Inspiring, isn’t it? We were absolutely exited when saw it and decided to do our best to give you the opportunity to make such works of art. So… meet our new stunning template – “Pencil vs reality” .

It is fully ready to turn your picture (а portrait, landscape, family photo, etc.) into a pencil drawing, leaving the background area “real”.

For those who is marveled as we are by Ben Heine’s works, here is the link to his masterpieces: http://www.benheine.com/projects.php?dossier=72157623723956821

If you are a Funny.Pho.to loyal visitor you should already be familiar with “Featured Sketches and Paintings” templates. They aimed at turning your photos into paintings and drawings imitating a chosen technique. You can process your photo with seven of them: Trois Couleurs Drawing, Sanguine Drawing, Vintage Charcoal Sketch, Pastel Drawing, Graphite Pencil Sketch, Felt Tip Pen Drawing and Crayon Drawing.

Starting from now, all the listed effects are available in every version of Pho.to Lab: free, PRO and PRO HD, but with one tiny difference: though you can apply any of these effects in any version, you must be a PRO user to be able to save the result to your gallery, instantly share it on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram or send it via email.

And one more change related to this major update: effects from “Featured Sketches and Paintings” group at Funny.Pho.to service will have a limited functionality very soon. You will be able only to preview, not save or share the result. The only way to save and share the result is through the mobile app. This said, install the latest version of Pho.to Lab, take great pictures and make them even better right on your phone!

P.S.: “Featured Sketches & Paintings” group for Pho.to Lab Android is on its way

Feedback highlights

Have you ever been proud of something enough to forget that “modesty is the virtue”? Then you will understand our wish to share a small portion of feedback we have been getting on the latest version of Pho.to Lab. Remember it’s not that we are boasting, we are just happy that most of you enjoy the improvements. So let’s go for it!

“Love it!” by Ruj1111: I am an artist. I use the artistic effects in this app to get a perspective of the painting I am about to do. It’s very helpful.

“Finally” by Jaftco49: I tried them all couldn’t find what I wanted. Last one. I downloaded it. Haven’t stopped yet. I even had my employees come to the office take there pics (to update there personal file). It what I needed plus a lot more. The reason. I picked it last was the icon. It seem G or PG. something for the kids. I was wrong again, this 49 yr old is having a blast. Thank You

“Five stars” by Davereyindy: My fav app. My friends never know what to expect.

“Love this app” by Christie: Love this app. So many choices. Once you buy the pro version you don’t have to buy anything else. Like many other apps once you buy them you have to continue to purchase more in app upgrades. Not this one. It’s great.

“This app is excellent” by CathRN1957: There’s so many things you can do with this app and it is so much fun for myself and others. I sent almost all my Christmas cards last year via email using it or printed out and mailed, made a lot of people happy. There’s nothing wrong with it and for the price and all it does, it’s one that I will never delete. Thank you all you developers of this app. Please use this review so it will quit asking me to review.

“Mojo66″ by Fierypeaches: I’m hooked! I love enhancing photos with this App!! Fun, fun.

“The best app EVER” by Thea H.: This app is really fun. Because first of all it’s Easy, Fun, Awsome… Looks so cool! Just go and get it and tell your friends!!

“Great App!” by Lol1234243: When you hand grampa a 100 dollar bill with his 7 year old grandson’s face on it… He’ll like it more than the real bill!

“Fun, Addicting App!” by I3utterfli: I’ve looked to find an app that will do all the different affects on a picture; and I found it! I didn’t give it 5 stars cause you can’t delete the pictures you load onto.

Visage Lab is a portrait retouching app aimed to automatically boost a photo, e.g. to remove pimples and wrinkles, outline the eyes and whiten the teeth within seconds. You can apply all the improvements at once or exclude some options you think unnecessary.

But Visage Lab functionality doesn’t end there and after the groundwork (we mean the enhancement) is done you will be offered to add a bunch of artistic effects to your picture. Divided into four groups, they allow you to change the background, experiment with styles or play with lighting and colors.

Android users can enjoy both Free and PRO versions. The PRO version is ad-free, contains more effects and filters and doesn’t add watermarks to your photos.

Turn your photo into a picture-perfect portrait with the help of Visage Lab high-quality retouch and picturesque effects.

1) http://funny.pho.to/blue_only/ - leaves only the blue color in your photos. All other colors become black and white (great for emphasizing the blue eyes).

2) http://funny.pho.to/green_only/ - leaves only the green color and its shades in your photos. All other areas become black and white, too.

