Editing is a fundamental part of photography, helping to transform good photos into great ones. While smartphones have come a long way to taking photos that are as good as professional cameras, smartphone editing has also evolved.

One of the leading tools used for this on smartphones is Snapseed, which has emerged as a powerful photo editor on Android. It is widely used on smartphones as it is owned by none other than Google. The app is free but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t offer abundant features and maybe it’s the other way around. You can enhance images with one-touch tools, fine-tune images with sliders, edit RAW photos, add filters and give your photos a new look in just a few minutes.

One of those tools in Snapseed is the ability to add text effects. You can create all sorts of text effects: blur, overlap, and glow. These effects can be made to appear as if the text is fading behind the subject, passing through an object, or glowing in the foreground.

Left: blur, middle: overlap, right: glow