HDR Camera
With three shots in one snap, this app allows you to preen and pose for three different expressions—or stay still and get the clearest shot. Adding to the fun are three custom adjustments that allow you to edit your photos with warm and soft vintage colors. And if that’s not enough, this app lets you further enhance your photos by adjusting color vividness, exposure, contrast and such, for that bronzed goddess look you’ve been dying to achieve.
Little Photo
Don’t be fooled by the name—this one packs a big punch. Despite having over 70 filters (gasp!) with three more additions early last month (Mental Fire, D-229 and Rolling), there’s as much quality as quantity. Handy tools like bokeh allow you to blur parts of a photo in greater detail than the typical Instagram tilt shift function. Also, we really like the “half apply” feature that lets you control the intensity of the photo filter you’ve selected. Now how cool is that?
Lomo Camera
This snappy app features six filters: lomo, rusty, polaroid, paper, dreams (very psychedelic) and film. While the filters are nothing monumental, this app does let you take self-portrait shots (unlike Instagram for Android). But what’s the point of a great shot if you can only keep it to yourself? This app allows you to share your photos instantly on Facebook and Twitter.
Magic Hour
Featuring 40 preset filters and 20 frames and vignettes to start with, this nifty little app lords over Instagram with the ability to change
focus both within and outside the tilt shift area. Other cool tools include customizing your own filters by layering presets, and downloading and sharing unlimited filters from Filter Market. And that’s not all. The best part is its ability to adjust the intensity of almost everything—from contrast to vignettes and even textures!
Pudding Camera
To say this app has a nice appearance would be an understatement. It also offers a variety of stunning filters and effects that clearly rival Instagram. Choose from eight camera styles: basic, snap, panorama, fantasy, motion 2×2, motion x4, fish-eye and triplex. What’s more, filters such as vignette, dazzle and vintage brown will give you photos so beautiful you’ll start thinking about going pro.
