In this week’s blog post, we will continue learning about the blending tools in Urban Jungle Photo Editor. Some of the previous options in the layer blend menu have already been covered in a previous blog post, you can scroll down from this blog post to start at the beginning. The previous blog post also covers how to get to the blending menu via the layer from your project screen.
In a nutshell, blend options allow us to change the relationship between two layers on top of each other. We can use this customisability to create unique effects.
For this week’s demonstration, let’s go with something magical; a jellyfish rising from the sea.

​The overlay blend option mixes the functionality of both the Screen and Multiply blend options. The portions of the top layer where the base layer is light become lighter, the portions where the base layer is dark become darker. Places, where the top layer is mid-grey, will remain unaffected. 

The ColorBurn is a very aggressive name for a blend option but is aptly named for its functionality. It has an aggressive effect on the layer relationship. The colorburn option gives a very dark result, this is done by increasing the contrast between the base and the blend. The colors of the top layer consequently are highly saturated in the mid-tones. 

​ColorDoge blend option brightened this jellyfish up, this is because of the light tones of the cloud and sky behind it. ColorDoge blend mode divides the bottom layer by inverting the top layer. This will lighten the bottom layer depending on the value of the top layer. If the top layer is brighter than the bottom one, the top layer color will have a more significant effect on the bottom layer.

The difference blend option has made our jellyfish dark, let us look into why that is the case. The difference blend option works by subtracting the bottom layer from the top layer or vice versa, to always get a non-negative value. So when you subtract two pixels with the same value, the result is zero i.e. Black. That means the black areas on our jellyfish had the same color value as the background layer. Commonly professional editors use this blend option to align pictures that have similar content.

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When we introduce a new object to our landscape, Urban Jungle Photo Editor app automatically generates a new layer for that object. This week's blog post will focus on tools that define the relationship between objects and landscapes. These are called blending modes; each type of blending mode affects how a layer reacts with the layer underneath it. 
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Let us add a moon object to our street, centered between the buildings. As mentioned before, this will generate a layer for this object in the layer menu. Let us select the layer menu.

​We can change the object landscape relationship via the Blend menu. The blend menu is the one with overlapping white and black circles. Touch the icon to see all the different types of blend options available in the Urban Jungle Photo Editor.  

​By default, the Screen blend option is selected for the moon. 'Screen' falls under the category of blend options that lighten the object when blending with the layer underneath it.  Anything part of the layer that is pure black will disappear completely, and conversely, anything that is pure white will remain unchanged. Other shades of gray between black and white will become lighter. Ultimately screen blend option lightens an image. 

Normal, as the name suggests, will keep the object as is. If we want our object layer to remain as is and not blend with the layer underneath, we can select normal. This blending option is also handy if we wish to if to reduce the transparency of the object.

Multiply has the exact opposite effect as the screen blend option. Anything part of the layer that is pure white will disappear completely, and conversely, anything that is pure black will remain unchanged. This blend option also darkens all the shades of gray between black and white. Multiply option overall dims the object with respect to the layer underneath it. 

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​When you add objects in Urban Jungle Photo editor, you can also introduce a reflection of that object underneath it. It makes it look like some reflecting material is underneath that object, like a pool of water. This mirror image of an object adds another layer of complexity and gives you more control over your landscapes.

For today's example, let us add a beautiful fish to this street, a surreal fictional landscape piece. We can see that the fish reflects the pavement below it, an exact mirror image of the object itself. This reflection is generated automatically as soon as we place the object in the Urban Jungle Photo Editor. 

​The Reflection slider helps us change how prominent do we want the reflection to look. Think of it as a transparency slider. By moving the slider more towards the left, we increase the transparency, thus decreasing how clear the reflections look and vice versa.  

​R blur is the Reflection blur control slider. By moving the slider towards the right, we are increasing the blur effect on the object's reflection. In our case, the fish reflection has become more clear and less blurred by moving it towards the left. 

​The R Fade is the Reflection Fade control slider. As we move the slider more towards the right, the reflection slowly disappears from the bottom up. If we were to move the slider towards the maximum right, the reflection would fade away. We can use this to control how the reflections fade away.  

The reflection of an object scales with the object. So if we were to make the fish size bigger or smaller, the reflection would resize proportionally in real-time. Urban Jungle is designed to make editing a more accessible and fun activity. 

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Shadows, they follow us around everywhere! So it’s no surprise working with shadows while editing pictures is important. They are an important ingredient to making your digital landscapes. In this blog post, we will be looking at how to work with shadows in the Urban Jungle Photo Editor.
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Let’s start by adding an object to our landscape. This elephant will do nicely with this street cityscape. Now we can see, by adding the elephant, it comes with a shadow and reflection. The reflection customization we will touch on in a future blog. 

