The best photo processing app. Best Instagram photo editing apps

Hello friends! In this article I will tell you about the best and, in my opinion, interesting applications for editing photos for Instagram and other social media. networks. I use many of these applications myself, so I can confidently recommend them to all my friends, acquaintances and clients.

I must say right away that some of the applications listed below are paid. My goal was to create a selection of 10 really cool photo editors, and, as you know, you have to pay for quality.

So, below you will find applications that differ in their functionality, which will allow you to improve the functionality of the phone camera, edit photos professionally, add high-quality filters, add Russian (!) text, make beautiful collages and even correct the curvature of the lens to create perfect symmetries. I am sure that everyone can find exactly what they need here!

For your convenience, I have selected a video about almost each of the applications, since it is much easier to understand from the video what the program is. The video, unfortunately, is in English, but the functionality of the applications will be clear anyway.

Apps for selfie and portrait lovers

Facetune

Price: 299 r.

Facetune is powerful photo editor for photo portraits, selfies, and just photos, which should be on the phone of every Instagrammer. This application is paid, but it definitely costs three dollars!

Key features:

• smoothing the skin, removing spots and pimples, lightening dark circles under the eyes;
• teeth whitening;
• discoloration of eyes and hair;
• changes in the structure of the face;
• general photo effects, filters and more.

Note from me: do not upload photos in png format to the application, as they are displayed incorrectly. The regular format works great! If you download the application to the tablet, the pictures on the screen will be a little pixelated, but that's okay. After you have processed the photo, save it - it will look perfect!

Perfect365

Perfect365 is another cool app for retouching photos and adding virtual makeup... Even Kim Kardashan is said to be using this app.

Key features:

• removal of skin defects, bags under the eyes;
• snow-white smile;
• discoloration of eyes and hair;
• changes in the structure of the face;
• adding makeup and more.

Powerful photo editor apps

Pixelmator

Price: 379 rub. (for iOS)

Pixelmator is my favorite photo editor. It works on both iPhones and iPads, but you can buy it for Mac computers as well. Interestingly, all my friends who tried the application on the phone could not resist installing it on the computer - it is so cool! 🙂 This a kind of photoshop but with a much simpler and more straightforward interface.

The program has so many possibilities that I can't even list everything. In short, everything you need to edit a photo is here:

• filters, effects, collages, adding text to photos;
• professional-grade color correction tools;
• the ability to paint on canvas;
• layer styles;
• of course, professional tools for retouching and much, really much more!

For those interested in a Mac app. Pixelmator allows you to import PSD files and fully work with them, as well as export finished files in Photoshop format. Very convenient and for a ridiculous price 🙂

Below you can see a presentation of the application for iPhone and iPad.

Snapseed

Price: Free

Snapseed is pretty powerful, free photo editing app on a phone or tablet, created by Google itself. It has so many functions and capabilities that it is better to immediately look at them on the application page, since the list is really impressive! 🙂

In short, in the application you will find: everything you need to correct photos, crop, rotate, crop, filters, text overlay on photos and much more. If we talk about the version for Android, then this is the best photo editing application that Google Play has.

MOLDIV ™

Price: Free, but there are in-app purchases

MOLDIV is versatile photo editor, which has everything an insta photographer needs. The app is suitable for everyone, from beginners to photography gurus.

Key features:

• Photo editor: 180 filters in 12 themes;
• Add text (over 300+ fonts) to photos, 560 stickers and 92 background patterns;
• Collages: the ability to combine up to 16 photos in one frame, 310 stylish frames;
• Magazine: the ability to create magazine collages for posters and thematic albums, 135 magazine layouts;
• Pro Camera: real-time filters, burst shooting, advanced camera functions;
• Selfie editor: smooth skin, change face contours, enlarge eyes.

Artistic filter apps

Enlight

Price: 299 r.

Enlighten is the best iPhone app of 2015 according to the App Store in many countries, including Russia. In the application you will find a wide range of photo correction tools, as well as a large number of artistic filters and effects.

I will not write about the main features, since the application has really rich functionality and cannot even be described. Watch the video for some beautiful effects you can create with Enlighten.

Mextures

Price: 149 r.

