Picq for Android: Photo collage maker with elegant designs and effects

Photo collage maker and editor apps are available in hundreds on both Google Play Store and iTunes App Store. Depending on your needs, you can find the ideal app that combines your specific photo collections into a wonderful collage, complete with visually appealing layouts, effects, filters, frames, etc. However, as is the case with most apps of this type, they only give you a handful of collage layout templates to choose from, without enjoying much control over retouching those images individually. This is where picq shines. This free Android app allows you to individually resize, reposition, enhance, decorate and apply effects to each photo and then combine them into a collage layout of your choice. Using Picq, you can create a highly customizable collage containing up to nine distinct images newly captured or imported locally. There are plenty of static and dynamic collage layouts to choose from, where the formation of each different template changes depending on the number of photos you want to include in it.
In addition to being a hand collage maker, picq It features a more attractive Windows Phone style tile-based home screen that plays photo slideshows from a folder on the SD card that you can choose from. To do this, simply navigate to the app's settings screen and enable the “Send Slideshow” option to enjoy personalized slideshows on your home screen curated from your favorite photos. Please note that you will only be allowed to select a folder that contains five or more photos.
Picq allows you to save your photos filled with collages in three different resolutions: 400 × 400, 800 × 800 and 1024 × 1024. As mentioned above, you can capture fresh images or import up to nine different photos from the SD card to create a new collage.
Once you've imported your photos, you're taken to the collage editing app's interface, where you can start playing around with the different layouts, editing tools, decoration options, and effects that the app offers. Any photo we add to the collage can be maneuvered into multiple shapes, and you also have the option to turn a particular photo into the shape of a heart, ellipse, square, star, flower, or a conversation bubble. Personally, each static and dynamic collage layout offered by Picq has its own appeal, and it is very difficult to choose the best one from the entire lot.
From an editing standpoint, it allows you to rescale an image, rotate it clockwise/counterclockwise, and flip it horizontal/vertical. Decorate tab offers various photo editing tools like backgrounds, stickers, frames, packs. Most of the goodies offered by this particular tab must first be downloaded from the internet. In this regard, the dedicated online library application offers all the material available in paid and free categories. You can log into the app to purchase the goodies and track your purchase history, while new users can register for an account from the app itself.
By navigating to the Effects tab, you can select the appropriate photo effect for a specific image or all of the images in the collage, and play with the brightness, contrast, and saturation settings for any photo you want. Once the collage is saved, you can access it by going to the Picq folder on your SD card.
Oddly enough, there is no option to natively view collages created with Picq, nor do the app seem to support the option to share those images from within the app. Despite these missing features, Picq has to be praised as a spot-on app that offers a relatively new mix of photo collage making on Android.
Picq is available in the Play Store for free, and requires Android Gingerbread 2.3.3 or higher to work. You can get the app through the link below.
Download Picq for Android