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10 superb Android apps that will make your smartphone photos sizzle [Freeware]

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If you’re one of those who are convinced that smartphone photos are destined to forever remain washed out, blurry, flash destroyed disasters, think again. The latest breed of high resolution phone cameras has spurred on a new generation of apps designed to take advantage of all that lovely power and glory.

These �free apps promise to banish bad flash day and herald a new dawn of sophisticated DSLR functionality which almost – but not quite – could be mistaken for professional grade imaging. �And it’s only going to get better folks. Just to prove it, here’s our round-up of�some of the coolest photo apps for the Android platform we’ve used recently. If you have any favorites we’ve missed, add them to the comments.

1. TouchRetouch Free

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We all make mistakes, especially when we’re trying to capture those unforgettable moments on camera. Animals and people in the wrong place, that pesky car driving past, the annoying photo-bomber. Well now you can remove the problem with a stroke of a finger. This cool little app lets you delete items at will, and automatically replaces them with a suitable clone of the background, so there’s no sign of the original and it looks seamless. Great way to disappear people and things.

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2. After Focus

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One of the really�neat things you get from using a proper DSLR camera, apart from superb light handling, is the ability to deliver the kind of depth of field that real pros use all the time. Smartphone cameras just can’t do that by default, but this great app gives you the power to tweak your focus and DOF to get exactly the result you want. The controls are super easy to use, the program does most of the work for you and the results are excellent.

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3. Fix Photo

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Ever got home and excitedly downloaded your photos only to discover they’ve got the dreaded blurries? More vacations are probably ruined by blurry photos than anything else (including dodgy foreign food), so this app could be a real treasure. Just import your sad image, move the slider until you reach your desired sharpness and save. It won’t fix every blurry image, but it can retrieve moderately blurred photos quite well. It also features a noise reduction function for photos which suffer from the low light speckles.

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4. Cartoon Camera

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What good’s a phone camera if you can’t have fun with it now and again, and that’s where this groovy little app really shines. The name of the program gives it away, but it doesn’t do justice to the quality of the real time results you get as you snap away with your favorite settings. The app comes with six cartoon/sketch effects and you get adjustable sliders to enhance or decrease the impact. This is one of those smartphone apps that is guaranteed to impress your friends and relatives, especially if they still think mobile phones are just for texting.

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5. PowerGIF

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Love ’em or hate them, GIF animated images are fun to make and can be even more fun to view. Which is why good GIF making programs are a treat, and this one is no exception. The design of the user interface is top notch,�which means�you can quickly and easily pick a set of photos and combine them into fun animations in a matter of moments. You can choose images from your gallery, or shoot them live with the camera and in both cases the results are excellent.

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6. Awesome Miniature

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Tilt-Shift photos are quite trendy in certain circles, and this program aims to make it super easy to turn your smartphone into a powerful tilt-shift studio. Much of the success of this kind of editing comes from the composition of the photo you start with (higher viewpoint is better), plus the cropping and other elements which delivers the overall effect. For this reason you’ll probably need to read up on some hints and tips before you start in order to get a satisfying result. That said, if you follow the rules you’ll be happy with this program.

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7. Lapse It

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The fact that you can actually contemplate doing sophisticated time-lapse photography on a mobile phone speaks volumes as to just how powerful these micro computers have become. The processing power needed to�capture and manipulate large numbers of images is just huge, so this free app is more than a little impressive. The free version naturally comes with some limitations, but is a great way to dip your toe into this fascinating area of photography, and pretty soon you’ll be capturing cool sunsets, flowers growing and other scenes that make time lapse the favorite of broadcasters like the BBC and other professionals. Oh and invest in a tripod!

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8. UCam Ultra Camera

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On the face of it, UCam is just another photo editor for phones, but dig a little deeper and you realise that it’s actually an excellent all-round toolbox for a huge selection of tasks involving your camera. Take the multitude of shooting modes. Not only standard camera and video modes, but also PIP (picture in picture), burst mode, panorama, collage and a very neat spy cam mode where your phone can be used for other tasks with the camera running permanently in the background taking snaps as you press the shutter. Very cool. Anyway, there’s a ton more integrated in the app, so you’ll just have to download it and play around to appreciate the value.

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9. ActionSnap

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Sometimes all you need is a simple app which does one thing well, and that’s where this little puppy comes into play. ActionSnap is designed to take multiple images very quickly, which is perfect for capturing fast moving action or scenes where you’re not sure what’s going to happen next. The program also sports a bunch of effects like Sepia and Lomo, but for most people it will be the ease of pressing one button for multi-shot magic that will keep them using the app.

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10. Pixlr-o-Matic

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Yet another deceptive app which merely seems to offer more of the same kind of photo effects editing as all the others, but in reality this is a superb tool for getting exactly the kind of moody feel�you want from your photos. It features a huge selection of film stock types�(with�more available for free download) as well as lighting effects and frames, all wrapped up in a fabulously easy drag and select interface. You can turn your boring snap into a work of art literally in seconds. There’s no real time processing (you have to take the shot first) but boy does it work well anyway.

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BONUS

Paper Camera (NOT freeware)

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This innovative app is a glorious effects processor which provides some top quality settings for your photos in real time. You can take photos in a comic book style or neon, dot matrix printer, vintage or a bunch more. What makes this program special is the quality of the settings, and the brilliant results you get. You don’t want to use this for every photo, but this is a superb tool for grabbing a fun shot for a poster, invitation or other project. This is not freeware, but I’m including it here because it is a fabulous product, and well worth the �1.19.

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