Photo editor Mextures has been featured in many technology publications including Mashable, CNET, Uncrate, Cult of Mac, Fstoppers, AppAdvice and more. The application allows edit images with grainy film, textures, lighting effects and gradients, and also allows you to save your formula (filter you have composed), which will save you a lot of time and keep the same style for all photos.

Key features:

• over 130 original textures;
• photo editing: exposure, contrast, tint, white balance, fade, black and white, light / shadow, sharpness and saturation;
• management of the formulas you have created;
• endless layers, meaning you can make your photos truly unique by adding layer by layer.

Mobile apps for pros

ProCamera + HDR

Price: 379 rub.

ProCamera is powerful application for shooting and editing photos and videos, which will expand the capabilities of your phone's camera.

Key features:

• HDR shooting without a tripod, you can even shoot moving objects;
• exposure control (EV, ISO, shutter speed), as well as shooting with long exposures;
• manual focus;
• gray card management;
• night mode;
• 76 filters and effects;
• and much more.

SKRWT

Price: 149 r.

SKRWT is another application that will help you make your photos flawless. SKRWT is primarily a tool for correcting keystone and lens distortion. So that, if you love, symmetry and that everything is perfect, then this application will definitely come in handy and like it.

Key features:

• one-click correction of vertical and horizontal perspective distortions;
• universal lens adjustment;
• vignetting;
• adjustable mesh;
• auto cropping;
• viewing EXIF ​​files.

Apps for adding text to photos

Type mania

Price: 379 rub.

Fontomania has been voted Best New Software in the App Store in 36 countries! I think the name of the program speaks for itself. This application allows you to add original fonts to your photos.

To be honest, I have been hunting for a normal application that supports Cyrillic for several years now. Cool applications with fonts in the App Store are sea-ocean, but they either do not have Russian fonts at all, or the cat cried at all - a couple of them at most. So, "Fontomania" is the only application that I was able to find, with beautiful, Russian fonts so highly recommend it!

Well friends, those were my 10 favorite photo editing apps on your phone. If you like any other applications that I did not mention in the article, write about them in the comments.

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After I wrote this article, I received emails from blog readers who would like to add a few more of their favorite apps to this list. Which, of course, I will gladly do! 🙂

Price: Free

I think that Prisma, popular among Instagrammers, does not need a special introduction 😉 With it, you can make your photos more vivid by adding artistic filters and photo effects to them (see photo below).

Slow Shutter Cam

Price: 149 r.

And the last app for today is Slow Sutter Cam, which has been recognized as the best in its category more than once. With this application you can shoot directly from your phone at long exposure. For those who are not very versed in the language of photography, screenshots of the final result, which can be achieved thanks to a long exposure, will help. So if you want similar effects, then you definitely cannot do without this program!

I wish you only great pictures and more subscribers on Instagram! 😉

GIMP (Gimp) - this is the most advanced and multifunctional graphics editor, distributed free of charge. Supports a huge number of tools for processing and creating images, is constantly supplemented by functional plugins. Compared to Adobe Photoshop, Gimp requires fewer resources, takes up little space and installs quickly.

Paint.NET is a free graphics editor distributed as an alternative for those who lack the meager features of Windows' built-in Paint editor, but don't need expensive and complex Photoshop. The program is easy to learn and use, not demanding on computer resources and has excellent Russian localization. The main advantage of this editor is the ability to work with layers.

Picasa is an advanced, free photo and image editor for Windows. This program was successful almost immediately after its inception. With it, you can find all the images on your computer, organize them into libraries, edit with the many built-in art tools, and use it as your main viewer for your photos.

Blender is a popular design program for creating 3D graphics and animations on Windows. The application supports Python technology, which allows it to be used as a tool for creating games. All created 3D models and animation, the user will be able to view in preview mode. Here you can download the latest version of this program for free.

Free Video Editor is a free Windows program for basic video editing. Thanks to this program, you can quickly crop videos to the desired size and remove unnecessary or unnecessary scenes from them without the need for re-encoding, while maintaining the original quality of the video material. In addition, the application can be used as a simple converter, converting video content to AVI, MP4, MKV and GIF formats.

