1. Lightroom App
Alongside Photoshop on your computer, Adobe also offers Lightroom for mobile, specializing in tone adjustment, quick photo cropping, and more. With a bit of practice, your photos can be just as stunning as when using Photoshop.
In Lightroom, you can freely perform adjustments. If you're not satisfied, you can quickly revert the image to its original state with just one click. Lightroom boasts a stylish and effective interface for photo editing. It's divided into 5 modules, making transitions easy with fewer tools that are easy to use and highly effective in many cases.
Notably, it features an “authentic HDR” mode, allowing users to capture raw photos in DNG format (an Adobe-created RAW image format from 2004) with an expanded dynamic range. This is similar to what's done on computers and DSLR cameras, resulting in higher-quality images with more light information for your editing purposes.
The app's camera will measure light and make adjustments to achieve appropriate exposure for each part of the photo. It then captures, combines, and stitches the images together. The result is a 16-bit RAW file. Unfortunately, the HDR capture feature is currently limited to a few Android smartphones, including Samsung Galaxy S7, S7 Edge, Google Pixel, and Pixel XL.
Download Links:
- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.adobe.lrmobile
- IOS: https://apps.apple.com/vn/app/Photo-&-Video-Editing-with-Lightroom/id878783582


2. Analog Film
Explore Analog, a photo editing app with over 400 filters, allowing you to enhance your photos with various styles. The advantage and also the drawback of Analog are that it's divided into several small apps for easy color searching but may slow down your device. So, it's best to download a single Analog Film app. Just take a photo, enter any city name, choose a suitable filter (each city has 10 different filters), and your photo will capture the colors and spirit of that city. Isn't that amazing?
For different tastes, different apps may be suitable. For example, the Analog Tokyo filter is ideal for light and poetic photos. Perfect for adjusting photos of the sky, flowers, or capturing elegant items like ice cream, cakes, and afternoon tea tables. The Paris filter is great for capturing landscapes with a high sky, seascapes, and architectural structures. The initial colors may be a bit bright, so you can customize them by reducing saturation and contrast.
Analog London: With its cool tones, it's suitable for capturing everyday life scenes, such as people moving, working, or chatting. It also works well for capturing food with a dark background, like tables or tablecloths in brown or black. Analog Budapest: If you love pastel colors and a gentle, innocent style, this filter is perfect for you. Jeju: Use this filter for natural scenes like mountains, trees, or streets.
Analog Beijing: This filter enhances and pushes colors up quite well, making it suitable for photos with many colors, such as a table with a variety of dishes, #ootd photos with vibrant outfits, flat lay photos, amusement parks, and bookshelves. Portland: The colors are quite cool and melancholic. Suitable for capturing luxurious food photos and images that require a certain 'depth of color.' Wedding: This filter feels like a combination of Japanese and Korean atmospheres: light and dreamy. Use it similarly to Tokyo, with not much difference.
Download Links:
- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.analogfilter.filterjapan&hl=vi&gl=US
- IOS: https://apps.apple.com/vn/app/analog-paris/id1035219562


3. Snapseed
Snapseed is undeniably the most powerful photo editing tool with a plethora of features. However, getting acquainted with this app is no walk in the park. This article will introduce you to all the tools and filters that Snapseed has to offer, helping you grasp the basics of using this application.
Tune Image: Snapseed's Tune Image tool enhances the color and brightness of your photos significantly. This is the tool you'll use most frequently in Snapseed as it greatly improves the overall appeal of your photos. Details: Provides better detail for photos, especially effective for detailed images, landscape photos, or city scenes...
Swipe up or down on the photo to open the Details tool menu in Snapseed, which includes Structure and Sharpening. However, it's recommended to use Structure as it makes your photos beautiful and more detailed. The Sharpening tool also increases the detail of the photo but often reduces the overall quality.
Snapseed has Curves: This tool provides a chart, allowing you to create many special photo effects. However, using this tool well requires certain skills, making it challenging for newcomers to Snapseed. I'll introduce this tool separately in another article.
Snapseed's White Balance allows you to change the overall tone of the photo, shifting it to a warmer or cooler tone. Crop, Rotate, Perspective, Expand: These tools help enhance the composition of the photo. They turn hastily taken or amateur photos into more balanced and professional-looking compositions.
Download Links:
- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.niksoftware.snapseed
- IOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/snapseed/id439438619




