1888, Snapseed: Photo-editing apps to capture Diwali moments like never before

If creating great pictures is critical to your social media popularity, these apps will never let you down.

1888 (iOS)
If you want your festive images to mimic the look of photos from the ’90s era, 1888 is your app. The app requires you to turn your phone horizontally, as if you’re holding a disposable camera, and capture your image through an on-screen viewfinder. After you take the picture, the app shows you a screen that says ‘Developing’, as if your image is truly being sent to a dark room.

Snapseed (iOS, Android)
One of the most popular photo editing apps in iPhone, Snapseed offers all the basic photo editing tools as well as creative filters. Some of its interesting features include Face Enhance that adds focus to the eyes, face-specific lighting or smoothens the skin, and Face Pose which corrects the pose of portraits based on threedimensional models.

Airbrush (iOS, Android)
This is the app you should have on the landing screen of your smartphone if you take a lot of selfies. It can take out pimples and blemishes from your pictures, whiten teeth and brighten eyes in your selfies and includes tools that let you blur, crop, stretch, slim and tune your pictures for a dramatic touch.

TouchRetouch (iOS, Android)
Hate photobombers? Here is a wonderful app that will deal with all the unwanted elements in your festival photos. TouchRetouch will remove telephone wires and posts, power lines, scratches, skin blemishes, street signs, or anything you feel is spoiling your photos.

Afterlight 2 (iOS)
This redesigned photo editing app is great for quick and straightforward editing. Unlike other photo editor apps, new content is updated every month in the Afterlight 2. While tools like curves, selective hue/saturation, tone and more help you get the best out of your photos, the app also lets you get creative by using a fun list of fonts and designs.