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Minimal

Clean category, on a 1:1 square canvas, with Inter Bold labels reading Before and After on a flat frame. Drag the handle to see it work.

The same living room after renovation, repainted and furnished, shot from the same cornerA dim living room with peeling walls, worn furniture and clutter on every surfaceBeforeAfter
Every colour in this slider is read from the shipped build, #FFFFFF ground and all, so what you are dragging is the template rather than an impression of it. The photographs are the sample pair of a room renovation that ships with the app; your export is composited at 1080p from your own two.
The job it is forFree pack

What Minimal is for

Reach for this one when the frame is the last thing you want anybody thinking about. Every colour in it is white, the divider included, so the rule only shows where it crosses the photographs themselves. The square crop takes a feed tile without cropping either half, and the labels sit straight on the image instead of on a band. It suits a tidy room, a repainted wall, a restored table.

The ground is flat #FFFFFF, with no gradient anywhere in it. The rule between the halves is #FFFFFF at 2 points, and the wording sits bottom centre in Inter Bold. The canvas is 1:1 square, rounded by 12 points, and the labels arrive reading Before and After.

The specificationExtracted, not typed

Every value in Minimal, as the build holds it

The diagram below is this frame drawn at the scale the app itself uses, which matters more on a clean template than it sounds: when the rule is close to the ground in colour, looking at it is the only reliable way to see where the split actually falls. Beside the diagram sits everything the record holds that is a word rather than a measurement.

The recordFree tier
  • Canvas1:1
  • Rule2 pt
  • LabelsBottom centre
  • BandNone
Canvas
1:1 square
Label face
Inter Bold
Label corner
Bottom centre
Rule
2 pt
Corners
12 pt radius
Ground
Flat
Branding
Overlaid, no band
Date stamp
Off by default
Default wording
Before and After
Pack
Free
  • Frame#FFFFFF
  • Rule#FFFFFF
  • Label#FFFFFF

Read out of the shipped app build by the catalogue extractor, not typed.

Shooting for itClean category

How to shoot a pair for Minimal

A clean pair lives or dies on the match. There is no saturated band and no thick rule to pull the eye away from a wall that shifted between shots or a light that changed colour, so the framing has to do the work. Stand in one place, use one focal length, shoot at roughly the same hour of day, and let the divider travel across an unchanged background. Anything untidy that is present in the before and still present in the after gets noticed here before the improvement does.

In orderWritten for clean work
  1. 01Put the before in first. On a clean frame it can come straight out of the camera roll, because nothing in the template will fight it.
  2. 02Shoot the after with Ghost Camera on. It lays the before over the live viewfinder so a doorframe or a skirting board can be lined up on the same pixels it sat on last time.
  3. 03Pick the template. Every frame in this category reads the same on a light phone and a dark one, so there is no wrong choice between them.
  4. 04Choose the comparison mode. Slider suits a room; side by side suits one object photographed twice; tap to switch is the cleanest read on a small screen.
  5. 05Export. A quiet frame like this survives being watched with the sound off, which is how most of a feed gets watched.

A plain frame disguises nothing, a mismatch included, so it is worth catching one before you build the post. The free browser slider takes both photographs on your own device and shows the drift in about two seconds, and the guide to why pairs look fake covers the fix.

Honest limitsTwo of them, and both are real

What Minimal will not do

A plain frame hides nothing, and that cuts both ways. A pair shot on two different days under two different lights reads as two different rooms rather than one room improved, and nothing in this category rescues it. The sliders on these pages are web renderings drawn from the shipped build's own colours and measurements, not screenshots of an export. Video export takes its layout from the reveal animation rather than from the comparison mode, so a top and bottom or tap to switch arrangement reaches a still export but not a video one yet.

On this template in particularNothing in this frame is adjustable except the labels, which are editable text: wording, typeface, colour, size, weight, case, shadow and position. The frame colour, the rule and the canvas shape are the template.

If this one is not itFour questions, four answers

The Pro step up

The same category with more of everything: a gradient ground and a 1 point rule.

Same pack, other end

A darker ground in the same pack, with a 2 point #6C5CE7 rule.

Same shape, other register

The same 1:1 square canvas, filed under bold rather than clean.

Same label face

Also set in Inter Bold, so a series can change frame without changing voice.

Back up to every clean template, or to the whole catalogue. The free browser slider is at the slider tool, and the hashtag research by trade starts at the hashtag index.

Common questions

Who is the Minimal template for?
Reach for this one when the frame is the last thing you want anybody thinking about. Every colour in it is white, the divider included, so the rule only shows where it crosses the photographs themselves. The square crop takes a feed tile without cropping either half, and the labels sit straight on the image instead of on a band. It suits a tidy room, a repainted wall, a restored table.
When should I use something other than Minimal?
A white rule vanishes into a pale subject. Shoot a white bathroom or a bare kitchen and the divider disappears exactly where the split needs to be readable, so take Pure White with its grey hairline instead.
Is Minimal free?
Yes. It is one of the 8 the free tier unlocks out of 100. Free exports are capped at three a day, each behind a short rewarded ad, and carry a watermark until you upgrade.
What shape is Minimal, and what will it export at?
The template's canvas is 1:1 square. The export ratio is a separate choice made in the export sheet: 9:16 and 1:1 on the free tier, plus 4:5 and the original ratio on Pro. 1:1 is among them, so the canvas and the export can match exactly.
Can I change the BEFORE and AFTER wording?
Yes. Minimal starts with "Before" and "After", and every part of that is editable: the text, the typeface, the colour, the size, bold and italic, uppercase, a shadow, the background opacity, and the position, either one of five presets or dragged anywhere on the canvas.
Can I compare two video clips with this?
Two still photographs go in and a video, a looping GIF or a still image comes out. There is no clip comparison and no timeline, which is why a clean frame lives or dies on the two photographs you feed it.

Put your own pair in Minimal

Two photographs, one template, and a reveal that plays in about four seconds. Three exports a day are free, each behind a short rewarded ad.

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