What are Reddit's favorite android apps in the category photography?

Google Photos continues to be the best app Google put out in recent years.

And how does Google know the location a printed photo was taken by scanning it?

Play store link.

This sounds excellent. I'm not seeing it in the Play Store. Any chance you could link it? (using a Nexus 6P, hopefully I'm not already outdated...)

Edit: it turns out it's listed under a different name. I originally saw this and assumed it was just meant for photos, but it sounds like it works for text based items, too. This will be super helpful for logging purchases with a company credit card! Thanks for those who provided a link. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.photos.scanner

It's perspective edit. If you're serious and on Android download This

-Open

-Pick a random photo to edit

-Open "Text/Image"

-Press "+" and pick "TT"

-Go to "Effects" and scroll down

-You'll find perspective

You need some Horizon in your life .

"Horizon lets you capture horizontal videos and photos no matter how you hold your device. Hold it upright, sideways or even keep rotating it while capturing, your captured moment will always stay horizontal! "

Snapseed IOS

Snapseed Android

EDIT: I fucked a link, thanks /u/Gumland44

Now that I've ORDed, let me teach you a way around it.

1. Install Piktures

2. Create folders somewhere on your phone called "Camera" and "Whatsapp Photos", or whatever folder name your camera app uses.

3. Put around 20-30 "safe" real pictures into each of them.

4. Hide the real folders (every single one) except the two you've created, within Piktures. There's an option in the sidebar.

5. Go through phone checks with ease as they only have that much to scroll. Remember to open the app for them.

6. If you want, add a few more pictures into each folder every few weeks.

There is a mobile google photo editing version as well!

Snapseed

From the URL it looks like it was make by Nik as well!

*Edit: many as well

There's an app called Photoscan by Google that can really easily scan photos using a phone. It does it pretty well too!

You can get it here

EDIT: For those who can't download it on the play store, try this.

Play Store link (working now) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.photos.scanner

Intro video https://youtu.be/MEyDt0DNjWU

edit:

> The core Google Photos app now has a new “auto-enhance” feature that the company says does a better job in touching up your photos with one tap. It also now has a series of filters, called “looks,” that make different adjustments depending on the content of the photo. Photos with faces might get one treatment; landscapes will get another. You can also make fine-grained adjustments to your photos using new sliders under the existing “light,” “color,” and “pop” tools.

I use PhotoScan by Google Photos for taking pictures of documents. It's optimized for that scenario.

Personally, I don't remember having to rotate any document pictures with this app, but I do remember having to manually "fix" orientation with the camera app. For some reason, it doesn't quite get the corners just right (which seems it should easily be able to do), but that can be manually fixed post in the app.

The post was done in an app called Snapseed, by Google.

(For iOS and in the GooglePlay store.) It's free.

My favorite app for anything I'm editing on mobile.

I envy you. If I wanted to record something from my point of view I need to use my Horizon app and put my phone in my chest pocket.

Google PhotoScan makes scanning pics easy. Even removes glare and crops the edges and things like that. The resulting images are not remotely archival quality, but they're pretty good for mementos, uploading to Ancestry, and other things where photo res is not as important as being able to share the photo.

People seriously need to know about Horizon:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hvt.horizon&hl=en_US

It doesn't care about the orientation of your phone, it WILL record in widescreen.

On android esp. using near stock ROMs, my routine is:

• Take screenshot
• Share(screenshot notification)
• Choose a photo editing app(my preference is Photo Editor)
• Edit - draw, crop etc.
• Share to social app(FB, Messenger, SMS, etc.)

Horizon does that:

https://itunes.apple.com/app/id778576249?mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hvt.horizon&hl=RN

However, if you care enough about shooting horizontally to download an app, you probably don't need it in the first place.

Why are people celebrating this atrocity! The idiots have won!
Truly a sad day in technology... a sad day indeed.

Why not integrate the "Horizon" app into both <em>link</em>:Android and <em>link</em>:iOS, simply removing the option to film in portrait and force landscape at all times.

