If you aren’t satisfied with the photo editing software pre-installed on the smartphone (or tablet), you can try one of the dozens of alternatives available in stores applications like Google Play Store, App Store and Windows Marketplace.

We selected 5 excellent photo editing applications for you to chose from:

Adobe Photoshop Express

Although you can not compare it, at all, with the Photoshop version for PCs, Adobe Photoshop Express is a decent alternative to the pre-installed applications on most smartphones.

Provides basic functions that enables cropping images, their rotation, adjust contrast, brightness changes and the features from various effects. It doesn’t offer too much, but even the name “Adobe Photoshop Express” suggests that we should not expect too much, but let us stick to quickly and easily edited using the mobile device.

Instagram

Instagram has been from the start one of the largest outlet applications for the public, which is why Facebook, in April this year, has decided to acquire it in exchange to a fee colossal – about $ 1 billion dollars.

Through these figures, the Instagram acquisition by Facebook is considered one of the largest online transactions of the year, after Google – YouTube ($ 1.65 billion).

But what actually makes Instagram? You probably already know. Allows the application of special filters that give your photos an artistic touch. Perhaps for this reason it has become so well regarded.

PicsPlayPro – FX Photo Editor

PicsPlayPro address, through the tools provided, to hardcore users of photo editing applications. It is enough to say that we are provided with over 200 effects of all kinds, including HDR (High Dynamic Range).

A special feature is the Time Matrix. This makes the image look like it was done in a user-specified period (if you attempt the 1950s, the effect would be something “retro”).

Pro PicsPlay is not limited only to this child’s play but integrates advanced tools such as white balance adjustment, viewing histograms or color curves.

Pixlr-O-Matic

The developers of this application are none other than those of Autodesk software professional, recognized for graphic design (AutoCAD).

Pixlr-O-Matic falls into the category of photo editing application , the”Express” type, in other words, applying the desired effect from a single command.

Predefined effects exceeds 100, so we have many choices. What can we say regarding the 200 overlays that augment or give a discreet note to the selected image.

Super Photo

On how easy it is to use, so many effects are provided. The free version gives 188 special effects, while the “Full” version shock us with an impressive number of almost 1000 options!

The simplistic interface challenges us to choose the place where we want to upload picture from (existing gallery, on Facebook or a new photo created in that moment) and how to apply the effect (on the whole image or “split “- effect on the main subject, or another on the background).

So here are the 5 excellent photo editing applications for smartphones that we’ve selected. We hope that one of them will fit your needs.

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