Instagram : Take control of your posts with these 5 best mobile photo editing Apps of 2020

Sushmita Pandit
Storyya
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4 min readDec 22, 2019

Someone said “First impression is the last impression” and it stands so true in todays world. With whatever motive you are on Instagram , if you cannot capture your audiences imagination with that beautiful picture, be prepared to loose them.

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With millions of posts floating on Instagram everyday, its quite hard to make your mark, however with little tweaks to your photographs you can just set your self apart from the crowd. Apart from focusing on statistics, niche, tags etc, it is quite important to post process your images.

We all struggle to strike balance between that perfect contrast, brightness, orientation or a better background. Heres, a list of free apps for android/ios that will keep you ahead in the race.

1. SNAPSEED

A powerful and robust app by google , which also happens to be available for free, also ad-free is the no.1 contender in this category. With tons of editing options, it will hardly fail to amaze you.

With this app, you can produce an amazing photograph on the go with using its swiping gestures to select different effects and enhancements.

It offer varieties of filters and options to automatic enhance color and contrast. Moreover, With this app you can save users’ editing history and redirect to any of the actions before. Tools section has a clear user interface, allowing one to access all the functions easily. With the option to allow RAW images to be edited on the go, Snapseed is certainly leading its way in the free and quality app category.

Snapseed Image edits Before and After comparision.

2. ADOBE PHOTOSHOP EXPRESS

Well Adobe has heard your prayers and it has offered a tailored version of free mobile/web app for making quick, powerful, and easy photo edits and you can also go on creating collages with it. With a number of eye catching filters that comes with the option to control the intensity in the images, lots of options to touch up, correct and adjust the images, this app certainly leads its way.

It offers a wide range of options to enhance your pictures however, people with IOS devices have few extras to grab. Nevertheless, its a strong contender in this category.

3. PIXLR —FREE PHOTO EDITOR

With its offer of over 2 million combinations of free effects, overlays and filters you have no excuse to not to be creative. Beginner friendly and easy to use. You have endless possibilities to create an eye catching post with the interesting Double exposure options. Apart from the options to touch up , you can draw doodles or scribble around with the draw option or add texts with variety of fonts to choose from. You can furthermore use cool photo effects such as stylize which allows you to use pencil sketch, poster, watercolor and more.

4. LIGHT X

With the robust image editing tools, LightX is quite an impressive free app with number of features that allows you to add number of fun features to your photos . Some of these features include making cutout and photo background changer, blur photos, create cartoons and caricatures, create sweet selfies and portrait photos, change hair color, add color splash effects, merge photos for double & multiple exposure effects and apply many other tools to edit pictures.

5. LUMII

Another super impressive, beginner friendly, reliable and free quality photo edit app is Lumii. One of its USP is that you can customize your photo filter apart from using inbuilt filters. Apart from being able to customize photo effects you have access to the HSL color mode , with the help of which you can easily control Hue, Saturation and Luminance (HSL). The basic tools to edit pictures have fairly easy to use interface and you are able to work with the app without much hassle.

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Sushmita Pandit
Storyya
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