我们生活在一个视觉世界中，Instagram统治着它。2018 年的一项研究(study)发现，该应用的Android用户平均每天 53 分钟滚动提要和滑动故事。
越来越多的人花更多的时间通过图像分析他人的生活。那些对这个新现实高度警觉的人明白，仅仅拍照并发布(picture and post)是不够的，而不关心明显的倾斜或明显的低分辨率。
随着智能手机相机的发展，大量照片编辑应用程序也在不断发展，进一步改变了将图像视为“好”的标准。对于当今Instagram 爱好者(Instagram devotee)的挑剔眼光而言，色调、渐变和滤镜(fade and filters–fabricators)等美学增强剂（尽管它们可能是质量的制造者）与图像的内容及其分辨率一样重要。
但达到这种质量水平的繁琐过程不仅仅是人们让自己在社交媒体上看起来很完美，尽管这肯定是许多Instagram用户所追求的。
可能是您拥有一家企业，并希望您的产品能够吸引您的目标受众(target audience)。或者，也许您是一名摄影师——专业人士或涉猎者——他发现新时代的软件驱动的照片编辑过程是艺术形式中令人欣慰的一部分。
无论(Regardless)您的意图如何，如果您希望您的照片值得Instagram使用，这里有三个值得下载的免费应用程序。它们作为独立的应用程序(standalone apps)很有效，但是当您将它们一起使用时，会释放出更高级别的编辑能力。
色彩故事
与Instagram(Instagram)早期上市的OG 照片(OG photo)编辑应用程序相比，A Color Story相对较新，其运作方式类似于编辑器和市场(editor and marketplace)的结合。
虽然它提供了许多您希望照片编辑应用程序包含的工具，但它作为编辑软件的特别之处在于其高品质的滤镜和独特的效果，包括像Flare这样的效果，为您提供太阳耀斑(sun flare)的效果和Light Leak，为您提供光线流入图像的效果。
此外，这些功能不仅有标准的免费选项，您还可以从影响者那里购买“包”以扩展您的选择列表并扩大您的创意控制。
任何不厌其烦地编辑他们在Instagram 上(Instagram)发布的每张照片的人都知道这会是多么的辛苦和乏味。A Color Story的一个重要功能是批量编辑照片的能力，允许您一次将相同的编辑应用于多张照片。
这对于您可能想要发布一系列一起拍摄的照片并且希望它们在美学上匹配的时候非常有用。
A Color Story的最后一个显着功能是将您的Instagram连接到应用程序，该应用程序将导入您的
Instagram Grid。导入后，您可以将其他照片从您的个人图书馆导入到A Color Story的模仿Instagram Grid中，然后您可以在其中编辑这些照片以查看它们在您的实际Instagram 页面(Instagram page)上的外观。
您还可以安排这些帖子在Instagram 上(Instagram–sort)发布。色彩故事(A Color Story)使您能够计划何时发布新帖子。写下帖子的标题并安排它。
到了发帖时间，A Color Story会提醒您并带您到 Instagram 进行实际发帖，同时带上编辑后的照片和标题——减少(photo and caption along–less work)您的工作量！
VSCO
VSCO是OG 应用程序(OG apps)之一。Instagram于 2010 年推出；2011 年的VSCO(VSCO)。它是为视觉时代开发的。VSCO的制造商Visual Supply Company预见到了今天的现实，并适应了它。
对于上述自 2010 年以来一直使用Instagram的视觉爱好者来说， (Instagram)VSCO可能是他们最早使用的应用程序之一——并且有充分的理由持续到今天。
与A Color Story一样，VSCO包含出色的滤镜和效果，它模拟您的Instagram 网格(Instagram grid)，让您了解发布编辑后的照片时会发生什么。另一个重要功能是复制编辑，它允许您进行编辑、保存并将它们应用到其他照片。但VSCO(VSCO)最大的好处可能是灵感。
VSCO(VSCO isn)不仅仅是一个具有过滤器和功能的应用程序，它还是一个社交网络。您可以选择创建一个帐户，以便与他人共享您的 VSCO 编辑图像并在 VSCO 网络上查看他们的图像。在某种程度上，它很像……Instagram。
但这项功能真正强大的地方在于，您可以看到其他VSCO用户如何使用该应用程序来编辑他们的照片，而最好的VSCO用户是那些花时间参与VSCO社交网络的人。
熟能生巧(Practice)，VSCO基本上为您提供了一个地方，让您可以向最好的人学习如何使用其滤镜和功能并将它们应用到您自己的图片中。这就是Instagram 社区(Instagram community)的上层人士正在寻找的那种品质。
快照种子
Snapseed是另一个照片编辑应用程序，自 2011 年(Snapseed)Nik Software发布它（今天，谷歌(Google)拥有它）以来，它已经存在了很长一段时间。
曾几何时，Snapseed的过滤器对任何用户来说都足够好，而今天它们也不错；但是像 A Color Story 和 VSCO 这样的应用程序提供了卓越的过滤器，Snapseed的真正强大之处在于——以及其他应用程序无法竞争的地方——是它的工具。Snapseed是一个包含在照片编辑应用程序中的虚拟工具集。(set)
以下是 Snapseed 提供的一些独特工具：
- 画笔：(Brush: )选择减淡和加深(Select Dodge & Burn)、饱和度(Saturation)、
