Photo Editing App Improves Your Shots

Photo Editing App Improves Your Shots

People take hundreds or even thousands of photographs with their smart phones. But when they take a special photo, they might want to make sure that the picture looks its best.

Photos can preserve memories. They help people remember a special day or event. People also share photos on social media so others can enjoy them.

Fotor is a free photo editing website and app.

It comes with a lot of tools, but is easy to use. Use Fotor to improve and share images. It can also help you create collections of favorite photos.

Fotor App

Using the Fotor application software program is simple. Just download the Fotor app and create an account.

The app can help improve pictures in several ways. It can make changes to color, brightness and red/green/blue levels of a photo.

Fotor users can add many choices of filters to change the way images look. Filters can reduce or remove unwanted light from a photo. A slider tool can help change the intensity¹ of each filter.

Fotor users can also add colorful stickers, words and even picture frames to customize their photo.

Focus is a photo editing tool that can reduce the sharpness, or clarity, of an image. This allows users to focus on a part of the image, and blur² out the rest.

This winter image was edited using the Fotor app. The blue filter was added, the app's Focus effect was used to blur the photo, other than a circle around the tree which remains³ focused. 

The Fotor app has a sharing button in the upper left corner of the screen. Click the button and the photo is saved so it can be shared using email, text message and social media websites.

Most of the tools on Fotor are free, but some must be purchased. The app provides a demonstration⁴ of such tools, so they can be tried before they are purchased.

The Fotor app only works in portrait view.

With this panorama⁵ photo was edited by adding a filter using the Fotor app, then using Focus to blur the photo other than an oval around the ruins which stay in focus:

Community and Competition

The Vision section of the Fotor app is a place where people can share their images. Fotor holds competitions for the best images. Users can enter their photos in several different categories.

Availability

You can get the app free for:

Fotor for Android

Fotor for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch

Website

The Fotor website can also help design images for social media, with preset, fixed⁶ sizes for cover photos on Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, YouTube and more.

Words in This Story

preserve - v. to protect or keep (something) in its original state or in good condition

edit  - v. to prepare (a film, recording⁷ or photograph) to be seen or heard; to change, move, or remove parts of a film, recording or photo

app – n. a computer program that performs a particular job

access – n. permission or the right to enter, get near, or make use of something or to have contact with someone

filter – n. a program that changes lighting⁸ levels in specific ways to create special effects (photography)

slider – n. a knob or button that is used to control something, such as movement or audio levels

intensity – n. the amount of strength or force that something has

frame – n. an open structure that holds something (such as glass or a picture)

portrait view – n. the orientation⁹ of a page such that the longer side runs from top to bottom

category – n. the process of putting people or things into groups based on ways that they are alike

1 intensity   

n.强烈，剧烈；强度；烈度

参考例句：

• I didn't realize the intensity of people's feelings on this issue.我没有意识到这一问题能引起群情激奋。
• The strike is growing in intensity.罢工日益加剧。

2 blur   

n.模糊不清的事物；vt.使模糊，使看不清楚

参考例句：

• The houses appeared as a blur in the mist.房子在薄雾中隐隐约约看不清。
• If you move your eyes and your head,the picture will blur.如果你的眼睛或头动了，图像就会变得模糊不清。

3 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

4 demonstration   

n.表明，示范，论证，示威

参考例句：

• His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
• He gave a demonstration of the new technique then and there.他当场表演了这种新的操作方法。

5 panorama   

n.全景，全景画，全景摄影，全景照片[装置]

参考例句：

• A vast panorama of the valley lay before us.山谷的广阔全景展现在我们面前。
• A flourishing and prosperous panorama spread out before our eyes.一派欣欣向荣的景象展现在我们的眼前。

6 fixed   

adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的

参考例句：

• Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
• Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。

7 recording   

n.录音，记录

参考例句：

• How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？
• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。

8 lighting   

n.照明，光线的明暗，舞台灯光

参考例句：

• The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
• The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。

9 orientation   

n.方向，目标；熟悉，适应，情况介绍

参考例句：

• Children need some orientation when they go to school.小孩子上学时需要适应。
• The traveller found his orientation with the aid of a good map.旅行者借助一幅好地图得知自己的方向。