Urban Jungle Photo Editor allows us to change the angle and the length of the shadow. We can do this by placing our finger on the shadow itself and dragging it. If we move our finger right or left, we are changing the shadow angle. By moving the finger up and down, we can change the shadow height.

Shadow angles and length allows us to determine the direction of the light, so by changing these we can set different scenes for different times of the day. 

​After we have decided on shadow angle and length, we can move towards setting its intensity. The shadow sliders allow us to set the intensity of the shadow. By moving the slider to the right, we are increasing how dark the shadow will look. 

​The SH Blur is the slider that controls Shadow Blur. This allows us to control how blur or sharp the shadow will be. By moving the slider to the right, we will be adding more blur to our shadow. You can adjust this setting. 

Well done shadows give depth and intensity to an image. Urban Jungle Photo editor arms you with the easy-to-use tool to manage shadows in images.

Anyone with an iPhone, iPad, or Mac can start editing today with the Urban Jungle Photo Editor. Feel free to scroll through previous blog posts to guide you on how to start.

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Let us continue to dive further into the filter tools for objects in the Urban Jungle Photo Editor. We have already covered most of the basic tools in Part One of this series. Today we will be looking at the remaining tools that we have not covered yet. 
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First, as with any of our art pieces, let us set the scene. This elephant will do nicely walking down a brick-paved street.
The Hue slider gives us control over how much red, blue, green, and yellow the color and shade of the overall object is. By sliding around, we can, we can turn our elephant into different shades whilst maintaining the texture. 

The temp tool stands for temperature, again this function similar to the temp tool for backgrounds. This slider alters the color temperature for the selected object, by switching between different light sources for that object. This allows us control over the type of colored light that is illuminating the object.

In our case, let us adjust the color temperature of the elephant to match the lighting conditions of its environment. 

​The tint of an object has a unique effect, like how an object appears behind a tinted window. Using the slider, we can choose between different shades of tint to be applied to the elephant.  

​The blur tool as the name suggests controls how blurry the object appears. By increasing the blur we can go from 100% clear to 100% blurred. 

This concludes our section on filter tools for objects/ layers. In the next guide, we will be looking at different ways to edit the shadows of an object.

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In previous blog posts, we looked at how to work the filters for our backgrounds in Urban Jungle Photo Editor. But what if we want to apply the same filter tools to our layers and objects, how does one go about doing that? Do not worry, as promised today’s blogpost will be diving deep into using filter tools on layers.

We select a new object and place it on top of our background, we see that the filter tools automatically appear above the bottom object menu.

​Let us start with the opacity tool, this slider allows us to set the transparency of the Object/Layer. As we move the slider towards the right, the cheetah becomes more and more transparent. This is great for blending the object with its background. 

​The exposure tool controls the amount of white the object is exposed to, thus by increase it the object appears brighter. We can increase and decrease the exposure of an object to match that of the background, so the object does not look out of place for the environment. 

​Gamma for the object controls the brightness for each pixel, this has a somewhat similar effect to changing the exposure of the image. We can even make the object full white by sliding the slider to maximum. 

​The contrast tool allows us to make the object pop out more, it controls the brightness of different colors of the object. By increasing contrast, the object’s color appears more intense. 

​The saturation tool as the name suggests increase or decrease the saturation of colors of the object. The saturation tool allows us to control the intensity or purity of those colors. By decreasing it like shown below, we can have a black and white cheetah with a hint of its previous colors. 

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Filters are an important tool to create digital art with Urban Jungle Photo editor. Today’s blog post will be the final part of the series covering the filter tools. We can access the filter menu by touching the filters tab at the bottom. 

​The clarity tool allows us to increase the local contrast, which means to separate color tones on a smaller level. This makes the image appear more sharper, we can increase clarity by moving the slider to the right. 

​The negative tool, as the name suggests, reverses the image colors. So the red areas will appear cyan, green areas will appear magenta, and blues areas will appear yellow, and vice versa. This will make the image look as a total inversion of itself, the light areas will appear dark and the dark areas will appear light. 

​The edge blur tool simply allows us to put a blurring effect around the edges of the image. We can increase this effect by moving the slider towards the right. 

​Glare is caused when the light comes into contact with a highly reflective surface. One of the most common glares we observe is something called sun glare. This happens due to sunlight reflecting from the water droplets in the air. We can increase the intensity of the glare by moving the slider to our right.  

The glare tool can be used to give us the illusion of a new source of light. For example, in our example here when we can use glare to make it look like our giraffe is standing under the street light. 

