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The camera is one of the points that users give the most importance when they have to buy a new mobile phone. And what would a good camera be without a good editing application to go with it? Little thing. Photo editing is the icing on the cake to then share with the rest of the world. Good editing can turn a mediocre photo into a great one. And one of the most important aspects when editing a photo is cropping. Choosing what interests a photo can enhance its content and this is achieved through cropping.
That is why we are going to show you 5 apps to edit photos, focusing especially on its cropping tool. All the applications that we discuss here will be free and each of them will be accompanied by an explanatory tutorial to cut out the images.
5 apps to crop photos on Android
Snapseed
Surely, one of the best applications to crop and edit your images. At first it may seem a bit cumbersome but, which one gets used to, it is difficult to abandon it for another. Snapseed can be downloaded, free of charge, from the Android Play Store. This application owned by Google does not contain ads or purchases inside, all functions are free and free. It has a weight of 24.32 MB although it may vary depending on the device on which you download it.
If your main intention is to crop a photo, you should do the following.
- Open the application and click on the '+' sign that appears in the middle. For the first time, you must give the application permissions so that it can enter your photo gallery.
- Next, choose the photo you want to crop. This will appear in full screen and, underneath, you will find three tabs: designs, tools and export.
- We select the 'Tools' tab . A pop-up window will appear with a series of icons. We select 'Crop'.
- Now we can crop the image as we want, through the guides provided by the application, or choose, at the bottom, some default formats.
VSCO
Another of the most interesting photo editing applications that we can find in the Play Store. It is an application without advertising, free, although with paid filter packages. It has a weight of 43 MB, so we recommend that you download it under a WiFi connection.
To crop a photo with VSCO we are going to carry out the following steps.
- On the main screen we are going to click on the '+' icon if we want to add a photo that we have in the gallery or the camera icon if we want to take a photo at the moment, using its own camera. Click on 'Import'.
- Once the photo is imported, we must click on it twice. It will be enlarged to large size. To enter the editing mode, press the second icon from the bottom, which represents two guides. The filters screen will open. This, for the moment, does not interest us, we must enter the second icon from the bottom, represented again by the drawing of two guides.
- Now we enter 'Adjust' and here we can crop the image and straighten it in case it has been distorted. We can make a free or predetermined cutout by format.
Adobe Lightroom CC
Now we go with the Adobe Lighroom application, the equivalent of Photoshop in the smartphone world, which you can download in the Play Store, without ads but with purchases inside. Its weight is 64 MB so you better wait until you are under a WiFi connection to download it. To use this application you must have an account. If not, we can log in through Facebook or Google.
To crop a photo with the Lightroom CC we are going to carry out the following steps.
- Once we have logged in with our account, we look at the bottom of the screen and press the blue icon, whether we want to import a photo from our gallery or make one at the moment.
- We add the photo by selecting it from our gallery.
- Once the photo is included, we have to click on 'All', on the main screen. You will see below all the imported photos. Choose the one you want to crop and, on the next screen, at the bottom, select the 'Crop' icon.
- The Lightroom cropping tool is one of the most complete that you will find. We can crop, flip, straighten and all from the same screen.
PicsArt
Another interesting photo editing tool. The PicsArt application contains advertisements and purchases inside it and its weight is 35 MB. You can download it for free in the Android store.
To start editing we need to create an account in this app. On the main screen we choose the photo to be cropped and, on the editing screen, we press the second icon that we see. In the capture you have it well marked. This icon shows you a great handful of functions. You must choose the first one, 'Crop'. Then we can straighten and crop, as well as choose various default cropping formats.
Photo studio
Finally, we have Photo Studio, a free application, with ads and payments inside it and with a weight of 48 MB so we recommend downloading it under WiFi. The Pro version of this app is usually available for free, so keep an eye out for app offerings.
On the main screen, choose the gallery icon at the top of the screen, then the image to crop.
Once the image is chosen, we look at the icon at the bottom, indicated in the image capture. On this screen we proceed to crop the photo, using the guides or pre-established formats.
