Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Ultra has again impressed us and time with its epic photo and video skills. It shoots some of the best images that you can get from a phone to almost any situation, while its large, vibrant performance men mold your shots into an air. But even though I have been capturing photos with it for months, but I have recently stumbled on a small hidden equipment, which I did not notice when I first started using the phone. But now that I have found it, I use it all the time. This is about making cool, cinematic filters for your photos.
The tool, which Samsung, sometimes calls my filter, essentially lets you steal the color tone from one image and apply it to another. It is said that you prefer warm orange color on a picture from a summer trip to Italy. Just load the photo and it becomes a filter that you can apply to other images, either when you are taking a photo or when you edit photos from your gallery. It is cooked in the heart of camera experience and is easy to use. Here’s how you can do it yourself.
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First of all, find reference photos you want to use to make your filter. Maybe a night city scene with cool blue tone, or perhaps you are looking for more dreams for summer, warm colors. Whatever you are doing, you need to collect some images (either your own, or any you have found online) and they need to be saved in your phone gallery.
Next, open the camera app. In the upper left or right corner (you will look like an icon that looks like a three overlapping circle. This is a filter mode. Tap it to see various underlying filters, and you will see that there is a tile with a plus symbol to the left of the built-in filter. Select it to bring your gallery, and you will be invited to select a picture to use as a filter.
Choose your reference picture, Create Create Tap and your phone will do the rest. It analyzes colors and contrasts in the image, and then applies a filter that is based on your reference. Then you will see a live preview what the effect will look like. If you want, you can change the name of the filter, and then tap it to save it.
When you take an image, that preset will be applied to the new photo. The filter also saves that effect on your phone, so now you can open any image in your gallery, press the edit button, tap on the filter button and then tap your new filter to load the effect.
When you apply it, you can also adjust the strength of the effect with adjustment such as the opposite and color temperature. I also like that the film is an alternative to adding grains, which can help simulate the grains you see in analog photography to give your images which seems to be the old school vibe Instagram in these days.
A custom is a great tool for playing with the ability to make a filter, and I really enjoy saving different images on my phone to use as the basis for other filters. Although this is not correct – the effects can be very subtle. This is not really getting an accurate match for your source image – it’s more like it is taking Inspiration From this. I would like Samsung to increase the even greater impact in the future updates, which gives us the option to tone it slightly below when very strong.
I could imagine the examples taken with classic film stocks like Kodak Gold, Portra 160 or Fujifilm Velvia to load photos and create a set of filters that copyed those analog films. Like the X100VI, one of the joy of shooting on the digital cameras of the Fujifilm is numerous of the film emulation options that you can achieve. This device seems like a close estimate for the Galaxy S25 owners.
I really enjoy anything that allows photographers like me to play with the look of our image, while still maintains an authentic photo, rather than changing things with an authentic AI. Apple’s photographic style allows you to create similar color toning effects, but Samsung tool makes you easy to make a look that makes you a look based on reference images.
The tool was introduced on the S25 range, including the base model and S25 Ultra. This fancy is also on the new S25 age. You can also find a tool on Samsung’s very inexpensive Galaxy A series, and have been made available as a software update on the old Galaxy phone including the Galaxy S22 range. Samsung has not clarified which phone supports the tool, but if you are the owner of a galaxy phone that was released over the years, it is worth seeing whether it is available.