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Googles take on photo-editing manages to be typically approachable. Need to crop or rotate an image, or add a filter?
That just takes a couple of taps. How about adding some great-looking text? No problem select from a large choice of
styles and fonts, and the app arranges everything for you.
But Snapseed goes far further than most similar apps. Theres a powerful curves tool; filters can be tweaked and fine-
tuned, as can text placement; best of all, Stacks enable you to view and adjust previous edits. Thats a pro-level feature set,
Although wildly different from Photoshop in terms of its interface, Pixelmator is the closest thing youll get to Adobes
desktop powerhouse on iOS. The app includes some fantastic configurable filters, tools for making adjustments to levels,
mess around with crazy distortions if one of your photos is otherwise unsalvageable. Feeling uninspired? Pixelmators got
you covered there, too, with its collage, card, frame, and poster templates.
Speaking of Photoshop, Adobes decided against bringing its desktop giant to mobile. Instead, its hacked bits off of it and
smushed them into focused apps that nonetheless provide photographers with plenty of power at their fingertips.
Photoshop Fix is, as you might guess, all about quick fixes. You heal blemishes, make subtle adjustments to highlights and
shadows, or slather colour everywhere through finger-painting. On portraits, you can unleash the Liquify tool, which
smartly detects facial features and lets you edit them. Fancy giving yourself an action hero jawline or a terrifyingly massive
Also consider
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is popular with pro photographers. In mobile form for Android and iOS, it provides tools for
making powerful adjustments. However, youll need to be a Creative Cloud subscriber to access full DNG functionality.
Polarr
This app sits somewhere between Snapseed and Adobes offerings. So while Polarr does include tools for making rapid
The interface is particularly well designed: in the adjustments section, simply tap a tool and plentiful configuration buttons
slide out for tweaking all kinds of settings. Theres always a lot going on, but even on a smartphone, Polarr remains usable.
Its worth noting that some features lurk behind a paywall, but you get plenty for free. And for the pro-oriented, even
Polarrs top tier of 20 quid seems reasonable, given that it unlocks features on a cross-platform basis.
SKRWT
The most focused editing app in this round-up, SKRWT is all about working with lens and perspective corrections. For lens
distortions, you get individual tabs for mobile, wide-angle, fisheye and GoPro cameras. With architecture shots in
particular, applying corrections to horizontal and vertical lines using SKRWT can prove transformative.
The app also bundles two further tools: MRRW skews photos and creates mirror images; 4PNTS has intuitive four-points
correction tools. Annoyingly, each is effectively a sub-app, so you cant quickly scoot between, say, SKRWT and MRRW.
That niggle aside, SKRWT proves an essential part of any smartphone photographers toolkit.