Lightricks launches “Quickart” app for turning photos into artistic representations

Facetune app maker Lightricks launched a new app, Quickart, an artistic photo-editing product filled with filters and advanced effects for novice editors. The app combines sophisticated artificial intelligence tools with highly-curated content, the company said, adding it is “packed with preloaded images and powerful, intuitive features specifically tailored to give users immediate inspiration for crafting their own spectacular content.”Built to provide audiences with a fast, easy way to make imaginative creations that express the world through their eyes, Quickart solves a challenge many face when working to create from a blank canvas: bringing ideas to life with just a tap—no previous editing skills required.

A recent survey conducted by Lightricks found the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated consumer appetite for powerful, easy-to-use creative tools empowering users to unleash their artistic expression while offering them an escape and a way to maintain social connections. During the peak lockdown period stemming from the pandemic, Lightricks saw a 90% increase in app usage across its creativity tools in the U.S. alone, the company said.

Driven by COVID-19 data

“During the global shelter-in-place, we saw an increased demand for creative artistic-expression tools in our apps that were geared towards the casual photo-editor,” said Zeev Farbman, Co-founder and CEO at Lightricks. “After surveying our users across the globe on the type of content they were creating, we built Quickart to expand on the capabilities and offerings being utilized by our community of creators, working around the clock to create it in a mere four months. Utilizing some of the most popular aspects of our advanced photo-editing app Photofox, Quickart delivers a simple, yet powerful and fun artistic experience. The app removes the barrier to entry for individuals without a professional understanding of photo-editing so that absolutely anyone can create.”

Quickart separates itself from Lightricks’ Photofox as a tool for beginning users who may be unfamiliar with how to comprehensively maximize the photo-editing capabilities of Photofox and other visual creativity apps, the company said. There is no need to edit each layered effect separately; the app does most of this editing on the backend while still giving the user room to orchestrate and enhance the final result.

Quickart features include:

• Select a photo and couple it with one of Quickart’s handpicked overlays for double exposures and adjust placements for custom details
• Apply action-packed dispersions to an image with a single tap

  

• Intelligently build collages with up to six different images
• Reimagine the sky in photos with curated abstract and surreal options to select from
• Couple art filter effects together from a wide selection – everything from traditional art filters made modern to the most cutting edge effects in the art world – that can be used all at once to craft endless artistic combinations

According to Lightricks, each image is analyzed to apply different enhancement techniques or manipulations to every element of the image for highly-contextual effects.

The app is currently only available for iOS devices and can be downloaded for free in the App Store across all countries. In-app purchase subscriptions unleash access to premium Pro features.