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Photo filters for your pictures

A hand holds a round photo filter over a forest stream — inside the filter the landscape looks brighter and more saturated

Filters change how a photo looks — warmer, brighter, vintage or black-and-white. In MyCollages a filter applies to the photo inside a specific cell, not to the whole collage at once. So you can treat each shot on its own — or, the other way round, bring every photo to one consistent style.

How to apply a filter

Tap the cell you want to enter its edit mode, then choose “Filters” on the toolbar above it. Changes are visible on the photo instantly — fine-tune the effect while watching the result right on the canvas.

The Filters button on the selected cell’s toolbar.

The Filters panel has two modes — ready presets and manual adjustments — and the intensity slider at the bottom controls the strength of the effect, from subtle to strong.

Ready-made presets

The set has dozens of filters in the style of popular presets — warm, cool, vintage and black-and-white. They apply in one tap: for example, 1977, Clarendon, Lo-Fi, Nashville, Valencia or X-Pro II, plus Inkwell and Moon for black-and-white shots. To remove a filter and return to the untouched look, choose “Original”.

The Presets tab: filter thumbnails and the intensity slider.

Manual adjustments

When you need precise control, switch to the “Manual” tab — separate sliders set brightness, contrast and saturation (plus a touch of blur). The “Reset to original” button restores the untouched look at any time.

The Manual tab: brightness, contrast and saturation.

One style for the whole collage

To make the collage feel cohesive, apply similar settings to every cell — the same preset, or close values of brightness and saturation. Then photos taken at different times and in different light will look like a single series.