Who wants to be photographed with your Smartphone and quickly share beautiful results to share, you need effective Tools for image editing. DW Digital life tests the most popular Apps. This Week: “Chroma Lab “.
“Chroma Lab” is available for Android for free – for the full version 3,89 € will be due. The App is more colourful contemporaries – friends of natural looking photos, rather, should keep their hands off of it.
In addition to a limited number of common editing tools, Chroma Lab, offers an especially unusual color effects, distortions and so-called “Glitches”.
Although, you can also find pre-set filters that provide flashy effects – really fun to make, however, the very flexible tools. Particularly in the area of “colour” are set no limits to creativity. Colors can be chosen in the respective area-of-effect-free and combined. A short click on the icons is enough in the action bar. We needed a few minutes, until we were with the user interface familiar – has understood the principle, but once in, everything works very intuitive.
Unfortunately, the App does not always go smoothly. Also, the program crashed in our Test, several times – which is very annoying when one has already worked longer in a photo. Not all options work perfectly. A “Before/After”Option while editing is also not possible, however, to get over, because the results are usually pretty far from the Original.
Top 3 Pros:
– Unusual effects and results
Tools very flexible
– Hardly any advertising in the Free Version
Top 3 Cons:
App is not always liquid
– Not all tools work equally well
– No “Before/After”Feature
Price: free for Android
Full version: 3,89 €
Manufacturer: Ilixa.com