#VSCO CAM ANDROID#

Once you purchase them, you can re-order how the presets are displayed in your editing interface from the settings. They range in price from 99 cents to $4.99, and contain varying numbers of presets. While I found the bevy of presets and settings to give me plenty to work with, the VSCO Cam Store is populated with dozens of different preset packs that can provide a different look to your pictures. Edits that you apply are completely nondestructive, meaning you can back up your last edits one at a time, or completely remove them all - even after you've 'saved' an image once with edits to it. With all of these tools, you could easily spend hours editing photos for different looks right on your phone or tablet. Going yet another step further, you can edit 'traditional' aspects of your pictures like exposure, vignette, contrast, sharpening and more, as well as simply crop and rotate them. While you're not restricted to portrait or a certain aspect ratio when you take pictures, the interface actually doesn't rotate to landscape for editing, gently nudging you toward portrait pictures. Add a +4 M1 and a +7 B1 to make a different picture from a +12 C1 and a +2 T1. Presets aren't a one-tap-and-done affair, either, they're applied as layers and can be used in different intensities on a scale of 1 to 12. Presets aren't at all descriptive - they're simply called B1, C3, G4, M2 and so on - so you're expected to just try them out and see what you can make. When you tap a photo to edit it, you'll find a grouping of filters called 'presets' that you can apply to photos. You're expected to make the photo look great with your framing and all of the edits you'll do after the fact.ДЄnd editing is where things get really odd and somewhat intriguing. The camera interface is dead simple, giving you basically no options - other than turning on a grid and toggling tap-to-focus - to snap a quick picture.

#VSCO CAM ANDROID#

VSCO is versatile in that it lets you shoot with its built-in camera interface or import images - you can share single images to VSCO Cam directly, or use the built-in file picker in Android 4.4 to select images from any source. You'll spend far more time in the Library where your photos live. Journal is a list of information from VSCO on new products, initiatives and updates, and I never really found myself going there much. You can see great photos and follow photographers you like, but there's no spammy likes, comments or other cruft getting in the way. You don't have to join the Grid network if you don't want to, which is a huge plus, but I actually found it to essentially be a 'pure' version of an Instagram feed. Grid, which was recently added to the Android app, is the social network side of VSCO Cam where you can browse photos, follow users and share pictures. You have a slide-in panel on the left edge that lets you access the Grid, Journal, Store and Library sections, as well as launch directly into the camera or access the settings. Once you get your bearings, things are pretty simple.

But it doesn't exactly telegraph how everything works like other apps do. It's an intentional move by VSCO to be extremely simple and devoid of any real description of interface elements, which gets into the 'less is more' mantra that many photographers have but is difficult for newcomers to pick up.

When you first open up VSCO Cam, it takes a bit of curious poking around to actually figure out how everything works.

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