App Happy Daffodils

It's App Happy Wednesday over at Barb's blog. Come join us and see what everyone's doing with there mobile apps this week!

It's spring here for sure so I've been shooting my daffodils. First two are unedited shots… (iPhone6+)

Since I discovered shooting this perspective of my house, I always try to get a shot when the daffys are blooming every year. This time it gets a Hipstamatic flair. Dream Canvas film and Tejas lens.

Stackables (with no texture). How about that! I can actually edit in Stackables and resist adding texture to my image.

Two in Waterlogue.

I hope you're finding a little spring in your life. We had about three days and now its rainy and dreary again. I'm going to 'hole up' in my studio and paint my blues away today!

Mobile Edit Favorites of 2014 -2

Some of my favorites through the past year.

In April I discovered the Waterlogue App and I went crazy with possibilities.

The rest are a mixture of other apps.

App Happy or Crazy?

Sunday I was enchanted by this one photo and played with it all over the place. This is the original.

First stop was Waterlogue. I thought this would be enough but of course it wasn't….
I did several versions. Since getting a new iPad my apps are running much faster. I used to get impatient with Waterlogue on my old one. These were some of my favorites.
Wouldn't it be interesting to take on of these into another app and do something else with it?
Filters are:
Bold

Color Bloom

Rainy

Travelogue

Illustration

But wait, I couldn't stop now, could I? 

I did go back with my original photo and played in Stackables. This time not with just the layers of texture like I had done previously with other photos but with some of the adjustments. I must confess I saved 8 versions but this was my last and most favorite. It does include a touch of clarity and noise reduction from PS Express.

Back to the original and into Snapseed for some black and white because I wanted to try a few selective adjustments.

Then back to Stackables for some more play time.

It's an App Happy Day with Barb over at Keeping With The Times. Check out what everyone is doing with their mobile photography this week.

Instagram Pics

Two posts in one day!
I'm trying out embedding my Instagram photo to my blog. This one is done with Waterlogue (geez, I spelled it wrong on the pic, didn't think it looked right), iColorama and ImageBlender. Below is the 'sequence' of events.
I have learned however if I am going to link to another blog, like Barb's, this doesn't give a photo preview to choose from when 'embedding'.

App Happy 5-14

It's App Happy Wednesday over at Barb's. Come over and check out what everyone's doing on their mobile edits.
A little tour of my Instagram feed the past few days.
I made 2 versions of this in DistressedFx then used a soft light blend mode in Image Blender to achieve this.

If memory serves me right, this was done using Vintique. Although I may have used PicGrunger too.

You'll just have to get used to the all the peony photos this week. Two Snapseed edits of this close up.

Speaking of Snapseed….I couldn't resist this old church done in black and white. My friend just got a best of show with a shot of this church that she HDR-ed. I haven't seen it yet… It's at the Garden and Art Center in the West Texas Photographic Society Show. My track record has been great this past year but I didn't place at all in this one. I got a few oohs and aahs as I turned in my photos and that's enough to spur me on.

And more Snapseed….. There is a 'gasoline' museum halfway between Taos and Santa Fe but it was closed on Sunday when we made the trek. That didn't keep me from getting out and snapping a few.

And what would Mother's Day be without a card with a watercolored peony on it? Waterlogue and Rhonna Designs.

1 Photo 30 Apps Number 12

Waterlogue
It's been awhile since I've added to my 30 Apps page but here is the latest.
It's also App Happy Wednesday over at Barb's blog and I'm using Waterlogue again. Mostly because I've been getting ready for a photo trip to Santa Fe with 'the girls!' (Photo to follow of course. And if you follow me on Instagram you'll see first hand where I've been. I'm coppercurls55.)

  Edited using the 'fashionable, giant' setting.

The original:

Check out a few of my other edits of this photo here. And join us over at KeepingWith The Times for a few other mobile apps edits.

App Happy Wednesday 4-23

I have a long to do list with my name on it today, but first I 'must' participate in the first App Happy Wednesday over at Barb's blog, Keeping With the Times. One of my recent favorite photos processed with Waterlogue was this group of antique bicycles at a shop in Fredricksburg. It was conveniently closed when I arrived to the delight of the hubby.

Original

Edited with Snapseed to lighten the shadows and a slight increase of saturation. I was curious to see what a 'flat-looking' image would do. I knew I didn't want the darkness of it in the watercolor.

Waterlogue, Bold setting. Yes, I thought that worked pretty well.

Waterlogue Illustration setting. I definitely like the more colorful one.

Another favorite, the largest most beautiful clematis I've ever seen at the nursery. The setting was Fashionable and Giant. The default is set to medium, but you can get more detail when changing the size settings to giant. Some photos benefit when changing the lightness - darkness setting also. I have a tendency to not play with those so much because my patience runs thin while waiting for the changes to processes. Maybe if I got a newer iPad it would be faster? I need an excuse.

A few more faves all taken on our trip to the hill country of Texas. This sweet kitty hung out at the Herb Farm.

Added a bit of word art and text from Rhonna Designs.

If you haven't been bitten by this bug yet, watch out. It'll get you!

Linking up with Barb!

Good Friday Finds

Here are a few of my latest finds for Kim's Friday Finds in one shot.

The greatest find of my whole life was Jesus. I put my faith and hope in Him. If you don't know Him, just admit your need of Him to Him. If you don't think you're good enough, you're not. None of us are. That's why he paid the price to cover our sin and make us worthy before God. It's a very humbling realization, isn't it? My heart and spirit rejoice in knowing Him. My body and mind sometimes have a hard time of it. But I know my heart and spirit rejoices.

Original edits in Snapseed. The watercolor-y one is Waterlogue, Image Blender and one of Kim's textures.
Praying you have a blessed Easter weekend!