• To allow our users to print their creations, we’ve partnered with our friends at Gooten to bring to you all the format options and handle shipping requirements. For any questions, please contact orders@moonlighting.io

1. Open the menu for more options

Once you’ve finished editing your photo and are in love with the results, tap the icon to open the menu (see examples below for Android, iPhone and Windows):

2. Click on Order print, card and more.

You will arrive at the “Browse Categories” screen, where you can choose how you would like to display your art.

• Please note that results are always best when printing with an HD photo, in a Large size and will vary according to the different formats available to choose from.

3. Select your product, size, and order!

It’s really that simple :)

Once you’ve placed your order, you will receive a confirmation email from services@gooten.com with the Order ID number (please check your Spam folder if you do not receive it). For any questions, please contact orders@moonlighting.io

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1. Tap the Share Icon

Once you’ve finished editing your new masterpiece, tap the “Share” icon.

• Android: bottom right check mark
• Windows: top left menu icon
• iPhone: bottom three-dots icon

2. Select the Community option

3. Caption and Allow Refilter

Now add a descriptive caption to your photo, and choose if other users may refilter* it.

*To see more about allowing refilter to your photos, click here.

4. Sign In or Sign Up

If you have already already created a user in our community, sign in to your profile and your photo will be uploaded. *User profiles are generated once for all our apps, so if you have a profile for Superphoto, Photomontager or another Moonlighting app, you can use the same one for the rest.

If you don’t have a user yet, click “I don’t have an account” and continue with the steps to create your new profile.

Once finished, you will be able to share your first masterpiece! Also, the most stunning creations on the community will be featured on Moonlighting’s home page. Upload yours and get featured!

How to Upload your Photos to the Moonlighting Community was originally published in Painnt App Tutorials on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Here’s a few basic steps to help you get on your way to becoming a master “digital artist”. Ready, set, Painnt!

1. Select a filter

Choose from one of our 140+ available filters. New filters will appear first on the Home screen, and if you scroll down, you will find them in categories (mosaic, classic, trippy, etc.)

Or just click on the “See More” button at the top right of the New filters carrousel, to browse our full selection.

2. Choose your input

Pick a filter and you will continue to the Preview screen. A pop-up box will appear in the middle of the screen where you can select the source to import your photo.

• Gallery: This button will open your device’s file explorer for you to find the image file you’d like to filter
• Camera: This button will open your device’s camera for you to shoot a new photo to filter.
• Social networks: This button will allow you to import a photo from your Facebook or Instagram profile.

3. Adjust your picture

On the Preview screen, you can get a glimpse of what the filter will look like applied to your image. Customize each filter’s settings and observe the changes to your photo “in real time”. Find a cheat sheet here to learn how each setting can modify your photo.

To change the photo, tap the pencil icon at the top right, next to the input image icon.

The Output will determine the dimensions your final artwork will have. This is always subject to the original image’s size and your device’s processing capabilities — but in general the output size will be:

• Medium: 800 px (either in width or height, whichever is largest)
• HD: 1280 px (width or height)
• FHD : 1920 px (width or height)
• 4K: 3840 px (width or height)
• Original: select the exact dimensions you want the final image to have (up to the dimensions of your original photo).

If you wish to start from scratch, just open the Menu at the top left and click “Reset settings” to erase the modifications applied to the filter and restore the default values.

Pro tip: To pin your favorite filters to the top of the Home screen, just open the Menu at the top left of the Preview screen. Tap on the “Mark as Favorite” toggle to bookmark the current effect you’re using, and it will show up first next time you open the app.

Pro tip: To see other filters with the same look to the one you have selected, tap on “Related effects” to browse and apply filters that have a similar feel to the one you are working on.

When you’re ready to see the final results, tap on the Checkmark at the top right of the screen to create your masterpiece.

Nice work!

5. Save or share

Congratulations! You’ve successfully created a gorgeous masterpiece to save or display to your friends and family.

To export the painting, you have a couple options:

• Save: Click the top right Save icon to export the final artwork to your device.
• Top Left Menu: Click the menu next to Nice work! to open a set of options:

1. Submit to users’ creations: Display your creation on Moonlighting’s community of digital artists (and participate to get featured on our home page!). Click here to see a brief tutorial.
2. Order print: Did you know Painnt allows you to print your art directly from the app to different formats and have it shipped to your address? Make custom gifts for family and friends, or display your artwork at home! Click here to see a step-by-step.
3. Share: Click here to open more sharing options.

