Create vintage photo LOOKS INSTANTLY with Afterlight. App Review
If you’re a photography enthusiast, don’t miss Afterlight, a photo-editing app that can instantly transform your ordinary photos into stunning images. Give it a try!
Afterlight can adjust lighting, increase/decrease brightness, adjust contrast, increase color saturation, and sharpen the image. It’s all the basics a photo editing app should have.

Even if the photo you took has low light or insufficient light, you can still adjust it. You can easily make the sky color more beautiful with just your fingertips. Just drag to adjust.
Afterlight also lets you adjust specific colors. Choose the Adjustments tab to adjust red, or adjust only blue. You can also choose the specific saturation you want. It’s easy to add a unique touch to your photos. Even the smallest spots are not missed by Afterlight. You can zoom in, use Touch Tools, and adjust the brightness, increase the intensity, or blur it.
Of course, you can also choose to undo if you make a mistake in editing your photo, or adjust the blush size to your liking. But if you can’t think of anything, Afterlight has Frame and Border for you to choose from. Just add an existing image and adjust the lighting and colors a bit, and you’re done.
This one is definitely something you’ll love! It’s a filter that automatically adjusts the light and color with just one selection. It’s that simple!
Importantly, Afterlight has over 130 filters to choose from, and they’re constantly being updated. Afterlight is free to download and use for 7 days. If you like it, you can pay monthly or yearly, or you can purchase it outright.

Uploading from Camera Roll
Selecting a photo or image to edit is simple and straightforward. The Afterlight app connects to the iPhone camera roll, allowing users to simply click on the desired image from their image or photo library. The friendly interface has clearly marked icons, tools, filters, symbols, and commands.
Like Adobe Lightroom, it supports importing of RAW photos as large as 6144 x 6144 pixels. Aside from that, it lets you export files in High-Efficiency Image Compression (HEIC) format.
Built-in Camera
The application has a built-in camera that contains several manual settings such as shutter speed, ISO, and white balance. It also has tools for self-timer and modifying grids.
Social Media Integration
As a photographer, it’s essential that you can share your edited image or photo on social media to increase exposure and attract clients. After doing post-processing in your photo or image, you would see the actual icons of different social media platforms, allowing you to share the final output online without leaving the program.
Easy-to-Create Filters
It has the ability to save edits and create filter presets. Filter presents are very helpful and cuts down on post-processing time. You can create a preset by saving a combination of edits. Then the program asks you to name and save the preset.
Congratulations, you just made your first filter! The customized filters are easy to locate. Saving presets and filters is a popular post-processing practice among photographers for adjusting multiple images that were shot in similar lighting.
Afterlight Pros:
- User-Friendly
- Easy-to-Create Photo Filters
- Included Preset Filters Save Time
- Collections: Community Filter Sharing
- Text Overlay Tool
- Selective Hue Adjustment
- Selective Lightness
Afterlight Cons:
- Unnecessary Features and Tools
- Lack of Frame Options

