Free filters, effects, and frames for your Android photos.
Joshua Goldman
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Launch the app and you can pick to shoot a new photo or pick one from the gallery. You can also grab the last photo you opened if you didn't get to finish what you started.
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Color filters
Once you've got a photo, the main interface opens. There are two sliders along the top. The top one lets you pick what you want to apply--color filters, lighting effects, and frames--and the bottom shows you your options. For example, the first option is for color filters. Select it and below you get a long slider of filter choices. Tap a filter and see what your photo looks like with it.
Unfortunately, you can only apply one filter and you can't increase or decrease the effect. The only way to apply additional filters is to save out and reopen the photo. That goes for all three. Also, all of the color filters have nondescriptive names, making it a pain to quickly pick your desired result. For example, Sophia is apparently heavy vignetting typical of a toy camera lens.
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Lighting effects
While most of the color filters are good, the lighting effects are really sort of meh. A lot of them are so distinct that you wouldn't want to use them regularly because they're static and wouldn't look like something that accidentally happened to your photos. Mostly they just overwhelm photos instead of adding to them.
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Frames
If you're into frames, Pixlr has plenty.
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Enlarge
If you want to take a closer look at your results, just double tap on the photo and the tools will disappear and the photo will enlarge.
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Save and share
Once you've got your photo how you want it, tap the save icon (the little floppy disk) and you'll get a screen with your finished shot. If you don't like what you've got, you can tap the back arrow to tweak some more, restart from the beginning, or export.
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Export
The app lets you save to your SD card, export/share using other apps, or use Autodesk's imm.io site, which gives you a short link to share your uploaded image.
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Export
Tapping Export hooks into the Android "intent" feature. That basically means you can export to any sharing/communication app you have on your Android device (Bluetooth, Flickr, Gmail, Facebook, etc.) with that click.
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Save to SD
You can choose to save to your SD card, too, and the file name will have the names of the filter, effect, and frame you used.
