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.

Christmas Photo Frames Android app promo image

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!

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

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.

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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!

Pho.to Lab 2.0

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.

pho.to lab 2.0 new effects

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

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!

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.

Laughing girls Happy friends
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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.

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.
Other filters

Let your photos express what you feel with phoTWO

Emotions often show more than words can say. So why not pin a shot of yourself over your photo instead of making up a description of your feelings every time? That’s what has been engaging our minds here at Pho.to for quite a while and that’s exactly what our new app for iPhone called phoTWO is for.

In three steps you get the collage that tells your friends the whole story: where you are, who you are with and how you feel about it (OK, not the whole, but very close to that, right?). Easy as 1-2-3: ‘one’ lets you take the main picture, ‘two’ brings you to the front camera for the next “emotion” snap and ‘three’ enables you to do some editing and save the result.
More words about phoTWO

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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Fun with faces and cartoons

Sometimes the only thing a photo lacks is a little bit of emotion. If you are one of those people who do not take their photos too seriously, there are plenty of ways for you to play with face photos: change face expressions, apply realistic emotions, warp the face making it look freaky or turn a photo into a cartoon to boost the fun. It can be done right in your browser with just a couple of clicks.

First of all upload your photo to Cartoon.Pho.to. You can either choose to upload it from disk or via URL if the image already exists somewhere on the Internet.

When the image is uploaded, the cartoon filter is applied to it by default. Here is an example:

At this point you get access to face morphing options that enable you to create animated photo caricatures from face photos. Just check the ‘Face morphing’ box and you will see the list of available emotions. Meanwhile a ‘Smile’ already appears on the face:

Move further and you will be able to make a person flirt, wink or raise eyebrows in surprise!
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Visage Lab is going Android!

It has been a while since we announced the launch of the portrait enhancement app Visage Lab for iPhone and iPad users. From now on it is Android fans’ turn to experiment with all the face retouching algorithms, artistic filters and effects it has to offer.

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.

Cartoon Face – a new name for the ‘AR Pho.to Cartoonizer’ app

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: