William Curtindale wrote:
I tried Camera360 and VSCO and didn't like either and took them off.
VSCO Cam is quite a different app. It's mainly a non-destructive editor for applying various tonal and color renditions, many of which are oriented toward achieving a film-like look. In My Opinion, it's more suited to the artist photographer than the snapshooter or the serious photographer. Someone recently characterized it as being for analog photographers who're stuck working in digital.
The camera part of VSCO Cam is weak, and it currently records incorrect EXIF data, so I can't really recommend that. I typically use Snap Cam and export the images to VSCO Cam.
The editing part of VSCO Cam uses a non-destructive approach. The "Library" contains your original images, along with a list of the most recently saved settings for each. You can select a library image, clear the settings, and get back to the original photo. Or select a library image and adjust one or two settings, then resave to the library. The "Gallery" contains the processed photos. The files in the Library are generally not accessible with other tools, whereas the Gallery is accessible. There's a subfolder of the gallery that contains temporary processed files that were transferred to other apps, and may need occasional cleaning out.
VSCO also provides the VSCO Grid, an online "minimalist personal gallery" for photos uploaded from VSCO Cam. Yeah, many camera apps have their own cloud storage, but I do think that VSCO is going in a different direction by emphasizing the use of the Grid for artists' exhibits rather than as a dumping-ground for every mobile-phone photo ever taken. VSCO also has a Curated Grid, where they showcase images from the Grid that caught their attention, and their Selects, which are a weekly exhibition of a dozen of so of the best of the Grid from the previous week. VSCO really seems to be serious about art.