These days your photos from your treks and travels need an edge. While an ordinary Instagram filter used to do the trick until a couple of years back, now you need something else to up your game. Trekking and travel photo editing apps are here to help you get through this! Pictures may never make justice to how beautiful nature is when you see it from your eyes but these apps can help you pop those colors and show the world, its incredible beauty. There are a million ways you can edit your photos on your mobile device these days. However, choosing the right app can help you from going overboard with your editing.
Whether it’s a pictured you capture of the snow-capped trails of Kedarkantha, the frozen river of Chadar, or even the color Valley of Flowers trek this trekking and travel photo editing apps guide is here to help you. Whether you’re a professional photographer, an absolute beginner, or anything in between, these apps are built to make editing easy!
In this post of #TrekNomadsRecommends, we’re sharing 8 of our most favorite trekking and travel photo editing apps and additional tips on how you can share them on the go!
Trekking & travel photo editing apps
1) Snapseed
Snapseed is one the best free trek and travel photo editing apps out there for its wide array of capabilities. It has an easy-to-use interface with quick and simple image adjustment tools like crop, saturation, and sharpness. Snapseed provides everything from ready-made filters to tweaking every detail possible!
Price: FREE
2) Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Lightroom CC is one of the most powerful mobile photo editing apps out there for professional photographers. If you want more options than just changing your pictures into a black and white image, try Lightroom. This app allows you to remove unwanted objects from the background. It has several advanced photo editing tools like tweaking tone curves, gradients, and effects to make a photo exactly how you want.
What’s more, you can even use this application on your desktop or on your mobile device.
Price: Free (To access Adobe Creative cloud storage, you need a subscription)
3) VSCO
VSCO is perfect for everyone from amateurs to photographers. The app has incredibly on-trend filters and presets that will have your photos Insta-worthy in a matter of seconds. This photo editing app also has the option to purchase limited-edition filters, so you can use one for each of your trekking destinations.
The editing options are quite basic but include all the main tools: adjustment, contrast, white balance, etc. You can purchase a membership to unlock even more tools, such as borders and HSL (hue, saturation, lightness). It also remembers your previous edits and your most-used presets which makes your photo editing process more simpler and easier!
Price: FREE (with in-app purchases)
4) Adobe Photoshop Express
This app takes the best of Photoshop’s features and puts them into a compressed version of the mobile app. Adobe Photoshop Express has a lot of options and filters that are the dream for any medium-high skilled photo editor. Photoshop Express has hundreds of filters within its library and users can also use many of Photoshop’s classic features.
With red-eye, blemish removal, lens flares, adding text, preset crop shapes as well as the ability to lay photos out in a collage and edit border size and colors as well as adding shadows, there’s very little the Photoshop app can’t do.
Price: FREE (with in-app purchases)
5) PicsArt
When it comes to trekking and travel photo editing apps – PicsArt is a versatile photo editing app meant for beginner photographers. You can use its awesome stickers, fonts, blemish removal tools, and text features to create magical images. The best features about Picsart include perfect remixing and collage making.
Price: FREE (with in-app purchases)
6) DarkRoom
Darkroom is easier to navigate, even if you’re not a pro photo editor (yet!). It has slightly fewer tools, but all the major editing features are available. Darkroom is one of the best photo editing apps for iOS devices. This is also a major competitor for Adobe Lightroom. However, considering the easy-to-navigate user experience, this one takes the cake. What’s more – You can e sets of hashtags that you can export with one-tap from anywhere: Home screen, Today widget, Export sheet, and more. Create your own Siri Shortcuts to copy all your favorite hashtags from any app!
Price: FREE (with in-app purchases)
7) Afterlight
One of the most straightforward apps for those wanting to quickly adjust or add a filter, upload a photo or take one with Afterlight’s camera. Then, choose from several editing tools ranging from basic to advanced, or select one of the 10 free filter options.
For those who want to add stickers or text, the artwork tab has a variety of options. The app is connected to Twitter and Instagram, allowing you to share your newly edited photos directly from Afterlight to other social media feeds.
Price: FREE (with in-app purchases)
8) Photos App – Pre-Installed On IOS
One app that is potentially overlooked by iPhone users when editing apps is the standard trek and travel photo ediitng app that comes with every iPhone. While the older versions of this app were not known for their editing quality, the latest versions have kicked it up a notch to keep in line with Apple’s high-quality cameras.
With portrait mode, numerous great-looking filters such as ‘Dramatic’ and more detailed editing options such as brilliance, black point, and vignette, as long as users stay away from the automated editing option, there is real potential to make any photo, be it landscape, food photography or portraits, look exceptional.
Price: FREE
Available on: iOS
Bottom Line:
Last but not least! Photographs play a significant and vital role in everyone’s life. They connect us to our past; they remind us of people, places, feelings, and stories that we have gone through.
To collect good memories, we need to have some perfect pictures, which can be obtained using any of the above trek and travel photo editing apps of your choice. Use these awesome tools and create brilliant pictures!
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