Free Photo Apps to Make Your Pictures Pop!

It’s almost the holiday time, the perfect time of year to take amazing candid pictures of your kids, and I am sharing my two go-to apps to make your pictures pop. The only problem with the holiday photos is, indoor lighting. Everything is so dark and just isn’t that cute. Well, I have discovered a couple of free or inexpensive apps that can make those phone pictures.

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The first app that I love love is Color Story. 

You can take almost any dark, or just not that great picture, and transform it into something else. The best part is that the foundation features are totally free.  I have never had to upgrade it!  Let me show you a little bit.  This is the original picture, taken in my car.

And here is the one I edited Using Color Story...

The difference is subtle, but it makes a difference.  I raised the brightness, saturation and vibrance...just a little.  Be careful with saturation and vibrance, or you will look like an oompa loompah.

Snapseed is number two...

Snapseed is the other one that I love. It can reduce this blemishes on your face really easily. It’s pretty awesome how I can look horrible, magnify a picture, and fix-it. It is also free! Here’s an example of what I’m talking about.  I hate this picture, and I hate posting it like this!!  But its real.  This is indoor fluorescent lighting, with a stressed out face, and bags under my eyes.  

This is the edited version from SnapSeed.  

I used the heal tab under tools tab, zoomed in on the bags, and made them go AWAY.  Then I went to looks, and picked a preset.  As I was just posting in stories, I didn't care if it was perfect.  It goes away in 24 hours.  HA!

Not the exact same, as SnapSeed changed the original.

Often I will take a picture from Snapseed, and then change the colors on Color Story.  Bam!  Do you want a more in depth tutorial?  If so, I highly recommend this Ebook by Jill Krause from Baby Rabies.  She has generously given a 25% discount to my readers!  You can use the code STAINEDWITHSTYLE, and follow this link!  I use these tools every day to edit photgraphs.






 

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