I like to edit photos from my game that I play and sometimes other photos of myself and or real life. I was trying to find an app that would do like a good enough job just like photoshop to adjust my pictures but not expensive. Quickshot I found while browsing the internet and the app store. The software also sister programs such as Videoleap, Photofox, Quickart, and Pixaloop. Each program does different things but I decided to use Quickshot instead. Quick shot is a photo editing program and it has different sections in the program to as the app says “Get the photo you actually wanted to take.”
What this app does is edit you photographs and each section of the program does a different thing to the photo. There are many different options in this program. One of the options is filters. This helps change the coloration of the photos and sometimes make the photo better than it was in the first place. Another option that they have in this program is effects. Effects add like a new thing to the photos. It adds different kinds of things like fire, sparkles, flares, all sorts of things to make your photo more out there. These are a couple things that I found that photoshop also can do and it is cheaper than photoshop. It also has the basic tune ups for photos such as contrast, vibrancy, exposure, and many more. The price for the app is not bad at all and is very affordable. It is free to use but you only get a few options. It cost about five dollars a month for the application and if you want to do a month it is fifty dollars a year. This is way cheaper than photoshops 20 to 30 dollars a month subscription. I learned to use this program by first reading the tutorial like thing they have in the beginning. They show like a slide show of what each thing does and a preview of each new thing that they post. It was easy to follow and use the program so I think it would be perfect for like a high school level and up. So, I took a photo of my cat I took on my phone and decided to edit it and I looked though each of the settings on there and just went and added them if I wanted to. The options that they have a really nice and I didn’t have to you each of the options provided. If you don’t know what kind of look that you are going for, they have the option of the looks tab. This gives you the option of getting an idea of what you would like to do or if you are lazy you can just use that if you wished. What I did though was I first used the Filters option and looked for the filter that I like the most. They have a lot of different options and they keep updating the application with more and more. Next, I did an overlay, they have also many different options like fireflies, dots, flares, flowers, etc. you name it and so I picked one that I liked and decided to move on to the next options. The next one I used to be color, I used the sliders and messed with the colors to put off the hue I wanted more and or less of and it really worked wonders. After that I used the Adjust option to change up the saturation and clarity of the photo. Finally, I used their Portrait option and it made the face clearer and more visible while making the background blurry which I found made the photo look very nice.
I can see this program a more viable option rather than telling students to get photoshop. There are other programs for photo editing like gimp and all that but this one was so simple to use. I think that even a middle schooler could use it. Its very easy to use. The only con is the paywall of the options. Yes, they do give you a good potion but I do understand that they want to profit off their idea. The skills that you would learn off this is basic photo editing skills that can be applied into photoshop. There’s a option in photoshop called the Camera Raw Filter that does this as well but you don’t have to pay 30 bucks a month for it on this. So to me this is a advantage because I wont have to pay for photoshop unless absolutely necessary.