The Photo Grid app is a fun and useful tool for anyone in the content creation business. This free app offers photo editing as well as digital design tools. It allows the user to create posters, videos, slideshows, and memes to share across social media sites like Facebook and Instagram. The Photo Grid Facebook page claims over 60 million users, while their Instagram page has almost 300,000 likes.

How is the Photo Editing Mode?

The photo-editing mode uses images from the IPod’s gallery or images captured in the moment. I had no trouble accessing photos from my iCloud account. Once you have selected an image, there are several categories of filters including black and white, vintage, and holidays. Each category offers a range of filters and the ability to fade the effect. Retouch provides tools for smoothing and whitening any unwanted spots.

Can it Embellish Photos?

The Photo editing section of Photo Grid has several frame designs for borders. Each frame can be adjusted for size and filled with colors, gradients, patterns, and even images. The text comes equipped with more than 50 fonts and 25 categories of other fonts free to download as needed. The font color can be easily changed. With text advanced settings drop shadows and outlines can be applied, spacing can be adjusted, and paragraphs can be justified. Designers can choose from 500 stickers. Some of these must be purchased but they are under a dollar and most are free to download.

What can Grid Mode do?

Once the pictures are edited, it’s time to design. Photo Grid has five different project choices.

• Grid creates a collage out of 1 – 15 images.
• Pin Board takes more of a scrapbooking approach, including a curled edge effect to apply to any chosen corner.
• Video slide option uses 1 – 50 images, transitions, and music to create a slide show.
• Stitch pieces together up to 9 pictures into a long strip to tell a story.
• Poster takes 1 – 5 pictures to create a poster with many templates to choose from.

Is it User Friendly?

The Photo Grid app was easy and quick to install on my IPod Touch. It has a very intuitive interface. It took me 15 minutes to make my first creation, from taking the photo and editing to finished project. Resizing and turning a picture just takes two fingers. The same movements work to resize and place the stickers. Giving the device a good shake can change layouts. A child would have no trouble using Photo Grid. The hardest part of this app is setting it aside to get anything else done. The projects are easily shared to Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Tumblr, or email from within the app.

Is There Room for Improvement?

This app does not interrupt with advertisements. Instead, they have an ad across the top of the screen. This can make it hard to click some buttons. It would be nice to have more photo editing tools but not everything can be Photoshop. It is a great choice for creating audience enticing images. Content with captivating images gets shared more than posts with no images. This is an awesome addition to any PR Professional’s toolbox.

What is my Dream App?

 My dream app would be called Across all Apps. This app would allow me to take a blog post and choose other platforms, such as Facebook or Twitter. Across all Apps would create posts for chosen platforms from my post, based on my preferences. It would store templates with post size, keywords, images, and any other brand specific material specified. This would save time for anyone creating content across platforms.