Our photos tell the story of our lives, and that story often looks great as an art gallery of canvas prints. But all too often those stories seem to be exactly the same. After all, you’re not the first person to ever pose with their friends in a bar, or pretend to be holding up the Leaning Tower of Pisa, or have a family portrait where everyone is wearing the same sweater. Sometimes we have to work with the photos we have, not the photos we want – and when planning out some home decorating using amazing canvas art, sometimes you want to spruce up those photos a little.
But what do you do when you’re not very computer-savvy, don’t have any photo manipulation software, and wouldn’t know how to use it if you did? Don’t despair: The Internet has some amazing totally free tools out there that can take your blah photos and make them amazing in no time. Here’s a sampling of some of the best free tools out there that require zero knowledge of photography or software to get something amazing with the press of a button.
Easy Amazing Photo Tool #1: Warholize.me
Andy Warhol remains a strong pop culture reference point, and his style of pop art (think of those portraits of Marilyn Monroe in bright colours) remains distinctive and recognisable. If you have a portrait that lacks a little oomph and you think isn’t really worthy of canvas printing, head on over to http://warholize.me. It’s super easy to upload a photo and turn it into something remarkable with just the click of a button. And the results are super cool and super dramatic.
Easy Amazing Photo Tool #2: Tilt Shifting
Tilt-shifting is a technique that plays with focus to produce photos that look like miniature toys but are of real things. Even people can be made to look like tiny figurines in a fake set by applying the technique. Professionals achieve this effect with the right focus, lens, and lighting, but it can be applied to your own photos just by surfing over to http://tiltshiftmaker.com and uploading your photos.
So if you have a vacation photo of a quaint town or other scene that’s just a little boring and flat, this simple, automatic process can transform that photo into something remarkable – without knowing anything at all about it.
Easy Amazing Photo Tool #3: Remove Tourists from Your Canvas Prints
Tourists can be the plague of any amateur photographer. You travel to this amazing place and you think you’ll take some stunning pics and then have them turned into wall art when you get home, but every shot is crammed full of people in garish outfits standing around, ruining everything (as tourists do).
Never fear. Without any knowledge or software you can remove these annoying folks, just by doing 2 things: One, take multiple photos of the site from the same angle – just snap a bunch of photos as people move around you, and two, by surfing over to https://www.snapmania.com/info/en/trm/index.html. You’ll need to create a (free) account, then you upload several shots and let the Tourist Remover do the work. And it really works! In no time, your photos have been de-touristed and you have a stunning photo that looks like you got private access to the site.
So, never fear: Poor photo skills and a lack of computer savvy can’t stop you from having a great canvas art gallery in your home. Run those photos through these free tools and then click here to start beautifying your home in spite of your photo incompetence.