Unlock: Ready to take your “painnt-ing” game to the next level? Tap on the Premium icon to access our full effects library, hide the watermark from your photos and download your creations in HD!

Awesome! You’re on your way to become today’s digital Picasso :)

Have any questions for us? Get in touch at feedback@moonlighting.io, we’d love to hear from you!

Windows | Intro to Painnt was originally published in Painnt App Tutorials on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Here’s a short video as well (if you’d like to see a demo of Painnt for Android)

1. Select a filter

Choose from one of our 140+ available filters. New filters will appear first on the Home screen, and if you scroll down, you will find them in categories (mosaic, classic, trippy, etc.)

2. Choose your input

A pop-up box will appear in the middle of the screen where you can select the source to import your photo:

• Gallery: The first icon will open the device’s gallery
• Camera: This icon will open your device’s camera to take a new photo
• Social media: This icon will open your social media profiles on your device (Facebook, Instagram, G+) if you have any, so you can import an image from any of these.

3. Crop your picture

Drag the white selection circles to crop your image. Select the crop icon (top right) to change the crop ratio (square, original, 16:9, etc.), or tap the check mark to continue.

4. Fine-tune and preview changes

Painnt allows you to customize each filter’s settings and observe the changes to your photo “in real time”. Find a cheat sheet here to learn how each setting can modify your photo.

To change the selected image, tap the icon next to Input Image and choose a different photo to filter.

The Output will determine the dimensions your final artwork will have. This is always subject to the original image’s size and your device’s processing capabilities — but in general the output size will be:

• Small: 350 px (either in width or height, whichever is largest)
• Medium: 700 px (width or height)
• HD: 1200 px (width or height)
• Full HD: 1920px (width or height)
• Custom: select the exact dimensions you want the final image to have.

Pro tip: To pin your favorite filters to the top of the Home screen, just open the filter and scroll to the bottom of the Preview screen. Slide the “Favorite” toggle to the right to bookmark the current effect you’re using, and it will show up first next time you open the app.

If you wish to start from scratch, just scroll to the bottom of the screen and tap “Reset settings” to erase the modifications applied to the filter and restore the default values.

Pro tip: To see other filters with the same look to the one you have selected, tap on “Related effects” to browse and apply filters that have a similar feel to the one you are working on.

Add a frame

To achieve a “gallery painting” look, you may also choose from our wide selection of frames by clicking on the “Frame” icon at the bottom of the preview screen.

When you’re ready to see the final results, tap on the Checkmark at the top right of the Preview screen to create your masterpiece.

5. Process

The rendering process is done entirely on your device, meaning we do not filter your photos on remote servers (the only exception are custom styles). This allows a lower data usage for you, as well as guaranteeing the privacy of your images, as opposed to other similar apps. While your final result is being rendered, you may navigate away from the screen. A notification will pop up on your device to let you know when it’s ready.

Nice work!

6. Save or share

Congratulations! You’ve successfully created a gorgeous masterpiece to save or display to your friends and family.

To export the painting, you have a couple options at the bottom of the screen that you can access by tapping the check mark:

• Other apps: Tap this option to open our other Moonlighting Apps. We have a ton of cool effects and filters you can add to your photos on these apps, here.
• Share: Tap on share to open even more options, such as set as wallpaper, post to Instagram and more.
• Save: The final button will save the image to your device.

Pro tip: Did you know Painnt allows you to print your art directly from the app to different formats and have it shipped to your address? Make custom gifts for family and friends, or display your artwork at home! Tap on “Order Print, card and more” and click here to see a step-by-step.

Pro tip: Tap on Submit to Community to display your creation on Moonlighting’s community of digital artists. Click here to see a brief tutorial.

Unlock: Ready to take your “painnt-ing” game to the next level? Tap on the Premium icon to access our full effects library, hide the watermark from your photos and download your creations in HD!

Have any questions for us? Get in touch at feedback@moonlighting.io, we’d love to hear from you!

Android | Intro to Painnt was originally published in Painnt App Tutorials on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

If you prefer, you can set all thumbnails as a single image to see how each filter will look on the same photo.

1. Open Painnt and tap on the Home menu

Open the app and tap the Home menu at the top left.

2. On the Menu, scroll to the bottom and tap on Settings

3. In the Settings options, tap on Default Thumbnail

4. Choose your new default thumbnail

Now just browse our selection of pre-approved images for your thumbnail and choose your favorite.

5. Go back to the Filters screen. You’re done!

Awesome! Now you can see a thumbnail preview of every filter applied to the default image.

