I am not very good at drawing things. To date, I can draw a cartoon koala after making it the sole focus of practice during a middle school art class, but that’s basically it.

Olli is a new photo and video filter app from Tinrocket (which has released a number of similar products) that gets around my inability to draw by turning my selfies and snack pictures into seemingly hand-drawn works of art.

It’s a nice effect when used for still images, but it’s not really something that we haven’t seen before from other filter apps. But where Olli stands out from apps like Prisma is the fact that it applies the effects in real time, which means you can preview shots and even use it for video. I’m particularly fond of the Salt…

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