply an array of filters and effects in full-on color for BOTH photos and video—no “simulated” previews here--a PowerCam Exclusive!

•Choose from more than 50 awesome effects and filters. Also on board: tilt-shift, to miniaturize objects and landscapes; splash of color to de-colorize objects around your focal point to make it pop, and tons of dynamic and static effects for any occasion.

•Share your latest creations instantly! PowerCam’s has built-in single or batch uploading for images and videos to Flickr, Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Tumblr, E-mail and other photo and video sharing sites. Now share videos over 15MB in size!

•Select from scene modes; which automatically adjust exposure, lighting, and balance to match the shooting environment; letting you focus on getting the shot.

* Fool-proof self-portrait captures with exclusive FaceTimer – uses the FaceTime camera with face-tracking to snap the portrait with a count-down to the shot after the iPhone is steady.

•Get fantastic zoom performance – zoom in or out without sacrificing image quality. Works great with either the rear-camera or the FaceTime camera (if equipped).

* Language support: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese (simplified & traditional), Korean, Japanese, Greek, Hungarian and Polish.

PowerCam is FREE in the iTunes App Store!


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LINE Camera (Android) - For those who don't get Instagram

I confess. Like many people who are scratching their heads at the news that Facebook just paid a billion dollars for Instagram (count Jon Stewart among them), I don't get it either. I tried it. I even tried to like it. That rocket failed to launch.

For us (I like to think of us as the little boys who can clearly see that the emperor has no clothes), there is an app that has many many cool things you can do to your photos that actually make them look better. Check out the feature list:

♥Many different frames and stamps are available
Decorate to your heart’s content with over 100 different frames and 600 fabulous stamps including popular ones from the LINE app.

♥Cute and fashionable filters
Create and fine-tune your ideal photos with our special filters.

♥Brushes and texts that can be used as stamps
Design and use your own unique stamps with illustrations and messages.

♥Share your photos with ease
You can use LINE, Facebook and other SNS services to share your photos.

・Timer Function
・Over 600 Stamps
・Over 100 Frames
・14 Unique Filters
・156 Brushes
・Create stamps with brushes & texts

Share Photos with:

・LINE
・Facebook
・Twitter
・mixi
・weibo
・Cyworld
・me2day

LINE Camera is FREE on the Android Market!
 
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Perfect365 (Windows) - Get a virtual makeover!

Does that photo of you need a little something to make it all that it can be? Use this online tool to make those subtle changes that make all the difference! Just look at what it did for me!

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Skitch (Android) - Markup and annotate your photos!

Sorry for the two-in-a-row Android posts, folks, I try to alternate with Windows, but this has to be put out there. Evernote just acquired/absorbed/assimilated Skitch and promptly put out an Android app. Here's what it does:

Calling Skitch for Android addictively fun is an understatement. It’s the perfect way to quickly draw attention to anything in a picture; take a snapshot of something awesome, draw an arrow and add a caption, then post the image on Twitter or Facebook. When you’re at a conference, snap a picture of the people you meet, annotate it with their names and save it into Evernote. Quickly sketch out a map, diagram or unicorn! Get it now, it’s free!

Skitch is FREE on the Android Market!

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Image Analyzer - Ultra-powerful graphics freeware

You won't need to spend hundreds on the big name applications in order to analyze and enhance your photos and graphics. Check out the plethora of features:

# Automatic brightness, contrast, gamma and saturation adjustment
# Build-in conventional and adaptive filters for noise reduction, edge extraction etc.
# Retouch tools
# Retinex filter for reducing shadows and increasing local contrast
# Deconvolution for out-of-focus and motion blur compensation (see below)
# Easy red-eye removal
# User specified filters in spatial and frequency domain
# Resize, rotate, crop and warping of images
# Scanner, camera and printer support
# File format support:
Read/write BMP, ICO, CUR, WMF, EMF, PNG, MNG, GIF, PCX, JPEG and JPEG 2000 images
Read CR2, RAS, PNM, PGM, PPM, HIPS and Matlab files
# Morphological operations
# Color model conversion: RGB, CMY, HSI, Lab, YCbCr, YIQ and PCA
# Distance, Fourier and discrete cosine transformation
# Math expression module for creating and transforming images and advanced "pocket" calculator with equation solver
# Plugin system for adding more specialized features. See below for available plugins

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Image Inc. - Amazingly powerful, free image blender

Are any of my readers old enough, with sufficient powers of recall, to remember when a photo was accepted at face value? "It's true, we have a photo!" What an innocent age that was. Today, everyone has access to free software that can work magic with images so that you can't trust a damn thing. Here's a great example. A snippet from the developers:

"The purpose of this utility is to blend existing images in a very fast and easy way, using a layer mask for transparency. The process is simple ... load the base picture followed by a top layer image, then add a mask and the program automatically merges everything together. Ideal for anyone who doesn't want to use a major graphics application for this task."

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ImageEnhancer - Improve the quality of your photos

Some photos are notoriously poor in quality. Photos taken by your phone's camera, for instance, or your web cam. Or taken by you using any camera, really. Here's a simple way to make them better without being an expert. From the developer:

"Support BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF, ICO
• Saving in BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIFF
• SlideShow
• Histogram
• Color Correction (contrast, brightness, gamma, color expansion)
• Crop (auto trimming)
• Sharpen (Unsharp Mask ..)
• Noise reduction (several ways)
• Exif information (this is about expanding information about the origin of photography)
• Multithreads
• Use PFD Layers
• And much more"

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Watermark Images - Free image watermarking tool

Today I spilled some Taco Bell Fire sauce on some work papers. Had to try to clean it with water. Left water marks. Not what we're talking about here. Let's say you're a blogger and take the time to put a nice screenshot of an app on your post. You don't want somebody just coming along and taking your carefully contrived screenshot and using it for their own purposes. No way. So you do the equivalent of spitting on your food. Let's see them take it now!

(I got this image from the developer's website.)

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