The best apps for taking selfies. What's the best phone for selfies? Which app can you use to take beautiful selfies?
The right app can do wonders for enhancing the quality of these photos, allowing you to effortlessly eliminate those pesky flaws in your appearance. Such programs will be described below.
Facetune
Facetune gives you a quick fix for your selfies, including teeth whitening, red eye removal, gray hair removal, jawline correction, and more. The program can also blur the background so that you are in focus, you can do various makeup, paint your eyes, lips, etc.
For more editing tools, you can use the Enlight app, which has Photoshop-style capabilities.
Retrica
If you thought Instagram was the king of filters, you were wrong. Retrica offers over a hundred filters in real time, from retro to neon. Collages and a built-in timer give you even more options for creating the perfect photos, although they can't be edited directly inside the app.
Camera+
Camera+ was not created specifically for selfies, but it is one of the most popular camera apps on the iOS platform. There's a wide range of exposure control and advanced settings like continuous flash, 6x digital zoom and timer. There is also a wide selection of filters, frames, and modes.
Photo Editor by Aviary
This program is a cross between Camera+ and Facetune. It has post-shoot effects and a simple interface that allows you to style your photos to suit a variety of themes. You can whiten your teeth and correct skin imperfections, add captions and turn photos into memes.
The program hasn't been updated for quite some time since Adobe bought it, but that doesn't stop it from doing its job properly, so given the free download, you can safely give it a chance.
Snapchat
You might not know that Snapchat is good for taking selfies, but it is. There is a social network based on photos, videos and messages, but the program also copes well with taking photos. It offers stickers and animations, filters and front flash. In addition, the application is free and multi-platform.
Like Snapchat, Instagram also offers a collection of features and tools for taking great photos. Story mode contains filters, stickers, tags and layers.
Frontback
This program uses the front and rear cameras to take pictures of what you can see from both sides of your smartphone. Thus, the device will take pictures of something in front of you and your facial expression at the same time. You can easily share photos using traditional social networks.
YouCam Perfect
This program was created with selfies in mind; its basic functionality allows you to remove facial imperfections. More aggressive settings give you the opportunity to change various components of your body, such as your nose, eyes and proportions. It's like the visual equivalent of plastic surgery.
Perfect365
According to the press, the Kardashian sisters use this program to improve their selfies, if that tells you anything. What makes Perfect365 different is not its set of tools, but its built-in ability to change the intensity of each effect using a slider. There's a combination of templates and 20 different decorating tools.
VSCO
The main advantage of VSCO is the settings after taking a photo. It uses a sleek, attractive interface that makes it easy to change brightness, contrast, color temperature, and sharpness. There are various filters to change the mood of your photos.
Microsoft Selfie
This Microsoft application works using computer vision technology. There is intelligent enhancement of portrait shots, digital noise reduction, and automatic exposure. These three features work together to deliver the best quality photos possible, taking into account ambient lighting, your age, gender and skin tone.
Selfie Editor
Like the aforementioned Facetune app, this program contains many options for quickly changing photos. You can smooth the skin, reduce or enlarge facial features, etc. The simple editor offers many filters and allows you to set different shades and tones after initial editing.
PIP Camera
The program contains several templates for cropping the latest selfie. Various frames use the Picture-in-Picture feature, allowing you to insert your face into various objects such as bubbles, glass bottles, etc.
CamMe, Snapchat, Perfect365 and other applications along with the stars suitable for them
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This week, our imagination was sparked by the CamMe app, which allows you to take selfies remotely using the recognition of a clenched fist. TJournal decided to figure out what interesting things there are on the market of mobile applications for taking selfies, and imagined which famous people could use them.
1. CamMe
You raise your hand, clench your palm into a fist, and after three seconds the application takes a photo. In addition to simply taking a selfie from afar, CamMe offers a photo booth mode (a series of three photos at one-second intervals) and a useless FanShot mode - inserting a face into the scenery, only two of which are free.
The 60-second training video shows an example of how the app helps a girl in a fitting room take a full-length selfie instead of taking a handheld photo of herself. Be that as it may, there is usually nowhere to put your phone in fitting rooms, and if you give it to someone to hold, it’s easier to just ask them to take a photo.
CamMe is quite buggy: it does not always detect a raised hand and “crashes” after deleting two unsuccessful photos. That didn't stop it from receiving an award at Mobile World Congress for "most innovative app."
Who will appreciate: Madonna, who is not shy about posting selfies with swollen eyes. It could have been processed!
3.Pixtr
Does everything that Facetune does - retouch, even out skin tone, brighten eyes - just at the touch of a button. True, the application's rating (2.5 stars) and numerous reviews indicate that there is no “magic button” after all: users complain that Pixtr spoils their photos rather than improves them.