> not convinced its not a front for google to steal all my old photos though.

Easy enough to check. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.photos.scanner Go there, scroll down to Additional Information and click on "View Details" under Permissions.

You'll now see a list of everything the app can do. Now, you may not know this, but Android apps can't access the internet at all unless they specifically request it (this is different on iOS.. on iOS any app can access the internet without permission). Go check out the permissions for an app like Netflix and you'll see "full network access" listed as one of the permissions.

There are no internet permissions granted to PhotoScan. It can't use the internet at all.

Hi there and welcome to /r/android.

I'll attempt to clear some of your confusions and questions as well. Let's see now:

• You could check vibration settings in settings -> sound & notification and also the individual apps setting.

• Swipe is mostly from the edge of the screen for the hamburger menu, some apps like Reddit Sync allow you to swipe to go back to the subreddit you were viewing before tapping on the post.

• Reddit Sync is pretty customizable and if you feel there's something missing you could bring it up at /r/redditsync, the dev is very active and there's a big update incoming real soon.

• That lag is probably something from Sony's skin, so I'm not sure exactly what you could do about that.

• Yes there are viruses and malwares but you'll be fine as long as you know where you are getting your apps from. You'll be fine as long as they are from trusted sources like Play Store, apkmirror.com etc. Just be careful and smart and there's nothing to worry about.

• Yes, Google Photos is by far one of the best apps from Google.

Hope that helps.

Jesus stop spamming with these crappy Prisma photos anyone can do on mobile with one tap

I know it's exciting to discover app which was new like 2 or more years ago, but it's kinda cringy you don't realize it

Well, i did everything on my phone, of course it would be better and faster to do it in a computer and photoshop but anyway... basically i did everything manually (adding the black stripes, erasing some parts of it, coloring the background, etc) i used this app here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iudesk.android.photo.editor

So, after i added the black stripes, i changed the temperature of the image to more warm colors (yellowish tones), then i used an effect called "color splash(brush)" in the app, so i could select the colors that i wanted to see manually, That's basically it.

For you guys heading out, please take horizontal videos. Use Horizon Camera app or something to make it easy. If something breaks out, don't subject future generations to shitty vertical videos.

Yes you can try these apps :

Android : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.photos.scanner

iOS : https://apps.apple.com/us/app/photoscan-by-google-photos/id1165525994

Open Camera has resolutions going all the way down to 0.1 megapixels. It's open source, doesn't cost a cent, has no ads, a tiny install size and is simple to use.

I have an iPhone, but Snapseed is made by google and it is very powerful in my opinion for a mobile app.

EDIT it is on android and iOS, the link goes to the google play store.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hvt.horizon&amp;hl=en

The main problem is that the person who would download and use this is the same person that never would have had the problem to begin with. This needs to be a stock feature for the camera.

You can hide folders in Android by adding what's called a ".nomedia" file into the folder you want to hide. When you do that it hides the folder from your gallery app unless you specifically activate a "show hidden folders" option within your gallery app. Alternatively you can download gallery apps that have special privacy folders that can be protected by passwords. An example of an application that has that feature is F-Stop Gallery. It does cost money but its a pretty good gallery app with a nice selection of good features.

Edit. Spelling error. I hope this comment helps someone lol, I realise it's a meme but I figure good information is better shared!

App for reference if anyone wants to take a look (Android) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.neuralprisma

EDIT: Apple version https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/prisma-art-photo-editor-free/id1122649984?mt=8

Thanks for the support comrades. This Post wouldn't have been possible without the support of Gau Live (please check it out)

Also this is the app I used to make this post do give it a try if you need a photo editor for your phone.

Google Photos to be specific. It'll allow you to upload at high or original quality. Original quality will count against your free Google Drive storage space.

Maybe try Piktures & Focus. There's another one but I don't remember it's name

All of these shots were taken using Manual Camera and edited using VSCO. The stock camera is perfect for taking casual snapshots but I'd prefer to use Manual Camera for shots that are a bit more premeditated.

