Add 3D Flying Saucers To Your Selfies With This Photo Editing App

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We've seen a lot of cool mobile art while perusing the app store, from Monet-like light painting to digital neon drawing. Now our smartphone art repertoire has grown once again with Matter, an app that lets its users seamlessly insert digital objects into photos.

"It's a tool for people to think in 3D," Matter representative Greg Albritton told The Creators Project. "Something that will be more prevalent as technology continues to go in this direction." Ranging from prisms to arcs to flying saucers, the customizable details enable this sort of 3D thinking.

The shadows, reflections, and borders of the objects can be endlessly manipulated so they surreally fit right into any selfie or #tbt we want to post online. With Matter, that breakfast burrito you Instagrammed can (finally) be encased in a Hirstian glass box. Or, you can make something like this:

Each object inserted through the Matter app can also be animated, turning your dad's boring vacation photos into landing ground for some rotating UFOs. For photos like that, the masking tools are key—tweaking the object's shadows and texture, and the reflections of the sky and water are the difference between success and failure when convincing your friends you were abducted by aliens.

Matter is the latest addition to the Pixite Creative suite, a group of apps designed for intuitive photo editing that goes beyond rote Instagram filters. Matter's companions include Union, which offers unique ways to combine multiple images, and Fragment, which adds trippy prismatic photo effects. Here are a few choice examples of what Matter can do:

For more information about Matter, check out the app page.

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