Creative filters

The 520 HS has many creative options to experiment with for those who are addicted to the photo filters from a favorite smartphone app. Included are Toy Camera Effect, Miniature Effect, Monochrome, Super Vivid, Poster Effect, and the newest, which is pictured here: Soft Focus. It also has several photo effect options with presets for subject and skin-tone color as well as individual adjustments for contrast, sharpness, saturation, red, green, blue, and skin tone. If that's not enough, Canon also includes its Color Swap (for example, change all blue to yellow) and Color Accent (you can pick one highlight color and make everything else monochrome) features.