Image Filters
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Try twelve one-tap looks, from Vivid and Warm to Noir and Sepia, choose how strong each one is, then fine-tune it with the individual sliders underneath. Your photos are edited on your device and never uploaded.
How to image Filters4 steps, all on your device
- Start with a photo. Drop it in, paste it, or choose it from your files, then open Filters.
- Tap a look. Pick Vivid, Warm, Cool, Mono, Noir, Fade, Vintage, Sepia, Dramatic, Matte, Airy or Golden.
- Set the strength. Slide toward zero for a hint of the look, or all the way up for the full effect.
- Fine-tune and export. Open Adjust to change any setting the look moved, such as warmth or contrast, then export.
What the looks change, and how to make them yours
Each look is a recipe of ordinary adjustments rather than a fixed overlay, and broadly does what its name suggests. Vivid and Dramatic lean on colour and contrast; Warm and Golden shift the colour temperature toward yellow and orange, while Cool pulls it toward blue. Mono and Noir take the colour out, Noir more starkly, and Sepia tints the greys toward brown. Fade, Matte, Vintage and Airy work mostly on the tones for a softer, film-like feel. Open Adjust after applying one to see exactly which sliders it set.
Strength scales the whole recipe. At full strength the look is applied as designed; around the middle every part of it is gentler, which is often plenty for portraits, where strong colour shifts make skin look unnatural. To compare with the untouched photo, drag the strength to zero rather than undoing.
Applying a look is a starting point, not the end. Pull Temperature back if Golden is too orange, raise Shadows if Noir hides the detail in a dark coat, or add a little Grain to Vintage for texture. Adjustments belong to the layer and stay editable, so you can return to them after cropping or adding text.
A good black and white depends on how colours turn into greys. The usual conversion for screens weights green most, red next and blue least, because that is how bright each looks to the eye, so a deep blue sky often becomes a darker grey than you expect. Try Mono, then use Exposure or Curves to put the tones where you want them.
Looks apply per layer. To give only part of a picture a look, duplicate the layer, apply the filter to the copy and hide parts of it with the Mask brush, for example to keep a red coat in colour while the rest of the street turns grey. The copy’s opacity slider blends it back toward the original as another way to soften the effect.
Good to know
- ITU-R BT.709 defines luma as 0.2126 × red + 0.7152 × green + 0.0722 × blue, which is why greens turn into lighter greys than blues of the same strength. Source: ITU-R Recommendation BT.709
- WebGL 2.0, which the editor uses to draw looks and adjustments on the graphics card, is based on OpenGL ES 3.0. Source: Khronos Group: WebGL 2.0 Specification
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I adjust a filter after applying it?
Yes. A look only sets a group of Adjust sliders, so you can open Adjust and change any of them, or move the strength slider, at any time until you export.
Can I combine two filters?
The simplest way is on two layers: duplicate the photo, give each copy a different look, then lower the top layer’s opacity or try a blend mode such as soft light to mix them.
Which filter suits portraits?
Warm, Airy and Matte at moderate strength tend to flatter skin. Vivid and Dramatic at full strength can make faces look orange or blotchy, so turn them down, or lower Saturation in Adjust afterwards.
Do filters reduce the quality of my photo?
Nothing is baked in while you work: adjustments are recalculated from the original pixels each time, so moving sliders back and forth doesn’t wear the image down. The export is then encoded once, at the quality you choose.