Hey man isn't that logo awfully similar to Google Snapseed?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.niksoftware.snapseed&amp;hl=en_IN

Snapseed is the photo editor that I've been using for years and with every update this app seems to get better, more feature-rich and mature. For my use I have literally no complaints. It might lack bells and whistles that pixlr has (and that I see as useless most of the time), but the things it does it does pretty damn well.

If you want more comprehensive editing I'd recommend Snapseed. Also made by Google.

Btw, try the healing or perspective tool; algorithm straight up doing some magic there.

Have you tried Photo Editor by dev.macgyver? It has layer options that may fit your needs. It's in the Text/Image section.

Edit: Didn't realize this was suggested not long before I submitted my post. Sorry about that.

Use an app like PhotoScanner. Might also try /r/PhotoshopRequest after. I wouldn't try and separate the Photo from the glass.

Not sure how tech savvy you are, but if you have a high quality camera phone, you can use this app:

PhotoScan on the Google play store.

Takes a series of photos and stitches them together to get a detailed digital copy without any glare. It works surprisingly well.

Otherwise, if you have any family in education still, ask them to scan it for you using their school/university facilities ;)

Failing that, libraries often provide scanning services, and most larger/better funded ones should hopefully be a lot better than any home scanner.

:)

I was in your situation some weeks ago. I tried some 10-20 gallery apps, and finally I'm using F-Stop is really fast and a beauty Material Design. Other interesting project is Impression.

I only see one comment mentioning the android app, now I'm making the second. And since the topic is gaining some traction, and you are offering advice to help people, it is worth mentioning, yes, google made their own scanning app as well.

Mentioning that something exists doesn't need to be a dick swinging contest.

I'll link it right here. for those who would find it useful.

Looks great my dude. I highly recommend learning some of the basic photo editing techniques for smartphones. Most phones have software included to adjust the warmth of a photo, but Snapseed is an app that I've found works great for food photography.

Seeing as this is turning into a list of recommended alternatives, I'd like to mention Piktures. It's fast, stable, highly configurable and good looking. And as far as I know, the company doesn't engage in the kind of shenanigans discussed in OP's link.

It's 2019, and people still haven't learned to turn their phone sideways, or install some free app like horizon that fixes the issue for these idiots.

Not everyone is glued to their phone 24/7, some of us actually interact with the public when we're not home, and have a desktop/laptop to use when we are home.

It's the photo from this post and the 'Wild' art style applied via the Prisma app.

On this subject, the Google Photoscan app here is a great tool for digitizing photographs. You basically take pics of it from slightly different positions and it stitches them together.

Google Photos comes with syncing, photo search, unlimited photo storage and an in-built editor but you don't have to use these features if you just need a gallery (sign out of Google Photos to get a 'classic' gallery app).

LeafPic is also shaping up to being a really good, free open-source image viewer. It's currently under development and only available on F-Droid.

Try Pikture or alternativly, you can install the last version of QuickPic from the original dev. This is the unsigned version, so you won't have to worry about it updating automatcailly. Download it from here

Wait, even the detailed permissions link on the play store page will no longer display the internet permission? Ever since the Play Store started simplifying the permissions in the install popup, I've always checked the detailed permissions list before installing anything. For example the page Photos (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.photos) still shows "receive data from the internet" under Permissions->View Details. Will the internet permission cease to be disclosed even in that list in the future?

Both apps compress images heavily so that's normal. I also assume you're taking photos at an higher mpx count. Some things you can try: instead of sharing from your gallery upload them directly from the apps; instead of uploading the original photo reduce its resolution to the same resolution the app uses (for Instagram keep it at a 1080 pixels wide) use apps such as photo editor to reduce the photo size

Stock camera app, no question.

