Hey all, I'm in the search for photo editing apps equivalent to that of iOS apps Camera+ or Snapseed. I'm a recent convert to Android and purchased the Samsung Galaxy S3. Any recommendations?
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Hey all, I'm in the search for photo editing apps equivalent to that of iOS apps Camera+ or Snapseed. I'm a recent convert to Android and purchased the Samsung Galaxy S3. Any recommendations?
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i've been using photo editor. has alot of functions, and a simple ui. although all i ever really use it for is conversions and cropping
ProCapture is the best comparison to Camera+ that I've found. For editing and such, I use a combination of Aviary and just standard Photo Editor. The only thing I haven't found is a good polarizer filter to really remove the haze and make the blue skies pop.
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Camera 360 and Avary are great. Plix o matic is reasonably good if you don't get carried away with the filters.
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I was just having this conversation (with myself) the other day.
I like to take pictures and pre-filter them (very mildly) before posting them on Instagram or other services.
So, the best applications that I have seemed to have found are the following, for mild editing and filter application:
Snaptastic - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mcurrent.snaptastic&hl=en
Aviary - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aviary.android.feather&hl=en
Vignette - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.neilandtheresa.NewVignette&hl=en
CameraZOOM FX - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=slide.cameraZoom
Good luck!
One of the things I REALLY REALLY miss about the iPhone is Camera+! :/
That was the only App I needed on the iPhone, it was so good. The Clarity feature most of the times created a awesome picture, I havent found a single app on android that has a effect like "clarity" on Camera+
Maybe the closest thing is the Beautify effect on "BeFunky", try it, its free, and it has a lot of filters also, I bough the Paid version but it seems to be too different I didnt like it, so I just use that free one...
BeFunky : https://play.google.com/store/search?q=befunky+photo+editor&c=apps
neuroaxon said:
Hey all, I'm in the search for photo editing apps equivalent to that of iOS apps Camera+ or Snapseed. I'm a recent convert to Android and purchased the Samsung Galaxy S3. Any recommendations?
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I am a big camera geek. I have tried just about every camera app on the Android market and I do miss some of the iOS apps. I came from having the iPhone 3, iphone 4 and iphone 4s to switching to the S3.
From all the different apps I have tried here is my opinion of the apps you NEED if you like photography.
1. Perfectly Clear - This app is also on iOS and will adjust a picture automatically. You just load a picture and it will fix the contrast and everything else. While some apps have an auto correct feature, this one blows them out of the water.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...h.perfectlyclear&feature=search_result#?t=W10.
2. Magic Hour - It's like InstaGram on crack. Whereas most filter apps come with a preset amount of filters Magic Hour lets you download filters for free or create your own for free to use later. You can get thousands upon thousands of filters. Everything from the subtle to the crazy overboard ones. You can even "pull" filters from pictures you already put through it in order to use that filter on another pic. Great for getting the same look if you did filtered a picture long ago.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwiple.mhm&feature=search_result#?t=W10.
3. TouchRetouch - This app lets you "magically remove" things from pictures. It's pretty crazy how well it works. Photoshop has a tool that works just like this and the fact this works on a mobile device is awesome. You can't erase HUGE things from photos but it can intelligently remove things like power lines, background items and more.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.advasoft.touchretouch&hl=en
You can try the ones I have in my thread here...there's a ton of fun ones
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=29570977
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egk-69 said:
One of the things I REALLY REALLY miss about the iPhone is Camera+! :/
That was the only App I needed on the iPhone, it was so good. The Clarity feature most of the times created a awesome picture, I havent found a single app on android that has a effect like "clarity" on Camera+
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Agreed. Camera+ was my go-to-app for photo editing and the "clarity" feature was pretty amazing.
Thanks, everyone for all the recommendations! Looks like I will be looking into all of these apps to find my android go-to-photo app.
+1 for perfectly clear. It has a great one touch fix.
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Check out picsay pro.
I miss camera+ as well
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Camera MX is my current fav. Check it out. Its given me no reason to use other camera apps.
Been a photographer for a long time and this app fits my needs. Its very clean with its adjustments.