If you want to change it back, just tap on Settings and choose the image grid on the Default Thumbnail tab.

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On Painnt for Mac, we have an easy way for you to process large quantities of images at once so you can forget about clicking and editing each one individually.

1. Pick a filter

Open Painnt for Mac and click on the filter you’d like to use.

2. Select your images

A dialog box to choose the images you’d like to filter will pop up. Just go to the folder where you have your images stored and click on as many as you’d like to process (or drag and select your images).

3. Customize the filter application

Adjust the settings’ toggles to get the exact look you’d like for the selected filter, and click “Process Batch of Images” (blue button at the bottom of the screen). Your adjustments will be applied to the entire batch. Find a cheat sheet here to learn how each setting can modify your photo.

*This example was made with the Buccaneer filter.

4. Choose the output folder

A dialog box will appear so you can select where you’d like to processed images to be exported.

5. Start processing!

You’re ready to go! Just sit back & relax while Painnt does all the heavy lifting (or filtering) for you. The countdown at the bottom of the screen will let you know how many images are left to be processed.

6. Nice work!

Now you can open the output folder and see the final results on your batch of processed images. Gorgeous!

Don’t forget to show us your artwork once you’re done!

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How to process batches of images was originally published in Painnt App Tutorials on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Have a filter idea? Don’t wait for us to upload new effects (which we regularly do). Now you can also create your own filter styles with Painnt!

Creating a new filter: the process

Creating a new effect requires a huge amount of computing, something that — if done on your phone — would take a looong time! So we let you use our GPU farm (a collection of very powerful computers) to create new effects. Still, it will take a few hours for your effect to be ready. Since the creation is done in the cloud, you can turn off your phone or use it for other tasks safely while creating custom styles.

First off, be sure to have already downloaded the image you’d like to replicate into a filter on your device. Please take care to only use images that you have the copyright to, or are allowed for public usage (royalty free).

Creating a new filter: the theory

Why a style needs a few hours to be created? An effect is actually a “neural network”, a model of how our brains work. Initially the model is empty and doesn’t know anything about your particular effect. So the process of creating an effect is actually that the model is learning the style in your image. This is achieved by training the effect: basically, showing thousands of image samples to the model and telling it how it should look like with your particular effect applied. Once trained, the model can later be applied to your photos. This process can take several hours to finish, so please be patient! The results will be well worth it.

Choosing a style

You will see that different styles are “learned” better than others. This is because the neural network reacts differently to different styles, and so you need to be careful on which kind of images you select for potential styles. For example, imagine that we choose this image as style:

Now let’s take three images to filter with the above style:

And after filtering they look like:

As you can see, the style wasn’t really learned well: mostly the colors where changed to match the style’s darker look, but not much else. The problem is that the style doesn’t have clear patterns or structures that can be learned easily by the neural network. When you choose style you need to evaluate if it has features (little patterns and shapes) which are clear and sharp enough for the neural network. Let’s try another style:

On the left you see the style, on the right the images filtered. This time the style was learned much better! This is because the patterns and shapes are much clear and easy to distinguish. Let’s try another:

This style was also learned well. In particular you can see that in the original owl style, the background in beige was learned well in the neural network and it was used to substitute the solid backgrounds in the test images. The owl feathers were used to filter the image shapes in the foreground, so the result look awesome.

Creating great filters depend on your ability to choose styles that can be learned well by the neural network, and it’s currently really an art! Good luck! Please contact us at contact @ moonlighting.io for concerns and tips.

Create Custom Styles for Android

Select category Custom styles (scroll down either from the Home screen or the left panel menu). In this screen you will see a plus (‘+’) button in the bottom right corner, this is the Add style button:

You will need to be logged in to use this feature, if you don’t have an account you will be prompted to create one. When you tap the Add style button you will see a dialog to select the image that you will use to create a new filter. Remember to avoid using copyrighted images, as this may cause your style to be rejected. After the selection you can crop the image and then this screen will show up:

You need to give a name to your effect (make it meaningful for the selected image, based on the colors, textures and source). Write the title and then tap the Ready button in the top corner (✓).

Now the effect will be sent to a queue of styles to be processed in our server farm. It may take some time to start working on your image so please be patient.

When our servers starts processing your style you will see that the progress circle in the card will start showing the training percentage. When your new effect is finished it will be available for you to use it as any other effect in the app.

If you think that your new effect is a big hit and all the people will love it, select the Share style option inside the three dots menu (⋮) on the effect card and we will review it. If we approve your effect it will show up in the “Shared styles” category.

