Top 8 Applications that Make Your IOS Photographs Better

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As everyone knows iPhone stands out on its applications. There are so many great applications for cameras and photograph editing, but the question is how do we pick from all of them.

We need to focus on three important functions when we pick photograph apps from all these options offered in the App Store:

•Photo editing

•Camera quality 

•Photo sharing

A great editing software can make your photographs look way more fantastic, which is the secret for winning any social media competition!

iPhone itself offers really good camera, but we are limited by its automatic camera settings. For examples, you can’t really adjust speed of the flash or ISO. If you want to use your phone like a Canon camera, you have to use more professional tools.

1. Snapseed

A really functional photo editing app. Great amount of tools provided.

•Professional editing tools

•Exposure, color, sharpening adjustions

•29 tools for pens and photo fixing

•Portrait enhancing, vignette, HDR, and lens blur

•Could open JPG and RAW files

•Provide partial brushes

•Could save changes, etc

Price: Free

Snapseed is a professional photo editing software developed by Google. The most important thing is that it’s completely free to download.

People say there are no free pieces of pie. If there is, that is definitely Snapseed. The powerful editing app meets almost all you needs for image editing. It is ideal for your day-to-day photo editing, including exposure, color adjusting, cropping, and sharpening. 

But it also has advanced photo editing tools, including curves, brushes and optional editing. The repair tool lets you remove unwanted objects from your photos. Snapseed provides beginners with fast and efficient presets.

Portrait tools smooth skin and brighten your eyes. Combining Google's expertise in human recognition, Snapseed has head position adjustments.

Whether you are a beginner or a professional photographer, you should not miss this efficient editing app.

2. VSCO

An app as a collection of producing, discovering, and interacting. It has its own sharing community and plenty of preset functions.

•One-click preset filters

•Adjustable filter strength

•Huge selection of preset functions

•Lots of editing tools for straightening, exposure, color, etc.

•Built-in professional camera with manual focus

•Built-in VSCO sharing community

•The latest version provides video editing features

Price: Free to download, some preset tools in-app need to be purchased.

VSCO has attracted a bunch of film enthusiasts with powerful classic and vintage filters. Just the right presets and abundant adjustment tools make vintage film toning an easy process for beginners.

VSCO includes a standard set of filters, and lots of in-app paid filter library, which makes creation simple. Sometimes holiday promotion discounts make the filter quite worth to buy.

Although not as abundant as Snapseed in image editing tools;  the basic tools, such as exposure, saturation, contrast, vignette, and skin beauty, are still provided by VSCO.

However, VSCO is more than just an editing app. It also has a built-in camera with manual control. These allow you to change the flash speed, ISO and white balance. Whether you want to shoot, edit or share your iPhone photos, you can do it in VSCO.

3. TouchRetouch

Removing flaws is as simple as that.

•Used to remove clutter in the photo

•One-click repair small flaws

•Click to delete the line (such as a wire)

•Easy to edit

•Copy or delete objects

Price: RMB12

TouchRetouch is an app designed to remove unwanted objects from iPhone photos. It takes only a few seconds to remove distracting objects that destroy the beautiful photos.

It's easy to get rid of junk, street signs or passer-by from the photos. Use your fingers to circle an object or select it with a lasso, then watch it disappear.

The app works by analyzing the pixels you choose. It then replaces the selected object with the pixels of the surrounding area.

It is great for removing flaws from portrait photos too. The acne and skin rashes can be eliminated with a single click.

The wire removal tool is ideal for erasing power cords and phone lines from your photos. You don't even have to be precise. Mark a part of the line and it will delete the entire line.

4. Adobe Lightroom CC

Free app, powerful features, a professional app for shooting, editing, and sharing:

•Professional camera tools

•Can take photos in DNG RAW format

•Non-destructive editing, which makes it easy to recover the original photo at any time

•Powerful editing tools

•Batch adjustment of multiple photos by copying and pasting parameters

•Syncing editing among iPhone, iPad, laptop, and web

•Powerful photo management library

Price: Free to download, need to pay for advanced features

Adobe Lightroom CC provides a powerful and simple solution for editing photos. The app also includes a camera feature that captures high quality RAW formats. It has advanced editing tools to fine-tune color and exposure more precisely. Advanced editing tools include curves, color blending and color separation.

