The Galaxy S2 comes standard with a very decent photo editor app, called, wait for it :) - "Photo editor" - very handy for a few quick touch ups, cropping or rotating. It's not a full Photoshop type app, but for every day use, it does the job nicely!
In this post I'll quickly go over all the features it has - starting the app, allows you to select which image you want to edit:
You can either select an existing image, or take a new one... Once you've selected the photo you want to edit, you'll get a neat interface with everything you need right there:
The next one you'd need would be a cropping tool - we always get stuff like fingers or bystanders that spoil the photo, so cropping the pic can easily fix that. It can even turn a crappy photo into a MASTERPIECE!!!
This little app also have several selection related tools and features, which allows you to make edits to only certain parts of a photo:
At the bottom you'll see a back and forward button, so you can undo and redo any steps you take... Next to that you have a paint pallet icon, which gives you options to play with the brightness and contrast settings:
The magic wand tool gives you options to make some blur related changes to your selection (you need to make a selection first for this to work):
The final tool in the list gives you some other effects you can apply to your pic:
So there you have it, that covers the stock standard "Photo editor" that comes by default with the Galaxy S2 - it's got enough to allow you to do the basics, but it won't be used by professional photographers :) (they'll anyway rather use their PC or Mac)
I'll have a look to see what alternatives to the standard photo editor there are out there, and maybe do some reviews on them too.
Till next time!
In this post I'll quickly go over all the features it has - starting the app, allows you to select which image you want to edit:
You can either select an existing image, or take a new one... Once you've selected the photo you want to edit, you'll get a neat interface with everything you need right there:
The most basic feature any decent photo editor app must have is a rotate one, and luckily, this one does! It also includes "flip horizontally" and "flip vertically" features:
The next one you'd need would be a cropping tool - we always get stuff like fingers or bystanders that spoil the photo, so cropping the pic can easily fix that. It can even turn a crappy photo into a MASTERPIECE!!!
This little app also have several selection related tools and features, which allows you to make edits to only certain parts of a photo:
At the bottom you'll see a back and forward button, so you can undo and redo any steps you take... Next to that you have a paint pallet icon, which gives you options to play with the brightness and contrast settings:
The magic wand tool gives you options to make some blur related changes to your selection (you need to make a selection first for this to work):
The final tool in the list gives you some other effects you can apply to your pic:
So there you have it, that covers the stock standard "Photo editor" that comes by default with the Galaxy S2 - it's got enough to allow you to do the basics, but it won't be used by professional photographers :) (they'll anyway rather use their PC or Mac)
I'll have a look to see what alternatives to the standard photo editor there are out there, and maybe do some reviews on them too.
Till next time!
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