REPORT

           PicsArt is one of the world's most installed and free photo editing and drawing apps and a unique social network of creatives. It provides diverse, unique content so we can improve as a photographer, designer and artist. It also provides their daily journal and monthly magazine to learn from the professionals and discover inspiring user galleries. PicsArt helps communicate, take exceptional shots, find and make creative collages, blended photos, artistic selfies, and original drawings and also lets us become a part of global community and upload our own photos.

          PicsArt is a network of highly talented, creative people from all over the world. It included professional photographers, designer and artists, but mostly hobbyists and people who just love photo editing. PicsArt is not just a photo editing app but it is much more than that.as shown in figures below, it gives us 4 option- edit, capture, collage and draw. Also it lets you explore, find artists and take part in contests. It lets you find friends, invite friends, shop and so on.

    

               
       

              As shown in the image below (ii), PicsArt helps us take pictures with filters, focus and flash light on/off on it while taking pictures. It provides us with 20 different filters while taking pictures, time lapse of up to 30 seconds along with different kinds of lightening to choose. Whereas, the actual iPhone camera only provides us with 9 filters, 3 second times lapse and no lightening.

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      When you we edit a certain picture, it gives us 13 different options  as shown in the image (iii) below to edit our picture such as effects which helps with filters, blurring and color-eye; tools that helps us with different types of cropping, cloning, motioning, curves, adjusting brightness and color and enhancing; draw helps us to draw/doodle with different sizes of brushes and shapes;  mask, border, shape mask which helps us to apply different types of masks in different shapes.;frame, add photo which works more like applying different layers to pictures;  clip-art, call out which helps to add call out messages and shop.  Whereas, when we edit picture on iPhone, it only provides us with crop tool, filters, adjusting color, brightness enhance, color-eye and B&W as shown in image(iv) below.

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        However, when it come to capturing picture, bursting pictures and picture quality, Iphone camera is way better than the PicsArt camera. As shown in the images below, the  image on the left was taken from PicsArt app and the one on the right was taken from an Iphone camera which has a better picture quality.  

Even though I personally use snapchat camera to take selfies, I refer Iphone camera for better picture quality and image pixels. Overall, Iphone camera is better for taking pictures and PicsArt is better for editing pictures.