In the ⋮ menu you can also Remove the effect if you don’t like it or Cancel it if it’s not finished.

Take into account that there is a limit on the number of effects you can train in parallel. Remember to select stylish images following the tips we discussed at the beginning of this page to generate a great effect!

Create Custom Styles for iOS

Open Painnt and on the Home Screen, scroll down past the Community bar, where you will find the “Custom styles” category.

Next, click on the Add style button.

Now you will be taken to your Camera roll, where you can select the image that you will use to create a new filter.

Our app will then train a “model” from your image in order to apply it to other photographs. This process is lengthy but only needs to be done once per style.

Next, you will be asked to choose a name to identify your new style.

Great! Now your style will start to “train” (as shown by the blue arrow on the right below).

This can take a few hours, so feel free to navigate away from the app. If you need to cancel the training, just tap on the blue progress arrow and it will ask you to confirm if you’d like to cancel the process.

You will receive a notification when your new filter is ready to use:

The new custom style will appear showing a preview of what the original image looked like (exemplified here with our new “Meadow” filter).

To use your filter, tap on the thumbnail for the style you’ve just created and select the photo you’d like to apply the style to.

You can now crop or adjust the image if you need to.

The filter will be downloaded to your device and you can adjust the settings in the Preview screen to customize the application of the filter on your photo (just as you would with our default filters in the app library). For a tutorial on how each setting modifies your artwork, click here.

Share your style

Once you’ve created your custom styles, you can choose to share them with other Painnt artists by enabling the “Shared” setting.

When you’re on the Preview screen (after selecting your custom style), scroll to the bottom of the screen and slide the “Shared” toggle to the right.

This will allow other Painnt users to apply your filter to their own images (but it will not give them access to the original image you created the style with, or any of your filtered photos). You can also stop sharing a style at any time, by sliding the toggle back to the left.

Other users’ shared filters will by in the “Shared styles” category.

Delete a custom style

If you’re not happy with any of your styles, you can delete them by tapping on the “See all” button at the top right of your custom styles.

This will take you to the full library of your custom filters. Tap on “Edit” at the top right.

You will see little “x” marks on top of each custom style, which you can tap to delete the style.

I have custom styles, and now I’m being asked to update them.

We’ve done some extensive revamping to our custom-style feature, which allows our users to not only create their own filters, but also share their favorite ones with other artists in the community. To accomplish this, if you already have a few custom-styles you will probably be required to update them to incorporate these tweaks and improvements.

The styles you’ve created that require updating will have a blue arrow in a circle over them, like this one:

Tap on the blue arrow, and the app will start to retrain your style. You will also be notified when it is ready to use.

Create Custom Styles with Painnt was originally published in Painnt App Tutorials on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Note: The following are all the available settings for our filters, but keep in mind that not all will be applicable for every effect. We have a second tutorial for Color Composition Settings that you can check out here.

Basic Settings

Transparency

The transparency toggle determines how much of the original image comes through the filter. The default is set to 1, which is the max available for this setting. If you slide the toggle to the left, the filter application will decrease and you will be able to see more of the original photo. The following examples were made with the Booked Filter in Painnt.

Brightness

This setting will determine how bright or dim your artwork will look. The default value is set to 0, and by moving the toggle to the right your image will look more illuminated. The example was done with Palm filter on Painnt.

In the same fashion, moving the toggle further to the left will result in darker images, for a more sombre look. This example was done with the Composition filter on Painnt.

Contrast

The contrast toggle will increase the difference between lighter and darker elements in your photo, giving it a much more vivid look. Moving the contrast toggle to the right will give your image more contrast, while moving it to the left will result in a grayer overtone. The following examples were done with the Etching and Spirit filters on Painnt.

Saturation

This toggle will increase or decrease how saturated the colors in your artwork will look. When you slide the toggle to the right, the colors will appear more “pure”. Sliding the toggle to the left gives your artwork a more subtle color application.

Hue

Moving the Hue toggle will modify the colors on your image to different combinations. Each filter will vary significantly in the color possibilities you can obtain, go crazy with the results! The following examples were made with the Motley Filter on Painnt.

Detail Settings

Noise reduction

This toggle helps reduce some of the intricacies in the filters that may make it look “noisy”. See how on the left the image has more details and texture, and the image on the right is a little less complex? The example was done with the Coral filter on Painnt.

Sharpness

The sharpness toggle will help bring out the lines and shapes in your image, giving it a crisper finish. The example was done with Buccaneer filter on Painnt.

