How to add a film or vintage filter to a photo online

Open Photo filters, choose your photo and tap a look under Film or Old cameras, such as Warm film 400 or Disposable. Lower its strength until it feels right, then download. The photo is filtered in your browser and is not uploaded.

Steps

1. Go to Photo filters and drop in a photo, or click to choose one. Every look appears as a small preview of your own picture.
2. Pick a category tab. For film, try Film (Warm film 400, Gold film 200, Vivid film 100, Mono film 400 and more). For the point-and-shoot feel, open Old cameras (2000s digicam, Disposable, Instant photo, Toy camera).
3. Tap a look. It appears under Applied looks with a Strength slider from 0% (your original) to 100%.
4. Open Adjust on that look to change its grain, dark corners, fade, glow or shadows, or to switch the date stamp off.
5. Tap more looks if you want to combine them. Up to four stack, each laid over the one above it. Use the arrows to change their order, or tap a look again to take it off.
6. Download. The look is part of the saved file.

Which look for which photo

The names describe what each look does. None of them is a copy of a real film stock or camera brand; each is a short recipe of tone curves, colour shifts, grain, glow and dark corners.

A look at 100% is meant to be obvious. Most photos read better somewhere between 50% and 80%, where the colour shifts but skin still looks like skin.

The date stamp

The old-camera looks print a date in the corner, in orange, the way those cameras did. It uses the day you chose the look, not the day the photo was taken. If you want the look without the date, open Adjust on that look and turn the stamp off. The Camcorder look prints a PLAY sign with its date.

Stacking looks without losing the photo

Each look you add works on the result of the ones above it, so order matters. A grainy film look followed by a colour look gives different colour than the other way round. A few habits help:

• Put the look that sets the colour first, and texture looks (grain, glow) after it.
• If faces start to look grey or orange, lower the strength of the last look before removing anything.
• Two strong film looks rarely sit well together. One film look plus one gentle Mood look usually does.

Before you post

Crop, straighten or add a caption in the same place: the Photo filters page is the photo editor opened on its Filters tool, so Crop, Text and Adjust are in the tool list beside it. Saving also leaves out most hidden data, such as the GPS position your phone may have written into the original.

A small "Made with t.myu" credit starts in the bottom-left corner of the picture. Tap the small cross on it, or switch it off under Credit, and the saved file has no mark at all.

If you would rather see the look before you take the picture, the camera with filters shows the same looks live and opens the photo in the editor afterwards.

Questions

Is there a filter that makes a photo look like it came from a disposable camera?

Yes. Disposable, under Old cameras, gives warm colour, grain, a flash-lit centre, a light leak and an orange date in the corner.

Can I make the filter weaker?

Every applied look has its own Strength slider. Slide it down until the effect is as light as you want; 0% shows your original photo.

Will the filter lower the quality of my photo?

The looks add grain and soften contrast on purpose, but the photo keeps its size. Choose PNG when you download if you want no further compression; JPG is smaller.

Is my photo uploaded to apply the filter?

No. The looks are worked out in your browser and the photo stays on your device.