#MAKE COLLAGE IN SNAPSEED FOR FREE#
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Photo Studio (available free for Android and free for IPhones and iPads) is a very similarly-named app with some similar options, but Photo Studio has far fewer free options and more in-app purchases than the apps described above. Spend a little time looking at the Featured Images on PicsArt to get an idea about what the app has to offer. You can choose from a pre-arranged grid, frame, or freely size and organize your own images. PicsArt also allows you to create collages of up to ten images. The shop offers many more options at various prices. PicsArt also lets you apply a variety of masks, drawings, text, lens flare, stickers, clip art, frames, and borders. Once you have applied an effect you can use brushes to adjust how and where that effect is applied. You can also choose from a wide range of effects in multiple categories (effects, blur, artistic, pop art, paper, distort, colors, and corrections). PicsArt offers basic photo correction options including cropping, selecting, cloning, stretching, resizing, and adjusting curves and color. Screen shot of different 'looks' in Photoshop Express You can also reduce red eye (options for people and pets), add a variety of frames, and attempt to remove blemishes. You can crop, rotate, straighten, and flip your photograph, as well as adjust things like clarity, exposure, contrast, color temperature, and others (noise reduction is an add-on). You can adjust the strength of a given look as well. Photoshop Express offers both specific processing and editing options as well as packaged 'looks' (premium looks can be bought within the app). You can also share images directly from Snapseed to Google+ or other social media apps.Īdobe Photoshop Express (available free for Android and free for iPhones and iPads) is a greatly slimmed down version of the popular post-processing software. Any additional benefit of working with Snapseed is that you are always editing a copy of your original photograph and any changes you make will be saved as a separate image. While working you can always press and hold the 'compare' button to see the image without the current effect. Many conversions also have presets that you can use and compare before choosing a favorite. Once you have selected one, swiping to the left or right decreasing or increases that particular effect. Within each processing option you can press on your image and swipe up or down to reveal different options (such as brightness, contrast, and grain within the Black & White option). Once you become accustomed to the workflow, Snapseed is a breeze to work with and allows you to fine tune your photographs in any number of ways. Snapshot from the entry options in Snapseed (Snapseed is not a camera app but allows you to choose whether to use the default camera or another camera app to take the pictures.) You can open photographs already saved on your phone or tablet or take a new picture to work with. Snapseed offers a wide range of photo processing options ranging from basic corrections (straighten, rotate, crop, etc) to more advanced processing (brightness, ambiance, contrast, saturation, shadows, and warmth) and fun filters (black and white, vintage, HDR, grunge, tilt-shift, frames, and others).

#MAKE COLLAGE IN SNAPSEED FOR FREE#

Whenever necessary, I have tried to make clear if a feature is only available as an add-on.Īpps for Processing Photographs - general Snapseed (available free for Android and free iPhones and iPads) is by Nik software who were recently bought by Google who then offered the app for free across platforms. Many of these apps are free but offer in-app purchasing options. For ease, I've broken this post-processing post into two sections: general apps for processing photographs (those with a lot of options) and specialized apps for processing photographs (those geared toward doing a specific thing very well).

Make collage in snapseed