Photo filters are those ad on we apply to natural pictures or images to make them appear more beautiful. Filters are used by individuals daily for beautification which I see as ideal, especially for people who are concerned about their physical and public appearance. The idea here is that technology has made life a lot more fun and easier. In the past, you would have to pay a professional photographer to help you wash your snapped images in a film laboratory.
Those days of Kodak film roll fixed into an analog camera. When we compare the filters used thin those days, one would simply see that there is a lot of improvement in editing images.
Nowadays, just with a simple Android phone, in the comfort of your office or living room, you can make a lot of effects on any image using filters.
I found out after an ugly experience that I could have presented a better argument with my images during a research program I once embarked upon by simply editing my images and applying filters. It was in my semi-final year at the university when we embarked upon a field trip to Idanre Hills and the Ancient Benin Kingdom, in the southern part of Nigeria.
Though I presented nice documentation of the trip but my images were not good enough. Good enough, I had to remove the old pictures and add new ones of the same images after I had edited them using filters. Since then, I have used filters to make my work while blogging appear more presentable. On the whole, I think, filters are relevant for a lot of reasons. Let's consider some of the reasons why you may need to consider using filters.
Some of the images I took while on the field trip had heavy rays of sunlight in them making them not very clear to the eyes. All I did was to contrast the rays of light, thereby making the images look a little darker and removing the rays so that a reader can see the characteristics of the images. For professional photographers, one of the drawbacks is lights. When the lights are not controlled, it may make a supposedly beautiful picture turn into a mirage.
One may decide to change the style or appearance of an image to a portrait or any other style you want. On the other hand, an image that is currently snapped can be turned into a black-and-white style while using filters. One does not need to search the home, looking for images taken when the eyes were not yet opened to get such pictures. You can turn a recent picture to look like those of the medieval period.
This is another reason why using filters can be very good. One could make a picture look more presentable with filters which come with many other features that can be used to change the background of images.
Filters no doubt do a lot of enhancement on your picture. But a lot of users now use it for illegal intentions, to swindle unsuspecting victims.
The best part of the filter is to have fun. Sometimes, filters through the developers can turn an object or the image of a person into aliens and that is fun to watch most times. Generally speaking, when you are working on your image using a filter app, you are left with a lot of choices of what to add or remove.
Many amateurs have turned into pros by constantly using filters to change a supposedly almost-good picture to a better one. Hence, constantly using filters can make an individual master it and therefore develop a creative skill.
Filters have become a new general method of enhancing image for usage either for recreational or official purposes.
This post is submitted to the #hivelearners community in response to the weekly prompt for week #70
