Top 20 Photo Templates for Father’s Day Greeting E-Card

Father’s day is near at hand. Many of us are already looking for a good gift, planning holiday activities and family dinners. But what to do if you live far away from your parents? Call them, of course, share your warmest wishes with your dad, send him a present… and send an electronic greeting card as well.
By the way, publishing a greeting card on his wall on Facebook is a good idea at all rates, even if you live with your parents in one house: you’ll express your attention and care spending little to none efforts: making a personalized e-card for Father’s day won’t take much time. We’ll help you make a splendid card as we know well how to do it.

Father and son fishing

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phoTWO app: Make Cool Selfies and Bright Photo Stories

Do you remember we announced the release of our dual camera app for iOS? We are proud to tell all Android users that phoTWO is already available on Google Play! The app helps you make a stylish dual cam collages by adding a portrait photo to a previously taken image. You can also take photos with both front and rear cameras in optional order. Editor mode now works all the time. Besides, phoTWO for Android has acquired a decent collection of photo frames. You can share your photos to a number of popular social networks right from the app. The last but not least, phoTWO is absolutely free.

New dualcam photo camera app for Android

 
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Easter is Coming. Make Cool Greeting Cards and Learn Some Funny Facts about Easter!

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These holiday photo frame, called ‘Spring Birds Songs’ symbolizes a new life and a new beginning, often associated with Easter time

Did you know, that…

  • 120 mln cards are sent, given or exchanged on Easter in USA.
  • There is no Easter Bunny in Sweden. Instead, their kids wait for Easter Wizard to come!
  • 60 000 year old decorated Ostrich eggs were found in Africa!
  • Easter and Halloween are holidays that people with sweet tooth like best of all as on these days US people eat the most candies.
  • People started cooking chocolate Easter eggs in early 1900s. Before that everybody used to eat ordinary chicken eggs (although painted).
  • The most widespread Easter symbols are: the Cross, Eggs, Rabbits, Easter flowers (tulips and trumpet lilies), Baskets, Nests, springtime and Simnel cake.
  • Households in America spend $131 on Easter each year, $14.7 billion in total.
  • 76% of people eat ears on chocolate bunnies first. What about you?
  • There are a lot of Easter photo frames and cards on Funny.Pho.to?

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Pets Photography: а Short How To

Puppy hiding in a paper bag

Sometimes taking pictures of your best friend in animal world is not easy. Here are a few simple tips on pets photography to help you get the most of your photo session. These rules can be used by beginners and starting pros and are easily applied to any kind of camera.
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Shooting Lovely Family Portraits

Two great family holidays are coming soon: Christmas and New Year. That is why we devote this article to taking joyous family portraits. The blog post contains a number of tips on posing and taking photos, that any photographer will find useful, including amateurs who prefer taking photos with their phone.

Snowmen family

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All you wanted to know about silhouette photography, but were afraid to ask

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What do you know about silhouette photography? Silhouettes definitely add a sense of mystery and intrigue to any image, so pictures with silhouettes always look very eye-catching. Do you think silhouette photos are tricky and complex to capture? They are actually not!

The Pho.to team wants to share with you some useful tips for shooting silhouette photos. Let us start with the basic technical tips:

1. Get the right light!

Obviously, silhouette photos are all about back lighting. In other words, silhouette photography requires that back lighting is used. That is, the subject should always be between the photographer and the light source. How does that work? The basic idea is that the light coming from behind should be bright enough to make the silhouette completely black.

Silhouette of a woman

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Female friendship photography. Tips and tricks for girlfriends photo shoot

Do you believe in female friendship? We do! No doubt, you have the best friend and share crazy, enormous and bright friendship. Are you always together, taking lots of funny photos with both of you and enjoying your time? Then pay attention to this article which is devoted to girlfriends photo shoots. We hope that you’ll like it and find some interesting tips to try with your friend. Read and comment, we do wait for your shots!

By the way, working on this article we asked our users to take a number of shots for it. Some of them are presented here!

Best friends

 

Emotions are the Main Spice

The secret ingredient of any photo hides in emotions. You can be sad or glad, calm or excited, but the main point is that you should be sincere. Look at photos of children: they have natural expressions in most images. Learn from kids. Remember: even simple photos will look great if you remain natural and emotional.

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Salt your Sky photos with special effects

We couldn’t help sharing this list of Pho.to effects with those who tend to raise their camera up and capture the sky above, leaving pretty little space to the land, houses and trees.

Here’re 10 color and lighting filters to style up your sky photos:

1. Generally ‘Bokeh’ is known for blurring out-of-focus areas of an image. The ‘Light Bokeh’ effect by Pho.to mixes blur with sunbeams making it perfect for photos of sunny skies.
Light Bokeh

2. Make your photo look more professional with the ‘Vignetting’ filter. It imitates effect with clear center and fade out edges (usually achieved by means of wide-angle lens) thus attracting attention of the viewer to the center of the image.
Vignetting Other filters

Your Guide to a Perfect Autumn Photoshoot

Colorful state of streets and parks inspires! If a single look out the window makes you long for going out and take a couple (of hundreds) of shots, this post has reached you right in time. Don’t miss the chance and let our tips and hints help you in getting the most out of your Autumn photoshoot.

Shooting Fall Photos: Timing (or catch the right light)!

Fall provides the softest lightning of all seasons, but mind the time: your perfect hours are in midday sun, i.e. between 11 am – 2 pm. When planning the photoshoot in the evening, you might need additional sources of light.

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Outdoor Photography: How to Cope with Lighting

Shooting outdoor you’ll definitely see that there is more in sunlight than just light and shadow, brightness or darkness. It’s also the mood of your image, its look and atmosphere. This article deals with simple tips and tricks on how to take control and make use of natural light.
Shooting Outside: natural lighting
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