photo retouching

Instagram

Instagram is a beautiful way to share your world. It's a photo sharing and moment sharing reinvented with lashings of retro style. Snap a picture, choose a filter to transform it and then post it to Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. This app is taking the world with around 30 million active users; it was an exclusive Apple product until last week when the Android version was released and racked up more than 1 million downloads in 12 hours. And now Instagram was officially taken over by Facebook for a nifty sum of $1 billion.

Poladroid – The Easiest and Funniest Polaroid Image Maker

Do you miss the days of the Polaroid camera, when you took a picture and a print came out instantly (or after giving it a few shakes)? Do you like the look of photographs taken back in the day? Now, in just three simple steps, you can indulge in that nostalgia. Poladroid is a Polaroid Image Maker, a simple program which allows you to take photos and turn them into Polaroid pictures almost instantly. All you need to do is drag and drop your photo to the program to get a Polaroid version of the original picture!

Gimp

GIMP means GNU Image Manipulation Program. It was first released in 1996 by two students from Berkeley University and it has been getting better and more widely used ever since. It offers all the basic and many of the advanced features of applications like Adobe Photoshop: layers, channels, paths, different painting tools, etc. Download the free application from www.gimp.org.