Light weight photo editor - Picsay

App of the day: Picsay photo editor.
Price: free / Paid
Main use : Faster photo editing with less powered phone.

Few days ago I shared Snaseed and VSCO cam which are good photo editor and camera app respectively. Today I'll share my view on light weight application Picsay pro.

This app is bright, colourful and fun, and it walks the line between childish and charming, coming out just perfect for getting good results with your photos. On the straight-up editing side, it offers the basic functions you would expect from an editing package such as sharpen, redeye, crop and straighten. Moving on from these functions, you can add and edit text and apply effects from Lomo and Tilt-shift to pencil sketches, among others. The cutting-out function works particularly well, and you can take pieces of one image and add them to another. The result is really natural and seamless, and it requires very little eff ort. The stickers make for particularly amusing results. A series of transferable cartoon objects such as hats and moustaches can be applied to your images; this is really great for making your own photographs to send to friends and family for birthdays and special occasions. Rather than looking kitsch and homemade, these images really come into their own and prove very addictive to play around with.

Most functions are fairly easy to figure out except for the tilt/resize. It will take a bit of practice to get your desired result, but once you get a feel for how this works it's quite simple to replicate on additional images. The tilt/resize function gives a really interesting effect, and it's worth taking the time to get the application of this effect right. You'll need to remember to export your images after you're done tweaking them. The app will keep the last image you've worked on open until you select a new one, but your editing will be lost if you don't remember that all-important export. The feel of the app is fun and cheeky, but don't discount it for performing minor editing for serious projects, such as work-related images. While it does have a more than adequate variety of modes and options, paintbrush tool is great for manual editing.

Believe it or not the main image I've used in this post is completely created with Picsay PRO.

Get Picsay or Picsay PRO from Google play.

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