We've all finished our submissions for the 8th challenge over at Muses' Playground, I was the last to finish and my post is here.
@JimForADay over at iPA, you may recall, sent me a photo to play with. This post is a record of some of the stages I went through and my two favourite images after all the play/sketching/experimenting...what DOES one call the process?
The last first...these are the two images that I was most happy with;
I put Jim's iPhone photograph, (which is the first image in the 2nd and 3rd strips.) through Tiny Planet. Next was Stripecam, it's an app that I'm not 100% sure about, but as a tool simplify and focus on colour, it's excellent. Fracture came next. Water my Photo was the last one in this sequence and you all know how addicted to that I was for a while...but it did come after Kaleidoscope X. The 'X' is important, I don't like the app without the X...Kooleido is another kaleidoscope app that I love. Most of the others that I've tried have been a big disapointment. The two mentioned allow a good choice of variables and let you use photographs from your phone photo album.
I've been exploring Photo Studio again recently. Until now I've not used it very much, not sure why. Perhaps because of the amount of competition it has...yeah, I'm a bit of an app addict ;( This sequence is mix of Photo Studio filters and, naturally, Water my Photo again.
The Photo Studio filtering continues, but this time I start to layer the results using HDR Fix. I like using this for blending two images together - partly because it's quick and easy and partly because it allows for plenty of adjustment. Then I went to Juxtaposer to combine elements togther collage style. Juxtaposer was the best app for this for quite some time, now we have Superimpose too which has more scope but the UI isn't as intuitive.
How about that? I really did get back and edit this...but I did it in Posterous, so apologies for any typos, I'm lost without a spellchecker these days...
Here's this month's Appit iPhone photo, taken by the peerless Clint Cline (@clix2020) and the initial stages I went through with it.
Paper camera and possibly Segmentix where my first apps, to soften details and bring out form. Then I used Crop Suey to crop out the hand. I used Colour Shadow and then Percolator to give a strong graphic feel to the form.
Then I put the hand through Stripecam before using Kooleido to create a mandala. Then the hand went into Superimpose where I put the mandala onto the hand. Then the colour didn't pop enough for me so I used Camera+ to make it more intense and to give it a subtle border. Which is how I ended up with the image I posted yesterday.
I have a plan...to try to write each Sunday or Monday about what I've created and how and also perhaps to ramble a bit. Think of me as that crazy person that sits besides you on the bus and strikes up a conversation. It doesn't often make sense but sometimes it's interesting anyway. Maybe...
I am a disabled artist & designer based in Liverpool, a coastal city in the North West of England.