For editing, try Snapseed (my favorite, a little more manual) or VSCO (a bit more automated)

Ive been using Piktures for years, and its 64bit. Can create albums, tag pics, sort by location tag, locked albums

Would you be up for trying to "scan" it and upload the result? Not like, taking it out of the frame, but just seeing what you can do with your phone? I would recommend Google Photo Scan (Android link, iOS link)... you basically just follow the guide and it does its magic to stitch the images together and remove any glare that might be present from the frame. Should/could get you a pretty decent version of it to share. Probably not quite as high quality as the original, but still... that thing is art.

Photoscan:

• Android
  
• iOS

Unless others have warnings against it, I've really liked Piktures. Has albums, folder exclusion, date search/grouping, filtered galleries (gallery of all videos, gallery of gifs, etc) and private/lockable gallery.

Manual Camera is the perfect counterpart to Google Camera for when you want to use the Nexus 6's manual focus (and other fancy camera controls I'm too dumb to care about).

OpenCamera for Android is really good for this, since they took away the colour correction and exposure settings in the default Android camera - it has options for daylight, overcast, fluorescent and incandescent lighting (and surprisingly good auto-correction) as well as ISO settings (which I haven't had to play with so far). It also has a macro focus option, 'torch' flash option (if you want a better way to check that you've got everything positioned just right) and a timer. I'm also pretty sure it has a 'save as RAW' option, but I wouldn't touch that unless your phone supports microSD cards - RAW files are HUGE so you'll run out of space quickly if you're doing a lot of swatch photos or something.

Still not as good as a proper camera, but for those without the money to spend on a separate camera (or if you just don't have it on you when you want to take a photo) it's an option.

For my photos, I usually have it on 'daylight' or 'overcast' correction - the incandescent correction is pretty much defeated by my ridiculous bathroom lights (I have those 'heater-light' things, they make everyone look jaundiced as hell) and I've had no reason to use fluorescent correction yet. I use macro focus for swatch and product photos, and I use the 'torch' flash when I'm trying to show sparkle or pick up shifts in products. (Or when it's too overcast to take sunlight photos.)

(I'm not sure if there's a better camera app for Apple and Windows, but I'm sure there must be by now.)

> I wish the camera had more options. The google camera is too simplified.

Manual Camera is amazing, I recommend checking it out!

You should scan the postcard using something like Google Photo Scan then upload it and someone could colorize it or the least sharpen it up a bit.

This is weird to me... That little button on your screen is not "the camera" It is shortcut to launch an application. When you tap it it opens a program. On android phone you can remove it and replace it with anything other icon, even flappy bird if you want. But since you seem so concerned with camera functionality, why not just use Open Camera

Using an app like Google's PhotoScan can help making high quality digital copies without a flatbed scanner, using your phone's camera. It takes multiple photos and stitches them together to remove reflections from lights

Gcam doesn't give full sized RAW. Use Opencamera.

I was also using Gcam but Opencamera gives better results with minimal loss.

Gcam RAW - 13MB

Gcam JPEG - 6~8 MB

Opencamera RAW - 24 MB

Opencamera PNG - 16~24 MB

Opencamera JPEG - 9~11 MB

I have a G5 Plus, & use Open Camera, which you can download from the Google Play Store, here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencamera

I used to use Google Camera, on my previous phones, but when I was unable to get it on this one, I gave Open Camera a go. I've been pretty happy with it, so perhaps you should give it a go. It's way better than the stock camera app, & it's free & has no ads.

Oreo ROM: https://www.celsoazevedo.com/files/android/google-camera/f/GoogleCamera-Pixel2Mod-Arnova8G2-V7beta-test-9.apk

Stock (Nougat ROM): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencamera&amp;hl=en_US

Snapseed
Or Photo Editor for stuff like exif tags stripping or saving in some other format. Other features are good too

Anything more -> PC

Piktures first but it had a few issues that weren't getting resolved so I headed over to FStop. It's okay.

Yo use Google PhotoScan and make that a dope wallpaper! It reminds me of this Dark Souls picture that I use for my wallpaper.