Windows Movie Maker is a free program in Russian for editing video files in Windows 7. It also works great on other versions. All the advantage of this program is its simplicity, thanks to which even beginners can use it. As a rule, this program helps to solve such tasks that are necessary in our personal life as editing a family video using effects. You can quickly edit the captured video, process it with the effects that are built into the program.

Do you want to easily and efficiently process your photos online? Our free photo editor will quickly fix flaws and improve the quality of digital photos.

Cropping, rotating and resizing

The most demanded in photo editing are such basic operations as cropping and rotating images. Therefore, we have created intuitive and quick tools to perform these actions.

With the Rotate function, you can rotate the image 90 degrees to the right and left, flip the image vertically or horizontally, and align the horizon. All operations are carried out quickly and easily. To crop (or crop) a photo, just select the cropping area. When saving the processed photo, you can choose the extension (.jpg or .png), quality and file size.

Process photo

Image correction

Use the Exposure tool to adjust brightness and contrast, and adjust shadows and highlights in your photo. You can also change the hue, saturation, and temperature. The Sharpness tool lets you sharpen an image when needed. By changing the settings of each instrument, you will see the changes occurring in real time.

Make photo correction

Photo frames, stickers and text

With the website photo editor, you can easily create funny and trendy pictures using funny stickers, stylish photo frames and beautiful text captions.

Choose from over 300 stickers, 30 customizable frames and 20 decorative fonts for text labels. A large field for experimentation.

Decorate photo

Photo effects and photo filters

It's hard to imagine the world of photography without the ability to turn a photo from color to black and white, process it with a sepia filter, or make vignetting. For creative processing, we also have a pixelation effect.

Create vintage photos with a retro effect, use the Tilt-Shift effect to turn landscape shots into a toy, or draw the viewer's attention to the central area of ​​the image with a vignetting effect.

When choosing the optimal program for working with images from our selection, we advise you to determine the level of your needs and the main purpose of the potentially used software.

• Movavi Photo Editor doesn't sit you down for learning how to work with the editor, but gives you access to all the features you need. Now, in order to remove an unnecessary element from the photo, change the background, correct colors, apply an effect or redo the makeup, hair color of the character in the picture, you do not have to turn to the "insiders" for help. The simple and intuitive Movavi photo editor does everything in two clicks. Try it. It is the best photo processing software designed for semi-professional tasks. In fact, it is a convenient home photography studio.
• The photo master does not differ in the same advanced tools as Photoshop CC, Paintshop Pro and other famous analogs, but it works faster and has all the necessary functions for high-quality photo processing at home. The program was created for beginners and advanced users, contains detailed instructions on all the nuances of editing.
• Home Photo Studio is a symbiosis of Photo Master and FS Lightroom. It supports layers, can save projects, works with Photoshop files, contains built-in tools for editing, cropping, correcting, printing wizard and creating collages. The program will be a good choice for photographers who are not ready to pay for a professional editor, but who want to learn how to work with high quality images.
• The GIMP will become a good free tool for image processing, but the utility does not contain the most accessible interface in terms of simplicity, therefore, if you are a beginner, we recommend staying on the identical and more understandable Paint.NET or PixBuilder Studio, or have patience and learn how to process images in Gimpe ...
• Picasa will appeal to fans of implementing content for further posting on social networks. If you are interested in a photo processing application that can bring amateur animation to life, try Photoscape.
• Krita will allow you to embody your creative ideas, but for its comfortable operation you will need at least minimal knowledge of similar software. The free version of the image editor is especially popular among artists and illustrators along with other well-known Painttool Sai product and the commercial Corel Painter.
• ACDSee will provide you with a professional set of tools, the developer distributes these products for a fee with the opportunity to get acquainted with a trial version. If you are solely interested in correcting red eye, applying filters, effects and other primitive methods of retouching, it is better to download a simpler photo processing program. CorelDRAW is an equally advanced tool for advanced users. Both photo processing programs are demanding on computer resources, but at the same time they will endow you with extensive functionality that is impossible to compete with free counterparts.
• Lightroom will appeal to fans of creating albums from original images and viewing rich slides. Works both within a PC and online to speed up uploading your projects to various web resources.
• Adobe Photoshop is the most popular software in its category, there are probably no professional photographers in the world who would not use Photoshop, here you can not only quickly improve the landscapes themselves, but also implement a full-fledged photo change: eliminate face defects, background errors and much more.

