We had some terrific Texas thunderstorms night before last, and a few again last night. Short sleep, Gracie was taking full advantage of her comfortable bed this morning! (You can see why the “bumper” sides are necessary.) Now this little dog knows how to relax! Sweet dreams, Gracie.
Does your dog sleep on their back?
I have certainly missed some weeks of this photo challenge as I have been creating my new Shopify web site, however am delighted to be able to finish the last couple of weeks, and plan on going back and completing the weeks I missed. The idea for this final post is to “mix it up”, by using at least two out of the 11 different image edit options covered in the last 11 weeks via hosts We Live in a Flat and Fire Bonnet.
Original Bed Photo
I went back in time and pulled some of the first product photos I took with my kitties. All four photos were taken with my DSLR Sony camera. I decided not to pull them into Photoshop to blend out the white sheet I used as a background, but chose rather to completely edit these with the photo editing apps on my phone.
To start, I edited each of them separately with the photo app Afterlight. I particularly wanted to use this app because it would easily allow me to “straighten” the photos, as well as apply other more standard editing techniques like brighten, contrast, sharpen, etc. I then pulled the photo without cats into “Over” to add text, followed by a trip through “PicsArt” to add an artistic effect. Last but certainly not least I turned to the “Moldiv” app to use the collage effect to pull all four photos together. This is the finished result. Hope you like it. Saying “Here Kitty Kitty” certainly works for my guys!
Final Edited Photo
I want to thank our hosts We Live in a Flat and Fire Bonnet for this super challenge. Even though I missed some weeks, I feel my editing skills with photo apps have tremendously increased. And have filled up space on my iPhone and iPad. 🙂
Here is a list of all the photo apps I tried during the past 11 weeks:
Snapseed
Afterlight
Photo Toaster
100 Cameras
PS Express
Toon Camera
Bokeh Lens
Pic Art
LensLight
VSCOcam
Pho.to Lab
TextonPS
easyTITLER
Montager
Phonto
MobileMonet
Waterlogue
Glaze
Moldiv
Split Pic Pro
PicsArt
Mexture
Over
Alien Sky
Fragment
Disco Sketch
DistressedFx
Many of these I tried and did not even touch on during the challenge. And although I guess this is showing some preference, I think that the one singular app that has me most enthralled me is Mextures, because it lets you create your own filters! That being said, most of these apps are wonderful and well worth the time to explore. So try some, and enjoy all that the new digital world has to offer.
We join weliveinaflat and Firebonnet this week for the text on photos challenge. The Moldiv and Studio apps are very well reviewed at weliveinaflat, and I encourage you to see all of her fine examples, and great thoughts on the many wonderful uses for text on photos.
I decided to give a few examples using the Over app, after discovering it via Instagram. This is a paid app for the iPhone and iPad. You are also able to purchase additional packs/fonts with this app, although I think the standard ones are very nice. Over has a simple little half-circle “disk” off to one side that allows you to easily scroll to “add”, “edit”, “save”, “share”, etc, so is quickly learned. It also has some interesting standard fonts like “Goon”, “Live Simply”, and “Lanhy”. They are all a little more handwritten and rather free-spirited than most fonts, and give a nice modern touch to your photos. Over also lets you add artwork, including some selections where you can add a preselected word or words to your photo.
Here are my examples of Over using these preselected words. First is a photo of the area in west Austin near where I live (but no I don’t have a home…or views…like this).
The second photo is one I also took in a small town west of here, and altered using my own filters made with Mextures, which I can safely say has become my new favorite photo app! Made that red rock really red!! Word added courtesy of the Over app.
So, go ahead and try out the Over photo app; I think you will like it. It seems that text on photos really works best if you can apply it over more solid color areas of a photo. This way the text doesn’t get lost in the photo’s details.
Hello All!
I have moved my blog and shopping site to Sassmuffins.com on Shopify. I will retain this WordPress site as an “easier to access” archive of my blogs for the past 2 1/2 years, although they are also accessible at my new site (just more difficult to search there as they only use/allow tags, unfortunately not a true archive).
I will also post here, as well as on the new website, as often as possible. Some posts may be excerpts.
Enjoy my new site!
Sassmuffins 