Just install Google photos, it'll store all your photos/vids and has a option to delete the copies on your phone.

It's super easy to use, install and it'll take you through how to use it.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.photos

Edit: a link

I'm new here, so I don't know any of the conventions, but what's the opinion of /r/Android for Piktures? I'm using it right now and I'm quite happy with it. I'm not trusting the google play comments since these types of things are quite YMMV.

Photos
- I use snapseed, though I think there are more powerful options out there, including photoshop and lightroom from Adobe

Books
- Lithium has always met my needs

Snapseed (Android / iOS) is a Lightroom'esk image editor who's black and white mode offers color filtration. I haven't calibrated it in any scientific way but a quick eyeballing shows its shifting tones in the right direction.

It also offers curves and color sliders to finetune if you desire.

That's the photo editor (5th screenshot shows this interface), not the camera app...

Either being disingenuous, or wildly unaware of which app you're running in.

Some stuff like this exists - for example the PhotoScan app for scanning photos (although still images are easier since you can move the phone to remove the glare).

But what you're asking for is never going to get built by a major tech company because the main use case is to violate copyright law.

You can record upto 120fps by using open camera app available in playstore, but size will be restricted to 720p the moment you choose the higher fps than 30.

Playstore link: Open Camera

If you are on Android this app allows timestamps, and you can set the size of the saved images. I'm just looking it over now but might do what you want. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencamera

I think Photo Editor has layers. Go to the "text/image" menu and touch the button that looks like 2 squares on top of each other.

Download: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iudesk.android.photo.editor

I'd recommend Snapseed for quick edits and PicsArt for collages and stuff like that.

Thx

If you're interested I use Photo Editor for the job

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iudesk.android.photo.editor

Been using it for 5 years and made over a thousand memes with it

I need help

Taken with Open Camera in HDR mode using the Camera2 API. Noise reduction and edge enhancements completely disabled. And of course, for comparison, here's the same using all auto settings and the Sony camera. Sorry about the reflections, I'm supposed to be working :D

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EDIT: Yup, no EXIF. That's because the original was saved as PNG (which, yes, you can do that), I was playing with "external" noise reduction on some other pictures but there's none of it applied here.

I used an app called photo editor for Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iudesk.android.photo.editor It offers a lot of options so it's a bit tough to master I have absolutely no idea if it exists for iOS.

Priv runs on android. Are you using google photos? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.photos

There are tonnes of different gallery apps you can try to organise your pictures.

Open Camera does that, and is a free, open source app as well. Tap on the popup menu (3 dots), then tap on the m icon for manual focus, then you should see a slider at the bottom of the screen to adjust it. You can read more in the manual.

Google Photos app is one of the best, and paired with Snapseed owned by Google too, for editing, your pretty well covered. Photos app has unlimited storage too, free, but original resolution pictures are not unlimited. The compression does not really affect saved pictures.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.photos

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.niksoftware.snapseed

PS, when asking questions, it's best to give more info, like who made the phone and what model, os, which you gave.

Tell her to use Open Camera. Is an Open Source app that works way better than the default camera app. Works wonders! Send her the link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencamera

Snapseed's pretty good, Lightroom's pretty good, PicSay's pretty good, but none of them compare to the photo editor with the most basic name of them all: Photo Editor

It's the real Photoshop of Android in my opinion, absolutely bursting at the seams with useful, and more importantly, precise, editing tools. Images can be edited down to the literal pixel, edits can be adjusted step by step with directional buttons, and cropping is hands down the most refined on Android, with features such as an adjustable zoomed in area of where you're touching and friggin drag speed controls (as low as 1/18th the speed) so you don't "over drag", which make it effortless to crop exactly where you intended. And all those things barely scratch the surface of what this editor is capable of (it even has a lesser known but very involved GIF maker/editor).

