How to Use the Photo Filters Built Into the iPhone Camera App
The filters pre-loaded on iOS devices are a great place to start. If you want to take a new photo using one of these filters, follow these steps:
How to Apply Filters to Old Photos
To add a filter to an existing photo that you took without a filter, retroactively add a filter to the image:
How to Remove a Filter From an iPhone Photo
When you apply a filter to a photo and tap Done, the original photo is changed to include the new filter. The original, unmodified file is no longer visible in your Camera Roll. You can undo a filter because filters are applied using non-destructive editing. This means that the original photo is always available and the filter is a layer applied over the original. Tap each filter option for a preview, and then select Done to save your changes. To remove the filter layer to reveal the original photograph:
How to Use Photo Filters from Third-Party Apps
The iOS built-in photo filters are limited—especially when apps like Instagram provide hundreds of filters. To add more filters, install a third-party photo app from the App Store that includes filters and supports app extensions, a feature that lets apps share features with other apps. To add filters from third-party apps to the built-in Photos app:
Other Apps With Photo Filters
If you want additional photo filters to use on your iPhone (along with the other features included in these apps), check out these photography apps at the App Store.
Afterlight 2
Afterlight 2 is a full-featured photo editing and effects suite for iPhone. It offers more than a dozen tools to tweak and adjust the look of photos, over 100 filters and textures to apply effects to photos, frames and cropping tools, and an extension to use these tools in the Photos app.
Camera+
One of the leading third-party photo apps, Camera+ packs a huge number of features. Use it to take photos from within the app, control focus and exposure, and set the digital zoom. It also includes tons of effects and editing tools, sharing capabilities, and more.
Halftone 2
Do you want to turn your photos into a comic strip? Halftone 2 applies effects and filters to photos so that they look like comics art, and then compiles the images into multi-panel pages. You can even add sound effects, word balloons, and captions.
Litely
Litely is another app brimming with filters, visual adjustments, and multiple levels of undo. Litely makes it easy to apply subtle changes that dramatically improve photos. A before and after view on the same screen makes it easy to see the impact of your changes, while its extension brings the app’s features into the iOS Photos app.
Quick
Unlike other apps on this list which focus on making adjustments to the look of photos, Quick Photo Tuning Bundle focuses on adding text to photos to create a unique finished product. With a choice of fonts, text styles, colors, and effects, Quick makes it easy to add an extra message to pictures.