3) http://funny.pho.to/red_boost/. This effect emphasizes the red color in your photos, and also leaves the skin color untouched. All other colors become black and white. This creates a kind of retro look in your photos.

Feel free to experiments and share your photo effects with us!

That’s why we have come up with Share.Pho.to!

It’s so easy to use our service that you’ll get addicted to sharing your photos. In less than 10 minutes we will teach you to:

• Upload your photos quickly and easily
• Add captions to the photo set and individual photos
• Share photos in all the ways possible
• Easily manage the photo sets you have uploaded

Look how friendly and intuitive Share.Pho.to is. Let’s check it out together in 7 quick steps!

1. Go to Share.Pho.to and click

Now click the ‘Choose photos to upload’ button. You can add any number of photos at a time. Press Ctrl-key (or Cmd-key if you are on a Mac) and select all the files you want to upload. Or you can simply hold down the left mouse button and draw a rectangle. All the photos inside the rectangle will be added to your photo set.

Tip: If you have picked the wrong picture click the large white ‘X’ at the top right of it. This photo will be removed from your photo set.

2. Add a few more photos.

The Ctrl-key trick only works if you stay in the same folder. If you go to another folder your selection will be cancelled. Do not worry, you are perfectly able to add photos to your photo set from different directories. Select some photos from the first folder, click ‘Open’ and wait for photos to upload. Press the ‘Add more photos’ button in the top left corner then. See, now you can add photos from another folder. Click the ‘Done’ button when you are ready!

3. The final touch: add a caption to your photo set and photos.

Sometimes you want to label your photos with funny captions or just indicate when and where a photo was taken. To add a caption to an album you can either click ‘Add photo set caption’ on top of the page or click the ‘Change photo set caption’ link on the right. You can add different captions to all the photos in your album, too. When you click an individual photo you get the same options for captioning it.

Tip: To make your photos look fabulous you can apply beautiful photo effects at Funny.Pho.to. Remember that a nice picture can tell a thousand words.

4. Your photo set is ready to share!

That is it, you are all done. Your brand-new album and all the photos have intuitive URLs starting with http://pho.to. For example, our sample album URL is http://pho.to/3k53. Your friends will immediately know if you send them photos by the way the link looks.

Share your photo set or any photo the way you prefer:

• Copy and send a short link to your photo set or an individual photo
• Share photos to your favorite social network in one click
• Get an embed code for forums or websites

5. Get feedback from your friends.

Your friends cannot add captions to photos, however, they can add comments to photo sets or individual photos. We have set up reliable Disqus comments on Share.Pho.to. Your friends can log in with a social network account or post comments as guests. Comments are updated in real time and it is really easy to manage them.

Tip: If you are not comfortable with the idea of comments, click ‘Disable commenting’ in the Admin area on the right to turn them off.

6. Control your photo sets.

Only you can access your photo set Admin area. To have this access to the photo set admin options from everywhere, copy and save the ‘Permanent admin link’. If you try to open your photo set on another device or with another browser without using the permanent admin link, you will not get admin rights.

If you think that you might need to delete your photo set quickly you should save the ‘Permanent deletion link’. If you follow this link from any device your photo set is instantly deleted. Be careful as you cannot undo it!

7. Use Share.Pho.to on your phone.

If you have an iPhone or an Android phone you can create photo sets on the go. The apps are free and as easy to use as the web service is. Get Share.Pho.to on the App Store or download it from Google Play.

Share.Pho.to for iOS

Share.Pho.to for Android

Our amazing ‘AR Pho.to Cartoonizer’ app for iOS is now available under a new name – Cartoon Face! The app now also sports a new catchy logo and better looking interface. Besides, we have fixed the crash bug.

Check out the new interface on the screenshots below (Taylor Swift is flirting with you, but try to focus on the interface):

Get Cartoon Face on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch for FREE and convert your photos into cartoons in real time and animate faces with realistic emotions!

Scan the QR code below to quickly install the app:

• Pho.to Lab FREE: We have enlarged the resulting image area on the iPhone version. Now it has become even more convenient to view your photo effects!

• Pho.to Lab PRO and Pho.to Lab PRO HD: Now there are no more watermarks in the PRO versions, even on the first resulting image! Also, we have enlarged the resulting image area on the iPhone version.

Hope you will enjoy the updated versions!

P.S. PRO version of the Pho.to Lab app has a bunch of premium effects, including Stylized effects, beautiful Backgrounds, funny Caricatures and cool Human-to-animal montages. Plus the PRO version has no ads or watermarks.