The original Instagram tools offer you a wide range of possibilities to post your content and make it awesome. But still, one app can't cover everything, especially some extraordinary needs that may appear when you are creating your content. Let's see what you can use for awesome editing, creating a new design or even completely altering the original content you made!

Photo editing apps exist both for simple tasks such as cropping, resizing and adding preset filters to your pictures and for much more complicated ones such as making collages, creating graphics from scratch or deeply retouching of your photos. Video editing apps do mostly the same but for videos. While they may have fewer possibilities for the actual graphic content (because not everything that works for static pictures may be applied for the movies), but offer tools for audio adjusting and general editing: cutting fragments and rearranging them in many different ways. Quality content along with proper promotion will bring you a bigger audience to your profile. Read FollowLiker review to find out the most effective and profitable ways of promotion on Instagram. So, let's look through both photo and video editing apps.

1. VSCO

VSCO is one of the most popular photo editing apps. Instagram even has a separate hashtag for the posts edited in this app. One of the key reasons for VSCO popularity is its adjustability. It has free preset filters, 10 of them that may instantly give your photo a vintage look and several simple settings that allow you to fix the hue, saturation, brightness or contrast of your photos. But the paid version has many more possibilities and lots of advanced retouch tools. More than 200 presets and dozens of new settings allow you to edit your photos professionally, creating vibes of fashion magazines' editing right with your phone.

2. Avatan Photo Editor

As VSCO, Avatan also has free and paid versions. The free one is similar to any other instant editor that allows you to overlay your photos with different filters and create preset special effects. But the paid version opens many more tools for retouching and customizing your photos and filters. You may even create your own filters to apply to the whole series of your photos. It may come in handy when you are creating a single photoshoot for your current Instagram newsfeed.

3. Snapseed

Snapseed's main feature is that it allows you to process RAW files (the files the most cameras make). RAW files are usually used by professional photographers, so this option gives you lots of opportunities to work with the files from the camera directly. There are 29 powerful tools that use every feature of RAW format: editing the photos professionally, setting the colors, removing elements or even people, warping the perspective etc. For those who don't need such precision and quality Snapseed offers more common editing of JPEG format. You don't have to use all the power of this app; it is also suitable for giving your photo a quick touch - but it's still better to use a simpler and easier app for this.

4. Adobe Lightroom Photo Editor

Adobe is one of the most famous companies that create apps for photo and graphic editing. No wonder that Adobe Lightroom for portable devices has amazing editing capabilities. It also can edit RAW pictures and professionally adjust their settings. If you are not used to working with curves and precise numbers while editing, you may try to use the Discover section of the program. There are lots of preset filters created by experienced users and shared with the world. The Discover section also has lots of interactive tutorials that will help you to get familiar with the app and create such filters by yourself. Again, if you need just a quick edit on the go, it's better to choose something simpler and with a more intuitive interface.

5. Layout from Instagram

Native Instagram design app allows you to combine up to nine photos, creating the new collages, picking them from your gallery or shooting them right by your camera. The built-in photo booth allows you to pick fragments from the photos, add some filters, stickers and other personalized elements. Your ready-to-share collage will be fine in a few minutes without extra sweat!

6. A Design Kit

Another collage app from the makers of A Color Story is great for turning an average photo into a poster or a ready-made Instagram Story. Decorate your image with multilayered stickers, fonts, designs and textures. There are incredibly many different features, brushes and backgrounds for you to use, so your own creation will be very distinctive and customized.

7. Hyperlapse

As we can guess from the name, this app is made for creating time-lapse videos. You may capture your video right from the app while it will be automatically stabilized and adjusted and Instagram-ready. You may later add several features to the video, such as speeding it up.

8. InShot - Video Editor

This app is quite complicated for the newbies, but it is considered one of the best for Instagram video editing. The functions of trimming, merging, splitting, and cropping will help you create a great studio quality clip. Brightness and saturation are also adjustable, and background music can be added too. InShot also has some features, created especially for Instagram, such as making the video square-shaped.

Your Instagram presence isn't limited to the default Instagram settings! Use the unhinged possibilities of the modern apps and create something truly unique, the posts that will gather your audience and leave it shocked and awed!