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Pixlr Express works for me : https://play.google.com/store/apps/...xpress&feature=nav_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwyLDNd
I am one of those people that LOVES taking pictures on my phone and I have tried just about every Photo and Panoramic app on the Play Store. I had a iPhone 4 before I switched over to S3 and at the beginning I was scared because I was letting go of some really good photo apps.
Now though, I think I might have found the ones that fit my photography style perfectly.
1: Magic Hour. Think of it as instagram with unlimited filters. It has a "Filter Store" where you can download other filters that people have made using the app. There are THOUSANDS of these. Thankfully you can search by newest, most popular, etc. This is like Instagram on crack. LOVE IT! Also, if you run a photo through Magic Hour and save it, then weeks later you want to run another photo through the same filter but forgot which it was, you can load up the photo you saved and it'll figure out which filter was used and you can throw that on to another picture. You can also mark filters as favorites, etc
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kiwiple.mhm
2: Perfectly Clear. With just one button this app will make your photos look so much better. They had this one on the iPhone as well and I'm glad it carried over. It fixes saturation, contrast, color, brightness and it does it all better than any other app I have found
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.worldiety.athentech.perfectlyclear
3: TouchReTouch. Sometimes you take a great photo and happen to notice after the fact that there is something in the background or powerlines you wish weren't in the photo. With TouchReTouch you just highlight want you want removed from the photo and it smartly removes it. It is a lot like using the smart eraser in Photoshop except you can do it on your phone.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.advasoft.touchretouch
4: AfterFocus. After focus simulates what a DSLR camera can do where the foreground is clear and then the background is blurry (not in focus). You just use your finger and select the foreground, then select the mid ground (optional), then select the background. It will then very realistically blur the background so your picture gets a great DSLR look to it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.motionone.afterfocus_pro
Usually I'll take a photo, edit things out of it I don't want with TouchReTouch, then depending on the photo I'll run it through AfterFocus to get the DSLR look and then Perfectly Clear to make it look the best possible. Finally, depending on what I want the photo to look like I'll apply a filter. And if things go ok then I get pictures like this: http://trukatu.com/baby.jpg
As a bonus, I should mention that HDR Camera+ is one of the best HDR apps. Most HDR apps takes 3-4 pictures and combines the brightnesses to make one awesome looking pic. But they all require you to remain almost perfectly still. HDR Camera+ is the only one that takes multiple photos, analyzes the brightnesses and combines that all over the first image only. So even if the subject moves or your hands moves or something, it still looks great.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.almalence.hdr_plus
ENJOY!
Root your phone and install the Android 4.2 Camera.
The Photosphere function is amazing.
Sianspheric said:
Root your phone and install the Android 4.2 Camera.
The Photosphere function is amazing.
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I agree, best panoramic app. I still think the iOS panoramic app "AutoStitch" is hands down the best panoramic app on any device (except pc) but Photosphere is the best for android
I wouldve kept the 4.2 camera due to all the functionalities it had , full screen view and last but not least photosphere, but had to say goodbye to it cus I couldnt figure out how to automatically save photos to my external sd card :/
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Sianspheric said:
Root your phone and install the Android 4.2 Camera.
The Photosphere function is amazing.
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Where do i find 4.2 camera with cool gallery. My s3 is rooted.
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Camera+ is probably the thing I miss most about iOS. Camera ZOOM FX is pretty alright, but it's no Camera+.
Ive tried 3 different 4.2 Gapps packages and 6 different Roms. The 4.2 camera never wants to play nice with my S3. Some people have better luck than I though.
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Does anyone know of a good camera app? I have seen many on the market, but after tests, I haven't found a decent one. The one the G2 comes with is a pain. I have done some googleing as well but haven't found a decent one yet.
Just wondering
Thanks!
Dootuz
I really enjoy VIGNETTE
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I like camera 360
I prefer the stock camera app for just snapping quick pics, I like the custom ones with more options like in CM roms though.
For taking quick artsy shots, Retro Camera is dead simple, Vignette and Camera 360 offer more options but not great for quick shots.
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I prefer the stock camera app for just snapping quick pics, I like the custom ones with more options like in CM roms though.
For taking quick artsy shots, Retro Camera is dead simple, Vignette and Camera 360 offer more options but not great for quick shots.
