Nowadays, food photography is an art form. There are so many incredible apps that allow you to take amazing food photos—from apps that allow you to edit your images by tweaking the lighting, color, or composition, to apps that help you with the composition of your images and make it easy for you to organize and share your work.
We’ve put together a list of our top 10 favorite apps for food photography in 2020, so you can stop wondering which apps are best and spend your time taking incredible pictures.
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Best Apps For Food Photography 2020
- Foodie-Camera For Life:
This app is great for creating and editing your pictures as it offers a wide range of filters free of charge. The graphics involved are professional, smooth and beginner-friendly. The app also offers guidelines on how to take the best photos from different angles.
If you wish to take short videos, it is possible through this app which also features a quiet click feature. Overall, this app is amazing for socially active foodies and food travelers.
Available on IOS and Android for free.
- Snapseed:
Snapseed is a wonderful app catering to all your editing needs. It has Powerful tools that transform your picture. For instance, Snapseed features a ‘healing tool’ which helps in erasing any splashes of food stains in the background.
Accordingly, you can adjust the brightness, sharpness, saturation and sharpening of the picture. If you want to add extensive details in your picture and edit selectively, this app perfectly fulfils the purpose.
Available on both iOS as well as Android for free.
- Adobe Lightroom:
This powerful app by Adobe offers a step-by-step guide for beginners and assists professional photographers by directing them about basic tools and features available on the app. These tutorials promote skill learning and guide you through different features and tools that can enhance your image.
You can choose the best filter, adjust brightness and contrast, balance color tones, crop and adjust angles and tune even the finest details.
Adobe Lightroom is for anyone who wants to take regular photos to an enhanced high-resolution professional picture.
Available free on iOS and Android along with in-app purchases and premium plans starting from $1.99
- VSCO Photo & Video Editor:
VSCO involves great filters for editing and creating aesthetic images. The app is neatly organized and very user-friendly with minimum icons and tools but effective features. VSCO also offers a guidebook on how to apply and effective adjustment to an image.
VSCO is the perfect tool for creating an aesthetic social media or website feed with less complicated editing and easy and quick application of filters.
Most of the filters are free however, a seven-day free trial is offered post which a yearly VSCO premium plan costs $19.99.
Available on iOS and Android.
- Adobe Photoshop Express:
Another app from Adobe comes with great edit features. The app offers tools where you can adjust brightness, contrast, exposure, highlights, clarity, resolution and many more using simple user-friendly sliders.
For food photography, adjusting the white balance, temperature and dehazing, it can enhance the picture without losing its original resolution.
The healing feature and quick fixes offer simple adjustments and removing unwanted elements and correcting distorted angles in the picture.
Make sure you are not over editing as it may look unnatural and artificial.
This app is great for making light edits and enhancing the overall exposure of the image. Available free on iOS and Android with in-app purchases starting from $2.99.
best app for food photography android
- Snapseed
Snapseed is available on both Android and iPhone and I love some of the powerful editing features it provides. I don’t use any of the filters (I use another App for that which I will get to)
Favorite features:
Healing Tool – Great for removing objects or cleaning up a photo
Open a photo in Snapseed and under the tools section, select “Healing”
You can zoom in by pinching your fingers and simply swipe a section you want to remove an object from sometimes the tool doesn’t work perfectly but you can easily undo!
Once you are satisfied, save the photo to your camera roll
In this example, I removed some of the chocolate chips as well as the ice cream spots on top of the cookies:
healing tool in snapseed to edit food photos
- Selective Brightness: Great for brightening up a portion of a photo
Open a photo in Snapseed and under the tools section, select “Selective”
Tap a part of the photo you’d like to brighten and a circle with a “B” should appear
At the top of the screen where it says “Brightness” you can adjust by dragging your finger right or left
Additional Tips:
You can add multiple brightness points on a single photo!
You can also select how wide the radius of the circle is my pinching your fingers in or out. The radius will be in red as shown below
selective brightness using snapseed to edit food photos
In this example, I brightened the front muffins only
editing food photos using snapseed
Overall, I think the App provides great tools for editing photos but the adjustments can be finicky (like zooming in, pinching sections, etc). My best advice is to play around with it until you feel comfortable!
- Photoshop Express
I use Photoshop to edit all my photos in RAW and the PS Express App is not only free to use BUT it provides all the RAW photo adjustments and has a pretty excellent auto-edit feature!
I use this App to make overall edits to my pictures.
Steps:
Open photo in PS Express App
Under tools (the icon with the three bars) you can adjust exposure, contrast, highlights, clarity, dehaze, and more!
With an adjustment selected, such as exposure, select the wand at the top and it will auto adjust for you. You can then adjust the auto setting by sliding the adjustment bar from left to right
Tips:
I typically adjust the exposure, contrast, whites, temperature, clarity, and dehaze. Feel free to play around with all the features at first to get a hang of what they do and what works for your style!
Be careful not to overdo it with the editing. A light touch is key to making a great photo!
You can see before and after preview by selecting the rectangle icon next to the wand on the top menu
In this example, I adjusted exposure, contrast, whites, temperature, clarity, and dehaze:
editing food photos with phone using photoshop express
- VSCO
VSCO is the best for filters. They have an overwhelming selection of filters but they are by far the best is the game!
My style tends to be clean, bright photos. I ended up purchasing VSCO filters S1, S2, S3 to fit my style. Once I am satisfied with editing my photos in Photoshop Express or Snapseed, I take it into VSCO and apply a filter. Voila! Image is Instagram ready.
Steps:
Open photo in VSCO App
Select filter
Adjust level of filter by sliding the adjustment bar from left to right
Tips:
Find a filter/filters that identify with YOUR photography style and stick to it! This is the key to having a cohesive Instagram feed or blog photos
You can find inspiration on Pinterest for VSCO filters
In this example below, I took the photo from above with the PS Express edits and applied VSCO filter S1 at 12+
steps to edit food photos on phone using photoshop express and vsco
Recap:
Snapseed: Great for selective editing
Photoshop Express: Great for overall editing
VSCO: Great for filters
Now editing can only take your photos so far! Make sure to take pictures in natural lighting. You can see my post on how to make a lightbox too!
Conclusion
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