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5 Photo Editing Apps To Try To Improve Your Instagram Feed

We all want the best photo editing app to help make your instagram feed cohesive and give off a certain aesthetic. Perhaps you have a photo that you absolutely love, but the lighting isn’t quite right, there’s a glare, or the colors just aren’t vibrant enough. Maybe you want to have a consistent filter that you want to use with your photos so they all look good together. Whatever your instagram photo editing concerns are, there are plenty of applications that you can look into to help you get the aesthetic you’re looking for in your instagram feed. Here are some of the best photo editing apps that will improve your instagram, and make it cohesive and stand out. 

VSCO

This infamous photo editing app is one of the best on the market and is extremely easy to use. This photo editing app is known for its high quality filters, which can be adjusted to help shape the tones and colors of your photos. You can also use these filters and tweak them a bit on your own in order to create your own presets, which you can use for all of your photos to help them have a consistent look on your instagram feed. This app is especially useful for nature and landscape photography, as the filters have an excellent balance of bringing out tones and creating a moody vibe for your photos. There are multiple tools within this app that you can use to help balance out the tones in your photos to help match whatever aesthetic you have going on in your instagram feed. You can also share the photos you’ve edited on your vsco profile to get an idea of how your photos will look together. This application is free, and you can purchase the premium version to unlock even more features and filters.

Canva

If you want to have those clean and sophisticated looking instagram stories for your birthday posts or selfies, Canva is a wonderful photo editing tool to use. Canva provides you with dozens of free templates to help you design the perfect instagram story. The templates vary anywhere from simple, neutral designs to more complex to enhance your photo and add some extra elements to your post. Additionally, Canva features tons of free fonts and icons you can add to your design, along with fun effects to enhance your font of choice. Canva recently updated to feature an effect that will remove the background of a photo with a detectable subject, which is a feature you previously had to turn to a more complicated software to use. Overall, Canva is extremely easy to use and offers many of its features for free. 

Later

With all of the different photos you post and the different edits you make to them, it can be difficult to figure out if your photos are going to look good together on your instagram feed. Later helps you fix that issue with its visual instagram planner, which will allow you to order your photos and see what they look like together before you post them. The visual instagram planner allows you to rearrange your photos until you find the order that looks the best order. It also allows you to schedule and plan what order you want to post them, so you won’t have to worry about what to post next and when you should post it. If you want to perfect the aesthetic of your instagram feed, this photo editing app is a necessity. 

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A Color Story

If you want your feed to feature a signature color or you want to bring a certain color out of a particular photo, this photo editing app is the perfect app for you and your instagram feed. This editing technique can be great to help you set a certain aesthetic within your instagram feed, but can also help bring out the more seasonal aspects of your photos as well. If you take a photo in the fall foliage, you can bring out the reds, oranges and yellows to help make the fall colors more vibrant, bringing a seasonal vibe to your photos. The same can be done for a photo on the beach or in the snow, where you can bring out the dominant tones in the photo to help bring out the seasonal aspect of the backdrop. While this app is great at bringing out different colors and hues, it’s also great at decreasing the intensity of certain colors too. If you want a warmer photo and there’s too many blue tones, you can hide those by decreasing the saturation of the blue tones specifically. Overall, this editing app is extremely helpful if you want to play around with color when creating an aesthetic for your instagram feed.

Snapseed

This photo editing app designed by Google is one of the most simple yet versatile tools on the app store. Snapseed is a staple in so many photographer’s application libraries for its extremely convenient features. This app features a lot of the same effects, high-quality filters, and other aspects of VSCO, but is unique because of its Photoshop-like qualities as well. You can use tools such as the ambiance, selective adjust, and brush tools right on your phone, rather than importing photos onto your laptop and doing the edits from there. Additionally, you can set presets on this app that you can use in future photos in order to keep a consistent aesthetic throughout your Instagram feed. Overall, this app contains so many features that you can use to edit your photos right in the palm of your hand, making this app one of the most convenient and versatile photo editing apps on the market. 

Editing photos can be complicated, especially if you’re trying to get all of your photos to go well together on your instagram feed. Sometimes all you need to do is grab a great photo editing app to help do that work for you. Hopefully this helped you figure out what photo editing application will be able to help you improve your instagram feed.

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Lara Hill

Lara Hill is a senior Public Relations major at Emerson College from Groton, Massachusetts. She has contributed to several college publications, holding multiple editing positions and focusing mainly on sports journalism. When she is not in class or writing, she loves to sail, watch sports with her friends and family, sing with her sisters, and play with her dog, Cassie.

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