Taking Your Image Further
A lot of what is so fun about mobile photography is what we do with an image after we capture it. Sometimes I like to leave an image, like a landscape or a portrait, in its realistic form. In these cases, I limit post-processing to cropping, sharpening, and minor color adjustments in apps like SnapSeed.
This image made in The Palouse was shot with the Lightroom CC camera on an iPhone X, and processed in SnapSeed with no special effects.
Palous Shack
More often, though, I stylize though with textures, tone adjustments, and painterly effects. I like the artistic liberties apps allow me to take with some images to create a nostalgic, moody feeling, or the look of an old painting.
Round Barn
In addition to the artistic freedom to create, editing images with apps on a mobile device is so much fun!
In this article, I share a few of my favorite stylizing apps:
Distressed FX
Formulas: Photo Lab Effects and Custom Frames
Stackables – Layered Textures, Effects, and Mask...
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Rad A. Drew (http://www.raddrewphotography.com) is a professional photographer who lives in historic Irvington on the east side of Indianapolis with his wife, metalsmith, Nancy Lee (http://www.ndesignsmetal.com). His creative iPhone images have received numerous international awards and have made their way into galleries and juried international shows in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Texas, Vermont, New York, Toronto, Collingwood, Seattle, and Melbourne. He is author of the fine art books, In Good Light, Images of the Circle City and Rural Indiana, A Beauty all its Own, and is a contributor to today’s most comprehensive volume of iPhone instruction, The Art of iPhone Photography: Creating Great Photos and Art on Your iPhone.
Rad is a frequent speaker at photography conferences and camera clubs throughout the U.S. His destination workshops to Cuba, France, Ireland, and points throughout the U.S. including Fonthill Castle in Doylestown, PA, and Provincetown on Cape Cod, are great ways to learn while photographing beautiful areas of the world.
In his popular webinar series, How I Did It!™ Rad demonstrates the apps and processes he uses to create award-winning images with the iPhone. As a webinar presenter for Topaz Labs, Rad shares his processing techniques using Topaz products to process digital images from traditional cameras as well as the iPhone.
Contact Rad or visit his website for more information on art purchases, workshops, books, tours, exhibits, speaking engagements, and the How I Did It!™ webinar series.
Rad, as an associate editor for Luminous-Landscape (https://luminous-landscape.com), writes a periodic iPhoneography column, covers special events, and writes product reviews.
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