曝光或温度(Exposure or Temperature)，然后用手指画出图像以增加效果或消除图像中已经存在的过多自然效果。
- 双重曝光：(Double Exposure: )叠加两张(Overlay two)图片，使最上面的图片比您上传到应用程序的原始图片透明(image transparent)
- 头部姿势：(Head Pose: )更改图像中某人头部的位置。您还可以更改微笑的大小、瞳孔和焦距。
- 修复：(Healing: )放大并触摸图像中的特定事物，例如白墙上的斑点。愈合(Healing)将使它们消失，留下的空间将呈现背景的颜色。
- 文本：(Text: )在图像上键入文本。(Type text)您可以更改字体颜色(font color)、大小和样式(size and style)。
Snapseed的另一个重要方面是它可能是最好的照片编辑应用程序，可用于您使用真实相机拍摄的照片。这是因为如果您使用具有高分辨率的专业相机或特定镜头，您不想破坏图片的质量。
Snapseed 的工具通常更侧重于修饰、调整和微调，而不是用粗糙的滤镜或效果(filter or effect)覆盖图像。
去编辑！
无论您是想取悦Instagram众神，经营您希望人们在滚动时停止使用的产品，还是想将您的摄影提升到一个新的水平，A Color Story、VSCO 和 Snapseed(VSCO and Snapseed)都是三种照片编辑您不想忽略的应用程序。
这些应用程序使您的图像在美学上令人愉悦，可以单独使用或相互结合使用，为您提供出色的效果和值得Instagram的照片。(Instagram)
Three Photo Editing Apps You Need to Make Any Picture Instagram Worthy
Wе live in a visual world, аnd Instagram rules
it. A 2018 study found Android users of the app average
53 minutes a day scrolling feeds and swiping stories.
More people are spending more time analyzing others’
lives through images. Those who are hyper alert of this new reality understand
it’s not enough to take a picture and post it, unconcerned with the noticeable
slant or the obviously low resolution.
As smartphone cameras have evolved, so have a
multitude of photo editing apps, further shifting standards for what qualifies
an image as “good.” To the critical eye of today’s Instagram devotee, aesthetic
enhancers like tone, fade and filters–fabricators of quality as they may
be–matter just as much as the content of the image and its resolution.
But the tedious process to achieving this level of quality is not just about people making oneself look perfect on social media, though that’s certainly what many Instagram users are after.
It could be you own a business and want your products to be appeal to your target audience. Or, perhaps you’re a photographer–professional or dabbler–who finds the new-age software-driven process of photo editing to be a gratifying part of the artform.
Regardless of your intent, if you want your
photos to be Instagram worthy, here are three free apps worth downloading.
They’re effective as standalone apps, but when you use them together, a higher
order of editing power is unleashed.
A Color Story
Relatively new compared to the OG photo editing apps that came to market in the early days of Instagram, A Color Story operates like a combined editor and marketplace.
