3 Must Have Apps for Comic Book Lovers

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If you have an Android smart phone there are 3 really great apps that you cannot live without! The 3 apps I'm going to go over are for reading comics they all have their good points and virtually no bad points.

1. Comics by comixology

This app is not for pirates sorry. You can buy allot of mainstream comics from various comic publishers like Marvel and DC. They also have allot of free comics. The free comics are mostly the first issue of a series to get people looking. The others are from their online free comic day campaign which is very cool cuz most comic stores do that. what makes this app stand out from the rest is the way you read the comics. It doesn't just put a comic page up. Each comic is almost like a video. It pulls up one box at a time so you know which one they want you to read next and they do it very well to where it actually enhances the experience. And yes they have free issues of tales from the crypt XD!

2. Comic Rack by cyo soft

This is your must have comic book reader. It is used to open cbr and cbz files which are comic book archives. It
Generates a thumbnail, lets you organize how you like it and lets you read your comics in HD! It's a really nice app especially compared to other comic book readers out on the market. and it doesn't lag which is even better. If you don't know how to pirate comics you probably won't use this app cuz its for reading comics you already have. Look up how to use torrents and the pirate bay if you wanna learn. :)

3. Manga searcher by next group

This is your first and last stop for Japanese comics: Manga (pronounced Mon-Guh). Anime and Manga is just as well known as cartoons and comics. If you like comics you'll probably like this. :) If you're Otaku you already know about manga lol. This is a really amazing app that may look confusing at first but just play with it you'll figure it out. It has 5 pirate sources for all things manga if you know about a manga it probably does too and will give it to you for free not to mention it downloads to SD Card so you can give it to friends, spread it around, or move it from one phone to the next with ease! Edit: It might be called something different now. I can't find it on the app store but this looks like it might be the same app just diff name like they reuploaded it. The GUI looks exactly the same as the original app: SSManga by The Group Developer

Well those are your 3 must have apps for comic books. Hope out helps you out!

Top 10 Android Photography Apps

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I love me some little green robots. Yes I do. I also love art and Photography is a particularly easy outlet of personal expression and creativity. Android is the most popular OS for phones even more popular than iPhone cuz most people can't afford to spend thousands every month on iPhone replacements cuz they're crappy. (why do you think you see only iPhone cases in stores XD)

Now if your an artist with an Android smart phone you probably want to take pictures. So this list is gonna help you start a great selection of post processing effects, filters and overlays so you can express yourself! Best part is they're all free!

#10

Cartoon Camera

This is a neat little camera effect that takes pictures that look like cartoons.they bold the lines and soften the colors to make these effects.some of them require you pay for the effect but there's plenty of effects to play with.

#9

Little Photo

This simple app gives you a nice range of effects one that particularly interested me was the multiple exposure effect which lets you blend two pictures together and you can get a nice ghostly image with it. There's lots of nice things in the app but it limits the number of effects you can do at a time and the GUI is kind of poor. It definitely has room for  improvement but otherwise its pretty good.

#8

Fast Burst Camera

This app lets you take several pictures at rapid motion so you don't miss anything or if you want to edit then together to make like a stop motion effect or montage what have you. Fast Burst Camera makes it to 8 in this list cuz it doesn't do much more than take pictures really fast

#7

HDR Camera

If your a photographer you know how easy it is to over do an hdr and how common it is that people do it. This app lets you take hdr pictures automatically and uses a pretty smart algorithm to do it. Once again the thing is though that it only serves one purpose..
#6

Otaku Camera

This is a fun app. It lets you edit or take a picture then edit it to make it look like a manga book page. Lots of fun overlays to play with and it thickens the lines and whites it so it looks like paper. The only negative is that it doesn't do that well at turning the original picture into the manga paper version.

#5

CameraMX

This app lets you do effects, overlays and even fancy borders when you take a picture or load one. Its got some effects you'll probably want like a sin city effect for reds and a cool blue skin effect. The bad thing is it has some addons that cost money that aren't even that good and are available elsewhere for free. Another issue is that it pixelates when you try to use its camera. So I would either use it and hope it comes out right in post or just edit an existing photo.

#4

FXCamera

This one lets you take cool pictures or edit existing ones. My favorite is the toy cam which lets you make toy looking pictures using different techniques mostly using miniature faking and high contrasts. Its instant camera has a high shutter speed, its got a fishbowl effect, and its normal + can make your photos look more professional.

#3

Pics Art

This is a great photo editor that has some great effects and even lets you put all kinds of stickers on your pictures which is great for kids. It also has some cool effects that you don't find in other apps like the paper effects which can make it look like your pictures on a brick wall or wood fence and it does it really well. Other things is it does really well at photo repair for things like blemishes and red eye.

#2

Pixlr-o-matic

My personal favorite editor for borders overlays effects and filters it definitely gives you the best range of effects you just got to download them and they're all free. It does allot. 0_0

#1

Instagram

A must have for any artist. It of great for sharing your pictures. It's basically a photographers social network like photobucket for desktops. It also has a range of effects. I had to put this as number one cuz I'm obsessed with it. I upload everything to it.

So that's you're list hope that gives you a start in Droidography XD. Now go out and take some amazing photos!