What makes this app vastly different from some other ones is that you get to really customize the level that an effect can take on your photo. In the same area of the app are overlays so that you can quickly drop a burn effect over the picture, or an effect like bubble, glitter, glaze, metal, etc. There are lots and lots of effects, too, in categories like atomic, creative, unicolor, vintage, too old, subtle, and soft. You can pick from options like a pencil, sketch, poster, cross, watercolor, and other styles. We really love the one-tap effect and styles you can apply to pictures. They’re extremely useful versus an image-wide option because instead of darkening the whole image, for example, you can apply darkened spots to specific problem areas.

There’s one for brightness, darken, and pixelate. Pixlr has a set of brush tools you can use to paint various things on the image. Some of the tools included in this free photo editor app include the standard ones like crop and rotate, but it also has an autofix, adjustment, blur, splash, smooth, sharpen, red eye, double exposure, and spot healing brush tool. You can share your edited image on social media as well as save it back to your phone or tablet in various sizes like small, medium, max, or a custom size. One that stands out is that with each edit, you can press your finger down on a “before” button to see what the image looked like just before you applied that effect, which is great for deciding if you should commit to it or not. Pixlr is free, has minimal ads, and includes lots of cool features.

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