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Pho.to Lab allows users to easily edit photos with a wide selection of more than 500 effects and filters.
Pho.to Lab is a creative and versatile photography app. It gives you the ability to tweak your photos by selecting from a library containing hundreds of effects and templates. Only three steps are needed to make your special photos: choose your effect, take or upload a picture from your phone and make any cropping or rotation adjustments, if necessary.
In less than a few seconds, your new photo will be automatically processed and completed. Afterwards, you can save the newly-edited photo to your phone and share it via Facebook, email, text messaging, Twitter, to name a few. You can also save your favorite effects and templates to a separate group within Pho.to Lab. This way you won’t have to comb through the hundreds of options in the effects library every time you open the app.
Whether you are a photography enthusiast or a first-time user, Pho.to Lab is designed for anyone and everyone to use. Its stress-free, three-step process to add a little flair to your pictures is great for any age or technological experience. In fact, Pho.to Lab has been recently redesigned and now it features a cleaner graphical interface created for easier navigation and larger effect preview windows to give the app a more modern and user-friendlier appeal. However, I was a little surprised by the lack of an introductory tutorial. Even though it is unnecessary for this program, the inclusion of a tutorial would be a great opportunity to show new users how easy it is to edit your photos and to add various effects without any hassle.
With this app, the possibilities are endless with a choice of nearly 600 different filters, borders and colorful templates (and counting). Although a few filters will only be accessible through purchasing the PRO version, the free version will still provide you a wide variety of effects. Some of the cool editing features include superimposing yourself onto brand-name magazine covers, foreign and domestic paper currency and well-known animated characters; and creating a calendar with your choice of a cover photo, whether it is of yourself, family members or pets. The only element that would put this app over the top would be including basic editing tools like a sharpener, brightness and contrast adjusters and tint controls. Although these features are absent, it is far from a deal breaker for Pho.to Lab.
The app is free to download and only costs $2.99 to upgrade to the PRO version.
App Name: Pho.to Lab
Developer: VicMan LLC
Market: Google Play, iTunes
Cost: Free; $2.99 (Ad-Free)