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I like to snap pictures of friends and sometimes during sports games. I usually just deal with the stock app, but after last night of the app messing up every picture, I want to find a new app. I really like Vignette and Camera 360, it's just hard to pick one. Thanks for the app suggestions.
It would be nice if the stock cam would focus with out wobbling around and every picture I take has spots in it pink an fuzzy if you zoom in just a little I use snap shot pro now its in beta but its better than stock far from HDQ
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The camera from the Desire Z is pretty nice, but you have be flash a sense rom to use it currently
I go back and forth between Vignette and Camera 360 my self. Both r really good.
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The camera from the Desire Z is pretty nice, but you have be flash a sense rom to use it currently
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I heard that, I was wishing someone would just rip the app though. I'll give Snap Shot Pro a look.
EDIT: I can't seam to find Snapshot pro on the market.
I too would like to find a camera app for quick shots. One that used the volume control for zooming!
I'm running snap photo pro beta for g2 and can say its good.
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It's a beta app you need to contact the dev by email are use the nexus one app
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I'd like a camera app that shoots HDR photos (more than one photo taken at different exposures) since camera 360 has a simulate HDR but not a real one.
vignette is the best one. It is more of a pro camera. Camera 360 is good for the effects.
Vignette has settings to which it allowes you to adjust your camera to your likeing.
my current setup
when activation, click on the settings and check all minus "save originals" just for my prefference.
then
click on the middle icon which is on the right side and use these settings
auto
auto
auto
center
auto
one click to the left for brightness
2 clicks to the right on contrast
saturation is normal or one click to the left
sharpness is 2 clicks to the left from the s in sharpness
use superfine in 5 megapixel and default camera folder save. save as date and time.
those are my settings. looks better than camera 360. NOt only that, it integrates well with the software from the phone and you even have a video button.
Is "Camera Magic" available for the G2? I have it on the G1 (running Donut)
It's my fav camera app so far, the white balance adjustments on it work extremely well.
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Is "Camera Magic" available for the G2? I have it on the G1 (running Donut)
It's my fav camera app so far, the white balance adjustments on it work extremely well.
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Nevermind, vignette is awesome.
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I'm using CM6.1's camera app with enom's rom.
Which app makes the quality of the pics better?
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I'm using CM6.1's camera app with enom's rom.
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Nice, did you just install the apk from the CM 6.1 rom onto Enom's rom?
I just use the default camera app, it does what I need it to
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Ive been trying to find a "perfect" camera app for my DInc2 with a few key features.
*hardware volume button shutter option
*touch screen focus
*adjustable ISO
*clicking thumbnail goes to HTC Gallery app
Didn't think that would be so hard, right? But it always seemed that they came close, but were always missing one feature or another.
So, after many rounds of both paid and free apps I finally found Ucam
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ucamera.ucam&hl=en
Has all the above features, plus more. It also has a stunner of a built in editing package, with tons of presets and discrete controls for brightness, saturation, contrast,etc., *BUT* it downsamples the image to like 1280x800 or something and I can't figure out how to make not do that.
But that's just gravy, considering it already fulfilled my wish list, so hopefully they will fix the resolution problem with the editor. Nice GUI too. And it makes animated GIFs, amongst other oddities. Did I mention the incredible sharing setup?
Plus, its FREE.
They also just came out with a tablet version.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ucamera.ucamtablet
Forums are here but a lot is in Chinese
http://forum.u-camera.com/
I may be late to the party and everyone is already using this, but I think it's worth sharing
I'm using nitsuj's TSMBullet and it has a great camera! The touch to focus, thumbnail brings to gallery, and it has manual, panorama, hdr, and burst mode. There isn't a volume shutter however. One of the best camera's i've used
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I'm using nitsuj's TSMBullet and it has a great camera! The touch to focus, thumbnail brings to gallery, and it has manual, panorama, hdr, and burst mode. There isn't a volume shutter however. One of the best camera's i've used
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I have to agree. The bullet camera is very sharp.
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This app is awesome! Thanks for the tip.
