Put Effects In Your Photographs!!

If you are a die-hard fan of photography or even interested in capturing good pictures, you should be definitely aware of different effects that can be used in photography. You will be better able to use your photographs with proper knowledge of effects related to photography. In this new age of smartphones, a lot of apps are available which can help to put effects in the photographs. Especially Android and iOS users can give awesome looks to their photographs using these apps.

While taking photograph-

1.Tilt Shift Effect: Tilt Shift Effect is a photo trick which creates a large screen like a miniature or a scale model. It focusses on a small section of the photograph and blurs the rest. For iOS you can use 'Tilt Shift Zen'. Its price is around Rs. 55. For Android a free app, 'Camera 360' can be used.

2.Bokeh Effect: This is a very stylish effect which is produced from various out of focus sources of light. If your digital camera has manual focus feature in it, then you can deliberately get out of focus. Usually manual focus is not possible in a smartphone, so you can use 'Camera MX' App. This App is freely available for Android and iOs.

3.Lomo Effect: This effect is usually produced by mixing Retro Style and Vintage Look with Vignetting Effect. In this effect, a high contrast is specifically added to the picture. iOS users can click pictures with this effect using 'Quick Lomo' App. For Android users, ‘Retro Camera' App is available. Both these apps are free.

4.Power Cam: Every smartphone user interested in photography should use 'Power Cam' App. This App is free for both Android and iOS users. This app has got 60 interesting effects. With these affects you can easily make your photographs fantastic. This will show you live preview of the effect before clicking the photograph. You can also share the photo with multiple social networks with the help of this app.

Note: ( Vigenetting filter can also be used with basic camera mode.) Vignetting Effect:  In Vigenetting, the ends of the photograph are given either light or dark color. This way it is tried to emphasise the main subject present in the photograph. If you are not able to do it with camera, then you can easily do it on PC. You can use ‘Pudding Camera’ App for your smartphone. This app is free for Android and iOS.

After taking the photograph –

1.Selective Colour: This technique can be used to highlight a single colour, while the rest of remains black & white. ‘Touch of Colour’ App can be used on iOS for this. It gives you a chance to select one colour. After that, the rest of the photograph turns black & white. For Android users, ‘Colour Splash FX’ and ‘Photo Art’ apps can be used. You can colour a special area with the help of these.

2.Animated Photos: You can also animate your photos with the help of free apps. ‘Cinegram’ app for iOS and ‘Pictoreo’ app for Android is available. Both these apps are free. For both these apps it is essential that you record a video of at least 2-3 seconds. After saving the video, you can choose that area of the video in which you want to see movement. The app will then save it as an animated photograph.

3.Groupshoot: Usually when click a group photograph, some photos are there with eyes closed while in some people are looking somewhere else. To get rid of this problem, you can use ‘Groupshoot’ app for iOS. In this to get a perfect picture, you can combine or import multiple pictures. With the help of this app you can select a special area and replace with a similar area in another photo.

4.Background colour: While shooting with DSLR it is easy to blur the background. But in smartphone you have to use apps to get the same effect. ‘Finger Focus’ App for iOS and ‘After Focus’ App can be used for Android. With the help of these apps you can select a specific area which you want to keep in focus and blur the background. This way you can get fantastic effect.

5.Warhole Effect: With this technique an image can be displayed in a 4x4 grid with colours. This is also called Pope Art. For Android, a free app ‘FX Camera’ can be used. Take a pic with the help of this app and then apply Warhole effect in single touch. A free app ‘Crazy Photo Booth’ can be used on iOS.

6.Finger Painting: On iPad, ‘Full Proof Art Studio’ allows to convert a photo into oil painting. Using the free version, you can only use pictures shot from iPad, while in the full version, you can also import pictures from the photo library. To make the picture more blur, you have to swipe fast on the picture and swipe slowly to get high definition.