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!

Pho.to Lab 2.2 for iOS: Now with Built-in Editor and Stickers!

Hot and fun update of Pho.to Lab for iOS brings extensive range of features to your mobile devices. The app is free to use and is already available on the App Store.

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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:

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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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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.

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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!

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.

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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.
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