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When editing a photo, you have hundreds of different styles and inspirations to choose from. In fact, it can be pretty intimidating for someone just starting out in the photo editing space. In this blog, we will be taking a look at how to create a Noir effect of your clicks using the Urban Jungle Photo Editor. Let us begin by first selecting a template landscape that we will be working with. You can choose any picture you have taken as a landscape for this project.  Let’s add an object to this landscape. We will import an ominous-looking elephant walking towards the camera.  Once we have added an object, let us first start by editing the object. Since we are doing a Noir effect, we will first reduce the saturation of the elephant to remove its color. We can further play around with gamma and brightness to get the perfect look we want from our Noir elephant.  After we have completed the look of the elephant, we will now focus on the street behind him. We can hide the elephant for now using the layer menu. Urban Jungle Photo editor has a whole section on Black and White filters. We will just select a pre-made filter using this menu. You can also instead play around with the filter tools to customize the filter looks.  For this project, let us go with the Silver B&W filter. It gives a metallic look and will fit nicely with our elephant. Once you are satisfied with how your landscape looks, you can bring back all your objects using the layer menu. 
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There are dozens of objects at your fingertips when using the Jungle Photo Editor. In today’s blog post, we will dive into the exciting world of the object menu. We can go into the object menu by clicking on the grid-shaped box at the bottom right of the screen.  The first tab of the object menu contains different types of animals at your disposal. The Pro version users will have access to more objects. You can unlock the Pro version of the app for a single cheap price. These objects are scalable vectors, this means they will not get pixelated no matter how much you enlarge them.  The second tab has different types of plants that you can place in your projects. There is a wide variety of plants like trees, shrubs, bushes, mushrooms, and even cute little lily pads.  The water section is a little diverse section than the previous two. This tab contains objects related to water bodies. So things like waterfalls and water animals like fishes and jellyfishes.  The last tab has a unique selection of objects connected to the sky. It has a few selections for different types of clouds. There is also a collection of star clusters and celestial bodies. These work best when blended with the sky. This way they can properly blend into the sky.  Mask mode in the Urban Jungle Photo Editor gives you full control of layer customizability. Check last week’s blogpost for part one of this series. Part one covered the essentials about Mask Mode, this blog post will be looking into the finer options that will help us fine-tune our tools.  The opacity slider allows us to set the opacity of the brush. When we use the erase or restore tools by dragging out fingers across the layer, a colored brush trail shows up. Red for erasing brush and blue for restore brush.  The softness options allow us to set how hard or soft the edges of the brush. A hard brush will have clear and very well-defined edges. A soft brush on the other hand will little less defined edges. You can move the slider to the right to make it more soft and vice versa.  This simply changes the size of the brush size. The brush gets bigger as you slide it more towards the right.  The reset option will revert all brush changes to default. It can be helpful to quickly make new brush settings or to just you the default ones. This wraps up our tutorial for using Mask mode in the Urban Jungle Photo Editor
Do follow us on Instagram and Facebook and for amazing updates, facts, and upcoming features. Use the hashtag #urbanjungleapp and post your art on Instagram to get a chance to be featured on your Instagram page. In this week's blog post, we will be looking at Mask Modes in the Urban Jungle Photo Editor. Masks allow us to make specific selections on individual layers. Masks can be used to hide or reveal certain areas on a particular layer. First set up the layer you want to work within the Mask mode. Let us place a giraffe on this beach as our starting layer.  After placing the layers we want to work with, click on the Mask Mode icon at the top of the screen to open the Mask mode menu.  The first mask mode tool is the Erase tool. Click on the eraser icon at the bottom left to select the erase tool. After the selection has been made, just touch and swipe areas on the regions of the layer you want to erase.  The eraser works like a brush and erases just parts of the selected layer that are in the path of your finger. You don’t have to worry about the erase tool affecting other layers. It will only affect the selected layer.  As the name suggests, the Restore will reverse any changes made to the selected layer. Simply select the restore tool and in a similar fashion to the eraser just drag your finger across the regions of the layer you want to restore.  There is another way to revert changes, it is by the undo options at the top of the screen. The left icon allows you to go back one change meanwhile, the right icon will take forward one change. This way you don’t have to start from scratch if you make a mistake.
You can follow us on Instagram and Facebook to be the first ones to be notified when the blog goes online. Use the hashtag #urbanjungleapp and post your art on Instagram to get a chance to be featured on your Instagram page. 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.
This wraps up our guide into the world of Blending options in the Urban Jungle Photo Editor. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook and be the first ones to hear about new features and updates. Use the hashtag #urbanjungleapp and post your art on Instagram to get a chance to be featured on your Instagram page. 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. 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.  We will look at the remaining blending options in the following week's blog. Meanwhile, you can follow us on Instagram and Facebook to be the first ones to be notified when the blog goes online.
Use the hashtag #urbanjungleapp and post your art on Instagram to get a chance to be featured on your Instagram page. 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.  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. 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. You can also upgrade to the Pro version and unlock multiple new objects, filters, and much more. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook to keep up to date on new upcoming features. You can use the hashtag #urbanjungleapp and post your art on Instagram to get a chance to be featured. 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. 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.
The Urban Jungle Photo Editor gives the users complete control over their art. By upgrading to the Pro version, you can unlock multiple new objects, filters, and much more. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook to keep up to date on new upcoming features. You can use the hashtag #urbanjungleapp and post your art on Instagram to get a chance to be featured. 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.  Urban Jungle Photo Editor gives you the full freedom to express yourself. The filter tools allows us to have more control over our digital art. The Pro version of Urban Jungle Photo Editor unlocks dozens of more objects and filters that can help you broaden your horizons.
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