How to Take a Tasty Selfie

Do you want to get a new avatar and attract new likes and comments to your social page? Then take a selfie, but a good selfie!

A small doll taking selfie at her birthday party

Photographed by Dan Forbes, edited with “Birthday owls” photo template.
The article includes a number of tips on taking attractive selfies. We also edited some of the photos, just for fun. Enjoy our tips and tricks on how to make your photos “Simply the Best!”
Making your pictures alluring

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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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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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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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.

Snowmen family

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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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6 Effects Every Photographer Should Know About

If you are reading this post, you must love taking photos. Do you know how to make your favorite shots stand out of the hundreds of pictures you have? You must have stumbled upon advice to use rule of thirds, diagonals or negative space. But mastering these techniques can take years.

Do not worry, there is a special ingredient that can make any of your photos look outstanding. Change a picture’s color saturation, add a few shades or change the focus area and you will see that the photo has improved dramatically. Don’t worry, it’s really easy! You don’t have to master Photoshop or GIMP and spend hours working on a photo. Pho.to knows some trusted post-processing techniques, so this site will help you improve your photos significantly in a single click. We have selected 6 different effects, and each one of them can change your photos in its own unique way. However, the common traits of these techniques are their high quality and versatility.

Examples of photos processed with 6 popular photo effects

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7 Tips from Pho.to on How to Photograph Kids

Kids are a great subject for photography. They are genuine, full of emotion and… aren’t they the sweetest things? Besides, they grow up too fast, so every photo becomes a treasure.

Photographing children is fun, but not an easy task: kids are always on the move, and phrases like “hold it” or “freeze” carry very little weight with them 🙂

Неre are a few tips and tricks that can help you get the best possible results when photographing children.

1. Get down to the child’s eye level.

Kids are short, you are not. If you shoot from an adult’s perspective, pictures will have the same downward angle. So the main rule is: get down on their level. The best way to do so is to kneel down or even lie on the floor/ ground so that the camera is on the same level with the kid’s eyes. Naturally, you may get dirty 🙂 but with this small change, you’ll get much more intimate shots.

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The Power of Black and White Photography

These days, smart digital cameras do the work for photographers. Unlike in old times, people can easily get high resolution colored images. Shooting in color has become the norm in photography. But despite the wide usage of colored images, most people still love black and white pictures. And however strange it may seem, but up to this date, black and white pictures are still a hit! People are often surprised at the power that black and white images have.

So, what are the advantages of black and white photography?

  • Sometimes, colors can be distracting and may even make the photo look complicated. It can be hard to focus on the subject because of too much color. But when it comes to black and white photography, the subject is much easier to focus on.
  • Black and white keeps you focused on the actual composition and texture of the photo. It allows you to focus on shapes, light and shadows, lines and perspective. That is why some photos look definitely more convincing in black and white.
  • Black and white photos have a classy and exquisite feel about them. They have an aesthetic, artistic look that is hard to produce in color. They definitely look timeless!

In the times of digital technology, most photographers prefer desaturating their images in post-processing, instead of shooting in black and white mode. Pho.to offers you lots of opportunities to turn your pictures into beautiful black and white photos. Are you interested? Then read further!

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