Colorful Selfie Retouching Applications

The word 'selfie' or 'self-portrait' was apparently first used in 2002 and was chosen as the word of the year by the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013. Today, there are nearly two hundred million photos on Instagram with the hashtag #Selfie, and their number increases daily. Selfies are usually referred to as raw and unedited photos, but in today's world of colorful applications, especially advanced photography apps, retouching selfies has become extremely popular. Now, in just a few minutes, a selfie can be transformed into a photo that looks like it was taken by professional photographers for the covers of fashion magazines! One of the main problems with taking a good selfie is that the tools are very limited. In fact, you have a camera and a pair of hands that sometimes aren't long enough! To help with the hardware aspect of selfies, three applications come to your aid: The 'CamMe' app acts like an automatic camera. You place your smartphone in front of you. The mobile camera is on, and when you wave your hand, it recognizes you and identifies where you are with a yellow light indicator. Now, you just need to make a fist towards the camera, and it will take a picture three seconds later. So, you don't have to press the button yourself; you just need to signal with your hand. Another advantage of this app is that you can take pictures as many times as you want with the same initial settings; you just need to signal with your fist each time. The only point about using this app is that it must be placed in a stable position so that shaking does not blur the photo. The #selfie app is actually a photography application that should be used specifically for taking selfies—only selfies. This app works only with the front camera of the mobile and has a lens that takes a close-up photo of your face. This means the entire frame is your face, with no margins. It actually takes a larger photo from a closer distance of your face. If you shake the mobile before taking the photo, the flash of this app will also activate, capturing a brighter photo of you. Speaking of flash, we must mention the 'Flash Self' app, which is specifically for flash only for selfies. Unlike the camera flash that shines a harsh light on the subject being photographed (in this case, your face), 'Flash Self' emits a soft light onto the mobile screen (which reflects on your face). The intensity of this light can also be adjusted. You can choose the color of this light and the angle from which it shines. Moving away from the hardware of selfies, we reach a sea of Photoshop-like applications for selfies. One of the most common and popular of these apps is 'Facetune.' Although this app (unlike the three above which were free) costs four US dollars, users say it can retouch photos very professionally. You can lighten or darken skin tone, remove facial wrinkles, hide dark circles around the eyes, and even slim or fatten body shape. This app also offers 30 different filters and 16 layers and various styles for beautifying selfies. The two apps 'YouCamPerfect' and 'YouCamMakeUp' are both designed to help the user take a 'full-fledged' selfie. While 'YouCamPerfect' focuses more on basic edits, 'YouCamMakeUp' helps you complete your facial makeup in the selfie. From removing wrinkles to making eyebrows and eyelashes look fuller, and adding various facial makeup, this app does it all. Both of these apps have a section where you can make yourself look taller. In both 'Facetune' and 'YouCamMakeUp,' you have to retouch each part of the face (eyes, lips, eyebrows, skin, etc.) separately, which can be time-consuming and may not yield very realistic results. This is where the photo retouching app 'ModiFace Photo Editor' comes to your aid. In this app, you can specify all the parts that you think need retouching on one page and use the various sections of the app to clean them up. You can also give yourself different looks by slightly stretching or widening your face or eyes. Finally, after all this hassle, if we don't want to bombard our friends on Facebook or Instagram with our selfies (for fear they think we are narcissistic), we can use the social network Selfie, where everyone's intentions are clear. There, everyone just shares their selfies with each other and nothing more.