PhotoMania on Facebook: Photo Effects for Your Pictures

Summer is the best season to shoot photos. After these 3 moths you’ll have tons of pictures from your vacation, open air hangouts, BBQ parties that you might share with friends on your Facebook page. If you want to add an artistic look to your images, first of all, you should try PhotoMania, a Facebook fun photo editor with over 250 free photo effects.

Obviously, to use PhotoMania, you need to have a Facebook account. Then visit the Apps section and type “PhotoMania” in the search box. Facebook will trigger PhotoMania app for you.

 

As you launch the app, you see the PhotoMania start screen that offers several groups of photo effects: sketches, paintings, cartoons, fun, modifications and a few more. Each group contains dozens of effects.
Just click the type you want and choose a photo from your Facebook photo albums. The selected photo effect will be automatically applied to the image and you will be able to download the photo with the effect or share it on Facebook immediately.
To make it clearer, watch a video tutorial on how to add photo effects to Facebook photos with PhotoMania.

What I mostly liked about PhotoMania is the ability to add effects to your friends’ photos and the photos tagged with your name. This option lets you present your friends with awesome collages even if they do not use PhotoMania yet. This can be a good way to say “thank you”, “I love you” or “I miss you” to the nearest and dearest on Facebook. Besides, such cute collage can cheer up, be a great ecard, a Valentine Day card or a message to the best friends. It’s needless to say your friends will appreciate your attention.
Upon the whole, PhotoMania is simple, but probably, the most suitable photo app for Facebook you should know for sure. However, it has a few drawbacks. The app page is full of tricky ads that you may be a bit confused where to click next. And the photo editor asks for permission to post on your behalf on Facebook, though you can reject it and still use PhotoMania. So try PhotoMania right now.

Editorial Review of Psykopaint

Just like there's a spectrum of art supplies from crayons to Connoisseur Kolinsky sable brushes, there's a spectrum of painting applications from Microsoft Paint to Photoshop and Corel Painter. Psykopaint is a Flash-based webapp that sits somewhere in the middle of that spectrum, neatly sandwiched between deviantArt muro on the draw-it-yourself side and Dynamic Auto-Painter on the algorithmic photo-to-painting side.

Psykopaint offers an array of thirteen different brushes for free.

Like deviantArt muro, Psykopaint is a webapp. Unlike muro, however, it is entirely Flash-based. You can use it to create art from scratch, but its real mission is to help you convert photographs into paintings. Dynamic Auto-Painter does the same thing, and you only have to tweak a few sliders and set it loose on your photo. Psykopaint is a much more hands-on experience: You pick a brush and paint with it all over your photo, transforming it bit by bit. So it feels(a little bit) like you're painting , but really, Psykopaint is doing all of the heavy lifting for you--almost like working with a coloring book. I tried using Psykopaint with my Intuos5 pen tablet, but it actually worked better with my trackball: It is not pressure sensitive, nor did it respond to the angle in which I was holding the stylus. A desktop version of Psykopaint, not yet released at the time of this writing, promises to detect pen pressure.

After playing around with brushes and layers, you can end up with something that doesn't look much like a photograph at all.

Psykopaint also shares a business model with deviantArt muro: The basic application is free, but extra brushes and tools cost money. You start off with a set of 13 free brushes inspired by famous painters (with names like Manet and Renoir), but almost any other tool in the interface costs money. Want to use an eraser? That'll be five coins. Want to be able to add layers to your painting? Forty coins please. Coins are priced in bulk: 15 coins cost $2 (around $0.13 per coin), and 1,000 coins cost $80 ($0.08 per coin).You can also buy bundles of 50, 100, 200, or 400 coins. Brush packs cost between 10 to 35 coins, which means that 200 coins ($18) will get you very far. You can also get some coins, but not very many, for sharing PsykoPaint with friends. Once you buy a tool, it's yours to keep, not just for the current painting. While having to constantly shell out for new features feels a bit greedy at first, it actually lets you grow into Psykopaint and not become overwhelmed by a glut of tools. Most users will probably become very familiar with the tools they have and spend money on new tools only when they really need them.

Whenever you purchase a new tool, an overjoyed cat congratulates you.

Layers are handy in Psykopaint. You can create a background layer and paint over it with a course brush, and then create another layer for the foreground and use a finer brush to make the main subject of your photo stand out. You could even use different brush styles, such as a wild impressionist brush for the background, and a more detailed spot brush (10 coins please) for the foreground. Painting fine details is tricky: When I drew over a photograph of a rider jumping with a horse, the harness and other fine details of riding tack were lost. Still, you could say that the same thing sometimes happens when you draw with real brushes.

