How to create a custom camera filter on a Samsung Galaxy phone

2025-04-28 05:44:20admin

Samsung's phones are well-known for the excellent quality of their cameras. This includes a selection of filters in the Camera app, which allow users to jazz up their snaps by choosing preset adjustments to contrast, saturation, and other such settings.

However, if none of these filters are quite what you're after, Samsung also allows you to create your own custom camera filter based on an image in your camera roll. Simply choose a picture, and your phone will emulate its colour and style in a new camera filter.

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Here's how to create and save a custom camera filter on your Samsung phone.

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Total Time

1 min

What You Need

Samsung phone

Step 1: Open your Camera app.

A Samsung phone's home page, with a red arrow pointing to the Camera app icon.

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Step 2: Swipe to Photo mode.

The Photo mode setting on a Samsung Galaxy phone camera.

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Step 3: Tap the three overlapping circles in the top right corner to open the filter menu.

A red arrow pointing to the filter setting on a Samsung Galaxy phone camera.

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Step 4: Tap the plus symbol (+) next to the filter options.

A red arrow pointing to the plus symbol for creating a new filter on a Samsung Galaxy phone.

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Step 5: Choose an image from your camera roll to use as the basis for your custom filter.

The menu to select a photo to use as the basis of a Samsung Galaxy camera filter. There is just one image in the gallery, an illustration of an AI lawyer by J. Hazelwood / Mashable Composite; gorodenkoff, iStock / Getty

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Step 6: A camera view demonstrating your filter will appear, with your chosen image below it.

Tap and press the camera view to see it without the filter, and release to turn the filter back on. You can tap your chosen image and then drag the corners to redefine the reference area if you would like the filter to only be based on a certain section. You can also tap the filter name to rename your new filter, then select "Rename" to confirm it.

Screenshots illustrating renaming a custom Samsung Galaxy camera filter, as well as adjusting the image reference.

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Step 7: Tap "Done" to finalise and save your filter.

Samsung currently doesn't allow you to create a custom filter by manually adjusting settings such as the colour temperature, contrast, and saturation via a slider. There is a way around this though, as you can tweak these settings on a preexisting filter. Simply select the filter you want to edit, tap the value you'd like to change in the bar beneath the filter's name, and drag the arrow to alter it.

The Camera app will save these changes to your filter, so you don't have to readjust it whenever you want to take a new photo. You can also tap the reset button by the filter's name to undo them.