Sometimes we take photos on our Android phones, and they come out in a way that’s not appealing to us. We get this urge to modify our images to look in such a manner that we find attractive. Such-like photos need enhancement by the use of filters.
Android has photo filtering features which enable the modification of raw images. The result is an adorable image with a high definition and a beautiful exposure.
How to Generate Filters on Android
You can modify your photos in Android by applying effects through merely following the steps below:
- Select the image to be edited.
Most phones would vibrate, an indication that the action is successful. In other phones, you would have to open the image first before tapping on the edit button.
- Click on the filter tab and open it.
- Select the filter you wish to use.
- Click on the filter again to adjust its intensity. A slider will pop up, drag it left or right.
- Click tick (√) to finish.
Steps of removing a filter:
- Select the image you want to modify.
- Open the Filter tab.
- Click None.
Filter Generating Apps for Android
You can achieve your sort after vision with customized effect combinations. This can be achieved by using top photo editing apps to take presets to new heights. They are decent and free to download on Google Playstore.
VSCO
It’s an advanced photo and video editing tools for video content creators. With a four out of five-star rating and over one hundred downloads worldwide, this is a perfect and satisfying solution to photo editing.
It contains one-tap filters with customizable intensity and advanced. VSCO also comes with an integrated camera and a delicate color and black and white presets to bring about a classy film look to photos. After applying the filter, VSCO offers a single slider that adjusts the intensity of the effects. It also provides additional settings such as changing the skin tone vignette, exposure sharpness, and film grain.
Snapseed
Snapseed is a professional-quality photo editor with several options made for editing photos. It comes with no-destructive photo editing and powerful selective picture post-processing tools.
Snapseed’s filters are not as complicated as in similar apps, but instead, they come with adjustable filters for soft or highly intense effects. They are capable of adding HDR effects and adjusting curves in your images.
Darkroom
It comes with advanced filters usually organized in categories for Instagram photos. What makes it tick is its ability to add a filter to the ‘live photo.’ These filters range from bright and colorful to monochrome and faded vintage. Also, Darkroom provides batch editing mode, allowing you to edit the whole album of photos at once, giving all images similar filters and feel.
Afterlight
Afterlight comes with ready-made filters and overlays conveniently grouped by color. Here, you can create your own presets and apply them in the future. For user’s convenience, regular presets are also grouped by color.
It also comes with additional special effects, including double exposure, dust textures, and selective coloring.
Instagram is one of the most popular social apps. It provides free filters that are readily available, with the ability to apply live masks. Unfortunately, Instagram lacks advanced photo enhancement tools. It has an integrated camera with a photo and video shooting function and other modes such as superzoom, hands-free, and boomerang.
Benefits of Filters in Photography
Filters before Android used to be optical attachments that could be attached to the front of your camera’s lens. They are usually made of glass and would restrict the light coming in. With the invention of Android filters, there’s usually no need to carry a filter in hard copy as this is catered for in the Android camera. Examples of filters in Android include neutral density filter, infrared, black and white, matcha, autumn, lime, letter, Chungking, 2046, black coffee, mousse, grapefruit, puff, blueberry, to mention but a few.
Below are the benefits of using filters in photography:
Colour addition and contrast
Taking photos in the outdoors, woodlands, grasslands, near waterfalls, or in deserts has never been this amazing. The polarizing filters restore the natural color saturation bringing about a considerable contrast in the images, leading to a unique and appealing view of nature. The good thing is, you can vary the intensity of the polarization effect to get the most efficient and optimum impact.
Creation of motion
The neutral Density filter makes it possible to create a movement to a static scene. It’s very beneficial for images taken in low-light conditions, i.e., morning hours or evening hours.
With this, you can make running water appear smooth or create cloud patterns and cloud movements.
Brings about a more balanced exposure
Filters bring about accuracy in scene capturing. Reducing or increasing the amount of light applied to the image makes it easier to get a balanced exposure.
You might take a picture with somewhat high-contrast landscape scenes or underexposed foreground. Neutral density, when applied to this, will do wonders.
Picture enhancement
Special effects filters bring about in-color variations to a picture. They provide warm colors, infrared, or black and white colors to your image. They also bring about mist and fog effects. This works especially when you want to remove distracting backgrounds to create minimal compositions.
Picture enhancement filters intensify specific colors without affecting the other tones of your image. Some like the autumn tint filters accentuate browns and reds, while the sky filters accentuate blue and white colors found in the sky.
Enhance temperature corrections in the image
After capturing an image in, let’s say, the mountains or deserts, you might want to enhance the idea to bring about a color temperature of the scene. Using filters, you can change color tones with no added color cast.
Conclusion
The generation of filters is a lot easier nowadays. The right filter can make your image look better than it is, and as a result, you’ll get many reactions when you post it. However, most photo editing apps have limited access to filters in free trial versions. You have to purchase the premium version to access the most awe-inspiring filters.
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