While Psykopaint's brushes are beautifully detailed and highly customizable, its rendering engine doesn't come close to that of Corel Painter. With Painter, watercolors dry into the paper, and oil paint mixes convincingly. Then again, Psykopaint does not bill itself as a natural media application, but more as an inexpensive way for people to express themselves artistically without an extensive education or years of practice. And in that, Psykopaint does admirably well.

Note: The Download button takes you to the vendor's site, where you can download use the latest version of the software. Some brushes and other effects cost coins purchasable within the program. 

thing you didn't know your dslr could do

As with learning any topic, students usually learn a tremendous amount of information about a topic for the first while, then they reach a certain level of competency and halt all learning.  The same is true with photographers when we get a new camera.  When we first get our hands on a camera, we spend every waking second learning how to use it and all the buttons and dials.  Then… we suddenly stop. But if you stop learning your camera too soon, you miss out on some REALLY COOL features in most–but not all–DSLR cameras.

This post will hopefully enlighten you on a few features that are commonly (but not always) put in DSLR cameras that most photographers don’t know they have.

Oh, and my favorite thing about writing this post is that I just CAN’T WAIT to read the comments.  There are always a few “know it alls” who have to share with me the fact that they “knew that stuff already.”  I get a lot of pleasure out of those comments for some reason… but I hope everyone finds at least one thing in this list that is new.

Custom picture contoler 

First, some background.  Picture Controls (that’s Nikon’s name for it) or Picture Styles (for the Canonistas) are applied to every picture you take.  The RAW photo coming off the sensor lacks contrast, sharpness, and color saturation.  In fact, it’s downright ugly.  Your camera applies these adjustments to each picture to pretty it up for you. I have never worried myself with setting the Picture Control because I ALWAYS shoot in RAW.

However, I was out shooting with Dustin Olsen a few months back and looked at the back of his camera to see how the photos were coming out.  WOW!  It was so much more beautiful than my LCD screen!  Dustin sets a custom picture control so that the photos on the LCD screen look more like how they will look in post-processing.  This helps him to visualize the finished photo.  Changing the picture control if you shoot in RAW will not affect the image you see on the computer, but it will help you see what you’re capturing on the camera. To set a custom picture control or picture style, go to your menu and find the custom picture control setting.  I like to use these settings:   If you shoot in RAW instead of JPEG, this is still true because your camera saves out a JPEG preview that is used as the thumbnail image and to display on the LCD screen on the back of your camera.

 Multiple exposure

 Multiple exposure can be pretty fun for creative effects, and it is an oft-overlooked feature on many DSLRs (not all of them have this).  Multiple exposure means the camera takes 2 or 3 (or more) photos in a row and then combines them to create one picture. For example, you might shoot a runner sprinting down the track.  For a creative effect, you could set your camera to multiple exposure and lock it down on a tripod.  Then take three pictures of the runner sprinting by and the camera will combine them into an action sequence. 

 Time lapse

Sorry Canon shooters, your DSLR most likely won’t have this feature; however, most Nikon cameras come with this feature.  A time lapse is when your camera is set to take a picture every second or so.  Then, the individual frames (usually taken over the course of 30 minutes or more) are combined to create a video like this one. On a Nikon DSLR, you can find this feature on the menu called “Interval timer shooting.”  I wrote out a tutorial here of how to do timelapse on both Nikon and Canon cameras. 

 Time bofore sleep

Nothing is more annoying when shooting than when the screen constantly turns off while you’re reviewing images on the LCD screen.  I like to take a nice long look at the photos and zoom in on different parts.  I like to work methodically most of the time, and especially when shooting landscapes.

All DSLRs allow the photographer to adjust how long a photo is displayed before the screen goes to sleep.  I like to set this to about 10 seconds.  If you are short on battery life, this probably isn’t a great idea, but I always have fresh batteries lying around and use a battery grip, so I don’t really worry about battery life nearly as much as I worry about being able to get a good long look at the photos I’m working with.

Lately, I’ve been experimenting in working with an iPad so when I shoot a photo, it shows up almost immediately on my iPad (wirelessly) so I can see the photos full screen.  I love it for landscapes where I’m working slowly and really checking each picture, but it’s probably impractical for shooting portraits, sports, wildlife, or other fast-moving subjects.

