Apps to help make the most of your Windows Phone photos

Windows Phone Central App Roundup: Photo Editors

Every bit someone who has spent a lot of time behind a photographic camera, information technology's nice to run into our Windows Telephone cameras and photography apps improve over the years. The hardware has well passed the novelty stage dorsum when VGA was the but capture resolution and are at present easily capable of taking noteworthy images.  Our Windows Phone cameras have go very handy and capable ways to capture the moment.

The Windows Telephone apps supporting our cameras have every bit improved significantly from apps that elementary slap creative filters on your images to apps that have Photoshop-like capabilities to not merely add filters but likewise to make exposure adjustments and other quality control edits.

Nosotros picked iv Windows Phone photograph editing apps in this calendar week's roundup that go beyond special effects and filters to aid united states of america make the nigh of our cameras and the images they capture.

Real quick... for the roundup I used this epitome every bit the examination image.

The original image resolution is 2592x1936 pixels. In my experience that should yield a 36x26 inch epitome at web resolution (72dpi) or roughly a 8x6 image at print resolutions (300dpi). Spider web resolution is suitable for emailing or web publication (Flickr, Twitter, Facebook, etc) while impress publication is suitable for...well... printing. You may exist able to get away with a lower dpi resolution merely I've always found 300dpi to be the best. Your results may vary.

Photo Editor by Aviary (costless): Aviary is a proper name many will be accepted with in that Aviary makes their photo SDK available to Windows Phone developers to hands incorporate a photo editor into their apps. We run into it with Instagraph, Rowi and other Windows Phone apps.

Photo Editor by Aviary is a Windows Phone 8 photography app that is a stand solitary version of the editor others take integrated with. If you've used any of the apps that utilize Aviary'due south SDK, you lot will be very familiar with this stand solitary editor.

Photo Editor by Aviary main screen, photo select, and main editing folio

As with near editors in the roundup, when you start launch Photo Editor by Asylum yous'll demand to choose a photograph to edit. Your almost recently edited images will be displayed on the launch page for you to revisit or you tin can tap the scan push in the lesser right corner of the screen. This will send you to an album listing for your Pictures Hub or yous tin can tap the camera push button at the bottom of the screen to launch the native Windows Phone camera app to capture a new image to edit.

One time a photo is chosen or captured you'll be sent to the principal editing screen. The image to exist edited sits eye screen and your editing options run beyond the bottom of the screen.

Photo Editor by Aviary editing screens

Depending on the tool, you may have adjustment confined to gear up how much of an upshot is applied and an "utilize" push will sit in the upper right corner. If you just don't similar the editing, just tap the back button to return to the main editing screen. Editing tools are as follows with the Photo Editor by Aviary.

• Enhance: Tools include an auto adapt that picks the optimum adjustments for proper exposure and automatically brand adjustments for nighttime, backlit or simply to rest things out.
• Effects: A dozen furnishings filters that can be applied and stacked on to your photo. The filters are a wide range of hues and tints.
• Stickers: Twenty-three stickers ranging from arrows to sunglasses to a crown that can exist attached to your photograph. Stickers can be enlarged or reduced in size and positioned anywhere on your photograph.
• Orientation: You tin rotate your image or flip information technology horizontally and vertically.
• Ingather: Photo Editor past Aviary has twelve preset crop aspect ratios too as a custom cropping tool for those unique situations where none of the presets work.
• Brightness, Dissimilarity, Saturation, and Sharpness: Each tool is present to aid you fine melody your images exposure.
• Text: This tool, every bit you would guess, allows you to add text to your photos. You can select the color of your font with size and position accomplished through impact.
• Drawing: Want to add together a mustache to a photo? How about darken out a few teeth? The drawing tool volition allow you to add gratuitous form doodles to you pictures. Y'all have a decent selection of colors to cull from and half-dozen line sizes available.
• Redeye, Whiten, and Blemish: Tools to become the reddish out of your subjects eyes automatically, whiten teeth (or any other part of your photo) and correct whatever skin blemishes that may be.

