Playing along with Barb Brookbank and her App Happy Wednesday today. If you haven't visited, it's a great resource for finding new apps to play with.
I recently
discovered this fabulous iPhone
photography tutorial on a blog called The Art of Digital Photo Painting and
couldn’t wait to give it a try. Many of
the apps used were ones I already had but hadn’t been using, mostly because I
hadn’t taken the time to learn how to use them correctly. But this looked like a lot of fun, so I
decided to give it a try.
Since she
used a photo taken in Venice, Italy, I decided the best way to follow along and
know that I was doing it right was to use a similar photo. I pulled out an old
(2003) photo taken with my big camera on a trip to Italy and decided to use
that. Although the photo wasn’t taken with my phone, all the editing was done on
my iPad.
Here is the
original photo:
I followed
the tutorial exactly, step by step, and I do admit that it took a while to edit
this shot because I was feeling my way with each app but I learned a lot of
what each app is capable of doing along the way and I know that I will be using
them again.
The only thing I did beyond the tutorial was to take my
image into Squareready to add the drop shadow, making it look like a painting
hanging on the wall.
Here is the
final edited version:
The second time I went through the tutorial, things came a bit easier and I’m sure before long I’ll be using all of these apps and doing the edits much quicker, so if you try this, don’t get discouraged. It is well worth the effort. Obviously you don't have to use a photo taken in Venice! I'm looking forward to trying this with a lot of different styles of photos. Be sure to let me know if you try it and share your results. I’d love to see them!
Wow great work Terri, I love Venice wish I had had a better camera when I visited....
ReplyDeleteHow absolutely gorgeous! it looks just like an oil painting... I've bookmarked the tutorial. Thanks so much for playing along with "app" happy wednesday, Terri!
ReplyDeleteGreat job, Terri! I'll have to check this out. Next week might be the perfect opportunity.
ReplyDeleteLooks wonderful Terri, I did try this tutorial a few days ago not on a gorgeous photo like this however but a iPhone photo and lost my patience with all the app stacking. I am really not up to all the steps. I enjoyed some of it and liked learning on some of the apps that I have that I never use but I always end up going back to not doing all of this work however. Good for you in keeping up with it and seeing it through, you ending up with a wonderful image.
ReplyDeleteLove this artistic image!
ReplyDeleteI love the finished edit, it looks fabulous !
ReplyDeleteI attempted this same tutorial on one of my photos this past week - great minds think alike. :) Yours turned out beautifully!!
ReplyDeleteGreat post Terri and I do love how your shot came out. I don't have SQUARE READY but it does look like a cool app to finish off your shots with.. That is a great idea to go over this tutorial and think I will check it out. I have so many apps, and most of them, I am clueless all of the things that I can do with them.
ReplyDeleteLOVE your Venice image. I'm slowly learning how to use a few. This one looks very intriguing so thanks for the link.
ReplyDeleteSimply lovely!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the information, I will have to give this a try soon...
ReplyDeleteWell done Terri! I shall have to check out that tutorial. Thanks so much for sharing.
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