Galaxy Enhance-X Is Samsung’s Best Photo and Video Editing Tool.
Samsung’s One UI software for Galaxy phones comes with a lot of features and functionality, but there are also a few official add-on apps from Samsung that aren’t pre-installed on the phones—and they’re definitely worth checking out.
I’ve already written about various Good Lock plugins that let you create custom keyboards and set individual volume levels for individual apps, but that’s not all there is to explore in terms of additional apps. There’s also Galaxy Enhance-X, a tool for processing and enhancing your photos and videos, as well as editing digital documents. Enhance-X can do everything from applying cinematic filters to scanning documents and translating them simultaneously, and it’s free to install and use.
The app has also undergone a major update: Samsung has improved the interface and added several new features. If you use a Samsung phone, you can download Enhance-X from the Galaxy Store.
Learning the Basics of Enhance-X
As part of a recent interface update, Enhance-X now features three tabs: Plugins , Home , and History . The Plugins tab is a good place to start, as it showcases some of the app’s capabilities: tap the download icon (down arrow) in FilmStyle to access nine additional filters for your photos.
These and many other effects can be applied to your photos and videos in the Home tab. This tab is essentially a file picker—you can select one or more photos and videos to work with. To switch to the standard Gallery view (with albums and collections), tap the flower icon in the upper right corner.
Select one or more images, and at the bottom of the screen you’ll be able to choose between photo tools and document tools (for scanned images); if you select a video, only Video Tools is available. You’ll then be taken to the full editing interface, where you’ll see all of Enhance-X’s capabilities (including FilmStyle filters). Use the icons at the bottom of the screen to browse the tools, which are typically one-tap enhancements that are adjustable within the app itself. For example, there’s Colorize for adding color to black-and-white photos; HDR for increasing dynamic range; and Fix Blur for images that aren’t sharp enough.
Many of these options are useful quick fixes, but there are also a few fun tools. Click “Creative,” then “24-Hour Time Lapse,” and you can turn any image into a short video—nothing in the image will move, but the colors will change, as if you were watching the picture go through a full day-night cycle.
The available settings will vary depending on the type of image or video you select. For example, if you select a portrait photo, the Face tool will become available. It provides sliders for adjusting the smoothness and tone of facial features, and allows you to customize the intensity of each effect.
Exploring Enhance-X’s Additional Features
If you select Film-style filters in the Recommended tab when editing an image, you can try out the filters we downloaded earlier. Use the thumbnails to preview the different effects and see how they work—if you click the small “i” button on the left, you’ll get a helpful description of what each filter does and what types of images it works best with. In the video tools section, you have options like “Slow Motion.” This displays your video’s timeline, and if you click and hold anywhere on the timeline, Enhance-X will add a special slow motion effect.
There are also simple tools for trimming video clips, as well as a “One Take” section where you can experiment with effects such as “bounce” (creates a loopable video) and “highlight” (selects the best moments of a video). Each effect can be previewed on the screen before saving.
A variety of options are available for documents scanned as photos. You can apply cropping, filters (to add or remove color), text, and highlights; combine different scans into a single document; and remove any unwanted scanned elements (such as fingers).
For example, by selecting “Add Text,” you can place a text box directly on top of the scanned image, with adjustable font size, style, and color. Whether you need to add annotations or correct errors in the original document, it’s simple and intuitive to use, and you don’t need to launch a separate app or start editing in the desktop interface.
Go to the History tab to review all your edits and undo them if necessary. Enhance-X is an app I’ve been using on my Galaxy phone since I discovered it, and it’s often come in handy for edits that it performs faster than other apps, or that other apps can’t do at all—including those included with One UI.