Lightroom is perfect for beginners and advanced users. You can simply adjust the photo by sliding left and right. The software logic is clear. For users who are familiar with the computer version, the mobile version of Lightroom is also very easy to use.

The app is free to download, but you'll need to pay to upgrade to advanced features such as partial photo adjustment.

5. Afterlight 2

Powerful, comprehensive photo editing experience. Fixed price, no subscription. Update free for new content every month!

•Provide advanced tools, such as curves, color selections, gradients & blend modes,

•dust and light leakage,

•powerful double exposure tool

•Add art text

•Regularly update high quality filter package! And always free

Price: RMB 18.00

If you want to get rid of the basic and boring image editing software, Afterlight 2 will be a good starting point. It provides basic editing tools and a great space for artistic creation. Enjoy a free filter package once in a while.

For basic editing, this app has the common color, exposure, sharpening and cropping tools, but it also provides advanced editing features, such as curves and selective colors.

You can use filters and overlays to enhance the ambience of your photos or add artistic vibe. Afterlight 2 comes with a basic set of filters, but you can download more filter collections for free.

The double exposure tool can help you create unique photo combinations. You can use the text and image tools to add graphics to your images. The software promises no hidden fees or subscriptions, no in-app purchases, and always free updates!

6. Enlight

The iPhone photographers’ favorite app implements traditional PS controls plus artistic filters and effects.

•Selective control of exposure, color and detail

•Comprehensive templates, precise control of each filter, 

•two-color gradient, light leakage and vignette

•Black and white, paint and sketch effects 

•Cloning tool for deleting unwanted objects

•Flip, rotate and stretch curved photos

•Perspective: changing photos is like shooting from different angles

•Drawing tools, text, borders, and frames

Price:  RMB25.00

Enlight is a versatile photo editing application that does basically everything. Whether you want to do simple editing or create an art masterpiece, you can use Enlight.

This app has many traditional editing tools. These include cropping, transparency, and sharpening, as well as exposure and color adjustment.

It has curves and sub-tone options for advanced fine-tuning. Target tool allows you to make selective adjustments.

Enlight has a variety of customizable filters. You can convert to black and white or apply duotones.

You can create a double exposure image. The repair tool removes unwanted objects from the image. It also has a deformity correction tool to fine tune the photo. Use art tools to convert photos to sketches or drawings. You can also use brushes, design elements, text, borders, and frames. You can also postion multiple photos into one. 

7. Mextures

Stack an unlimited number of layers with over 150 texture effects

•Light leak, sandy, particles-alike film filters

•Simulating beautiful gradients such as light leakage

•Adjust your photos with high precision

•Fine-tune images with editing tools and filters

•Use preset features to edit quickly 

•Create your own filter effects

Price:RMB12.00

Mextures adds beautiful patterns to iPhone photos. It also includes other effects such as film grain, light leakage and gradation.

You can stack an unlimited number of coating effects to create unique pieces. Each layer can be individually adjusted to achieve the final effect by changing the opacity and blending modes.

If you are new to Mextures, you can use a variety of preset "formulas" first. You can save and share your own formulas and even import formulas from other Mextures users. Mextures also has a standard set of editing tools and filters. Use these to fine tune the exposure and color of the final image.

If you want to create unique photographs, the patterns in the Mextures app will help you with interesting artistic creations and visual effects.

8.Camera + 2

Camera app with manual controls and built-in editing packages for blur mode:

•Professional camera function that supports manual focus

•Slow shutter, long exposure

•Vertical mode for creating shallow depth of field

•Macro mode for taking close-up photos

•Support RAW format shooting

•Editing tools and one-click filters

•Has overlays function

Price:RMB18.00

Camera + 2 is a powerful camera app with an integrated photo editing app. The camera provides manual control including shutter speed, ISO, white balance, and focus.

It also has shooting modes for different situations. Macro mode is ideal for close-up shooting. Slow shutter mode helps you take stunning long exposure photos.

If you are using iPhone 7 plus, 8 plus, or iPhone X, you can use portrait mode to blur the background.

Another important feature of Camera +2 is it can separate the focus point and exposure point. You can use a series of editing tools to improve the exposure, color, and clearness. Or, you can preset the filters to change the images. And last but not least, you can stack multiple filters on your image with the overlay function.

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