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PhotoViva - Paintings from your photos! app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 2352 ratings )
Photo & Video Entertainment
Developer: Lamina Design
4.99 USD
Current version: 3.40, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 29 Aug 2011
App size: 18.89 Mb

Add effects and a feeling of expressive art to your photos. You easily apply photo brushes to make your photos into paintings.

PhotoViva is a fun app to draw on pictures. A friendly user interface makes PhotoViva, the easiest app with photo brushes. In short time you will be painting photos to share with your friends.

After some practice you will master the brushes, and then PhotoViva becomes great fun. All you need is your imagination to drive your painting!

PhotoViva has 20 kinds of amazing art photo brushes. You set the brushes’ direction. You change the hue, saturation and blur of the brush strokes as your painting is happening. If you are in a lazy mood, this amazing app has an auto painting photo mode.

My name is Paul I’m the creator of the PhotoViva App. You’re welcome to contact me anytime at:

[email protected]

Thank You for using PhotoViva!

Photo Paintings Gallery: http://photovivaapp.com/draw-on-pictures/Gallery.html

Photo Paintings Support & Video Tutorial: http://photovivaapp.com/draw-on-pictures/app/help.html


Whats New in Version 3.40

We are now celebrating more than 2,000,000 downloads! The new version, with no bugs, is easier than ever. It lets you make photo paintings in any style.

You are the one who can use 20 kinds of art photo brushes. Sketch photos, cool photo effects, photo frames and a lot of fun are waiting for you.

Pros and cons of PhotoViva - Paintings from your photos! app for iPhone and iPad

PhotoViva - Paintings from your photos! app good for

Limitless possibilities. I am very impressed. No more wishes. It is already perfect.
Its pretty complex but it creates some amazing effects once I got the hang of it. The tutorial video is very helpful.
Surprising amounts of app depth. I will be playing much more.
Ive really enjoyed using this app and creating with it, but it keeps crashing so I cant save anything or get very far on it.
Very exquisite app, very cool, very awesome, it would get five stars but it crashes from time to time, have to save pic, then start from the saved pic to keep going, please fix it...otherwise it is a truly awesome spectacular app. I use it all the time!!!!
I enjoy using this app to change ordinary pictures into something that I think is a work of art.

Some bad moments

I wouldnt recommend this bc you cant really do anything. Maybe for people who like to do whats in the pic but otherwise, I dont like it that much
A bit too complicated. The app itself is smooth and responsive. Should be great for the finger paint artist. Not for photographers.
However, Im not an artist and its not very user friendly....I think it will create an amazing outcome or may be I dont know how to use it... Its just doesnt come out right....
The only app out there that creates these AMAZING effects. Hadnt even thought of the creative effects that you can apply to photos before getting this app.
Photoviva by far exceeded my expectations of a creative photo app. Its very powerful and user friendly. It makes even the most boring photos into works of art. A picture of my laundry room now looks like a Picasso! Seriously, what more could you want?
I have been looking for a photo editing app that I can white out the background and I finally found it here. If youre looking to completely white out a background, here it is for free!