The best apps of 2014: Photo & Video Editing Applications For Android,iphone,windows Mobiles

The past year was full of photography - and video innovations for your cell phone. We saw for example the introduction of Hyper-lapse videos; the time-lapse technique that can be used with many new apps and updates on almost every mobile phone.

The growing interest in the images in the various social applications ensures that the photo features of many popular apps are improved significantly. After a long struggle, we now present the five best photo and video apps of 2014.

The fight went to the first place between Hyper Lappish and Face Tune. Eventually won Hyper Lapse, partly because the daughter app Instagram equal was a great success. Our experts felt using the app as love at first sight. But there are more reasons why we decided to Hyper Lapse crowned ruler of this list.

Firstly, it is the first app Instagram of which can also be used independently. But Hyper Lapse offers much more than a famous parent app. The app is innovative and provides users with two services: stabilization of the images and the ability to time-lapse videos to make. Both features are the result of new technologies that have only recently become available for mobile phones.

First, video stabilization, was developed by Alex Karpenko, a student at Stanford University. Karpenko started in 2010 to develop an iPhone 4, one of the first phones that also could shoot in HD. In 2013 it was starting up Luma bought Instagram, who with this purchase were an innovative and effective algorithm for video stabilization in hands. Until recently, such a feature available only for powerful computers with professional software.

The time-lapse technology ensures that videos that otherwise would be too long to watch, can now be easily uploaded. Many videographers dreamed all times of this function, and now is the time lapse available on your smartphone. We get far enough of flowers coming into bloom in ten seconds, the night goes by in a flash to us or the wide range of Benny Hill-style comic movies.

Combine all the innovation of the app with beautiful, simplistic design of Hyper Lapse, and the winner is clear.

The past two years selfies dominate the photo scene, and that is useful for apps like Facebook Tune. Facebook Tune is a surprisingly good application that Hyper Lapse was almost cast from the throne. During the jury debate was clear that both Hyper Lappish as Face Tune a very specific function have; shooting stable video and time-lapse movies, and edit and enhance close ups.

Facebook Tune has two major advantages: the program fills the selfie trend perfectly and includes many editing options. In this large inventory editing tools you can find every feature you could possibly look at a picture improvement. Altogether, the functions of Facebook Tune sure the app is particularly attractive to use. Another nice advantage of this application is that you do not have photo-expert to edit your pictures.

In short, in this age of social networking and Facebook profile pictures Tune is a handy tool to perfect your images. Facebook Tune fits perfectly with the many social applications that we use on a daily basis, and therefore deserves a second place on this list.

Download Tune Facebook for Android , iPhone , Windows Phone

Lightroom has several goals. The program provides a comprehensive platform to edit your photos and manage. After the introduction of Lightroom for iPad the life of every digital photographer suddenly became a lot easier. You have quick and easy access to the photo library on your PC, Mac, and iPod for both edit and the organizing of your images .

The tablet version is free to use, so Lightroom is a handy alternative to other photo editing applications as Camera360. The app is intuitive and perfectly use on touch screens . This is not, as in many cases, a version of the desktop software for your tablet, but a completely custom application . The synchronization between different platforms is flawless and Lightroom gives a big advantage over the competition.

The desktop version continues to be a gold mine of features , with a good balance between the quality of the instruments and accessibility. All this is included in the Adobe Creative Suite, which you can easily switch between different offers programs Adobe. For serious photographers, Lightroom is the best software that you can find.

Download Lightroom for iPhone & iPad, Mac en Windows

The app emulsio won the right Best of Show prize at the Macworld / iWorld 2014 conference. Again is the combination of power and ease of a great success. The fact that the app is free, makes it even more fun to use the program.

The first experience with emulsio is surprising . The power of the application to convert jerky or moving images right is unimaginable. After each operation you stand amazed to look at the enormous changes.

The power of the app is not the only interesting part of emulsio, also the ease of use is remarkable. If you make more videos with your phone, you know that these are not always right or stable. Emulsio solves this problem so simple and effective that the app is a great luxury for mobile videographers.

Download Emulsio for iPad en iPhone

FotoSwipe is an app that lets you real-time sharing photos from mobile to mobile. Nothing fancy, perhaps, but the way it happens, it's magical element of this application. The developers have found a way to drag one or more pictures of your smartphone to another smartphone. This is in a very original way: you hold the two phones together and drag one image from one device to another.

When our colleague Sam discovered this app, we all were watching with open mouth to the magic of FotoSwipe. The pictures go rapidly from one phone to another. Android to iPhone and vice versa, with one photo or multiple simultaneously.

Of course it is not real magic, but the power of FotoSwipe is in the enormous simplification of a job which sometimes takes time and data usage. Therefore FotoSwipe is certainly in our top five best apps of the year.

Download Fotoswipe for iPhone and Android

Be many years of film and photo enthusiasts spoiled with beautiful applications for our smartphones, Macs and PCs. The increasing quality and the wide range of apps can sometimes ensure that it is difficult to choose the right software. 2014 once again brought forth a great flood of image processing applications with which the hunger of the mobile photo / videographer is immediately satisfied. We expect that this only further expanded in 2015 , especially in the field of photo storage and sharing images and videos. In the meantime, we can enjoy the applications that we already have!