For better or worse, we live in a world where taking photos of ourselves isn’t only commonplace, but pretty much expected. After all, it’s more of a shock for someone with a smartphone and an Instagram account to not post selfies than it is to flood your feed with snaps they took of their own face, their daily outfit, their new shoes, and their reflection in the mirror.
What used to be a spur-of-the-moment activity has clearly become a measured way to present ourselves to the world. In fact, there’s such an increased awareness of how we look in our selfies, one report even found several woman under 30 are undergoing surgery to look better! We’re probably all in agreement that’s a bit extreme, so we’ve rounded up 7 downloadable apps that’ll do the trick just as well.
From slimming your physique to smoothing out your skin, read on for our best photo editing app guide, that’ll help you look better in every selfie!
Photowonder
This slick free app— which currently has over 100 million users in 218 counties—pretty much does it all. The range of tools are plentiful, and includes “slimify,” “blemish fix” and “make-up.” Plus, there’s a cool collage function, and you can select various backgrounds and frames. It’s also worth noting that it gets excellent reviews on iTunes.
Facetune
This app helps you fake perfect skin: Smooth creases and wrinkles, even out skin tone, erase zits, create an overall more flattering visage with a few simple swipes. It also offers a reshape feature that allows you to make yourself look taller and thinner, if you’re into that sort of thing. Like most good things, perfection comes at a cost—this app clocks in at $2.99.
CreamCam
Another skin-perfecting app, CreamCam—which is free—uses swipe functions to tweak imperfections like pimples, shine, flyaway hairs, uneven skin tone and shine. The app has two editing features: brightness and blur, both of which can be customized on a sliding scale of zero to 100 percent.
SkinnyCamera
This $.99 app promises to whittle your waist and make you look 10 to 20 pounds slimmer, though the reviews are mixed. The app comes with a 10 second timer so you can take self-portraits or group photos in landscape mode.
Picmonkey
This desktop application allows you to do basicc photo editing for free, but in order to get access to the plethora of retouching tools (like spray tan, wrinkle remover, blemish fix and eye brighten, you have to upgrade to one of two “royale” plans for $4.99 a month or $33 a year.
Perfect 365
A free app that allows you to apply makeup, enhance your skin and eyebrow color, and whiten your teeth with separate tools. Naturally, after gussying up your selfies, the app lets you post the results to your social channels.
PicLab
This app is more about adding fun text and effects to your photos—note the blogger-beloved latte below—but it also features ways to improve the actual photo, as well. If you upgrade to PicLab HD, you’ll have access to icLab HD features full layer-based editing and also packs plenty of tools for making your original photo look its best, with loads of lighting and film effects to choose from as well as preset photo filters and adjustment tools for fine tuning the brightness, contrast, exposure, saturation, and the blur level of your photos.