Photo Editor does have a rather steep learning curve, so if feature packed isn't really what you're looking for and instead prefer straightforward, aesthetically pleasing filters and full image color tuning (though Photo Editor is more than capable of both), then Snapseed or Lightroom or even Pixlr might be closer to what you want.

Thanks, it is. Actually, I haven't seen one like that yet, so this is why I made it. Rick's head is from this cutout from S3E2.

I used Photo Editor on my phone to make it so it's not really that perfect though.

Photo Editor

It's a pretty involved app and has a fairly steep learning curve, but it's by far the best photo editor on Android and can accomplish practically anything you throw at it. There's an entire tool dedicated to what you described with the cropping out of various shapes, and they can be adjusted pixel by pixel, both with their size and placement. Then just save your edited image as a png file, exit and reopen your desired base picture, and select your previously edited image as a new layer. Position, size, opacity, etc can all be adjusted again from there.

Just play around with the app for awhile and you'll eventually get the hang of it.

Well, you see, the entire point of .nomedia is to prevent it from being included in media scans by apps (e.g., your default gallery app)... hence why it's called "Private".

If the Private option didn't include .nomedia, then it wouldn't be private. That folder&mdash;and all of the images and/or videos inside&mdash;could end up appearing in the Gallery and/or Google Photos app's library... which defeats the purpose of a "Private" save location.

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Also, FWIW, I know the F-Stop Gallery app has an option in the settings to "Ignore .nomedia"... so maybe what you really need is a different app that can be configured to ignore .nomedia?

I'd honestly consider checking out Google PhotoScan - it's by far the fastest and cheapest method, and by all accounts is pretty decent.

Whatever other method you use, you're having to pay a person's time to go through loading all those photos, and that is not going to be cheap.

If you don't mind editing on a phone, Snapseed is a pretty good image editor from Google.

Android, iOS

It is from the new Prisma application you've installed, because you have picture rendering in the background. Hold the tap on the notification, and you will know what I am talking about.

This app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iudesk.android.photo.editor

It's genuinely amazing, as close to Photoshop as I've seen in an app. Goes way, WAY beyond filter-and-frame apps.

That plus a bit of okayish Photoshop skillz, and voila :-)

Have you played around with non-default camera apps? I've been installing Open Camera on my phones and have been pretty happy with the finer control that doesn't seem to be available in most default apps.

I see where your confusion is coming from. The Photos app is actually a separate app from your Camera app. If the Photos app is installed, you can find it in your app drawer under "P" and the name is just "Photos". You can see it here.

If it's not installed. here's a link.

Open that app, and like you said, go to settings, Back up and sync, and select the backup settings you desire, Good luck!

I use OpenCamera. I have it set to record the audio from just the microphone. If it's set to just camcorder, it has the same muffled sound. It's worth looking into. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.sourceforge.opencamera

If you're looking for a (free) image "enhancer"

Google Snapseed

Google also has a couple of little tutorials, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQt7A7pzsTg

I keep it turned off. The only time I would want to use is it for looking at pictures or videos.

After the Quickpic takeover, I moved over to using Piktures. Piktures has auto-rotate switched on by default, regardless of the system setting. Which is genius in my book. If it isn't switched on, try Piktures - Settings - and select Screen Orientation. Quickpic also has a setting to auto-rotate if you really want.

Like this app? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hvt.horizon

And i think Google camera does it automatically. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.GoogleCamera

I'm on Android so I use the intuitively named Photo Editor.

It's no Photoshop but it has a good few basic functions that are easy to use.

Get/learn Snapseed. Saturation and contrast are probably the settings you want to mess with.

Pay attention to your lighting. Avoid shooting things that are lit from the back and try to get them lit from the front (and probably a little from the side). Consider taking pics in the shade, rather than in full sunlight. Watch your composition.

In the Camera app itself, tapping at any specific point on the screen will set the point for focus and for metering. Tap somewhere light, and the image will get darker. Tap somewhere dark, and the image will get brighter. Once you've tapped, sliding your finger up/down can adjust the exposure (exposure compensation).