Unfortunately, within the framework of one review it is impossible to consider all the specialized software, so we also recommend reading ours. There you will find descriptions of popular tools such as Hornil Stylepix, Zoner Photo Studio, Photoinstrument 7.4, Lightbox Free Image Editor. Profile tools for processing presentations and photos Adobe Illustrator, Photo editor Photoshine 4.9.4, Photo Show Pro 7.0 are presented on the site as separate materials.

Graphic editor is a program for creating, viewing, processing and editing digital images on a PC. When processing hybrid, vector and raster graphics, software is divided into corresponding types. The functionality of the utilities allows you to work with layers, convert images, create gifs and collages, apply effects and batch processing of material.

Programs	Russian language	License	Rating	Plugins
	Yes	Free of charge	Low	10	Not
	Yes	Trial	Low	10	Not
	Yes	Free of charge	Low	6	Not
	Yes	Free of charge	Average	7	Yes
	Yes	Free of charge	Average	10	Yes
	Yes	Free of charge	Average	8	Yes
	Yes	Trial	Average	6	Yes
	Yes	Trial	High	8	Yes
	Yes	Trial	High	10	Yes
	Yes	Free of charge	Low	6	Not
	Yes	Free of charge	High	6	Yes
	Yes	Free of charge	Average	10	Yes
	Yes	Free of charge	Average	6	Yes

Fotor is a free application for working with digital photos, processing them, improving quality, applying effects, creating collages and batch converting drawings. It has a simple algorithm of work, supports RAW format, displays EXIF ​​data, retouches selfies and changes the color temperature of a photo.

PhotoSHOW PRO is a powerful free utility that lets you create high-quality presentations and slideshows with screensavers, titles, effects and music. Has built-in themes for projects, optimizes videos for YouTube and views on DVD players.

IcoFX is a handy free icon editing, creating and extracting application. Has a large set of tools, more than forty effects, the ability to convert images into icons and vice versa into pictures. Has an intuitive interface with convenient tabs and menus in Russian.

Photoscape is a high-quality free utility for processing photos, graphics and pictures. Has a large set of tools for working with layers, editing, batch processing, creating GIFs, animations and collages. The application has an accessible and easy interface with a Russian-language menu.

Krita is a free program that allows you to create, manipulate and correct bitmap graphics using a large set of tools and filters. Cross-platform utility simulates canvas material, emulates real tools and supports photo import.

Picasa is a free Google product designed to organize, edit, and manipulate images on your computer. The application has combined tools for editing photos in comparison, as well as using the retouching option and other popular image enhancements.

Pinnacle Studio is a free compact utility for editing movies and clips from finished files or camcorder material. Has in its arsenal more than 1000 interesting effects, screensavers, transitions and titles in 2D and 3D modes. Archives, copies and restores projects. The utility is optimized for 64-bit OS.

CorelDRAW is a professional graphics editor for creating and processing vector images, applying effects to them and exporting them to any format. Creates animated gifs, processes RAW-format material, draws vector images for designing rooms and interiors, and also prints ready-made images.

Adobe Photoshop is a popular and powerful utility for high-quality editing and working with photos and images using a wide range of tools. The graphic editor supports various modes and layers, adds effects and text entries, creates raster graphics, while having an intuitive interface.

PicPick is a free application for taking screenshots by capturing the screen and further editing it. Using the "scrolling" function, you can create a screen of web pages and documents in the form of a single picture. The software has a Russian-language interface and a wide range of editing tools.

Paint.NET is a free application that acts as a graphics editor with the ability to work with layers, noise suppression, styling and artistic processing. The main options of the program are focused on working with photo editing and vector graphics.

GIMP is a free editor for creating screen and web graphics, high-quality processing and rendering with a wide range of tools and various effects. The application supports all popular formats, has batch processing and work with layers. Multi-window interface and customizable for the user.

PaintTool SAI is a free application for creating beautiful digital paintings and high-quality illustrations using a variety of tools and effects. The utility works with an unlimited number of layers, edits files of various formats and saves in its own ".sai". Implemented work with a graphics tablet.