Top Free Android Apps for Photographers
While the iPhone gets a lot of press, Android-based phones are selling like hotcakes, to the tune of about 150,000 per day. That’s an awful lot of Android phones out there and the hardware is usually pretty decent. I just upgraded from a Blackberry to a T-Mobile myTouch 3G Slide with Android 2.1 on it. With a 5mp camera built in that actually takes pretty good pics, I decided to look around for some great photography apps. If you have an Android phone, make sure you have the free app called Barcode Scanner, then use it to scan the code for any of the apps you want and your phone will go right to the app in the Android Marketplace.
PicSay
New Spring stickers, Rainbow effect, and crop tool.
See PicSay Pro for much more features.
Powerful and award winning photo editor. Color-correct your pictures and add word balloons, titles, graphics, and effects like distortion. All in a fun, intuitive, and easy-to-use interface.
CamCalc Free
0.9.8: New Exposure tool, other enhancements.
Photo & camera calculator tools for photography, cinematography, and visual effects. Depth of field, field of view, focal length equivalents, flash calculations, color temp. conversion, miniatures, and sunrise, sunset. Supports still, movie, and video cameras. This free version is Ad supported, a paid version for $1.99 removes the ads.
PHOforPHO
A free set of Phone Tools for Photographers intended for users who has a basic understanding of photography, specifically how manual settings for the camera works. It is NOT intended to be used with the camera on your Android device, but for users of more advanced cameras like SLRs. The application is ad-free.
Camera Magic
Fastest camera available!
- Default camera/Autofocus/Higher resolution
- Digital zoom (not crop like others, proper upscaling)
- Flash (if available)
- Timer
- Burst
- Filters
- Whitebalance
- Volume to zoom camera
Retro Camera
With Retro Camera you’ll take delicious old-school pics your friends will drool over. 4 cameras, 4 sets of vintage vignetting, film scratch, black and white & cross processing effects for that off-the-hip analog look. Inspired by the Lomo, Holga, Polaroid, Diana, the toy cameras and Hipstamatic. Instant Nostalgia now free.
Photoshop.com Mobile
Edit and transform photos easily. Touch to crop, rotate, blur, add photo effects. Upload/Share photos with free Photoshop.com account. Needs SD card. From Adobe, the makers of Photoshop. By downloading you agree to the Terms of Use at www.photoshop.com/misc/terms.html. Developers, see mobile.photoshop.com/android/developers
Camera 360 Lite
Turn your phone into professional camera. Provides LOMO, HDR, axis shift, draft, ghost, etc. and multiple styles.
Popularity: 48%
You should really check out Vignette too, it's one of the best apps I've seen on Android. It's a pay app, but well worth the money.
I have already started a list of pay apps. Will be doing more articles on the 'droid soon.
Thanks for posting this. I went from the BB Curve to the Moto Droid and I do think that the BB had a better camera in it (in sharpness and noise) but I love the added functionality of the Driod. There are many great apps for the Droid and I am glad to see they are getting some coverage. Again, I appreciate it…
Wait till you here this weeks podcast then.
Hi,
you forget Andropan!!!
This app allows you to take, view and share panorama pictures
Ok Ok it is my application but I need more testers on every devices correct bugs and make it better!!
http://www.andro-pan.com
thx
Thanks for sharing these photography apps. All the apps seems to be very helpful for photography.
PicSay and Camera 360 are the best Android Camera Apps to enhance photography. Thanks for other apps. I'll try them out.
i love the free Pixlr-o-matic !