Can anyone recommend a free (or low cost), easy to use photo editor app that I can use for posting before & after pics and such? Looking for cropping, pasting before & after side by side to make on image, re-sizing, adding text would be nice, watermarking would be a bonus. I take photos with my iPhone primary and use an iMac in the office. End use is Facebook, website, google ads, print marketing, posting to this site, etc…
Thanks to anyone who responds.
Here’s one of the ones I use
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This one is my favorite
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I use both just have to play around with them to get the hang. The picsay pro has more options
For $4 I’ll give it a try. Than you!
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Snapseed and Afterlight are two very high standards. I use them both and love them.
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@DanC Google photos. Plus it will back up all your photos to the cloud for free. Accessible from any of your devices.
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I use GIMP. It is similar to Photoshop but is free. It can be difficult to learn (I’m certainly no master at it) but Youtube has videos explaining anything you might want to do with it.
My wife raves about Canva. It is an online tool and is also free. I haven’t messed with it much but if you aren’t looking to anything too complicated it might be a better option.
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Do any of those apps allow watermarks? Was Google searching some stuff earlier this week and found lots of photos loaded on this forum. Matter of time before some of my work pops up on another flyer.
Maybe I’m old-fashioned, but does an iPhone have the photo quality to use in marketing material? If I did that with my Samsung, it would look pretty amateurish.
Yes they all should. Just put your logo over the pic and set that layer’s opacity (transparency) to something like 50% or less. Youtube has great tutorials for stuff like that if it aint ya forte
As long as you’ve got adequate lighting, iPhones take awesome pictures. I would say anything iPhone 4 or later will be adequte for online use, and iPhone 5 or later should work for print applications. Though I have some pretty nice portraits hanging on my wall that were taken with the 3GS, if I recall correctly.
I’m still using an SE (which has the internals of the 6). I’m betting the latest iPhones take some mindblowing shots. It’s one aspect of the phone they manage to improve dramatically in almost every new model. You’re still not going to run a wedding photography business off of cell phones, but the gap is closing, lol.
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YouTube is definitely your friend in this venture. Also, there is a movie that is currently being shot with an iPhone 7, so they are good cameras. Not that it will compete with Hollywood or anything.
