So far I found the fastest pipeline to get good results is to use Google Photos editor as a Google One subscriber. Most useful tools are Al sharpen, portrait blur, portrait lightong (not always good). Basic color/brightness tools work great.
Although I do miss some functionality like blur/pixelation brush (for anonymysation of faces and/or car plates), adding a png/ image overlay, colour replacement (and overall better grading tools), curves.
What’s do folks use for photo editing on Android?
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Simple Gallery
Snapseed and Lightroom.
I use Snapseed and save good pre-config as QR-Code.
What app should I be using if I only ever need to highlight, circle, or put text on an image?
I rarely do any photo editing. But when I need to, Snapseed is usually my app of choice.
+1 for Snapseed when editing on my phone