Make a photo scene
Place figs into a photo, matched to its perspective.
Photo scenes use an imported photo as a fixed camera backdrop. The app keeps the cut-out front apart from the background, so the front of the photo can hide 3D figs and they sit right in the photo.
Select the photo
Ways to start:
- Go to New scene and select the A photo row.
- Go to the Today tab and select Photo scene in the Start here row.
- In an open scene, select Setting on the World tab , turn on Photo in the top switch, and select Make a photo scene.
- Go to the top bar’s Scene menu and select Make a photo scene…. This opens Setting › Photo on the World tab.
The photo picker has Take a photo, Camera roll, and Pick from a pack. A Pick from a pack photo arrives with its floor, light, and cutouts set; the steps ask Pick a fig to place on the photo’s spot. and skip the floor and cutout steps. After Take a photo or Camera roll, Make it yours opens: Frame it lets you drag and pinch to crop it. Warp it has four corner handles to fix the perspective. Select Use this photo to save the changes. The photo becomes the background, and the camera locks in place. A drag on empty space peeks around the scene, and the view springs back to the photo when you let go.
Starting from A photo, Photo scene, or Setting › Photo shows a few hints in turn. They ask Pick a fig to place in the photo. (with a Skip: only the photo button). Tapping a fig places it. Next hints offer Fix the floor or Looks fine ›, followed by Cut out the front or Skip ›. The last hint shows Placement complete. The scene is ready to share. with Share it and Keep adjusting buttons.
The Setting › Photo list has these rows: Your photo (thumbnail and New photo button), Photo look, Sun, and Floor and cutouts.
Floor and cutouts
Floor and cutouts shows the photo. The floor shows as a grid (dashed before it’s set). Cutouts show as a tinted fill, each with a number.
Nudges move the photo camera in small steps against the floor:
- Floor: Up and down (Lower | Higher).
- Figs look: Size (Smaller | Bigger).
- Looking: Tilt (Flatter | More from above).
- Straighten: Leans it sideways (↶ | ↷).
Each tap moves the camera and redraws the grid. Redo the floor (full screen) opens the floor tool again on the current floor (↺ Start over inside clears it). Until the floor is set or nudged, the button reads Set the floor (full screen).
Each cutout gets its own row with a number (e.g., Cutout 1). Rows have buttons to move it (Nearer, Farther), change it (Edit), and delete it (Remove). Edit or add cutouts (full screen) opens the cutting tool. Before any cutout is made, the button reads Cut out the front (full screen).
Set the floor
Select Set the floor (full screen). Move the floor’s four corners to line up with the perspective lines in the photo. A sample box shows the scale. Select Fine-tune for step buttons: Floor up, Floor down, ▽ Farther, △ Nearer, ↶ Tilt, and ↷ Tilt. Corners goes back to dragging corners. ↺ Start over clears it. Select ✓ Flat look applied. to set the floor. Figs then go on the set floor.
Cut out the front
Select Cut out the front (full screen). Paint over the parts of the photo that should sit in front. The tools are brush sizes (· Small, • Medium, ⬤ Big), Eraser, and ✕ Clear. Magic tap picks by color. The tolerance (Less, Normal, More) sets how close a color must be. Flip swaps what is painted and what isn’t. The foot of the card always shows ↩ Undo, Never mind, and Cut out the subject. ↩ Undo takes back the last Magic tap, stroke, Flip, or Clear (up to 30 steps each time the tool is open); the top bar’s ↩ does the same. Never mind cancels.
Edit on a cutout’s row opens the tool with that cutout framed (a dashed frame and a stronger tint) and the hint Cutout 1 is framed. Brush adds to it, Eraser takes away. Confirming keeps each cutout’s place and number; a newly painted area becomes a new cutout. One ↩ after confirming takes back the whole cut.
Select Cut out the subject. The app turns connected painted areas into flat cutouts (standees). A message confirms it (e.g., 2 cutout standees. Slide them nearer or farther on the map.). Figs that overlap a standee show in front of or behind it correctly. Set how far away it is with Nearer or Farther under Floor and cutouts. Cutouts are also listed under Figs › In this scene. On the stage, a tap or drag never picks a cutout; it goes to the fig behind or beside it.
Photo look and the sun
Photo look sets the picture’s look. Match style gives the figs and the photo the same look. Pixel and Flipnote use a low-res retro look. Original leaves the photo as it is. Standees take the same look.
Sun settings are in Atmosphere under Light. Drag the Sun marker to set its direction and height. Bright and Warm sliders set brightness and warmth. Match photo reads the top half of the photo to set Bright and Warm (direction unchanged). The Setting › Photo panel has the same Sun controls.
Land on a photo
The World tab’s Land and Scenery tabs still work in photo scenes. The Setting › Base floor panel shows a note that the photo sets the floor, and points you to the Photo switch.
Take the picture
Go to the Camera tab and select Snap. The picture puts together the background photo, the 3D figs, and the standees in front. Loops and videos over a photo keep the camera still (there is no Camera row), so the figs and standees stay lined up with the photo; only the figs move. See The Camera .
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