Pop Art photo filter
Pop art is more alive than ever: WPAP portraits cut into rainbow facets, retro posters on dots and circles, faces printed in dots and stripes, street collages of torn posters, ink splashes, gold leaf and neon sunsets. Open a photo and PictorX turns it into any of them. Every shape, line and colour comes from your photo. Open a photo and turn it into pop art: a retro poster, a pop pattern, WPAP facets, a street collage, an ink splash, gold leaf, a silhouette, a sunburst, a pop grid, or the classics: silkscreen grids, halftones and Riso. Pick a style and a palette, then tune it.
How it works
- Open this page and try the sample, pick an example, or open your own photo.
- Choose a style — Retro poster, Pop pattern, Facets, Street collage, Splash, Gold leaf, Silhouette, Sunburst or Pop grid — and a palette, or start from a favorite. With Remove background on, a portrait stands on its own pop ground.
- Tune detail, sharpness, shadows and paint, add a caption, then save a PNG or open the layers in the PictorX editor.
Pop art from your photo
Pop art takes the pictures everyone knows and makes them big and bold: flat colour, hard edges, dots, stripes and lettering. PictorX does the same with your photo. It reads the light and shade of the picture and redraws it in shapes and inks, so a selfie, a pet or a skyline becomes a poster, a print or a collage.
Facets and patterns
Facets follows WPAP, Wedha's Pop Art Portrait: the face is cut into straight-edged polygons that follow its light and shade, the skin runs through the whole rainbow, warm in the lights and violet in the shadows, and a cut-out portrait stands on black with a white outline. Pop pattern prints a face in four inks, every tone in its own pattern: solid navy, big dots, stripes, small dots and cream, with red lips on a yellow ground.
Posters, gold leaf and ink
Retro poster draws the photo in smooth, flat shapes — cream skin, a cool turquoise shadow, black, glossy red lips and fine ink lines — on a yellow ground with halftone dots and big circles. Gold leaf paints the face softly on black and lays torn, crinkled gold leaf over it, with gold running down. Splash is an ink drawing with watercolour blooms and flung ink that keeps the colour of the eyes and lips.
Street art, silhouettes and sunsets
Street collage pastes your photo as a black and white halftone print on a wall of torn posters, with spray paint and drips. Silhouette scrapes the figure in dark paint over layers of bright colour. Sunburst fans slate rays out of a neon sunset and turns the photo's darks into silhouettes, made for landscapes and skylines. Pop grid frames your photo in old print looks between pop emblems: a target, a heart, a star, stripes and red lips. The classics are there too: silkscreen grids, halftones and Riso duotones.
Frequently asked questions
What does the Pop Art app do?
It turns a photo into pop art: a retro pop poster, a pop pattern in dots and stripes, a WPAP portrait in rainbow facets, a street collage of torn posters and spray paint, an ink splash, gold leaf, a scraped silhouette, a sunburst, a grid of pop emblems, and classic silkscreens, halftones and Riso prints. Every shape, dot and colour comes from your photo.
What is WPAP?
Wedha's Pop Art Portrait, a style begun by the Indonesian artist Wedha Abdul Rasyid: a face built from flat, straight-edged polygons of bright colour that follow its light and shade. The Facets style makes one from your photo; with Remove background on, the portrait stands on black with a white outline.
Do I need to remove the background?
No, every style works on the whole photo. For a portrait, Remove background lets the figure stand on its own pop ground: dots and circles, a wall of torn posters, black or a flat colour.
How is this different from the Pop Art effects?
The effects are one-click looks. This app redraws the photo in the styles pop artists use today, with palettes, sliders, Remove background, a caption and editable layers.
Do my photos leave my device?
No. The artwork is made in your browser.
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