My Favorite Photo Editing Apps

I get asked fairly often about what apps I most like using to edit my photos for Instagram! Since there are so many that I love, I figured I’d just make a list and put it out there for anyone who might be looking for a couple of new app downloads! 🙂 We all know that a filter can make a mundane picture look waaaaayyyyy cooler when applied correctly… Blemishes disappear… Your house looks cleaner… The weather looks nicer… Are you with me or are you with me?!

Cheers to great apps!

So here we have it…

My favorite photo editing apps!
(Some of which are free, and some of which cost a couple of dollars!)

(1) LETTER GLOW

Letter Glow is a fabulous app that my sister-in-law Katie told me about. It’s great for creating graphics with words for promotional material, cool quotes, and anything else you can think of where you may need to put words and a picture together real quick!

The above image was actually created with Letter Glow. Here’s what the background photo looked like before I got Letter Glow involved and slapped some shapes, effects, and text on there!

This really is such a fun app to play with! It’s probably one of my two most used apps! There is SO much you can do with this baby if you take some time to get familiar with all of it’s features, and it’s well worth the few bucks that it costs! (Bonus: They update often with fun new fonts, new embellishments, etc…. So yeah, definitely worth the money!)

(2) VSCOCAM

My other top most used app is probably VSCOcam! I love this app! I kept seeing the hashtag #vscocam on cool pictures I liked, so I had to get it for myself. I love it! Here’s a before image, then what it looked like after I took the VSCOcam to it!

You can crop and adjust temperature, exposure, and contrast, as well as have the ability to add some great filters (which are also adjustable once you pick which filter you like most!) I LOVE this app so much! It’s a great way to add a subtle, vintage feel to your photos.

(3) PICFX

PICFX is pretty neat because, unlike VSCOcam, you can layer filters! This app has some filters that are very similar to VSCOcam, so you can still get that cool vintagey feel, but you can also add layers and adjust things like light, cross processing, texture… And that’s just to name a few! As far as I can tell, there is no limit on how many layers you can add. Pretty cool if you ask me!

Here’s a PICFX before and after:

I especially love the light filter options on this app. That little orangey red light leak on the right is one of them! 🙂

(4) A BEAUTIFUL MESS

The number one thing I use this app to do is to put a landscape or portrait picture that I don’t want to crop onto a white background. But that is just skimming the surface as far as what all can be done with this fun, whimsy app!

You can add borders, phrases, a few filters, text, and so much more to a picture using ABM! Here’s an example:

All of the preset doodles and phrases are a little bit “cartoony,” so they’re great for fun, light-hearted pics! But you CAN also keep it sophisticated if you use it right. This app is super versatile!

(5) BOKEHFUL

My friend Sara Beth, my Lovely Buzz partner, told me about this app! It adds fun little light orbs to pictures in a variety of color palettes and shapes! For this example, I used all 4 shapes on the same picture to show you how they all look. Here’s the before and after! (And I did end up using VSCOcam on this picture as well before I used Bokehful!)

See how fun the little light spots can be!? They just add an element of dreaminess to a picture to me! 🙂 This app isn’t super versatile, but I still love it and use it fairly often!

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So there you have it! My favorite photo edit apps!

What are YOUR favorites?! I do love a great recommendation! 🙂

Thanks for stopping by today! Hope you’ve had a great one so far!