There are a lot of quality photography apps available for our Windows Phones and LazyLens rates right up there with the best of them. LazyLens is a editing app that has a healthy amount of filters and effects that can add a little zip to your images. It may not have the horsepower of Thumba Photo Editor or Fantasia Painter but LazyLens can hold its own. The user interface is fluid and the editing tools are respectful. And the best thing about it, LazyLens is a free app for your Windows Phone making it a must have for everyone's Windows Phone photography library.

When you first launch LazyLens you'll need to find a picture to edit. The launch page for LazyLens will display thumbnails of your most recently edited or saved images to choose from, a tile that will launch the Windows Phone native camera app to capture a new photo to edit and a link to pull up the various folders in your Pictures Hub to hunt for a picture to edit. Best VPN providers 2020: Learn about ExpressVPN, NordVPN & more

Down below the three-dot menu you can access LazyLens' settings. Settings cover preset edits, setting up your social networks for sharing purposes (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, VK and Sina Weibo), and an About screen. The presets are a nice touch in that they create a one-touch editing button that will apply a color filter, frame, texture, light effect and vignette style to your photos. There are a number of pre-existing presets (23 of them) that you can remove by tapping/holding to pull up the remove option. You can edit a preset by tapping on the thumbnail view, make your changes and tap the save button at the bottom of the screen. To add a preset, just tap the "+" sign, choose your effects and tap save. You can add a custom name to the preset or use LazyLens's default name. Once you've selected an image to edit, LazyLens will take you to the preset screen where you can choose a one touch edit or select normal where no preset edits are applied. From there you'll land on the edit page where you can fine tune the preset effects or edit things from the ground up.

The editing page has a preview of the image center screen with four button controls lining up across the bottom of the screen. Controls will launch your effects options, launch adjustment options, save the image and share the image. Up under the three dot menu you will find options to apply tilt-shift effects and crop/rotate your image. Effects options cover the color filters, frames, film textures, light effects, and vignette options. All totaled there are fifty eight effect that can be applied to your photos. At the bottom of the Effects page is a button to turn on/off your image preview. Turn it on and the generic thumbnails are replaced by a thumbnail of the image you're editing. Using the preview will take a lot of the guess work out of things. The adjustment options include an auto-fix that tries to select the best exposure tweaks for your image as well as manual adjustments for contrast, brightness and saturation. The auto-fix option is a little on the conservative side but still... it does a fair job of things.