Download 8Bit Photo Lab, Retro Effects on PC

Pretty much every app this guy makes is superb. I played with the free version for a while and have no regrets jumping on the Pro for a couple of bucks. It's feature-packed, very well thought out, and the built in tool explanations are very helpful. The only minor concern issue I ran into is that in some cases you can undo almost all your work with one click. I wish that a major UNDO like that came with a confirmation option. Other than that, this app is fantastic.

Simple to use, but not restrictive. The interface allows both quick presets to apply and allows intricate in-depth customization of filters. It's a powerful application and surprisingly robust for what I've come to expect from mobile photo editing apps. Some menus can be a pain to navigate but it's never frustrating. Images can only be saved as jpgs (a poorly suited file type for most images you'll be creating) as well, but it seems to be possible to export as different file types in the pro version. Despite these minor shortcomings, it's still easily worth a download.

Admittedly, I'm kind of an image nut already, but to give you some idea of how addictive it is, I've saved so many images from this thing that it's starting to fill up my 32Gb SD card. And there's still a ton of stuff to figure out. As soon as I can remember it during that narrow window of time when I have money in my account, I'm going to upgrade to pro. Gold pro, in fact. And if they come up with versions made out of better, brighter, gaudier, more imageworthy metals, I'll probably buy them. If there ARE any metals like that. Are there? And when my brain is all whacked out from working with images, or if I don't have anything more important to do (or even if I do), I'll just take an image and start tapping the "random" button, just to see what happens, and save the best of the output. And so far, the ONLY flaw I've encountered (and maybe I just haven't found the right way to do it) is that when I'm hitting the random button, if I go too fast and pass up an image I decide I want to save, there's no way to back up one step. Instead of going back to the previous group of settings, the back button takes me out of random mode and the previous settings are lost. This is important because, as much as I hate to admit it, the random algorithm generates output at least as good, and often much better, than anything my brain has created yet. So saving the output is about more than just filling up my SD card. It's about saving settings for future reference. Show me a solution to that and I'll love you forever.