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Monday, November 30, 2015

Anatomy of an Edit - I See Sap People

While hiking near Lake Arrowhead on a photo shoot, I discovered a tree trunk with sap dripping down the side. The colors were so brilliant that I took a few photos of it. While viewing on my iPad, the sap started to look like figures to me, so using Sketch Club, I drew some lines around the figures I found.

There seemed to be a gent with hands in his pocket on the left and I wanted to emphasize this figure.

Next, using Handy Photo I added more pixels to the left of the figure with the Magic Crop tool.

After some quick tuning in Snapseed, I brought the image back into Sketch Club and darkened the background.

The orange in the background started to resemble the side of a building as I worked so I added a window from another photo using the layers function Sketch Club app.

Back to Snapseed for some tuning and cropping.

Finally, using the LensLight app, I added some rays shining into the scene.

I See Sap People © Geri Centonze

Apps Mentioned:

Sketch Club
Snapseed
Handy Photo
LensLight

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Anatomy of an Edit No. 6

Here's a quick tutorial that will hopefully inspire you to create your own fantasy images.

Final Photo

The original image below was created using a photo of the sky I shot from an airplane recently. I converted it to black and white using Snapseed and used the Flood Filter app to create the appearance of water.

Original Image

Next, I added the giraffe using the VFX Studio app. I used the eraser tool in VFX Studio to erase a portion of the legs to give the appearance that they were underwater.

VFX Studio Edit

Next, I took the above image into Sketch Club and used a low opacity soft brush and dark gray color to paint shadows along the lower portion of the giraffe's body. I changed the blend mode to Multiply.

Sketch Club - Painting in Shadows

To create the reflection I took the above image back into VFX Studio and duplicated the giraffe. The app allows for flipping and changing the perspective of an object as well as lowering the opacity and saturation, which I did. This makes the reflection more believable. Technically it should have had ripples in it like the surface of the water and I could have created them with an app that allows me to distort the image. But for this edit, I thought the reflection looked okay.

VFX Studio - Adding a Reflection

To get the blue tones in the sky I used Photo Effect on the above image. I selected one of the filters in the Warm Winter-a category.

Photo Effect to Tone

In the version I did on Instagram of this photo, I originally used InstaSkyCam to change the sky. When I was preparing this tutorial, I realized that the app had drastically reduced the resolution, so for this tutorial I took the above image and added the sky using Alien Sky.

Alien Sky to Change the Sky

Next, using one of my go-to apps, Stackables, I added a bit of texture to the above image.

Texturizing with Stackables

I wanted a softer look, so the final step was accomplished by taking the above image into PhotoToaster and using the Soft Focus Preset in the Supreme set.

Final touches with PhotoToaster

Apps Mentioned:
Snapseed
Flood Filter for Water Reflections
VFX Studio
Sketch Club
Photo Effect
Alien Sky
Stackables
PhotoToaster

Flashback Friday - Anatomy of An Edit | Shine

For all the readers who started following recently I'll be reposting some of the most popular posts for Flashback Fridays. Original post date January 22, 2013.

UPDATE: This image was exhibited at the DIVE Festival in Barcelona in April 2013. (Bottom Row, Far Right)

DIVE Exhibit in Barcelona, Spain

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Here is a walk-thru of a recent edit.

Original image shot of young woman on tram going to Disneyland with ProCamera.
Moved image to Sketch Club where I sculpted her face a bit by painting in a dark green background. I also added more color to her lips and dark shadowing around her eyes with a paintbrush on a separate layer.
Moved into Snapseed I adjusted contrast and exposure.
Next into Old Photo Pro for an antique look
ScratchCam FX provided the added texture
Finally into Rays to add the “shine” to the portrait

Here is the finished image

Shine © Geri Centonze

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Anatomy of an Edit No. 5

Another quick tutorial showing my workflow for a painterly edit.

Apps used in this tutorial:
Paper Artist
Sketch Club
Stackables
Snapseed
Photo fx Ultra

Shoot Image - iPhone 6 native camera used

Using Paper Artist I selected the Oils Clean Preset and painted over the image (you can find this preset under the tab showing a bird)

Next using Paper Artist again I took the ORIGINAL image and painted over it using the Oils Rough preset.

The next step is to bring the original and both the Oils Clean and Oils Rough into Sketch Club and layer them using the Original as the base image and the other two on the next two layers. I adjusted the opacity of the two upper layers to blend them together.

Next I brought this blended image into Snapseed and adjusted the Brightness, Ambiance, Details Saturation and Warmth.

On to Stackables where I used one of my custom formulas to add texture.

I ran the above image through Stackables again to get a bit more texture - this time using "Inferno" which was rotated.

Finally, I wanted the sky to be a bit more blue, so I brought the above image into Photo fx Ultra and selected Grads/Tints. Under this category I chose Cyan and adjusted the "Amount" down just a bit and bumped up the setting "Preserve Highlights". Below is the final image.

Anatomy of an Edit No. 10

Below is a recently edited image in its final form.

Final Version

Now, I'll walk you through a step-by-step workflow. First I shot the image while watching television using my iPad Air 2.

Shot with iPad

Next step was to open the image in Snapseed and Crop and Rotate it.

After Cropping and Straightening

I then took the above cropped image and applied a Brushstroke app preset.

Brushstroke Version

The new Shift app by Pixite was released so I thought I'd give it a try. I opened the Brushstroke version in Shift and applied a filter.

Added Shift Filter

The Litely app recently had an update, so I opened up the "Shift" version and applied a filter in Litely.

Added Litely Filter

I liked the above result but was looking for something a bit different, so I opened up the Litely version in Facetune and used the Reshape tools to distort her face. I also applied one of the Facetune Filters.

Distorted in Facetune

I then took the Facetune version and layered it with a photo of some fall foliage using the Diana Photo app.

Below is the first version using Diana Photo

Layered in Diana Photo - Version 1

The second version is shown below

Layered in Diana Photo Version 2

I combined the two Diana Photo versions with the Facetune version by layering them in Sketch Club to blend them.

Blended version done in Sketch Club

My final step was to take the blended version into Stackables and apply one of my custom filters.

After Stackables

Apps Mentioned:

Anatomy of an Edit No. 7

Here's another in the Anatomy of an Edit series.

Below is the final image

Final

Original Image

Original

Cropped Below Using Snapseed (Image 1)

Image 1

Ran Image 1 through Brushstroke using preset N6 (Image 2)

Image 2

Ran Image 1 through Tangled FX using one of my custom formulas (Image 3)

Image 3

Ran Image 3 through ToonCamera using the brush shown below

Image 4

Below is the resulting image (Image 4)

Image 4

Next I combined Images 2, 3 and 4 using Sketch Club. I erased various portions of the images in each layer to allow parts of different layers to show through (Image 5)