Who will appreciate it: Ivan Okhlobystin, actively.
5.FrontBack
Simultaneously shoots with both the front and rear cameras, and then stitches both photos into one shot. Convenient when people are sitting opposite each other or when you want to show how bored you are sitting in class.
There is a Dualcamera app for Android - it does the same thing as Frontback. The name of the application hints that it is not only copied from Frontback, but also tries to impersonate it. Although the application is free, users complain about the dominance of advertising.
6.Selfie Cam
The main feature of the application is the use of emotion recognition function for automatic descent. The creators of the application claim that it is enough to “wink or smile” for Selfie Cam to take a photo on its own, but in practice only a smile is detected.
But the application has a lot of stickers for photos (“Like?”, “So Hipsta”, “Badass”), which can find their popularity among young people.
Who will appreciate it: Vladimir Putin, who cares about security so much that he doesn’t even leave fingerprints on other people’s iPhones.
9.Everyday
An application for those who want to really take care of their appearance and don’t mind turning it into art. Everyday, as the name suggests, reminds the user every day to take a selfie and then allows you to turn a series of photos into a short video.
App Store: $1.99 (iPhone and iPad).
Who will appreciate: Zlata Nikolaeva, journalist and PR woman, almost every day publishing your morning selfies on Instagram.
10. Shots
An application and social network for actually posting selfies. You might think that Instagram successfully performs this function, and all other applications are not needed, but this is not true: judging by the number of likes in Shots, hundreds of thousands of people use it. In addition, there are personal messages there.
Perhaps the whole point is that Shots was taken up by opinion leaders such as New York Times journalist and author of a book about Twitter Nick Bilton and TechCrunch columnist Josh Constine.
App Store: free (iPhone and iPad).
Who will appreciate it: Justin Bieber, who has an entire profile with dozens of selfies on the app.
11. Bright Camera
Portable selfie studio with a huge number of filters, effects and frames in bright colors. In addition to creating and processing photos from your phone, you can download pictures from Facebook or Instagram.
An excellent multifunctional application that allows you to use a whole gallery of filters and special effects to your heart’s content, as well as specifically engage in “improvement”. In the second case, you can remove bags under the eyes, correct the oval of the face and change its color, and also target those parts of the photo that you want to turn into ideal ones.
FaceTune
A very simple and at the same time incredibly effective set of tools for quickly retouching faces in photographs: remove wrinkles and red spots, whiten teeth, get rid of bags under the eyes, correct the volume of hair. Taking beautiful selfies is easy. You will simply shine!
Selfie Cam
How to take a beautiful selfie? This app can take a photo at just the right moment - it detects a smile on your face, so you can activate the self-timer simply by smiling wider. There are also a lot of nice special effects - beautiful frames, stickers, stylish fonts and everything else that will turn a banal selfie into a micro-masterpiece.
Spring-It's stylish, it's sexy
The secret way to always look perfect in your photos: use this app to lightly - just a little! - change the proportions of the body, lengthen the legs, narrow the waist and generally give the appearance a more model look. The result looks very natural. By the way, it’s easy to achieve even in group photos!
PIP camera - photo editor
There is plenty of room for creative individuals to explore here: a whole bunch of frames, collages and layouts for every taste. Trembling droplets, stunning sunsets, a beautifully blurred background - all this quickly turns your ordinary selfie portrait into a beautiful picture that you won’t be ashamed to show.
Retrica
This application simply offers a countless number of different filters with which you can turn your photo into a real work of art. What’s especially nice is that filters can be used directly in real time and without wasting effort on subsequent image processing. And when shooting, you can set the desired exposure - just like in a real camera.
Plastic surgery simulator
For experienced photographers - a literal imitation of plastic surgery. The application allows you to correct annoying imperfections with a couple of finger movements. For example, make your nose more graceful or change its shape altogether, increase breast size and get slimmer legs. If you are not very interested in radically improving yourself, perhaps it will be more interesting to evaluate whether a new face shape suits you.
Selfie photos In recent years, they have become so popular that even a special class of mobile phones has emerged with improved capabilities for creating such images. We have collected 8 best modern smartphones, which will appeal to those who like to photograph themselves.
Lenovo Vibe X2 Pro
In technical terms, the Lenovo Vibe X2 Pro smartphone is a fairly advanced device with noteworthy hardware. It has a 5.3-inch display with a resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels, an eight-core Snapdragon 615 processor with a clock frequency of 1.5 gigahertz, 2 gigabytes of RAM and 64 permanent memory.
But the most interesting thing about the Lenovo Vibe X2 Pro smartphone is its two equivalent cameras with a resolution of 13 megapixels each. This makes this device an ideal phone for selfies.