Nothing is more annoying when shooting than when the screen constantly turns off while you’re reviewing images on the LCD screen.  I like to take a nice long look at the photos and zoom in on different parts.  I like to work methodically most of the time, and especially when shooting landscapes.

All DSLRs allow the photographer to adjust how long a photo is displayed before the screen goes to sleep.  I like to set this to about 10 seconds.  If you are short on battery life, this probably isn’t a great idea, but I always have fresh batteries lying around and use a battery grip, so I don’t really worry about battery life nearly as much as I worry about being able to get a good long look at the photos I’m working with.

Lately, I’ve been experimenting in working with an iPad so when I shoot a photo, it shows up almost immediately on my iPad (wirelessly) so I can see the photos full screen.  I love it for landscapes where I’m working slowly and really checking each picture, but it’s probably impractical for shooting portraits, sports, wildlife, or other fast-moving subjects.

No, not exposure compensation.  Exposure compensation is when the photographer tells the camera to decide the correct exposure, and then get either brighter or darker depending on what exposure compensation setting the photographer set the camera to.

Flash compensation works similarly.  The camera will determine how much flash output is needed, and then the photographer can set the camera to either give more or less power to the flash according to the look that the photographer is attempting to achieve.

When might you use such a thing?  I thought you’d ask.  If you’re using an all-manual flash like the YN-560 (see my YN-560 review here), then this is entirely irrelevant.  This is also mostly irrelevant if you are using an eTTL or iTTL flash because those flashes allow the photographer to change the flash compensation from the flash’s menu so you don’t have to go through the camera menu.

The use-case for this is when you’re in a pinch and are forced to use that blasted pop-up flash.  Photographers hate using the pop-up flash because it looks ridiculously ugly since the light is coming from the same angle as the camera and therefore not directional.  However, if you use flash compensation, you can control how much flash is used and achieve much better pictures when you’re in a pinch and you need to use flash (like when Aunt Janet hands you her point-and-shoot to take a picture at the wedding).

This feature is somewhat better known among photographers, but still the kind of thing that a lot of photographers don’t notice until they have shot for years.  Most DSLR cameras have a small black button on the front of the camera just to the left (camera left) of the lens.  If you look through the viewfinder and press the button, it will make the screen go a bit darker, but it will also show you how the depth-of-field will look when you take the picture.

The button is useful because, contrary to popular belief, changing the aperture setting on your camera does not immediately adjust the aperture in the lens.  The aperture snaps into place only right before the picture is taken.  This is done so the camera can gather as much light as possible for focusing before the picture is taken.  So when you’re looking through the viewfinder, you already know what the depth of field will look like.  Don’t worry about the fact that the viewfinder will be darker–this is just because the closed aperture reduces the amount of light going through.

Newer model Canon and Nikon DSLR cameras have begun to include “Instagram mode,” but it currently requires two tablespoons of butter to activate.  All you have to do is smear the butter over the front element of your lens and viola!  You have that “beautiful” look that only Instagram can offer.

Sorry for those of you who aren’t geeky and don’t understand nerd humor.  Instagram is an iPhone (and Android) app for photography that puts some really overdone effects on photos so everyone can call themselves artists (okay, fine… it’s fun).

I get SOOO MANY questions about back button focus that I decided this one deserves its own post.  Learn about back button focusing here.

Using back button focusing can help get your focus more precise and faster.

   

Photo Mania

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PhotoMania Photos, Create your own Cool Effects with PhotoMania | Facebook App

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(Multiple shadows Effect)

(Box space effect)

(Hearts Effect with Cloud)

(Town MegaPic effect)

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Edit Your Photo In Just One Click For Free – BlazoMania Exclusive Offer

I've only done 2 till now, but I'll be adding more soon:
1-I made this to show my support to HushPuppy:

2-Miscrian Money:

Edit:
3-Not as good as others but:

4-Who said Snorkels can only be found in the jagged treasure?:

5- This is what happens to Squibees that meet my Dark Fairyblossom:

Squib,Squib
6-Flue is up there, waiting for you, if you want to capture it, just be courageous and go:

7-a.The Mallardon came out of the water:

7-b.To go to the arena:

Photomania - A Facebook application to edit your photos and add effects @ http://apps.facebook.com/photomaniafx

PHOTOMANIA - A Caller FACEBOOK APP TO Redact YOUR PHOTOS
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Here are few photos edited with Photomania app.

Photomania 6.73 Deluxe

PHOTOMANIA - A COOL FACEBOOK APP TO Modify YOUR PHOTOS
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