How to choose a filter in the Prisma and not screw it up

With the help of trained neural networks Prisma It works wonders and makes ordinary at first glance, the real picture of the photos. However, the car still remains a machine and process each frame according to a strictly defined algorithm. If you fail to select a filter, then even a good picture will be hopelessly ruined.

here general recommendations to the original photo, which is very desirable to observe in order to facilitate the work of neural networks and to improve the quality of the results.

• Do not use dark and blurry photos.
• Do not use the Self, which faces merge with the background.
• Do not use photos already processed by the filters, or otherwise.

Now the application filter 21, each of which follows the style of a famous artist or a recognizable visual style mass culture. Some of them are suited to any photo, while others are incompatible with certain subjects.

Roy

• Style: Roy Lichtenstein.
• suitable for: Close-ups (portraits, architecture).
• Not suitable for: Frame with small details.

Roy Lichtenstein - one of the main representatives of Pop Art. Eponymous filter makes the picture look like a comic book with a large pattern, deliberately simplified and devoid of details. Quite a specific style that fits very little staff.

DC

• Style: Comics publisher DC.
• suitable for: Plot a photo with actors.
• Not suitable for: And the rest of the images with the non-contrast background.

The most popular genre of popular culture, the place of fulfillment of all the superhero battles and exciting stories - it's all about the comics. DC filter will appeal to all who want to add their heroism in everyday snapshots. Like Roy, this filter is quite fussy in the source code.

To frame became really look like a comic book page, there certainly should be some action, committing his characters and contrasting background.

Transverse Line

• StyleVasily Kandinsky.
• suitable for: Pictures of architecture, minimalist photos, graphics.
• Not suitable for: Portraits, landscapes.

Kandinsky - founder of abstract painting. For his style is characterized by experimentation with forms and perception of objects.

After processing the filter Transverse Line images are split into lines, triangles, curves, and other basic geometric elements. If the original contains a photo of the result of processing will be pleasantly surprised.

Heisenberg

• StyleGilles Vranks.
• suitable for: Almost all.
• Not suitable for: Dark and non-contrast photo.

Universal filter, echoing the style of the contemporary artist Gilles Vranksa who works in pencil. It can turn into a cool sketch of virtually any photo shot in good light. Since the rendering of colors is reduced to two, can not tolerate solid dark areas.

Gothic

• Style: Impressionism.
• suitable for: Landscapes, portraits, scene photos, still lifes, architectural shots.
• Not suitable for: Contrasting photos.

This filter represents a recognizable style of the Impressionist painters. It is best to turn them landscapes. But in general, Gothic - one of the most versatile filter in Prisma, suitable for any photo. The only time - contrast areas of the frame will stand out from the crowd, so these images should be avoided.

Mosaic

• Style: Alphonse Mucha.
• suitable for: Images of people with an abundance of flowers.
• Not suitable for: Photos with fine details.

Poster artist and illustrator Alphonse Mucha, the style of which is dedicated to this filter, writing mainly images of women with bushy hair and a riot of colors in the background. To get a similar picture at the output, you need a good try, because the filter is very moody and unpredictable.

It will not work if the source file will be a lot of small details and plain areas. Be careful with selfie!

Illegal Beauty

• StyleNatalie Rutkowski.
• suitable for: Photos of people.
• Not suitable for: Shots of architecture.

The young artist, illustrator and author of books about design draws light and beautiful portraits of people, mostly nice girls. Like the previous filter, it is suitable mainly for portraits, but also not for everyone.

To achieve really good results is difficult, but the chances of success increase if you avoid dark and contrasting photos.

Candy

• Style: Impressionism.
• suitable for: Scenery, scene photos, images of architecture.
• Not suitable for: Close-up portraits.

Another filter is dedicated to one of the most popular styles of painting. Equally well with sunny landscapes and austere architecture. Suitable for any occasions. Here are just a close-up portrait of his best not to use.

Electric

• Style: Electric.
• suitable for: Landscapes.
• Not suitable for: Portraits.

One of the most controversial of filters that can surprise, if you're lucky. Photos of people and animals to treat the most difficult, more or less normally go scenery with water and the sky, sometimes architecture. Nice look like a long line of hair, grass, ripples on the water.

Wave

• Style: Katsushika Hokusai.
• suitable for: Scenery, scene photo.
• Not suitable for: Photos with straight lines.

Katsushika Hokusai - Japanese master prints, develop your own style surimono, which is exactly repeated this filter. Friendly enough effect: to spoil them a picture, you need a good try.