Btw, to change the image size. Be in camera mode and scroll through the menu at the top of the screen, you should see a square with some sizes in it, press it and select the size you want
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What ROM?
Anyone know if this works with the CM9 Kang ROM by areovan? This CM9 ROM is almost perfect. Only 2 issues that I'm running into:
1. Must run "su; killall drmserver" in the terminal after reboot in order to get Google Play to download/update apps
2. Flash on any camera app that I've tried (stock, angel, zoom FX) doesn't work.
I don't really care if the FFC or camcorder works, mainly need a camera app with flash as I travel a lot (business) and love to take pics at a moments notice with my phone.
Any ideas?
I've tried a ton of camera apps and this is by far my favorite after just a few hours of use. Thanks for the tip!
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2. Flash on any camera app that I've tried (stock, angel, zoom FX) doesn't work.
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You can turn on the torch before taking the picture and that should help.
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they just updated the app to 1.1.7 today, and it fixed a couple of repeatable crashes I was having and had reported...these guys are super responsive! They also said they would consider an option to not downrez the image in editing mode since many smartphones are powerful enough to edit a 8mp image (slowly) these days
This is a great camera app. Thanks for the heads up. Does it take the full 8mp wide pics like sense roms do? It looks like the pic fills the entire screen.
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Im looking for a good photo editing app.
One thst uses layers and lets me erase or delete some of the backgrounds that I dont want......
Anyone know of any?
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Cymera
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Pixlr Express is pretty feature rich...
Thanks guy ill try both.
Im looking for an editing tool that lets me erase thr backgrounds. Such as, editing a person or object out of an image
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This is what I finally settled on. I'm mostly happy with it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiY29tLnNrZXRjaGJvb2siXQ..
mftek said:
Im looking for a good photo editing app.
One thst uses layers and lets me erase or delete some of the backgrounds that I dont want......
Anyone know of any?
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There aren't any that have layers or that are "non-destructive" like Photoshop, except PS Touch (which doesn't run on the GNII).
I currently have on my phone: Camera Zoom FX, Pixlr Express, & Fotor. I also have Photo Editor, which is the most "professional" photo app for Android I've seen yet.
I should add that Camera Zoom FX has a very nice and useful camera app that adds the sorely missing feature "touch to focus AND shoot". Can't believe Samsung left that out.
Man honestly.... used a lot of them. I always come back to picsay pro
I use PicSay, pixlr express, photo editor and aviary. It's impossible to just use one for all your photo editing needs. Use the ones you try out and like the most, and combining them you can do a lot of cool stuff on your gn2. Good luck!
TouchRetouch might be what you're looking for...
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PicsArt
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Photo grid.
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iudesk.android.photo.editor
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Id say snapseed and pixlr express .
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Snapseed, picsaypro, pixlr express.
For snapseed I really like the drama effect
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There aren't any that have layers or that are "non-destructive" like Photoshop, except PS Touch (which doesn't run on the GNII).
I currently have on my phone: Camera Zoom FX, Pixlr Express, & Fotor. I also have Photo Editor, which is the most "professional" photo app for Android I've seen yet.
I should add that Camera Zoom FX has a very nice and useful camera app that adds the sorely missing feature "touch to focus AND shoot". Can't believe Samsung left that out.
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just a heads up, but the version of PS Touch found on the Note 10.1 tablet actually DOES work on our phones (though to be fair, the controls look tiny, lol). I cant post the backup I have, as that would be warez, but if anyone else has both devices, you should try it out.
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just a heads up, but the version of PS Touch found on the Note 10.1 tablet actually DOES work on our phones (though to be fair, the controls look tiny, lol). I cant post the backup I have, as that would be warez, but if anyone else has both devices, you should try it out.
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Yup! Ps touch works great on the n2 for me too!
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Just got ps touch for my note 2 and omg this app is amazing!! Thank you josh for your recommendation
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Just got ps touch for my note 2 and omg this app is amazing!! Thank you josh for your recommendation
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Anytime, bro. Glad I could help out. Just wish I had the time to figure that app out more fully, lol. It has so many features packed in that it's incredibly daunting.
