Enhance your selfies with real-time filters, beauty tools, and easy editing for professional-looking photos
Enhance your selfies with real-time filters, beauty tools, and easy editing for professional-looking photos
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Program license Free
Developer CyberLink Corp.
Version 6.10.1
Works under Android
Also known as YouCam Perfect
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(83 votes)
Developer
CyberLink Corp.
Works under
Android
Program license
Free
Version
6.10.1
Also known as
YouCam Perfect
Pros
- Interface is easy to use
- Tons of different features
- Free to download and use
- Takes professional quality photos
Cons
- Not all filters are flattering
- Only available for Android 4.0 and up
No one's spilling any state secrets to suggest that most young people who purchase Android mobile devices will use these devices to take selfies, and the smart ones are going to also get a program like YouCam Perfect to make their selfies look that much better.
An Overview of YouCam Perfect
Today's Android devices come with pretty good cameras that have automatic white balance and can really make your photos look pretty good regardless of the surrounding light. However, they could always get better. Many Android users are addicted to social media and love posting pictures of themselves on their networking sites. These photos, called selfies, are so incredibly popular that even former President Barack Obama was seen with a selfie stick, enabling him to post pictures of himself on social media. The YouCam Perfect program is essentially an app for the Android OS which makes the pictures you take look a lot better. With half a million downloads to date, this app from Cyberlink Corp is starting to pick up a lot of popularity, and best of all it's a free app that anyone can use with an Android 4.0 or higher.
One of the biggest issues people have when taking selfies is that they cannot really see what they're shooting, so the end result ends up being about fifty-fifty. Sometimes you take a really good shot, and sometimes it looks like you snapped a photo in the dark using an old-school Polaroid. With this particular app, you can apply a bunch of different filters and effects before you shoot to ensure that the picture you end up taking will be worth keeping.
Features of YouCam Perfect
One of the first features you're going to notice with this app is its filters section. Rather than taking the photo first and then scrolling through a ton of filters until which point you find something you like, you can figure out which filters you like beforehand and apply them to the phone or tablet before you ever even snap your photos. This gives you a much better chance of taking a winning selfie, and it means no more legwork after the fact to make it look presentable. The filters are just the start of the features here. You can also tweak other features, such as the Auto Beauty feature, and this will enhance things like your skin tone and your hair without muddying the photo up. And with its timer feature, you're not forced to snap the photo on a whim. You have plenty of time to pose for the photo you want.
There are also features on this app that will help make you look taller or thinner, if you so choose. So if you haven't been adhering to your diet quite as well as you'd like, you can simply adjust a few things with your photo and end up looking great. Overall, this app was created specifically to help you release the best-looking photos possible for your social sites.
Pros and Cons of YouCam Perfect
Pros
- Interface is easy to use
- Tons of different features
- Free to download and use
- Takes professional quality photos
Cons
- Not all filters are flattering
- Only available for Android 4.0 and up
Pros
- Set it and forget controls that you only have to adjust once
- Can work professionally to retouch or to just goof around
- Low processing power won't bog down your mobile device
- App is freeware so you won't have to spend a bunch of money
Cons
- At almost 40 MB, app is large in size
- Only available on Android
- Only really applicable for facial photos
The YouCam Perfect app for Android is basically a two-for-one imagine editing app that you can use to either make your face look goofy in appearance, or that you can actually use to make yourself look better.
What YouCam Perfect Is and How it Works
You can easily find a wide assortment of image editing apps on the market today, especially for Android, but YouCam Perfect stands out on multiple levels due to many reasons. For starters, this is an app that works to change your appearance. Let's say you've put on a few pounds but still want to broadcast your photos on a social networking site. YouCam Perfect can actually make your face look thinner, your eyes look different, and much more. In this sense, the app can work as a professional image retoucher to make your face look goofier with big eyes, big lips, fun-house effects, etc. It really all depends where you want to go with the app.
Perhaps the best thing about this app is that it will work automatically once you set the parameters. So if you want it to keep making your face look slimmer and better for a more professional touch to your social photos, it will accomplish this automatically as soon as you set the parameters. You won't have to keep resetting the device every time you add a new photo to it. That being said, it is just an image tool. It will not accomplish these same things on a video feed or anything like that.
Pros and Cons of YouCam Perfect
Pros
- Set it and forget controls that you only have to adjust once
- Can work professionally to retouch or to just goof around
- Low processing power won't bog down your mobile device
- App is freeware so you won't have to spend a bunch of money
Cons
- At almost 40 MB, app is large in size
- Only available on Android
- Only really applicable for facial photos
