Transform your photos into masterpieces with special effects and eye-catching backgrounds

Sometimes, you like a photo just fine, but as luck would have it, the image has a bland or boring background that detracts from your perfect shot. You can also get tired of an old photo and start looking for a way to give it a refreshing and interesting new vibe. Pho.to offers a great number of dreamlike, exotic, and romantic backgrounds that can gently suggest the mood of an image or emphasize it, turning your photo into an absolutely different picture.

Beautiful backgrounds, special effects and overlays for easy photo editing

See for yourself!

Getting Ready for Children’s Day with Awesome Photo Frames for Kids

Since 1950, June 1 has been celebrated as International Day for Protection of Children in many countries. This holiday is also honored on November 20 because on this date in 1989 the United Nations adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Greeting cards for kids

 

Summer is round the corner and children are among those who love it especially. That’s why we’ve decided to write this post now, to get you ready for Children’s Day and vacation time with your child.

Let’s congratulate the kids with cute greeting cards!

How to Turn Your Photos into Beautiful Happy Easter Cards

Here at Pho.to we just adore the spring season. It always inspires us to design new photo frames, photo montages and photo card templates adorned with beautiful birds, flowers and other amazing things. It’s a wondrous time and we are really excited to share with you some tips and ideas on how to make a photo card for a great spring holiday — Easter.

How to design cute Easter photo cards online and for free

 

We’ve already written a post about Easter that includes interesting information about the holiday and tells how to turn your holiday photos into good-looking Easter-themed pictures. Our new post is different: it’s all about greeting cards, personalized with your photos and wishes. But be sure to check the Easter page on Funny.Pho.to as well: there are so many Easter templates, that we were unable to write about all of them.

Let’s Have a Happy Easter!

How to Enhance Your Photos with Editor.Pho.to

Editor.Pho.to was designed to help you enhance your images with ease. In this post, we are going to reveal little tricks and secrets on how to do it and what to pay attention to while editing. For that purpose we’ve chosen a few unedited photos and used them to show how you can ‘rescue’ dull pics.

How to enhance pics online and for free with ease

 

More = Let’s make cool pics right now!

Designing Profile Pics for Different Purposes with Pho.to

We bet a pound to a penny, almost all of you have accounts on many social networking and dating websites that represent you to the digital world. But are you sure that your profile pics are really the best of the best (or at least good enough)? If you are tired of your old, low quality, or boring picture then it’s time to design a new one. We are ready to help you and show you how to hit a high note.

How to design profile pics for dating sites, social networks, CV, resume and professional sites like Linkedin

Let’s design a mind-blowing profile pic!

Come into the Surreal World of Double Exposure Photography

Inspired by the impressive technique of double-exposure (or multiple exposure) photography, we’ve designed a new photo effect that instantly mimics it. Almost every photographer knows how hard it is to make double-exposure images without digital manipulation, in the in-camera mode only.

In photography the double-exposure technique is used to combine two different images into a single one. Originally it was used in the days of film. Then cameramen took one picture and then instead of advancing the filmstrip to the next frame (to take the next picture), they left the film in the same place and took another picture right on top of it. The resulting image contained the subsequent picture superimposed over the original. Photographers used similar techniques. But it’s much easier to achieve the same result with Photoshop or another graphics editor (if you have a legitimate copy and know how to use it). That’s why nowadays the majority of photographers use clipping and masking techniques to recreate the double-exposure effect.

Double-Exposure Photography
Artistic black and white and color double exposure images taken by famous world photographers

 

There are many talented gurus of double-exposure photography: Brandon Kidwell, who creates mind-blowing images from iPhone photos; Dan Mountford — the master of storytelling photography; Tierney Gearon and her genre scenes of city life; and many more. All of them use different cameras, methods, and techniques, and make unique artistic images. This task takes a lot of time and effort, but the result is worth it, isn’t it?

In the end, it doesn’t matter which tools you use if you come up with a truly artistic image. We’ve produced a simple effect to smooth things down for all who’d like to create similar photos quickly and with ease. From this post, you’ll find out a few tips and tricks on how to create mind blowing images with the help of our Double-Exposure effect.

Let it blend!

What You Can Do with Photos of Two

14 February is on its way and almost everybody who is in love looks for a new way to amaze and amuse their dearest on this wonderful day. Who doesn’t love a little romance, especially on Valentine’s Day? In addition to dates and gifts, there is a special way to show your significant ones that they’re on your mind and in your heart. The tradition of sending greeting cards originated in 18th century England. Fortunately, today you don’t need to draw the card yourself. Instead, you can design a unique photo card using one of our romantic templates!

Couple photo frames and romantic photo effects for all who are in love on February 14, 2015

 
For 14 February 2014, we published an overview of our romantic photo effects and explained how to use them to create beautiful and artistic Valentine’s cards. This year, we want to address a more specific need: showing you how to give photos of you and your loved one a new look. If you have photos of you and your partner as a couple, get ready to turn them into a lovely Valentine’s greeting card! Click the image with a photo effect to make a similar one, but with your own photo and text wishes.

Love is in the air!

Christmas and New Year Fun Continues Non-Stop with Pho.to Frames, Backgrounds and Effects

Friends, we know that many of you are already in the middle of a holiday search quest, looking for Christmas gifts and cards for your friends and family members. Nobody but you can choose an ideal present, but we are ready to help you with the other part: making the perfect holiday card. In this post, there are more than 30 ideas on how to create a beautiful holiday picture, a greeting card or a festive calendar. Click the image with a photo effect to make a similar one, but with your own photo and text wishes!

Christmas photo frames with fir trees, gifts, toys, lights and other holiday adornments

 

Let’s have a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Fantastic Photo Effects: The Gravity of Other Worlds and Planets

A child, sleeping deep inside of our mind, wakes up when we tell a mysterious story, read a science fiction novel, or watch another super-realistic movie about epic battles among remote stars. The secret charm of fantastic plots has inspired bards, artists, and writers for ages, bringing us captivating mythical stories, surrealistic fanciful paintings, and great books.

Photo frames, effects and face in hole templates in fantasy, faery and science fiction style on Funny.Pho.to online photo editor

 

If you like fairy tales, fantasy stories, science fiction, and modern cinema about superheroes, this post is for you. Here we’ve gathered a number of magical photo frames, surrealistic photo templates, and heroic face montages. Click the image with a photo effect to make a similar one, but with your own photo!

Interested? Then read more!

Happy Thanksgiving Photo Frames & Effects

Have you ever thought what are you grateful for? There is a day when we say thanks for all the things that we esteem: love, happiness, welfare, friendship, our families and jobs. Without gratitude humans’ life can become lonely and dull. When people share thanks with each other they feel better and happier, and often they become better persons. So, what are you thankful for?

We are grateful for you using our service, as we do our best to make it worth your attention. Thanksgiving Day is on its way and it’s time to find new ways to share your feelings with important people. We know all about photo greeting cards thus we’ve gathered top photo effects, frames and backgrounds to help you make awesome holiday cards for this Thanksgiving Day. Click the image to find out which photo effect was used to create it.

Happy Thanksgiving artistic photo card personalized with short text wishes

Happy Thanksgiving!