FIFA World Cup: Fun Facts Illustrated by Pho.to

FIFA World Cup 2014 is coming and in a few days all football fans will be stuck to TV displays watching exciting video translation from Brazil. Cafes, restaurants and breweries will be full of people, singing and even dancing, holding flags of their favourite team. Football unites people of various professions and makes us all feel as a single team. Small things, such as patriotic face paint and accessories that symbolize which team you prefer, help to keep the spirit and solidarity high.

A charming football fan who support Brazil team at FIFA World Cup 2014 smiles

The photo is edited with our new ‘Flag of Brazil‘ photo template. In this post we are going to tell you a few interesting facts on football and illustrate them with fun football Pho.to templates. Enjoy!

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The Trend of Mobilography

Mobilography is a relatively new trend (first official community was established in spring, 2004) in the world of digital photography that deals with photos taken by cameras built into various mobiles and originally not designed for professional photography.

A tasty pomagranate shot with mobile camera Sky shot inside of a tower

By Mikko

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Share.pho.to Learns Five New Languages

Good day everyone! We are glad to tell you that our web photo sharing service Share.pho.to becomes a polyglot: it has learnt 5 new languages, Russian, Spanish, French, German and Italian. The sixth is English which was its language by default. We hope you will enjoy the changes.

Free online photo sharing tool

 
Just in case you forgot what Share.pho.to is, we remind: this is a photo sharing service that lets you upload many photos at once. The number of uploads is unlimited. You can easily share uploaded photosets with your friends and comment on photos. The service is free, and the last but not least, it does not downsize your photos. You can find detailed manual on Share.pho.to in this tutorial.

Mobile versions of the service will be localized as well and quite soon.

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

 
Let’s go into details.

Pho.to Lab PRO (and PRO HD) Acquires Stickers, Drawing, Text and Photo Adjustment Features

Pho.to Lab PRO and PRO HD versions for iOS have recently acquired new marvelous features. These features are already available in the free version of Pho.to Lab, and now PRO users are also up-to-date with the changes. The update of both apps includes a new Editor mode with extensive collection of tools that let you enhance and adjust your images quickly and easily. Now you can add a customizable text and funny stickers to a photo. Don’t forget to check our new “Draw on photo” feature.

New photo editing features from Pho.to

 
So, what’s new? Let’s go into details.

Heartwarming Photo Editing Tips for Mother’s Day

Motherhood is a hard work of raising children and then letting them go and live their own lives. Mother’s day is the time to share love and warmth with mothers and wives and show them how much you value their contribution into your life, inasmuch as building a friendly family is a joint task for all of family members. There are thousands ways to make any mom feel special on Mother’s Day. In this post we are going to uncover some of them, including making personalized e-cards or artistic photo portraits that will definitely surprise her.

Mother taking her son to school

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

A photo of chicken eggs framed with beautiful Easter bird template
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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Pho.to Lab for Android welcomes spring with april showers and may flowers

Everyone seems to be tired of winter with its snow and ice. No one wants to wear winter headbands anymore or gets excited seeing a snowflake. Spring has come and it’s time to finally replace the Seasonal effects in Pho.to Lab for Android. Hope that you’re as glad to see the change as we are!

Winter photo effects are replaced with spring photo effects

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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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Infographics: the Expansion of Fun Pho.to Effects

Do you know that people from all over the world use our fun photo effects to edit more than 1.5 million photos every day! We’d like to say thanks to all of you who use our mobile apps and web services. Several other interesting facts and numbers are depicted in this nice infographic:

Pho.to solutions

As a you can see above, we’ve got wonderful results. Our Funny.Pho.to service has about 25.5 mln of returning users who spend about 11 minutes editing their photos. The reason is obvious: Pho.to services have 600+ wonderful photo effects and our team constantly makes new collaging and montaging templates to bring you more fun. We are glad to see both, boys and girls, men and women among our visitors and have a number of photo templates for any taste.

Our mobile app with fun effects, Pho.to Lab, is highly valued by the owners of mobile devices. iOS users make 600 000 edits per day,  while Pho.to Lab for Android is even more popular: 1 000 000 daily edits! Besides, both apps have accumulated more than 28 million downloads since their launch. Amazing!

Thank you, guys. We wish you warm and happy photo editing days this spring and best photos and userpics!