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:

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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!


Visage Lab 3.0 – The Whole New Design

Sometimes new background means everything. You understand what we mean if you already saw new design of Visage Lab app (both Free and PRO) for iPad & iPhone. For sure we have changed much more than just the background image, but (as we see it) it is the first thing you gonna notice. Next go tweaked menu buttons and font, neater interface icons and more. All in all every detail is now fully in trend with iOS 7, giving you the whole new experience when working with familiar retouch tools and photo filters.

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Speaking of functionality, there has not been any changes actually. Inside you will find the same easy steps to remove red eyes, face shine, imperfections and wrinkles and add some makeup, the same popular filters to give your portrait the final touch and rich sharing opportunities to send the result to your friends. Continue reading Visage Lab 3.0 – The Whole New Design

What Makes a Perfect Valentine: how to Make an Ideal Love Card

Love, love, love… There are lots of ways to show yours on St. Valentine’s Day and even more if you are ready to spend some time on Funny.Pho.to. Since we absolutely adore making things easier for you, here are our most lovable templates divided into three categories. It all depends on what kind of card you’d like to get in the end.

1. Print your Valentine’s Day Photo Card in HD Quality

Assumingly you will need a card to send with flowers or will want to create a special photo collage to insert in frame as a part of your present. Both variants are possible when picking templates marked with HD:

Happy Couple

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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.

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Can You Hear the Jingle Bells?

Christmas is just around the corner. Which is an excellent reason to make a small review of all the related effects on Pho.to. There are so many of them, that it’s quite easy to get lost – especially if you try to pick the templates for your best buddies in the last-minute rush. Most people seem to enjoy procrastination, waiting for the last minute to come (and sometimes we are not an exception), so we believe that this guide to holiday effects will come in handy, helping you find perfect effect for any person and create a unique greeting cards in no time.

1. All-Time Traditions: Classical Christmas Photo Effects

If you can make no mistake choose variants that are most common (and thus most probably be appreciated by 80% of people) for Christmas time. The signs of such templates are festive attributes: green tree, baubles, candles, bows, and certainly Santa.

Christmas Joy Little Polar Bear

Christmas Gift Christmas Bliss New Year Book Festive Fireworks Letter for Santa Christmas Bauble All Ready for Christmas

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Holidays are coming – meet them with Christmas Photo Frames for Android

It’s time to unpack your Santa Claus suit, put up holiday decorations and wrap presents for the dear ones. And it’s time to make annual Christmas photos! If you’ve got an Android phone, we have good news for you. We have updated Christmas Photo Frames app, so this year your pictures will look stunning.

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Get the new Christmas Photo Frames now and you’ll get the new effects! You’ll love ‘Christmas Joy’, ‘Snow Effect’, ‘White Rabbit’ and the rest of them. And if you’re into making calendars with your photos, you’ll notice that we have updated our calendar template for 2014.

Have a merry Christmas, a happy New Year, and beautiful photos this winter!

Quick Jump to Pho.to Lab 2.1 on iOS

Every time we introduce a new version of any product we hope that you will find it as good and usable as we meant it to be. Today’s review is devoted to Pho.to Lab for iPhone/iPad, recently updated to version 2.1. This new release is inspired by approaching Christmas days and adapted to cover your possible holiday needs for festive effects and templates.

First things first. This update comes with new sliding tabs on the home screen for quick access to favorite and holiday effects. Slide left to see most popular effects or slide right to see the best Christmas frames and filters.

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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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What’s new in Pho.to Lab 2.0 for iOS

Are you ready for major changes? Then meet redesigned from scratch and completely overhauled for iOS 7 Pho.to Lab Free and PRO! We hope you will like new icon, appreciate large effects previews and enjoy improved navigation!

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  • Gastronomic ‘Food Frame’ effect in the ‘Amazing Frames’ for those who like cooking… and eating!
  • ‘Cowboy Frame’ photorealistic montage for the rough guys. Insert your photo into it and get ready to feel the Western style!
  • ‘Flag of USA’ and ‘Flag of UK’ effects will come in handy when expressing your patriotic feelings or supporting your favorite sports team.

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More usability means more fun! Share your experiences with us! 😉