When all it said and done, just tap the Washed button at the tiptop right corner of the principal editing page and your image is saved to your Saved Pictures folder of the Windows Phone Pictures Hub. Saved resolution for an uncropped image is reduced to 1184 x 884 pixels which yields you a 16x12 inch image at spider web resolution or a 4x3 inch image at print resolution. Keep in heed that if yous crop the image, your saved image resolution will differ.

Photo Editor past Aviary photo sample

Photo Editor by Aviary is a very healthy photograph editor. A few suggestions for comeback would include a before/subsequently button to help you toggle between your edited image and its original appearance and a sharing option from inside the app. Photograph Editor by Asylum too lacks horizontal support which would give you a larger view and brand some edits easier to use.

Still...while there is room for comeback Photo Editor by Aviary is a Windows Phone viii photograph editor worth trying. It is a gratis app and you can pick up Photo Editor past Aviary here in the Windows Phone Shop. There is also a Windows 8 version that works rather nicely on tablets that you lot can option up here in the Windows Shop.

Thumba Photo Editor (Trial/$.99): Thumba Photo Editor has been on the Windows Telephone Store shelves for a very long time. If my aging memory serves me correctly, it was available when (or just after) Windows Phone 7 launched. It is a feature crazy photo editor for both Windows Phone 8 and 7.x device and at $.99 information technology's a steal.

Thumba Photograph Editor starts you out in typical manner having you find a picture to edit. Just tap the "go photograph" button at the bottom of the main folio. This will send you to your Pictures Hub folders or you lot can launch your Windows Phone native camera app to capture a new photo to edit.

Thumba Photo Editor's main screen, menu options and settings

In one case yous observe an image to edit, you take a transform button that comes to life that will launch your editing tools. Too, upwards under the 3-dot card you will detect options to share the paradigm, view information on the photograph (file name, dimensions, histogram and a map view if there'due south GPS data bachelor), and admission Thumba's settings.

Settings encompass general options such equally turning on/off GPS services and running the app under a locked screen; photo settings such as jpeg quality on saving and adding a photographer'southward name; and watermark settings.

Thumba Photo Editor editing screens

In tapping the transform button y'all'll pull upwardly Thumba's editing tools. Depending on the editing tool you may have adjustment bars to allow you to decide how much of an consequence or aligning is made to a photo. One time you have things set up, tap the cheque mark to apply the edit or the X button to cancel things out. You besides have a show/hibernate button to get rid of any adjustment bars that are present to give you an unobstructed view of the image.

Editing tools (there is over seventy of them) are spread across multiple pages that includes:

• Adjustments: These tools mainly deal with your paradigm'southward exposure and include dissimilarity adjustments, hue and saturation controls, levels adjustments, white remainder, colour balance, noise reduction and posterize. In that location are seventeen tools in this category.
• Filters: This is where your creative filters reside. There are 20 three filters that include HDR, Tilt-shift, Sepia, Lomography, and colour filters.
• Effects: Twenty options residue on the effects page that include watercolor, solarization, dark vision, mosaic, pencil sketch and more.
• Image: Twelve options are bachelor to arrange appearance aspects of your photo such equally red middle removal, cropping your photograph, rotating your epitome, add a watermark and a few edge options.

Each time you utilize an edit, you'll render to the main editing page where button controls to salve your paradigm, reload (kickoff from scratch) your image and a earlier/after view will become available. When you are washed with all the fine tuning, only tap the save button and your prototype is saved to your Saved Images folder of the Windows Phone Pictures Hub. At any signal in the editing process y'all tin can share your images (selection is up under the three-dot menu) to Facebook, Flickr, or Twitter.

Thumba Photo Editor photo sample

While you do accept the pick to fix JPEG quality in Thumba'southward settings I withal experienced some reduction in resolution when the images are saved. With the setting at 100%, paradigm resolution afterward saving an epitome is 2000x1493 pixels which yields an prototype size of 27x20 inches at web resolution and 6x4 inches at print resolution.

