Aim, shoot, morph, share

Things have come a long way from the times when you made prints out of your pictures and sent a few of them to your nears and dears in envelopes. HT takes a look at hot apps to help you add magic to your photos. Gagandeep Singh Sapra reports.

Things have come a long way from the times when you made prints out of your pictures and sent a few of them to your nears and dears in envelopes.

The Internet, digital cameras, camera phones and now, social media, have changed all that.

You go on a holiday, you shoot a picture and you upload it straight from your mobile phone or tablet PC now, aided by easy-touch options.

The icing on the cake is image editing - with fancy filters and backgrounds.

So you can make your photo appear as if it was clicked in the 1970s, or you can add other such effects.

Both Google's Android and Apple's iOS platforms have taken off well, and it can be debated who offers the richer experience.

This week we discuss the top five applications (apps) that you can check out in these two platforms.