Win-win options - turbulent water, sky and images with many details. Nice to go and take pictures of people, animals and scene photos. With solid backgrounds and straight lines it is better not to experiment, otherwise you risk getting an ordinary photo with bubbles.

Robots

• StyleGraffiti.
• suitable for: Closeups, photo story, at least - for landscapes.
• Not suitable for: Images with fine detail.

Robots filter paints graffiti is not worse than the street artists. Pictures of the images are obtained only where there is a lot of color, and there are not too small parts, which lost after processing, will make the final result rude. Faces in the portraits become frighteningly red, so better selfie no waste.

The Scream

• Style: Edvard Munch.
• suitable for: Landscapes, portraits, photo story.
• Not suitable for: Images with smooth color transitions.

Business Card Munch's "The Scream" - one of the most recognizable and popular filters in Prisma. It is used by all and sundry, but masterpieces come only from those who choose contrasting photos with large objects and a small number of colors without gradients. With people in the frame have to be careful, especially with children.

Ice Cream

• Style: graphic arts.
• suitable for: Simple objects, close-ups.
• Not suitable for: Portraits, photographs of architecture.

This filter should emphasize the beauty of simple objects, but in fact is very moody and almost useless. Yielding a more or less decent result you can use a photo where the subject fills the entire frame, and there are no small parts. Totally incompatible with the selfie and portraits of all.

Air

• Style: Nike.
• suitable for: Silhouettes, large objects, minimalist picture.
• Not suitable for: Landscapes, photo with small details.

They say that this filter has something to do with of Nike, but other than the name, there is no evidence. As with the previous style, it does not tolerate clutter components in the frame. Best of all pictures with Nike derived from the bright picture, on which all attention is given to one or two objects. If there is a person in a picture, it must be a contrasting silhouette.

Canyon

• Style: Ando Hiroshige.
• suitable for: Scenery, scene photo.
• Not suitable for: Portraits.

Another filter is in the style of Japanese woodblock print master color woodcuts by Ando Hiroshige. Perfectly emphasizes the beauty of open spaces: the sea, mountains, sky. Appropriate for the scene photos with people and animals. Not the best suited for portraits.

Mark

• Style: Mark Shagal.
• suitable for: Scene photos, landscapes, architecture, portraits.
• Not suitable forToo dark and contrasting photos.

Avant-garde style of Marc Chagall almost completely embodies the same name filter. Mark may well redraw almost any photo, giving it a distinctive style. The best results can be achieved if you use snapshots with balanced colors and soft contrast, otherwise the light and dark areas will lose all the details.

Raoul

• StyleRaoul Dufy.
• suitable for: Scenery, scene photos, images of architecture.
• Not suitable for: Portraits.

Works of Dufy and other representatives of Fauvism was characterized by soft, but expressive colors. With filter all about the same: nature, buildings and plots out very cool, with people more difficult - they turn out not so good.

It is not necessary to use a contrasting picture with a sharp transition of color, and everything else you can experiment.

Curly Hair

• Style: Pencil drawing.
• suitable for: Portraits, photo story, animal silhouettes.
• Not suitable for: Landscapes.

A good artist with a pencil can pass anything. At Prisma until it turns out not so well, but also on the whole not bad. With Curly Hair can be safely used portraits, street photos, silhouettes, and different graphics. The main thing that the original images were contrasting, if they are present the play of light and shadow - all wonderful.

Tokyo

• StyleWatercolor.
• suitable for: Portraits, landscapes, photographs of architecture.
• Not suitable for: Very contrasting picture.

This filter is closest to the style of watercolor and behaves in much the same. If you avoid contrasting photos and colors, it can be used with any of the subjects. Much better to take pictures in bright colors with smooth transitions of colors.

Urban

• Style: Urbanism.
• suitable for: Architecture, street photo, geometric shapes, silhouettes.
• Not suitable for: Portraits.

Most brutal filter Prisma is ideal for today's urban landscapes with their rough beauty. Good to take the source code to the central objects and the monotonous background of contrasting shapes, silhouettes. Incompatible with people and animals, as well as too dark photos.

Mononoke

• Style: Anime.
• suitable for: Portraits, landscapes, scene photo.
• Not suitable for: Photos with fine details.

Another universal filter that fits almost any photo and gives a very interesting result. Named after the popular anime, but the latter has little in common.

With honor will endure all your bullying Self, landscapes, street scenes and generally any photos. The only thing that can spoil the result (and then some), - is the abundance of small details.