Thumba does have a lot of back and forth navigation between the editing tools and the master editing folio. The user interface works but you can't assistance but think things could be a little more than fluid. I like the earlier/afterwards button and the sharing options that are available within the app. Thumba also supports horizontal view, giving yous a fleck more than elbow room in editing photos.

Thumba Photo Editor has a ton of editing tools to experiment with and is a good option to consider. There is a free trial version available to permit you try things out before investing the $.99 for the full version. You can detect Thumba Photo Editor here in the Windows Phone Store. It is available for both Windows Phone viii and seven.x devices.

Creative Studio (free): This is Nokia'south photo editing option for Lumia Windows Phones. Information technology doesn't have every bit many editing tools equally the other editors in this week'south roundup, but it tin agree information technology'southward ain rather nicely.

The launch page for Creative Studio volition display a thumbnail collection of your almost recently captured or saved images. If none of those images tickle your fancy to edit you lot can tap the "photos" link to pull upwards an paradigm from your Pictures Hub. Creative Studio lacks the selection to launch your Windows Phone camera to capture a new image to edit.

Creative Studio launch, filters and editing pages

With Creative Studio being accessible nether the edit options when your review your images in either the native camera app, Nokia Pro Cam, the Pictures Hub or other 3rd political party camera apps, not beingness to launch the camera app internally really isn't an issue.

Once you've selected an image to edit, your first job is to select a creative filter to apply to your prototype. If you don't need a filter, there is an option to go on with the original image.

Artistic Studio editing screens

In one case you cull a filter (or don't choose a filter) you move to a preview page that has a edit and salvage control push. When you lot tap the edit push y'all'll move to the editing tools. Creative Studio's editing tools are scattered about several pages that include:

• Blur: Two tools are located on this folio. Focus Object allows you lot to selectively blur portions of your image to pull the image's focus to a particular subject or area of the epitome. You also accept a Tilt Shift tool on this folio.
• Play: A Color Pop and Collage creative tool rests in this category. Colour Pop allows you to selectively remove color shades from your epitome. Y'all can pinch to zoom to make your edits more precise. The Collage tool will let you build collages that include up to seven images.
• Adjust: The Adapt Page has options to tweak the epitome's color balance, effulgence, clarity and vibrance.
• Set: Creative Studio'southward Fix Page holds the options to crop, rotate and correct cherry-red eye. Cropping options have a standard square crop and a custom option to let you choose how things shape out.

After each tool is applied to your liking, tap the check push to utilize the edits and render to the preview page. You can then edit the image farther or save the image to your Saved Images binder. In one case saved you lot'll have the option to relieve the image through your typical Windows Telephone sharing options (tap+ship, Bluetooth, Messaging, Email, OneNote or any other sharing app).

Creative Studio maintains full resolution when saving images. That is unless you crop things downwardly.

Creative Studio photo sample

Creative Studio may not have every bit many filters or editing options equally other Windows Phone photo editors but it does a commendable job of things. Additionally, Creative Studios supports horizontal too as vertical view to requite y'all a little more real manor when editing.

It is a free app for your Nokia Lumia Windows Phone 8 devices and you can download Creative Studio here in the Nokia Collection of the Windows Phone Store.

Fantasia Painter (free/$1.99): Fantasia Painter may exist i of the best kept secrets amongst the photo editors for our Windows Phone. Information technology has a potent following only at times is often overlooked.  Like Thumba, Fantasia has been around for some time and is a salubrious photograph editing option to consider.

When you launch Fantasia, you observe yourself at the master editing page. If you've been working on an prototype, that image will be displayed equally you terminal saved it.  Otherwise, y'all'll demand to choose or capture a photograph to edit.  Yous also take the ability to open up a blank sheet and create a new painting.