5. Capture Magic
Discover Line Camera's Enchanting Filters - Line Camera produces photos with a color tone similar to Foodie but leans towards a pinkish and brighter hue. Ideal for capturing those 'school days nostalgia,' LINE Camera is a free photo editing app on Android. It allows users to easily decorate photos with fun and unique designs, including popular LINE characters for instant personalization.
Line Camera features:
- Selfie Mode: Use the integrated camera, Live filters, and Beauty function for stunning selfies.
- Varied Frames and Stickers: Decorate photos with over 100 unique frames and 1000 cute stickers, including familiar LINE app characters.
- Cute and Fashionable Filters: Create and edit ideal photos with special filters.
- Custom Drawing and Text Stickers: Design and use your unique stickers with personalized descriptions and messages.
- Easy Photo Sharing: Share photos using LINE, Facebook, and other SNS services.
- Camera and Decoration: Timer function; Over 1000 beautiful stickers; Over 100 unique frames; 20 special photo filters; 186 custom drawing pens; Create stickers with drawing and text.
- Portrait Editing: Easily adjust brightness and smoothness of the skin. Fine-tune details with a simple touch. Resize parts of the photo effortlessly. Enlarge eyes for a natural look. Remove spots and blemishes, erase dark circles.
Important Note: The Line Camera app uses network connection to automatically download additional content, including free cute stickers, lovely frames, and artistic filters. Approximately 50MB of data will be downloaded after the first installation. Photos will be uploaded when you choose to share on social networks.
Download Links:
- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jp.naver.linecamera.android
- IOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/line-camera/id516561342


6. Experience B612 Magic
For those who adore selfies with adorable effects like bunnies, puppies, teddy bears, and more, don't miss out on the captivating B612 app that's enchanting many enthusiasts. Despite the slightly fewer color options, rest assured it's ample for flawless whitening adjustments.
Key Features of B612:
- Over 1,500 diverse stickers: Face recognition stickers transform your face or turn you into a cute creature. Radiant effects and stylish analog filters ensure a delightfully fun day. Draw your own artwork directly on the screen.
- Real-time beauty effects for a perfect shot on the first click: Perfect skin with just one touch. Explore your ideal facial shape with an easy-to-use slider.
- Perfect filters: High-quality filters perfect for selfies, food, landscapes, or any occasion. Quickly access your favorite and most frequently used filters.
- Easy creation of high-quality music videos: Infuse lively melodies into your videos. Diverse effects and playback speeds bring livelier music videos.
- Meet cute, lifelike characters through AR stickers.
- Create looped boomerang videos.
- Utilize editing tools to enhance your existing photos.
- Create collage photos to cherish the best moments in one frame.
Download Links:
- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.linecorp.b612.android
- IOS: https://apps.apple.com/vn/app/b612/id904209370


7. Lightleap
For those art-loving souls who revel in creativity, the app Lightleap is a perfect match. It allows you to blend photos and create photo effects that dissolve just like in Taylor Swift's 'Style' music video. Lightleap boasts numerous features, including 20 color filters, the ability to add text to photos, cute sticker options, background choices for photos, and over 100 custom layouts.
Lightleap is a professional photo editing app for iPhone, transforming your photos into artistic masterpieces effortlessly. With tools like Reshape, Brushes, and color filters such as Analog, BW, and BUO, the app enhances your images. Additionally, it saves the highest quality images for you. Currently, Lightleap is available for free on the App Store.
Highlighted tools of the Lightleap photo editing app:
- Canvas: Supports photo cropping, tilt adjustments,...
- Image: Here, you can adjust brightness, contrast, etc., by choosing Adjust. Then switch to the Tools tab, displaying adjustment tools like Basic, Details (detail level), Color, Split Tone, Curves. Clarity in Image includes tools for editing image sharpness (Sharpen, Clarity) and image saturation. Target allows adjusting contrast and saturation for a specific area or object in the image.
- Color Filters: Filters include Analog, BW, Duo. Choose any filter and adjust the color slider accordingly. Then switch to Tools to use additional tools if the color of the filter doesn't quite fit.
- Tools: On the main interface, help blend two photos with Mixer, reshape with Reshape, swap image areas with Heal, and create Tilt Shift effect.
- Artistic: This section lets you create artistic photos with Elements, Painting, Urban, Sketch.
- Remaining tools like Brushes, Text, Finalize are commonly used in any editing app.
- It's delightful news for iOS fans that the initial version of Lightleap is free.
Download Links:
- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lightricks.quickshot&hl
- IOS: https://apps.apple.com/vn/app/lightleap/id1254875992