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I just thought I'd share what I use for photo editing cause I mess with it a lot, but I'm no expert by any stretch. I use a combination of apps and with them it really feels like I can do almost anything with a photo,and a couple of the apps that I use have been listed already. I use QuickPic, Photo Editor (by McGeyver), Snapseed, and Camera Zoom FX. I'm sure QuickPic isn't completely necessary and it's probably just a personal preference, but I like how it let's you pick which editor you'd like to use for the picture you're on. Like somebody else mentioned I also use the app Photo Editor for the majority of editing because it's one of the best I've seen, and recently the Dev added a Clone Tool which really put it over the top imo. Plus I've been in contact with the Dev several times with different suggestions and he's actually implemented some of them since. (he might have been working on them already for all I know so I'm certainly not trying to take credit for anything, but he's definitely open to suggestions which is awesome). Anyway I also use the app Snapseed a lot because it covers a lot of things Photo Editor can't do, like straightening a picture or adjusting ambiance and structure of photos. Snapseed also has a lot of fx that you can add to photos and adjust, and when you combine it with Camera Zoom FX, it seems like there's a million different types of fx to choose from. I'm sure there's a lot of awesome editing apps out there that I've never even seen yet, but I'm still amazed at what I've been able to accomplish just using those apps alone.
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5 best photo editing apps for android 2016
1. PicsArt Photo Studio - is most famous in all photo editing apps for android with oven 100 Millions installs. PicsArt is one the fastest growing photo artist app. They provides features like drawing tools, art network, photo grid, collage maker and more. PicsArt photo editor have photo manipulation, wide array effect, text tool, clip graphics, frames in the tools. It easy and simple to use if you don’t even have knowledge about editing.
2. Pixlr-o-matic - is best and simple photo editing app which helps to add stylish effects to pictures. Pixlr-o-Matic is over 200 million+ download just because its amazing features. Which includes effects to adjust the mood of photo, amplify tone, cool it down or shades. You can also use overlays which add drama, sparkle, neon, light leaks to images.
3. PhotoFunia - is popular and famous website for desktop for photo editing. Photofunia also introduce its android app for photo editing. Actually its not only which help you to edit images or giving effects, cropping etc. Photofunia concept different and same as on its website. PhotoFunia is frames based application which help to change your background, face, body with all the listed frames in their app. You can change your suit, Santa, Superman or print you image on wall and much more.
4. Photo Collage Editor - is a powerful frame photo editor for you to create amazing collages using your photos, fun stickers, backgrounds, text with layout and frames. Photo Collage Editor is the best collage maker & photo editor that helps you combine multiple photos with various frame layout and photo grids, then share them at a time!
5. Pixlr – Free Photo Editor - is useful and powerful in all photo editing apps for android. It lets you to quickly crop, rotate or fine tune any picture. Best part about pixlr is, its totally ad-free apps. Choose free effects, overlays, borders to personalize images and giving them professional touch without any editing knowledge. Its contains ‘Auto-Fix’ feature to to balance out colors or adjusting poor light condition on single click. Overall performance this app is great help to edit your images effectively.
Mftek1 said:
Im looking for a good photo editing app.
One thst uses layers and lets me erase or delete some of the backgrounds that I dont want......
Anyone know of any?
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is popular and famous website for desktop for photo editing. Photofunia also introduce its android app for photo editing. Actually its not only which help you to edit images or giving effects, cropping etc. Photofunia concept different and same as on its website. PhotoFunia is frames based application which help to change your background, face, body with all the listed frames in their app. You can change your suit, Santa, Superman or print you image on wall and much more.
Just looking for a replacement camera app with better overall performance
- as a bonus, an app that can take advantage of photosphere? Looks like 360panarama doesn't work on the N4. Also, ability to upload to google maps is a nice bonus to handle sharing photosphere without google+?
I'm gonna guess I am at Google's mercy with all things photosphere though.
I'm looking for one with a self timer. Don't care about photosphere...
fx camera.
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galaxys said:
I'm looking for one with a self timer. Don't care about photosphere...
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=slide.cameraZoom&feature=related_apps#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwOSwic2xpZGUuY2FtZXJhWm9vbSJd
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fx camera.
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this one seems to be all about filters... does it have good actual camera functions and controls = better than the native cam?