Fantasia Painter utilities, crop and edit pages

Five control buttons line the bottom of the screen. One to launch your brush tools, one to launch your furnishings tools, ii paradigm rotation buttons and a open/save button. The open/save push button launch a utilities page with your options to cull a photo to edit from your Pictures Hub, piece of work off a blank canvas (the new option), launch the native Windows Telephone camera app, and save/share your creations. You tin can too access the help screen, Fantasia's settings, and feedback options for the developer.

Fantasia'due south settings include options for picture-in-picture view for high precision painting, options to run under a lock screen, and options for the edited/created image's relieve and shared resolutions.

Fantasia Painter brush options, effects, and salve screens

The castor tools allow you to create a new painting or add drawings to your photographic images. Castor options line the left side of the screen with a color palette resting on the right side. Any options for the brush tools will sit in the upper eye screen.

The effects tool push button will pull up a very long list of photograph effects. Scrolling down will reveal the post-obit options.

• Top Effects: These furnishings include colorize, add text, add together stickers, create collages and add borders.
• Style: A collection of creative furnishings and filters such as gradient alloy, grunge, light+bokeh, and vintage.
• Adjust: Here is where you lot'll notice tools to adjust your image's exposure, colour residual, crop/rotate your image, and tweak effulgence, dissimilarity, and saturation.
• Artistic: Yet some other collection of creative filters and effects that include lomography, sepia, tilt shift, a sharpening tool, negative filter and more.
• Distort: 5 options to blur, bloat, pixelize, mirror, and add motion to your images.

All totaled there is over a hundred effects that tin be practical to your images. Each will have a variety of adjustments confined to allow you fine tune how much of an upshot is applied and when you lot get things just right, tap the back button. In doing and then yous'll have two options... keep the changes or discard the changes. Whichever option you choose you'll render to the effects page where you can edit things farther or hit the back push again to return to the primary editing page.

In one case everything is edited to your liking, tap the open/save button from the main editing folio and cull the relieve option. Fantasia will let you name the edited file then save it to your Saved Images folder in the Pictures Hub. If you choose the save + share option yous can share your edited epitome through the typical Windows Telephone sharing options.

Equally we see with Thumba, fifty-fifty with Fantasia's settings set to save at 100% quality you still accept some reduction. Fantasia Painter resized photos to 1366x1019 pixels which will yield you lot a 18x14 inch image at web resolution or roughly a 4x4 inch image at print resolution.

Fantasia Painter photo sample

Fantasia Painter has a ton of editing options to either edit an existing prototype or start from scratch and create a unique drawing. The navigation takes a petty fourth dimension to get used to and I think if the furnishings options were laid out beyond horizontal pages navigation would be a affect more fluid. The vertical scroll gets a little quondam at times. Fantasia also lacks horizontal view which would make editing a little easier.

Every bit with the other photo editing options in the roundup, Fantasia Painter is well worth a try. There are ii versions of Fantasia Painter available for both Windows Phone viii and 7.ten devices in the Store.

There is Fantasia Painter Complimentary that is a free, ad-supported version and Fantasia Painter (which has a trial version) that is ad costless and is currently running $1.99.

Which is all-time? As with many Windows Phone app categories, the answer to that question boils down to personal tastes. Artistic Studio maintains epitome resolution when the edited image is saved, which is a plus. However, if you are merely sharing images electronically and have no need for printed images, even though reduced, the other options save things at decent levels.

Ane could make the argument that Photo Editor past Asylum tends to have the better user interface just it's hard to ignore all the editing tools of Thumba. Fantasia isn't a push over either offer a ripe selection of editing options as well.

In that location'south truly not a bad one in the bunch with the challenging being finding the 1 that fits your needs the best. The dainty matter near these and other editing options is that they either are free or accept a trial version to let you take things out for a test drive.

These are only four of the many photo editing apps available for our Windows Phones. Information technology's nix nefarious just one tin can simply write so much. If nosotros've missed your favorite, sound off beneath in the comments with your recommendation.

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