5 Apps to Edit High-Quality Photos for Your Photo Book

You’ve decided on creating a custom and personal photo book—Now what? It’s time to choose your best photos to add. When creating a photo book, it’s important to choose photos of high quality. Nowadays, you can edit photos from your smartphone just like a professional, and with hundreds of editing apps, it’s easy to be unsure which ones enhance and which ones compromise the quality of your photos. We’ve compiled a list of our favorite IOS and Android friendly apps for you to use.

A Color Story - Colorful. Simple. The app all your favorite Instagram accounts use! A Color Story aims to enhance the colors in your composition. Bright whites, rich color, and clean adjustments. You can choose from 100+ additional photo effects to add lens flares, different color skies, gorgeous glow, confetti, and more! Of course, included are useful editing tools to get it just right, including fully functioning curves and HSL.

Snapseed - Taking filters to the next level, Snapseed boasts its large arsenal of editing options and emphasizes being able to tweak specific parts at no cost. With over 12 different features to choose from, Snapseed delivers in-depth editing tools that let you control every little aspect of your photo with precision. Whether you want to smooth out blemishes, add dimension and texture or focus a hazy photo, your editing possibilities are endless.

Afterlight 2 - A new and improved version of the original “Afterlight,” Afterlight 2 has been revamped to be more user-friendly. The older version was a smartphone favorite and for good reason. Their new features include powerful touch tools, such as Lighten, Darken, Blur, Sharpness, Desaturate and Saturate and overlays for optimum editing. You can try out their impressive vault of regularly updated filters, fonts and frames for a one-time payment, no subscription required.

Adobe Photoshop Express - All the tools of Photoshop at the tips of your fingers. For years, photographers around the world have sworn by Photoshop, and it’s a trusted app for simple and challenging edits. Adobe Photoshop Express is fast, powerful, and easy to use on any smartphone. Their flexible toolkit turns smartphone photos into works of art, through slide bar adjustments and automatic one-touch fixes. The app is equipped with basic editing features and now includes editor enhancements.

Repix - If you’re going for a more artistic photo book, Repix has the right tools for you and is perfect for beginners. With its color-correcting features, simple filters, beautifully designed borders, and various brushes, adding effects to your photos has never been easier. Repix lets you use over 28 brushes to alter specific areas of your photo and create unique works of art.

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Instasize

Instasize is the first app to introduce the idea of resizing an image by adding borders in order for the full image to fit on Instagram. Since then, however, they’ve added so many more features making it a multifunctional editing platform for anyone looking to edit photos/videos.

Furthermore, the standard version of Instasize app already offers a number of our original filters, color editing tools, and also video editing, but on the other hand, the premium version, of course, offers a lot more like full access to 100+ premium filters you can choose from, 80+ unique borders to spice up your photos, advanced beauty tools and exclusive content like tips and tricks from social influencers and experts.

Still not sure if your photo is edited properly? The good news is that Mixbook will alert you if your photo resolution isn’t up to par. While many of these apps are great for making your photos look great, the final photo is not always set to the best resolution and may appear grainy when enlarged for print. If that is the case, we recommend using the original photo. Luckily, Mixbook’s online project tool allows you to edit photos on the Mixbook platform including, adding filter effects and shadows, adjusting opacity, adding a border, or changing the photo shape. We want you to be overjoyed with your final project. If you have any questions or issues editing your photos, contact us at support@mixbook.com and we’re happy to help ensure you get the best final project.