Camera fv5, many manual controls
Motorola stock camera app from this ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2069139... very great with timer and a lot of options
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Motorola stock camera app from this ROM http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2069139... very great with timer and a lot of options
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Don't need to install that ROM? Just install the APK?
The default camera app struggle way too much with the auto focus and just cant get it right in the first trial. Therefore, I use Camera FX Zoom as mentioned by people above too. Its a great app. Has timer.. Burst mode.. and focuses extremely quick and accurate.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwOSwic2xpZGUuY2FtZXJhWm9vbSJd
Its a known bug in N4's camera. N4 Auto focus complaints:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=43153
There are 28,660 pages filled with user complaining about auto focus.
They should have seriously fixed the camera auto focus and WiFi screen off in the Latest update. Who knows what went wrong with Google ...........
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camera zoom fx
Seems you can't do HDR with front facing camera and all photos that save from front camera are upside down. Anyone else have those two issues?
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Hi,
I currently use this, Camera JB+: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...sMSwxLDEsImNvbS5tb2JseW54LmNhbWVyYWpicGx1cyJd
Simple, easy, looks like the stock camera app (with her own gallery), standard settings plus a bit more, perfect for my use...
2 reasons this thread has made my day
1. I'm not the only one with a focus bug using the stock camera pp
2. It introduced me to Camera Zoom FX, it's brilliant! (if you won't miss photosphere)
filthykid said:
The default camera app struggle way too much with the auto focus and just cant get it right in the first trial. Therefore, I use Camera FX Zoom as mentioned by people above too. Its a great app. Has timer.. Burst mode.. and focuses extremely quick and accurate.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwOSwic2xpZGUuY2FtZXJhWm9vbSJd
Its a known bug in N4's camera. N4 Auto focus complaints:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=43153
There are 28,660 pages filled with user complaining about auto focus.
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Here is the million dollar question though. Does it focus well with FLASH? Google really messed up with this damn camera. I swear up and down that the Nexus One had a better camera than this garbage they put in here. It's absolutely useless with flash. I can't use it at all!! Damn you Google!!?
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Here is the million dollar question though. Does it focus well with FLASH? Google really messed up with this damn camera. I swear up and down that the Nexus One had a better camera than this garbage they put in here. It's absolutely useless with flash. I can't use it at all!! Damn you Google!!?
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My problem, in addition to the worst focusing ever, is that the camera software totally blows out anything I take a picture of with flash. Pictures of my friends make them look like highlighters!
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I swear up and down that the Nexus One had a better camera than this garbage they put in here.
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I am still keeping the nexus one and I can confirm that the nexus 4 is "slightly" better than the nexus one in terms of camera performance.
filthykid said:
The default camera app struggle way too much with the auto focus and just cant get it right in the first trial. Therefore, I use Camera FX Zoom as mentioned by people above too. Its a great app. Has timer.. Burst mode.. and focuses extremely quick and accurate.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...=W251bGwsMSwxLDEwOSwic2xpZGUuY2FtZXJhWm9vbSJd
Its a known bug in N4's camera. N4 Auto focus complaints:
http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=43153
There are 28,660 pages filled with user complaining about auto focus.
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That 28,700+ (now) number is the amount of open issues with Android in general, not the auto-focus.
ghalalb said:
2 reasons this thread has made my day
1. I'm not the only one with a focus bug using the stock camera pp
2. It introduced me to Camera Zoom FX, it's brilliant! (if you won't miss photosphere)
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Well, I love photosphere and I have got into the habit of taking them almost everywhere I go and then uploading to the google maps streetview project (which makes them easy to share in photosphere mode without google+).
But, I have to assume there isn't any camera app out there that can share to google maps other than Google's own. So, I still will be stuck with the stock app for at least that.
viking37 said:
Hi,
I currently use this, Camera JB+: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...sMSwxLDEsImNvbS5tb2JseW54LmNhbWVyYWpicGx1cyJd
Simple, easy, looks like the stock camera app (with her own gallery), standard settings plus a bit more, perfect for my use...
