Your Halloween photos deserve a little extra spook! With a few taps in PicCollage, you can add a Halloween overlay, a Magic Effect or a fun filter to your costume shots, pumpkin patch snaps and trick-or-treat memories. These Halloween photo editing tips (plus a bonus round of exclusive picks for our VIP Subscribers) will help your photos stand out this season.
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1. Add Haunting Atmosphere with Halloween Overlays
A Halloween overlay adds the fog and shadows of a haunted night to any photo. Drag the slider to choose how strong you want it. It’s an easy way to turn costume shots, porch decorations and pumpkin patch snaps into eerie scenes.
Smoke Overlays
Add mystical vibes to your photos with one of our smoke overlays. Try Smoke1 or Smoke2 to add misty gray, or Smoke6 for colorful smoke around your photo.
Cobweb Overlays
Nothing says haunted house like a cobweb overlay. Cobweb1, Cobweb2 and Brokenglass add webs, dewdrops and cracks for an instant cobweb effect.
Try them on a photo with some open space, like a corner or a dark wall, so your subject stays easy to see.
How to add overlays: Double tap your photo → Tap Edit → Tap Filters & Overlays → Tap the Overlays tab → Choose an overlay and drag the slider
2. Try a Halloween Photo Effect with Magic Effects
Magic Effects are the fastest way to give a photo a full Halloween makeover. Pick an effect, and your photo turns into a Halloween scene in just a few taps. It’s a fun Halloween effect to try when you want a big change with very little work.
Turn Photos into Halloween Scenes
Costume shots and family photos feel even more festive with the right backdrop. Try Eerie Party, Full Moon or Trick-or-Treat for a cobweb party, a bat-filled moon or a decorated porch. Spooky Poster, Witching Hour, Vampire Manor and Magic Hall add even more Halloween scenes to explore.
Dress Up Your Pets
Some pets won’t keep a costume on for more than two seconds. Magic Effects can dress them up for you, no squirming required.
Princess puts a crown and a pink dress on your dog, Bee turns your pup into a bumblebee, and Pirate adds a pirate hat and jacket. Little ones can join the fun too with Treasure Hunt, which puts them in a captain’s hat on a ship deck.
For more pet photo ideas, try our dress up your pet post.
3. Set a Spooky Mood with Filters
A filter is a quick way to set the mood of a photo. Try Moody4, a free filter that adds an eerie vibe to costume photos, porch decorations, and candlelit dinners.
How to apply filters: Double tap your photo → Tap Edit → Tap Filters & Overlays → Tap the Filters tab → Choose your filter
VIP Filters
Try Sepia1 for a vintage ghost-story look. Film10 gives your photos a scary-movie feel, which works well for dark hallway shots and costume close-ups.
Feeling adventurous? Stack a filter and an overlay on the same photo, like Sepia1 with Cobweb2 for a vintage haunted-house look, or Moody4 with Smoke4 for a photo that glows like a potion bottle.
How to find these: Double tap your photo → Tap Edit → Tap Filters & Overlays → Browse the tabs to find your favorite Halloween filter and/or overlay.
These Halloween photo editing tips are an easy way to give your spooky season photos extra personality. Try a filter, an overlay and a Magic Effects scene until you find a look you love. Then send it to your loved ones or use it in one of our Halloween Card Ideas or Halloween Phone Wallpapers.
Looking for more seasonal edits? See our Fall Photo Editing Tips. Follow us on social @piccollage for more seasonal editing inspiration and tag us in your Halloween creations. We’d love to see what you make!