The Formula for PicsArt's Success PicsArt takes just about the opposite approach to photo enhancing from, say, Instagram.
Users vote, and the winners are highlighted on PicsArt's blog.
GRAPHPAD PRISM 6 DOWNLOAD PLUS
Prisma offers more basic art styles-30 compared with PicsArt's 10-and some of those are more impressive than PicsArt's, though company representatives told me that more would be added.ĬollagesCollages aren't possible with most photo social apps, but PicsArt offers a cornucopia of layouts, borders, and backgrounds for collage creation, as you can see in the image below.Ĭontests are a nice plus from PicsArt, and they make sense, given the numerous creative tools the app offers. It's fun to try these out, but I find that the default setting often looks best. So you can choose Normal, Multiply, ColorBurn, Darken, Lighten, Screen, Overlay, SoftLight, HardLight, and Difference blending modes. When applying Magic Effects, you also get a choice of blending modes reminiscent of those used by Photoshop layers.
But another advantage of this approach over a cloud-processing system like that used by Prisma is that you'll never get "server overloaded" messages. That's about the same time it takes to apply Prisma filters. In my testing, they averaged about 15-20 seconds to finish. But do note that, since they are highly processing-intensive, they take longer to render than most photo filters. This means that, unlike with Prisma, you don't need an Internet connection to use it. PicsArt applies its Magic Effects using your phone's local processing. So you could have a model's eyes look natural, while everything else looks like it stepped out of a Mondrian painting. Magic Effects Prisma may have popularized AI-powered filters that turn your photos into works of art, but PicsArt's Magic Effects have a trick not possible in Prisma: You can apply them to just a selected area of a photo. The cloning tool is fun, but don't expect content-aware object removal like that in Adobe's Photoshop and Mix. For example, when I brushed artificial tan onto a friend's face, the brown overlay affected the background as well as his skin. One thing you don't get-at least not as powerfully as in Adobe Mix and Photoshop Touch-is auto-object selection and edge detection.
GRAPHPAD PRISM 6 DOWNLOAD SKIN
The blemish tool did a good job on minor skin issues. Of course you also get red-eye correction, tooth whitening, stamp-and-clone, and blemish removal. You can start a drawing with or without a photo background, and the feature supports Photoshop-style layers. You get 30 font choices for text overlays, use a color picker and adjust the size to taste with a handle. You can adjust the opacity, size, and even the "squish" for the marker brush. There are sets for travel, sports, nature, birthday, mustaches, baby, love, rabbits…the list goes on and on.ĭrawing tools also push the app into Photoshop territory, with more than 20 brush types and shapes that transform on a 3D plane. Photoshop, watch out! And don't even get me started about clip art. Tools include curves, masks, clone/stamp, cropping with shape, brushes, borders, text and lens flares. Every effect offers adjustability via sliders and a brush that lets choose where to apply or remove the effect. You can pinch to zoom, reveal more controls with a plus button, see before and after views of your image, undo the last action, and reset your picture to its original state. Your Facebook, Flickr, or Instagram photos are also potential starting points for your PicsArt creations. You can also start creating a collage from the Plus sign. Hitting the magenta Plus sign button lets you add your own image, either from the phone camera, the Camera Roll, or by starting a drawing on a blank canvas.
GRAPHPAD PRISM 6 DOWNLOAD SOFTWARE