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Jun 22nd, 2015, 10:13 am
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App: Photo Editor by Aviary Premium v4.8.4
Developer: Aviary, Inc.
Category: Photography
Price: N/A
IAP: $0.99 - $9.99

Photo Editor by Aviary Premium delivers a compact and powerful suite of photo manipulation tools for your mobile devices that is easy to use with a wide array of practical functions. The user-friendly interface offers the capability of easily producing expert results with very little effort, which will allow nearly everyone to achieve almost professionally manipulated photos while enjoying the great range of convenient editing tools. Photo editing has never been this easy, just snap a picture or select one from your gallery and have fun experimenting with so many filters, professional adjustment tools and the well rounded package of editing tools; it's like a miniature Photoshop at your fingertips! The app has an extended and elaborate range of preset filters, effects, frames and overlays, but it also allows custom edits to enhance and personalize your photos to give them more clarity and life. What is great about this app is that the developers are quite straight forward in accepting suggestions to add more features and functions to the to the overall collection over time; therefore, it receives frequent updates to accommodate your every need.

At the first glance, you will notice the one-tap auto-fix enhancement features, which allow you to give a high-definition finish, illuminate or adjust the color ranges of your images. If none of the quick options satisfy you completely, the vast range of unique effects this application has to offer surely will. Photo Editor offers a generous amount of absolutely stunning effects and filters in combination with a variety of frames that will make your images stand out. While navigating between various effects, the bottom bar displays a preview in real time of the effect on your image as it would be applied, which can save time when you are on the move. Moreover, this app comes with a full package of stickers, categorized by an assortment of interesting topics. The stickers are quick and easy to apply, modify in size and orientation, and can be dragged and placed anywhere within the image as you see fit. Being that the stickers are organized into packages according to their specific nature makes it more practical and easy to be located and retrieved, making customizing extremely fast and efficient. Everything is designed in a convenient way so that users won't get lost in the extensive list of features that are widely available. Additionally available within Photo Editor is a gallery of numerous preset overlays that are well organized and grouped into topical categorized packages, which are as readily accessible as the rest of the collections offered in this thorough application.

The app comes with a vignette feature that allows you to control the dimension of the focus area and also set the focus on a particular part of the image that you wish to highlight; meaning, the vignette focus placement is not just in the center of the image and allows for complete control of placement. The same applies to the cropping feature, which apart from having preset dimension areas, also has a free form tool that allows you to crop the image as you desire. The focus feature offers the same level of flexibility as the focus area can be set anywhere in the image and can be enlarged or minimized according to everyone's needs. You may also adjust image orientation, both image rotation and image flipping; vertically or horizontally. It has features that allow adjustments of the image lighting by controlling the level of brightness, contrast, highlights and shadows, along with controlling the color balance through tweaking the levels of saturation, warmth, tint and color fading. Additionally, you can set the level of sharpness that appeals to you most to get a more vivid image, especially handy after rescaling your high resolution pictures. Another great and quite entertaining feature is Color Splash, a feature that allows you to remove or add the color only to certain parts of the image. The fun part does not end with this feature as there are also drawing features to add a more personal touch to your images, along with text overlay options to create your own memes through a preset format.

Photo Editor is a one stop solution for all your editing needs and even features handy cosmetic touch up tools, as well. You can fix red eye, remove blemishes and even whiten teeth to perfect those personal flaws and to give your photos a more professional look. The apps allows you to choose a maximum image resolution for your final work. If you have any ideas or feature requests, there's an option to give feedback to the developer to possibly have your thoughts included within an update. As of important note, all of the optional downloads are offered within the online store that is linked to your Adobe account, so you will need to create one to be able to enjoy all the additional content that is available. In summary, Photo Editor is a complete and thorough editing solution designed with convenience and efficiency in mind. For all the included features, options and additional content, as well as the reasonable price point for the entire package, I highly recommend Photo Editor by Aviary Premium for your photo editing needs.

Pros:
  • Stylish, pleasant, easy-to-navigate GUI.
  • Ability to customize and reorder editing tools.
  • Allows exporting to local storage or memory card.
  • May select specific folders to choose source images.

Cons:
  • Numerous optional IAP Supplies to download.
  • Requires an Adobe account to access additional Supplies.

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Device/OS used: Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge / Lollipop 5.1.1

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Jun 22nd, 2015, 10:13 am