Adobe Photoshop Fix is a unique portrait editor for Android

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

Adobe recently introduced a new photo editing app - Photoshop Fix for Android. The life hacker found out why it is remarkable and why it is needed at all, if there is already Photoshop Express and Photoshop Mix.

Adobe has posted about 30 applications on Google Play. These include a PDF reader, video editor, vector graphics tool, and other specialized utilities. However, Adobe's strong point is photo processing. For this case, we are offered the oldies Photoshop Express and Photoshop Mix, as well as the new Photoshop Fix. Each application has its specifics, which should be taken into account when choosing a regular photo editor.

Adobe Photoshop Fix

The iOS version of Photoshop Fix was released about a year ago. Its users won't lie that the most impressive section of the application is "Plastic". As the name implies, here you become a surgeon who fights against the flaws and stinginess of Mother Nature. So, you can correct the slope of the nose or add volume to the chest.

The application scans the face and highlights seven key points on it: a pair of eyes, a nose, cheekbone lines, lips and chin. Click on any point to open additional options. For example, "Plastic" allows you to change the shape of the eyes, make the cheeks smaller, lower the chin and even make a person smile.

And you just need to move the sliders. The results are displayed immediately. At the same time, according to subjective impressions, the picture turns out no worse than on desktop Photoshop.

Only due to "Plastics" Adobe Photoshop Fix is three cases ahead of competitors in the struggle for the title of the best portrait editor. The lag becomes even more obvious when you pay attention to color correction and other mandatory retouching attributes:

• Section "Frame". Cropping, rotating and flipping the image.
• Section "Correction". Change exposure, contrast, saturation, shadows and highlights.
• Section "Recovery". Removing image defects with patches and healing brushes.
• Smoothing section. Sharpen and blur specific areas of a photo.
• Section "Light". Selectively brighten and darken areas of the picture.
• Section "Color". Saturation of the tints of the image.

• Section "Paint". Colorization of images and transfer to black-and-white mode.
• Defocus section. Blur the background to emphasize the main subject.
• Section "Vignette". Adding a fading frame around the photo.

You may have noticed that there is not a single hint of artistic filters in Adobe Photoshop Fix. But they are in Photoshop Express and Photoshop Mix. A few words about each of them.

Photoshop Express and Photoshop Mix

Adobe Photoshop Express is a basic photo editor with the most common features for the completely inexperienced user. In addition to several dozen filters, it provides cropping, red-eye removal, adding frames, removing defects and automatically correcting artifacts, fog, temperature and more.

Adobe Photoshop Mix - A toolkit for complex visual effects with layers and masks. To help offer accurate selection of objects, feathering and inversion of edges, blending modes. However, it was not without bright filters and cropping again.

As you can see, the capabilities of the three photo editors are intertwined only in basic things. Otherwise, they are very different and in no way compete with each other: Photoshop Express fluently decorates images, Photoshop Mix creates high-quality collages, and Photoshop Fix is sharpened for portraits.

Why not bring everything under one roof? For a small screen and casual purposes, this would be overkill. The principle is “simpler but better”. Choose for yourself and use with pleasure: the applications are very friendly and will always tell you what this or that button is designed for. The only inconvenience is that you need to create an Adobe ID profile. But this is only good. Mobile work will go through the cloud into adult Photoshop.