While it offers many of the tools you would expect a photo editing app to contain, what makes it special as editing software are its high-quality filters and unique effects, including effects like Flare, giving you the effect of a sun flare, and Light Leak, giving you the effect of light streaming into the image.
Furthermore, not only are there standard free options of these capabilities, you can purchase “packs” from influencers to extend your list of choices and expand your creative control.
Anyone who goes to the trouble to edit every photo they post on Instagram knows how painstaking and tedious it can be. A great function of A Color Story is the ability to batch edit photos, allowing you to apply the same edits to multiple photos at once.
This is great for times where you may want to post a series of photos that were taken together and you want them to match aesthetically.
A final notable function of A Color Story is
the ability to connect your Instagram to the app, which will import your
Instagram Grid. Once imported, you can import other photos from your personal
library to A Color Story’s imitation Instagram Grid, where you can then edit
those photos to see what they will look like on your actual Instagram page.
You can also schedule these posts to go out on Instagram–sort of. A Color Story enables you to plan for when you would like a new post to go out. Write the caption for the post and the schedule it.
When it’s time to post, A Color Story will remind you and take you to Instagram to actually make the post, bringing the edited photo and caption along–less work on your end!
VSCO
VSCO is one of the OG apps. Instagram launched in 2010; VSCO in 2011. It was developed for the visual era. Visual Supply Company, the makers of VSCO, foresaw today’s reality, and they accommodated for it.
For those aforementioned visual devotees who have been on Instagram since 2010, VSCO was probably one of the first apps they took to–and for good reasons that persist today.
Like A Color Story, VSCO is packed with great
filters and effects, and it emulates your Instagram grid to give you an idea of
what to expect when you post an edited photo. Another important feature is Copy
Edit, which allows you to make edits, save them and apply them to other photos.
But what might be its biggest benefit of VSCO is inspiration.
VSCO isn’t just an app with filters and
features, it’s a social network. You have the option to create an account that
allows you to share your VSCO-edited images with others and view theirs on
VSCO’s network. In a way, it’s much like…Instagram.
But what’s truly powerful about this capability is that you can see how other VSCO users are using the app to edit their photos, and the best VSCO users are the ones who take the time to engage on VSCO’s social network.
Practice makes perfect, and VSCO basically gives you a place to learn from the best on how to use its filters and features and apply them to your own pictures. And that’s the kind of quality the upper echelon of the Instagram community is looking for.
Snapseed
Snapseed is another photo editing app that has been around for quite a while, since 2011 when Nik Software released it (today, Google owns it).
At one time, Snapseed’s filters would have
been good enough for any user, and they aren’t bad today; but with apps like A
Color Story and VSCO offering superior filters, where Snapseed’s true power
lies–and where other apps can’t compete–is its tool. Snapseed is a virtual
toolset encased in a photo editing
app.
Here are just a few of the unique tools
Snapseed offers:
- Brush: Select Dodge & Burn, Saturation,
Exposure or Temperature and brush the image with your finger to increase the
effect or to erase too much of a natural effect already in the image.
- Double Exposure: Overlay two pictures, making
the top image transparent over the original image you uploaded into the app
- Head Pose: Change the position of someone’s
head in an image. You can also change the size of a smile, pupils and focal
length.
- Healing: zoom in and touch specific things in
your image, like specks on a white wall. Healing will make them disappear and
the space left will take on the color of the background.
- Text: Type text over your image. You can
change the font color, size and style.
Another great aspect of Snapseed is that it’s probably the best photo editing app to use for pictures you take with a real camera. This is because you don’t want to ruin the quality of the picture if you’re using a professional camera with great resolution or a specific lens.
Snapseed’s tools are generally more oriented to touching up, tuning and tweaking, rather than overlaying an image with a harsh filter or effect.
Go Edit!
Whether you’re trying to please the Instagram gods, have a business with products you want people to stop on as they’re scrolling, or want to take your photography to the next level, A Color Story, VSCO and Snapseed are three photo editing apps you don’t want to ignore.
These apps make your images aesthetically pleasing and can be used on their own or in combination with each other to give you great results and Instagram worthy photos.