Smooth

Move this toggle to the right to make the lines in your image more fluid and smooth. The example was made with the Hyperrealism filter on Painnt.

Wash

This setting replicates the Wash technique in art where a fine layer of color — usually diluted ink, bistre, or watercolour - is spread with a brush over a broad surface evenly enough so that no brush marks are visible in the finished product. The wash setting is another way of making your image less detailed and with a smoother overall look. The following examples were made with the Amulet filter on Painnt.

Brush Settings

Intensity

The brush intensity will determine how many layers of a filter are applied to your image. By increasing the intensity, the filter will have a stronger look. The following example was made with the Brandy filter on Painnt.

Size

Sometimes you will edit an image in the Medium output setting and will like the way the selected filter is applied (for example, this image edited in Peacock):

But when you switch to Large or Custom sizes the overall look is not the same, it can look a lot more complicated than the smaller size:

This is due to the brush size — in the same way you will need a small paintbrush for a single piece of paper and a very large one for a wall, the brush size setting will determine how large the (metaphorical) “brush” is when applying the filter to your image. When you apply the same small brush to a Medium and a Custom size image, the stroke will look larger in Medium and very small and detailed in Custom.

In order to replicate they way the filter is applied in the Medium setting to larger output resolutions, you can change the Brush size. This is an example made in a Custom output size (2032x1354px) and with a brush size set to 2:

The image now resembles more closely the original edit in Medium size, but scaled to a much larger resolution and can now be printed or used otherwise as HD artwork.

Here’s another example of the brush size differences made with the Candy filter:

Tiling

Overlap

When you process an image on Painnt, the app breaks down the original photo into smaller “tiles” to filter each individually and then put the final result back together. Sometimes the seam between one tile and the next will be slightly visible in the final artwork. To improve this, increase the Overlap in the tile seams and the tiles will be joined closer together.

Tap here to see how the color composition settings will help you create unique and stunning art pieces.

Want us to feature a specific tutorial? Need help with one of our apps? Let us know at feedback@moonlighting.io — we’d love to hear from you!

Customize Filter Settings was originally published in Painnt App Tutorials on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

In this light, we’ve added some extra settings to our apps that allow layering different variations of the same filter, to obtain contrastingly diverse results from the original photo. Here’s a brief overview of what you can accomplish by adjusting these settings.

• Quick note: Each layering application will look considerably different for each individual effect — we’ve given a few starting examples below, but expect amazing variations for each filter. Experiment with all of them and go crazy! You’ll be blown away by the possibilities :)

Grainmerge

This composition applies the effect while keeping most of the details from the original image, making the figures more clear-cut.

The following images have been filtered with Cerulean. The top image is the original, the one on the left is the filter with no color composition, and the one on the right has Grainmerge activated:

Notice how on the right the photo retains more details from the original image? You can use this setting when you feel the filter is distorting your photo too much and would like a clearer figure.

Hardlight

With this setting you can enhance the original photo’s colors and outlines while still applying the filter texture and coloring. Here’s an example with Deviant filter. The top photo is the original, the bottom left is the simple filter (no color composition) and the filter set to Hardlight on the bottom right:

The application will look similar to Grainmerge, but with brighter coloring.

Multiply

Want more drama and depth? Multiply adds a somber feel to your creations (examples filtered with Motley effect).

Softlight

This setting will give you equally bright colors but with more transparency and an all-around “softer” look.

Original

This setting applies the filter texture but keeps the original coloring in your photo, to get a more accurate palette.

The following photos were filtered with Scribble and Graphite (both have a black and white effect). On the left, we have the original filter, and the one on the right is set to Original, which brings out the photo’s initial colors.

All set to start experimenting? Ready, set, Painnt!

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Customize Color Composition Settings was originally published in Painnt App Tutorials on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

However, we know this may make it a little difficult to keep track of all the effects you have tried and loved — so here’s a way to bookmark your personal selection of favorites and pin them to the top.

Bookmark your favorite!

1. First, open the app on your device and choose the filter you would like to save to your favorite.
2. Pick a photo to edit from your Camera roll, and the Preview screen will appear.
3. Scroll to the bottom of the Preview screen and tap on the “Mark as favorite” toggle to activate it.

Done! Now, everytime you open the app, you will see the filters you’ve bookmarked at the top of the Home screen (under Favorites) for easier access.

Want us to feature a specific tutorial? Need help with one of our apps? Let us know at feedback@moonlighting.io — we’d love to hear from you!

iOS | Bookmark your favorite filters was originally published in Painnt App Tutorials on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.