8. Discover VSCO Cam
Step into the Timeless World of VSCO Cam – Don't miss out on VSCO Cam; it's never out of style. This app offers a plethora of new and unique photo tones suitable for various scenarios. Moreover, it allows you to customize contrast, brightness, darkness, color temperature, and more.
The VSCO Cam app features magical photo editing tools, enabling users to create captivating and deeply meaningful color palettes. Factors such as exposure, temperature, contrast, cropping, image rotation, blurring, classic effects, and many other options optimize users in crafting a perfect composition. Users need to flexibly adjust these parameters to achieve their preferred photo, especially utilizing tools like Fade (adding a misty layer for a slightly blurred effect) and Highlight Tint, Shadow Tint (adding color tones to bright/dark areas).
Here are some cool color adjustment formulas with VSCO Cam:
- C1/Vibrant +6; Contrast +1; Clarity +1; Highlight Save +5; Shadows Tint (purple) +7
- Filter M3 +8; Exposure +2; Contrast +2; Temperature -3; Tint -2
- Filter A6; Exposure -1; Contrast +2; Saturation -2; H. Save +5; Temperature +1
- Filter C1(+8); Exposure -1; Contrast -2; Saturation +1; Temperature -3
- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vsco.cam
- IOS: https://apps.apple.com/vn/app/vsco-chinh-sua-anh-v%C3%A0-video/id588013838?l=vi


9. Delightful Foodie App
For the culinary enthusiasts, downloading the Foodie app is a must. Capture beautiful food photos for every dining experience to share on social media. The highlight of Foodie is its ability to blur the background while enhancing the subject, making your dish stand out with clarity.
Key Features of Foodie:
- Over 30 professional-quality dynamic filters: Includes image filter series such as Delicious, Positano, Tropical, Outdoor, Sweet, Fresh, BBQ, Romantic, Crispy, and Chewy.
- Smart guide feature for easy and accurate top-down food photography: Capture the perfect atmosphere and mood when taking top-down food photos.
- Flavor your videos with attractive dynamic filters: Record vibrant videos of your culinary journey.
- Transform bland scenes into richly hued masterpieces: Use diverse filters and detailed editing to infuse everything from alluring charm to the warmth of a film camera into your photos.
- Perfect moment capture with a timer: Ideal for taking selfies or capturing the perfect food shot. Option to mute: Enable this option when taking selfies or photos in quiet restaurants.
- Share photos on social media: Easily share on Instagram, LINE, Facebook, KakaoTalk, WeChat, VSCO, Weibo, and many other apps!
Download Links:
- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.linecorp.foodcam.android
- IOS: https://apps.apple.com/vn/app/foodie/id1076859004


10. Creative PicsArt
Introducing an easy-to-use and feature-rich app that's also completely free, ladies! In addition to changing eye color, smoothing the skin, and removing blemishes, PicsArt also allows for photo manipulation and the trendy 'double exposure' effect.
With an intuitive interface, PicsArt makes it easy for users to utilize editing features while delivering effects reminiscent of professional Photoshop software:
- Camera: Enables users to capture photos and apply various photo effects by upgrading the device's standard camera.
- Comprehensive photo editing: Offers the ability to magnify photos, design collages, create cut-and-paste images, insert into frames, add borders, decorate with sticker overlays, insert text with unique effects, graphic clipart, add photo captions, crop, rotate, adjust photo colors, and more.
- Unique photo effects: Utilize attractive artistic photo effects such as stencil paper, cartoon, sketch, Orton, Lomo,...
- Drawing: Draw, decorate with sticker overlays, add photo captions, artistic drawing pen, and various font styles.
- Share photos: If you want to share photos, you can use sharing options to social networks like Facebook,... or send photos via SMS and Email as attached files.
- Dynamic wallpapers: Experience images with fun and captivating colors.
- Supported languages: English, Japanese, German, Chinese, Polish, Korean, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian,...
Download Links:
- Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.picsart.studio
- IOS: https://apps.apple.com/vn/app/picsart-chinh-sua-anh-video/id587366035