At the same time, the front camera in the Lenovo Vibe X2 Pro has autofocus, a screen-based flash, wide-angle optics and the ability to take pictures using gesture control.
Sony Xperia C3
In the summer of 2014, the Japanese company Sony became one of the first major global electronics manufacturers to release a smartphone designed for taking self-portraits and selfies.
The front camera of the Sony Xperia C3 smartphone has a matrix with a resolution of 5 megapixels. These are quite modest dimensions, but they are compensated by the presence of an LED flash in the device, which is triggered when taking a selfie.
The Sony Xperia C3 also features an intelligent photo-taking system. The user of this phone can take a selfie by tapping the body twice with their finger. The camera can also trigger automatically, focusing on a smile or preset photo parameters, including the ideal composition for a single or group self-portrait.
Doogee Valencia DG800
Doogee Valencia DG800 is another promising phone from the Chinese company Doogee, which has been gaining increasing popularity in recent months. This device has a rather modest technical content, but at the same time it has many significant advantages over other modern smartphones.
The Doogee Valencia DG800 is a phone for those who love photography, including themselves. It has two built-in cameras – a 13-megapixel main camera and an 8-megapixel front camera. At the same time, you can control their operation, as well as some other functions of the device, using a special touch panel on the back cover of the smartphone.
This panel greatly simplifies the process of taking both regular photos and selfies, making it more convenient.
Micromax Canvas Selfie A255
Now Micromax is known primarily in its homeland, India, where it produces and sells very cheap phones for the local population. However, recently, more and more often, products from this company are going abroad. One of these “international” devices was the Micromax Canvas Selfie A255 smartphone.
Micromax Canvas Selfie A255 is one of the few phones that has both cameras equally good. This device has two equivalent sensors built into it with a resolution of 13 megapixels each, which allows its owners to take beautiful pictures, including self-portraits.
The only difference between the two Micromax Canvas Selfie A255 cameras is that the main one has a backlight of two LEDs, and the front one has one.
The Micromax Canvas Selfie A255 smartphone also has specialized software for working with selfie pictures. It allows you to instantly improve these photographs, smoothing out the wrinkles of the person depicted on them, removing bags under the eyes and making the smile snow-white.
Microsoft Lumia 730
The selfie phenomenon was not spared by Microsoft Corporation, which appropriated the Lumia mobile electronics brand, taken from Nokia. She released the Microsoft Lumia 730 phone, designed, among other things, for creating ideal photographic self-portraits.
The front camera in the Microsoft Lumia 730 has a fairly small sensor that allows you to take pictures with a resolution of 5 megapixels. However, the relatively small size is compensated by a fast wide-angle lens, as well as the presence of a special application for enhancing selfie shots.
This program allows you to edit an image in a photo with just a few touches and add many different effects to it.
HTC Desire EYE
HTC Desire EYE is a unique case in the smartphone market when the front camera in the device has better characteristics than the main one. This is due to the focus of this phone on self-photos.
Both cameras in the HTC Desire EYE have a matrix with a resolution of 13 megapixels, but the front one has much higher quality optics, which is noticeable when taking identical pictures with each camera in turn.
Therefore, with the help of HTC Desire EYE, you can take beautiful selfies in a quality that is not available to Instagram users with other, simpler smartphones.
Oppo N3
The Chinese company Oppo is famous throughout the world for its experiments with cameras in mobile phones. For example, in the spring of 2014, she released the Oppo Find 7 smartphone, which allows you to take pictures with a resolution of 50 megapixels, and in the fall, a unique Oppo N3 device with a camera that can rotate.
Oppo N3 has only one camera, but it can be used as both the main and front cameras. The fact is that the block with it is located on a hinge that rotates 206 degrees.
At the same time, the camera itself has a matrix with a resolution of 16 megapixels, a dual LED flash and the ability to record video in 4K size.
Doov Nike V1
The Nike V1 smartphone from the virtually unknown Chinese manufacturer Doov also has a single built-in camera that can rotate and perform two roles at once. However, unlike a similar device in Oppo N3, this device looks quite extraordinary and even unreliable.
After all, the flip camera in the Doov Nike V1 is implemented as an external mechanism that rotates 190 degrees. But the creators of this device claim that the design can withstand 100 daily turns for four years.
The Doov Nike V1 camera itself is based on a Sony sensor with a resolution of 13 megapixels. It has a lens covered with sapphire crystal, as well as a dual LED flash.
Bonus
Selfie drone Zano
In late 2014, the crowdfunding site Kickstarter successfully raised funds to begin commercial production of a small unmanned aerial vehicle designed specifically for taking selfies. 
