Use Photo Sphere and Google Camera to create three hundred and sixty degree panoramic photos easily. Photo Sphere photo images allow the viewer to move around within the world you have created, move up, down, left or right to see everything. Photo Sphere also gives you the tools to create your own Google Maps street view and share it with other Maps users.
A recently added feature to Google Camera, Lens Blur gives you the SLR like function of creating images with shallow depth of field, or limited areas of focus. Basically, lens blur will only blur the background in order to put more emphasis on an object.
Google Camera has a very easy to use and simple interface, with the most important controls right at your fingertips. Google has redesigned the Camera app for every skill level of user, making photography more accessible to everyone.
The Google Camera app system requirements do require Android 4.4 (KitKat) or better, as a result this does leave out a lot of older phones and tablets. The app does take advantage of features of higher end phones, so you will need to upgrade if your device has an older version of Android.
In 2016 they stop providing Google camera for non google devices. You can download APK and install. But it crashes and most likely the video camera will not work.
VSCO Cam has an in-app sharing platform, but it doesn't force users to join. For those who opt in, the experience is much like Instagram but without spammy likes or ads.
Instead of doing a great job at one thing, this app spreads the focus over a number of mediocre features. Overall, everything is good, but this app doesn't stand out.
Snapseed interface is controlled with swipes, up and down to choose the option and left and right to choose the intensity. It does take a bit of getting used to, but once you have the interface is very nice and easy to use.
Snapseed includes many features of high end photo editing software, auto correct, image tuning and other effects. Snapseed makes editing your photos easy and gives the photographer many options to choose from in how they present their images.
Scrolling up and down lets the user choose from different effects and tools, swiping left to right determines the intensity. This app includes many effects such as tilt shift that are hard to find elsewhere.
The interface starts with three different buttons (pictures, videos, settings) and each level umbrellas in order to access the huge amount of features.
While using the interface, there are many features that make operation simple. In order to access recent pictures from the camera, swipe left. In order to delete pictures, swipe left again. Tapping a photo reveals the effect menu. Pinching zooms in.
While taking a picture, the options include: HDR, flash, white balance, exposure, contrast, saturation, additional camera settings, burst mode, fast mode, front/back toggle, silent shutter, stable shot, panorama, self timer, and grid.
Additional settings include: picture and video size, scene mode,self timer, burst mode, time lapse, JPEG quality, effects, ISO, anti-banding, scene detection, video bitrate, and audio settings.
This app boasts over 100 filters. In addition to these filters, additional settings show up for each filter. For instance, HDR mode has 4 different settings in order to be situation appropriate. Each filters's intensity can be adjusted on a scale of 0 to 100.
Using the Audio mode, 5 seconds of sound are captured with the image to "capture the moment". It's hard to tell how this could actually be useful, but it's a cool feature.
QuickPic displays photos ultra fast and performs better than most stock gallery apps. Developed with speed in mind, QuickPic will make working with any library of photos lightning quick.
QuickPic offers excellent file management tools, with the ability to move and rename photos, users are in total control over the photo library. Easily find new photos by date or location with the grouping tool.
ProShot requires that the Android OS is on version 5.1 or higher in order to install and work. Considering there is only a developer preview for this version to date, it basically can not yet be installed. Even when 5.1 comes out there will not be many devices using it.
The Flickr app has been redesigned with an all new modern Android based user interface. Camera controls are easy to find and use, editing photos is streamlined and sharing and uploading are a main focus of the app.
The Flickr Android app offers a host of powerful editing options and filters. Make photos the best they can be with easy controls and plenty of information.
The Flikr camera is a watered down version of the standard camera app. While this app is ideal for storing photos, it is better to use another app for photography.
Every user account on Flickr come with 1000gb of free online photo storage, this is enough for more than 500,000 photos. And with the Auto Sync technology all of your photos can be automatically uploaded to your Flickr cloud storage.
The Instagram for Android user interface is designed to be easy to pick up for users of all skill levels. Simple controls make it quick to snap photos and selfies at a moments notice and then make them look cool before sharing on Instagram and other social networks
Instagram for Android offers seventeen different filters that can be used. These filters can be used in many different photographic situations to add dramatic effects and fix some common exposure problems. Instagram filters are very easy to use and make editing photos fun. Each filter can be applied on a scale of 0%-100%.
The Instagram community started with the iOS version of the app. It grew to a large number of users before adding an Android version later on. Never a shortage of interesting photos to look at and photographers to follow, as well as being very easy to share your photos with the community and your friends.
Instagram has more tools in addition to the standard filters, these include:
Shadows
Highlights
Perspective correction
Sharpening
Tilt shift
Contrast
Brightness