iPhone Composite 1

I love composites. They can be quirky and strange or they can be dreamy and beautiful.
This week's does not fit in the beautiful category. But it was such fun to do.
I was a lucky recipient of a free code for the new Union App so I just had to try it out. Thanks Geri Centonze of Art of Mob!

You can layer just two layers at a time and do a double exposure by changing the blend mode or you can flatten the two layers and keep adding another. It also lets you add a color layer to blend which came in handy.

This was my final. But I'll show how I got there.

These are the first two photos I used.

The blend mode was changed to multiply 24% and the contrast was increased to darken the foreground  and the layers merged.

Next I added this and scaled it larger. 

I used Difference blend mode. It left the foreground looking normal. So I merged and added a color  gradient filter, changed the blending mode and it colored up the foreground.

Next I added this old church that was missing it's steeple.

I added it as a foreground image and masked away all but the building. I played with the blend mode, screen 50%, size and position until I was happy.

Since Union was made by the same people that made Tangent I figured I'd go play with it there and this is what I settled on.

But now I'm thinking I would like to see it monochromatic. I took the un-Tangented version into VSCOcam and used one of their black and white presets. (Also used TouchRetouch to take out the white window.)

 Then three layers of grit and emulsion from Mextures to get the final image up top.

Linking up with Barb at Keeping With The Times for App Happy Wednesday!

App Happy Wednesday July 30 Leonardo

It's been an interesting day… It's now 4 o'clock and I've spent most of it trying to figure out how to batch process photos for resizing and adding my watermark with just one click and save it to a specific place, black or white watermarks on the left or on the right. My actions are set up but when I ran the batch I got an error. Ok so I'll just have to figure out what I did wrong later and do one at a time for now.
I also worked on recovering a chair and spent my lunch at the 'gun shack' with hubby buying our first gun and getting qualified for our conceal and carry class. My score was 239 out of 250. Not bad for only having shot a pistol a couple weeks ago. (I think he scored 225, ha ha!)

Well it's App Happy Wednesday over at Barb's so this is what I've worked on this week. I'm taking Bob Weil's iphoneography course and he does a lot of composite work which is right up my Photoshop alley. I must admit it's frustrating to be doing it on an iPad when I could do this same thing faster in Photoshop. Masking can be tedious and then there's learning which program does what and remembering which one I used.
This was a several day process… one of those that you have to step back from and think awhile to see what it needs. I did all my processing in Leonardo. One thing I like about it is that it saves your 'projects' in layers and you can come back any time to work on them.

The photos I used are below.  I did prepare some of them in Snapseed before adding, for instance the door was cropped to one panel and turned to black and white.