Best Photography App For Android

Since the introduction of camera into phones, photography has already become one of the highlights of a smartphones and almost all of the popular smartphone makers are making photography specific mobile phones and giving it the best hardware possible including multiple lenses, optical image stabilization, loads of megapixels, low light performance etc. Application developers aren’t behind. They are trying to make use of this hardware to their maximum by providing a lot of features and giving the user a great photography experience. One of the most popular photography application these days is Afterlight, with its latest version Afterlight 2.0 becoming a top app on the Android playstore.

Afterlight’s camera interface takes the influence from the iPhone’s inherent camera application. Top of the screen has the toggle for flash (on/auto/off), grid view, front or back camera. Bottom of the interface has the cancel button which would take you back to the menu, the shutter button and the timer (3, 7 or 10 sec). Touching the screen would focus the camera to that specific spot. Also you can set the exposure ring for setting up exposure.

The simplicity makes this application a great thing. It has a very simple and intuitive interface and a range of tools which makes the editing of pictures precise in a small amount of time. Once you select a photo to edit, it’ll open the photo in full screen for you to make sure that you have selected the exact picture you want to edit. After confirmation, you can edit your picture via a range of tools provided by AfterLight.

The tools available are clarify, brightness, contrast, saturation, exposure, highlights, shadows, fade, highlight tone, mid tone, shadow tone, temperature, vignette, grain and sharpening(blur as well). Each of these tools if provided with a slider to apply the change to image in real time. apart from that, there are fine adjustment for each of these tools. One of the unique tools in this application is the clarify tool. This would give your photo a depth, contrast and sharpness all at once without overdoing it. 

Other that these tools, the AfterLight application comes with 27 original and 30 guest filters. Most of the photography apps will have a normal sepia and a couple of other filters, though AfterLight has these filters in a more professional manner. You can also set the strength of these filters using a slider and the changes will be shown in real-time. These filters are good for a quick edit even before you are taking a photograph. The cropping tool will rotate the photograph to any angle possible. Apart from all these photography specific tools we also have some bling tools like addition of textures and frames. There are currently about 44 textures and 70 frames available to give your photograph that extra oomph factor.