App Happy Wednesday Week 11

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!

 

App Happy Wednesday

Just a quickie today but I didn't want to miss Barb's App Happy Wednesday! These are a few of  my favorite apps right now. The above photo was textured with DistressedFX and the word art is from some great stuff in the Over app.

One of my favorite text apps right now is WordSwag. You input the words you want and then have many different options for fonts and stacking. Lots of fun!

Of course, there is always so much to love about Waterlogue! This shot of Chicago was edited in Waterlogue to look like an old postcard. When I have a photo that I want to make look like it's jumping off the page, I take the edited photo into Squareready where you can apply a shadow behind it. Love this look!

And finally, this beach shot where I used Waterlogue and Squareready and then added some wordart using LetterGlow (discussed in my last post).

That's it for today! Why not hop over to Barb's blog and join in?

Rediscovering an Old Friend

Playing along with Barb Brookbank's App Happy Wednesday over on her blog Keeping with the Times. It is always so much fun and so inspirational to see what apps everyone is using and how they are using them.

This past month I've pretty much been focusing on using the Waterlogue app for an Instagram challenge of doing a photo a day using that app.  However, when we rolled  over to May, I was ready to play with some other apps. I haven't been using Tooncamera for quite awhile and then my friend Barb Hurst used it on one of her cactus bloom images and I am now in love with Tooncamera again! It is so easy and there are so many options to play with.

You can see how different this one looks from the one at the top -- almost like a completely different app! And finally, there's this one, which I think is my favorite:

Loving the great definition and texture this app brings to this shot. So if you haven't tried Tooncamera, or haven't used it in awhile, give it a whirl!