This concludes our guide to working the filters in Urban Jungle Photo Editor.
If you are in a hurry and want to do a quick edit, remember Urban Jungle Photo Editor has dozens of pre-built filters that you can directly apply to the image. They are categorized into themes and are located below the filter tools.

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​There are so many creative filter options in Urban Jungle Photo Editor, we only touched the tip of the iceberg in Working the Filters Part One. In today’s blog post, we will dive further into the exciting customization options the filter menu gives us in Urban Jungle Photo Editor.   

The Hue slider allows us to take control over how much red, blue, green, and yellow the color and shade of an image looks.

By sliding from left to right we are going from balanced hue (meaning all shades are equal in proportions to each other) to shades where different colors of the spectrum are dominant. In our example we have turned all the blues into more of an pinkish red, slide around to get a feel of the Hue controls. 

​Again, you will notice that the filters do not affect the layers, only the background image. Changing layer filters will be covered in a future blog.

Have you observed how objects appear different during sunset than they do during midday? This is because of something called color temperature. Different light sources can produce different colored light, we can control what kind of colored light is lighting our image by the ‘Temp’ option. 

​The tint of an image is exactly what it sounds like, this option adds a white or black layer over the image. Similar to how objects look from a tinted car window. 

Urban Jungle Photo Editor has dozens of pre-built filters that you can directly apply to the image if you do not want to customize each option.
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The filter slider allows us to control how much of the filter is applied. Take the steel filter in the below image, by sliding to full right we have applied 100% of the filter. If we want something less intense, we could only apply the filter at 70% and keep some of the original colors of the image. 

​The grain tool allows us to add a film grain effect into the image. This adds small granules like particles to the image, like they used to have in old films. This is perfect if you want to give the background a more vintage look. 

​The RGB split option offsets the red greens and blues in an image, similar to a sun glare effect. This filter gives the image a cool retro feel. 

​These were some of the many filter customization options that are at your disposal when using Urban Jungle Photo Editor. You can stay up to date on new upcoming filters and customization options by following us on Instagram and Twitter.  

Today’s blogpost will explain how to use the filters in the Urban Jungle Photo Editor. Filters come in the later part of the digital art creation process. By this time we will have set the scene with our landscapes and objects. Filters directly apply to the landscape, the objects remain unchanged. Let us use the landscape we created for our last blog post about moving objects as an example. Click on the Filters tab at the bottom to open the Filters menu.

​Filters are further divided into sections by artistic styles like Vintage, Black & White and Neon, etc. Let us choose Kodak 1 by touching it. 

You can see the filter is immediately applied to the background. Filter does not affect objects layers.
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We can see there are more options above the filter templates like exposure, gamma, and contrast. These tools allow Urban Jungle Photo Editor users to take full control of how they want their background to look. Let us take a look at some of these tools.

Let’s start with exposure. Exposure changes how much light we want in the object. We can increase this effect by moving the slider towards the right and reduce it by moving the slider towards the left. 

​The gamma tool in simpler terms controls the brightness of each pixel. Thus by increasing gamma, the background will become more bright and white. 

​The contrast of an image is the difference in brightness of different colors that make up that image. By increasing contrast the image will have more bright colors.

The blur tool allows us to create a blur that starts from the edges, and creeps more towards the center of the image as we increase it via the slider

​The saturation tool has a somewhat similar effect as the contrast tool on the image. Saturation controls the color intensity or purity. So by increasing saturation, all the colors will pop out more. 

Vibrance also deals with colors, but the tool is very picky. Increasing vibrance only increases the intensity of muted colors while already saturated colors stay the same. This tool allows us to make those bland colors in the image become more prominent and look less washed out. 

These are just some of the starting filter tools, we will be covering more tools in our future blogs.

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At the top right of the left is the mirror command. It allows us to mirror the object about its centerline. Simply click on the icon to mirror. 

You can click again to mirror it again and return to starting orientation.
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The icon on the bottom right allows us to roll an object. By rolling an object, we can place the object at different angles. You can roll by placing the finger on the icon at the bottom right and moving your finger in a circle.

Let us rotate the object by 180 degrees so it is upside down.

Let us roll the object back to an upright position. The same icon also allows us to make the object larger or smaller. You just touch the icon and then drag your finger diagonally away to enlarge and vice versa. You can Pan (moving around) the object around by placing two fingers on the object and dragging.
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To complete our digital art for today. Enlarge the giraffe and pan it to a little towards the left to set the scene. 

We can click on the icon at the top right of our screen to save, export, and share our digital creation. 

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