Get even more from your smartphone pix
You’ve taken the picture – but that’s just the beginning. Now you can make sure every aspect of it is perfect with these smart apps.
Camera360
Free, iOS and Android
This app not only allows you to put a host of filters on your pictures – it also allows you to improve your face. By scanning the image of your selfie, you’ll be able to increase the size of your eyes, smooth out any blemishes on your skin and “pinch” your cheeks to make you look thinner. Why settle for reality when you can be digitally perfect?
Skitch
Free, iOS and Android
Skitch, owned by note-taking app Evernote, is all about making annotations to your pictures. Add text, arrows or pixelate areas you don’t want people looking. It’s great for pointing out funny areas on photographs that aren’t immediately obvious, and even better for annotating maps. You can share your creations instantly via text message.
Adobe PS Touch
£2.99, iOS and Android This powerful editing tool allows you to do everything from the basics (cropping images, adding frames) to the advanced (creating and merging layers). If you’re a user of the full Photoshop software, this is as intuitive as it gets, otherwise there’s a learning curve, but a worthwhile one.
Noir Photo
iOS, £2.29
Wanna look like a moody 40s movie star? Now you can. This nifty bit of software gives you control over which parts of your image are lit, allowing you to create stark images with faces appearing from the shadows. It also has a great, intuitive – and very retro – interface. Your Facebook profile pic will thank you for buying this.
Squareready
iOS, Free
So you’ve taken a great picture, you’ve made your eyes look bigger, removed any spots, put a cool filter on it and made it look like you’re emerging from the shadows. But it’s the wrong shape for Instagram… What are you to do? Download Squareready, which will square-off any pictures using panels to the top and bottom (a bit like you see on your TV when you watch a widescreen movie. Now everybody can see how beautiful you’ve made yourself look.