With smartphones packing in cameras with higher megapixels, better sensors and features such as flash, auto focus, smile shutters, and the works, a decent app that lets you tinker around with your shots comes across as a welcome addition. After the trend sparked by the likes of Instagram, apps that let you add filters and effects as you snap pictures, have now become a rage. If you are looking at getting the best out of your Android device's camera, here are a few apps that can come in handy.
 

Snapseed
While Instagram is now revered as the best app for photo effects on smartphones, Snapseed is slowly catching up. Unlike several apps which only let to add effects and filters to shots captured via the app, Snapseed also lets you add effects to photos which already exist on your memory card. So if you have a point and shoot that lets you take better images than the snapper packed in to your handset, just transfer pictures to your phone and go play!

Wondershare Panorama
After the iPhone 5 and Microsoft's Photosynth made panorama shots famous, there has been mushrooming of several apps that let you capture seamless panoramic scenes using your Android handsets as well. The Wondershare Panorama app is quite easy to use, and stitches images quite well too. If you are looking for a full 360 degree panorama app instead, then the Panorama - 360 (Free) is a handy alternative.

GifStitch
After Nokia introduced the world to its Cinemagraph app, there seems to be a sudden fondness for animated GIFs. Although the Cinemagraph is available only to Lumia users, Windows Phone users now have apps like Super Camera for company. For android users there is GifStitch. The app lets you create GIF images using existing photos or fresh clicks. It also lets you add colour effects to your GIFs and share the images with the world.

Face Swap
If you liked the Face Swap app on the Windows Phone platform, then a similarly-named app on the Android platform will surely interest you. The app is quite straightforward to use. You can swap faces between two images, but the swapping happens only between two faces in a single picture.  The lite version is available for free, and you can purchase the full version for Rs 110, which will be free of ads and will not put a watermark on your swapped images.

Paper Camera
If you are looking to turn your camera into a toy cam, the Paper Camera is an amazing app to have.  You get can add interesting effects including cartoon, sketch, comic book, noir, neon, and painting and it works not only with new clicks but also your existing snaps, and also lets you capture videos using the effects. The app will set you back by approximately Rs 100, but that would be money well spent. Also, the developers promise to refund your money if the app doesn't work with your device.

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