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Installed, tried for a few days but didn't work for me. Same stock app's auto-focus issue.
nexicon said:
Here is the million dollar question though. Does it focus well with FLASH? Google really messed up with this damn camera. I swear up and down that the Nexus One had a better camera than this garbage they put in here. It's absolutely useless with flash. I can't use it at all!! Damn you Google!!?
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Emmm I guess it does. Leme attach the pic.
Not a big fan of Google photos app. And I really miss the old AOSP gallery app. Seen a few apks on XDA, but none seem to have a functional photo editor. Anybody else in the same boat? Would love to hear some ideas.
I've been trying Piktures. Pretty nice so far. Has an combined photo mode for people who like that all in one photo gallery like iPhones, and can also swipe to get to individual folders like all other androids. Also has a hidden photo feature for those who need to creep, lol.
I'm not sure what you're looking for when you say a functional photo editor, but I use Focus as an alternative to photos.
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sharkie405 said:
I'm not sure what you're looking for when you say a functional photo editor, but I use Focus as an alternative to photos.
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What I meant is that there are some apks floating around XDA for AOSP gallery app (on older Android versions) and when you try and edit a photo with it, the app crashes. I'll check out your suggestion
Following. I hate the Photos app. I use Dropbox and have my camera uploads go there. I don't need cloud storage, and the interface is poor imo. I use Snapseed to edit photos right now, but would like a gallery app that has simple functions (crop, basic color and brightness changes, etc.).
morrowa2 said:
Not a big fan of Google photos app. And I really miss the old AOSP gallery app. Seen a few apks on XDA, but none seem to have a functional photo editor. Anybody else in the same boat? Would love to hear some ideas.
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/51o1rmypfnfkpug/CMGallery_1.1.apk?dl=0
Old cm gallery apk I've been using for years, has always worked fine.
Or maybe this is not what you're looking for? I dunno what you mean by photo editor
Moostafa29 said:
I've been trying Piktures. Pretty nice so far. Has an combined photo mode for people who like that all in one photo gallery like iPhones, and can also swipe to get to individual folders like all other androids. Also has a hidden photo feature for those who need to creep, lol.
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I also used to use Piktures and liked it a lot. I've recently grown to like using the Photos app though...
atan420 said:
I also used to use Piktures and liked it a lot. I've recently grown to like using the Photos app though...
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I keep wanting to like it, but it's just so busy looking. I wish there were a more simplified version.
I've always been a fan of Motorola gallery. I usually just save an apk in my Google drive and install it when I root/get a new phone. Only crappy Part is after you take a picture and click the thumbnail while still in the camera app, it default opens in Google photos.
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I keep trying gallery apps here and there but I still revert back to good old QuickPic v4.5.2.2 (the version before it was sold to Cheetah)
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=73027737&postcount=352
sharkie405 said:
I'm not sure what you're looking for when you say a functional photo editor, but I use Focus as an alternative to photos.
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What I meant is that there are some apks floating around XDA for AOSP gallery app (on older Android versions) and when you click the little pencil icon to edit a photo (to crop, or adjust) the app crashes. I'll check out your suggestion
I was looking for an alternative also found this. Pretty nice gallery app.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.diune.pictures
I love the Photos app. The built in editor is pretty good and you can't beat the unlimited cloud storage. With that said, my second fave gallery app is QuickPic.
Google Photos has been my go to for a long time and does well everything I need.
Only thing I don't like about Photos is easily organising the photos. I have say my "Instagram" (device folder), backup to Photos. However then I have to create an album called "Instagram" and sort through the huge list of pictures to move them to their respective folders.
morrowa2 said:
Not a big fan of Google photos app. And I really miss the old AOSP gallery app. Seen a few apks on XDA, but none seem to have a functional photo editor. Anybody else in the same boat? Would love to hear some ideas.
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Simple Gallery
ez pz lemon squeezy. No ads & lots of customization, active developers...
I hate the new Google photos app too, and don't like the sync. I signed out of the app in the settings and it's just like the old gallery
Cmgallery 1.1
https://www.google.com/amp/s/forum....oid/apps-games/cm12-gallery-app-t3026770/amp/
I use Google photos to upload some of my pic and quickpic is a pretty good one i use it to organize my other pics.
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Simple Gallery!
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