The drone, called Zano, can fit in the palm of an adult. It has a photosensor with a resolution of 5 megapixels, a built-in panel with 64 LEDs to illuminate the subject of filming in the dark, and the ability to control it using a smartphone.
The Zano drone can move 30 meters away from a person and fly for a maximum of fifteen minutes.
Taking selfies has recently become an entire industry. And different companies around the world produce not only specialized smartphones for these purposes, but also many related products. You can read about them in the review.
Having a cool smartphone with a good camera is not as important as choosing an application for processing photos and self-portraits. The selfie app for Android is a great tool that allows you to turn ordinary photos into real photographic art. But among the huge variety of editing apps, it's easy for a novice selfie photographer to get lost.
Facetune
Powerful and fast photo editor from Lightricks studio - a tool for professional selfies. The application is perfect for beginner photographers who do not know how to use a camera and do not have knowledge of Photoshop. Each user can easily and simply change any photo until it is recognizable or correct flaws. Before Facetune, editing tools were only available to professionals. Now everyone can get the perfect photo.
The powerful application allows you to edit your smile and eyes, skin and hair. You can apply makeup, cover gray hair or remove excess hair, smooth out wrinkles, change your look or even your facial structure! And you don't have to learn Photoshop lessons. One light touch changes the photo beyond recognition, like in a fashion magazine. If you don't already have this application on your mobile device, be sure to download it - you won't regret it!
Prisma
Turn every photo into a masterpiece of painting with a unique application from the Prisma Labs studio! The photo editor, which appeared a little less than a year ago, almost immediately became popular. And this is not surprising, because domestic developers offered selfie lovers to create not just pictures, but paintings that would not be embarrassing to hang on the wall. It will be especially pleasant for girls who love to present themselves beautifully to feel like artists!
Snapseed
Although the application is free, it is considered one of the most powerful professional photo editors. Snapseed, a Google creation, lets your imagination run wild with 30 filters and face tools. Any photo can be adjusted to your taste, adding originality and expressiveness to it. Excellent correction of colors, shades and structures, tonality, shine of spotlights and various styles, balance, rotations, sharpness and even changes in the position of objects in the photo. And all this is a small fraction of the capabilities of the free program! All functionality can be found on the utility page on Google Play.
CamME
Another selfie program, at one time recognized as the innovative offer of the year. The trick of the mobile application is that the smartphone itself takes one or a series of pictures after the appropriate settings. That is, to take a selfie photo, you don’t have to stretch out your arm as usual. All you need to do is set a timer, find a convenient place for your phone and clench your palm into a fist. The idea is good, so the program is popular, despite frequent malfunctions.
Afterlight
Another ideal app for mobile devices that allows you to quickly and easily edit your photos. After all, it’s not enough to capture a moment; it needs to be processed efficiently. Over 110 textures and filters let you customize your photo for a professional look. The program will especially appeal to beautiful girls and Instagram lovers. Simple design and straightforward controls combine with a range of powerful tools to take beautiful photos.
Perfect365
This application should be in the arsenal of every woman who loves taking pictures of herself. Perfect365 is a high-quality photo retouching tool. The selfie app for Android allows you to create virtual makeup and edit images. A self-portrait processed using filters can even be published in a glossy magazine. What selfie lover would refuse to download an app on her smartphone that Kim Kardashian herself is rumored to use!
Snapchat
If you love taking funny selfies, download Snapchat! The original application will help you create snaps and save (for a short time) bright moments. Cool filters, special effects, animations and stickers will allow you to decorate your photos, make fun of your friends and family, and even expand your circle of friends.
The trick of the application is that the created snapshot is saved for several seconds, from 1 to 10, and then deleted. But the friend to whom you sent a funny snap may have time to take a screenshot. Be aware of this if you decide to prank, for example, your loved one, delighting him with a frivolous photograph.
FrontBack
A unique tool for creating original selfie shots. The program uses two cameras at once, the main one and the front one, which makes it possible to capture not only yourself, but also everything around you. If desired, you can only use one photo. But the highlight of the FrontBack selfie app is to capture the moment from different angles. The first shot will show you, and the second will show the details. Combining two images will create artistic photos. Show more details and save bright moments: travel, important events, meetings with friends!
Retrica
The application will appeal even to untrained photographers, as it has a simple interface and convenient controls. Retrica is a great tool for creating online photos and applying a variety of filters and styles to them.
B612 – Selfiegenic Camera
The application allows you to create stunning selfies and apply effects to them in real time. Thanks to filters and stickers, you can enliven boring photos, change your self-portrait, changing images and mood at least every day. Do you want to get bright, positive and high-quality photos? Install this application on your smartphone.
These, in our subjective opinion, are the best Android programs for creating a beautiful selfie. Make your choice and save the bright moments of life!
