Showing posts with label Effexy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Effexy. Show all posts
Friday, November 13, 2015
Make Your Own Textures With Effexy App
About Effexy:
Effexy makes photo editing fun by adding interactive filter effects that you can modify on screen with your fingers. Dramatic effects such as melt, hand shake, and liquify alter your image into a work of art with the swipe of the finger or shake of the device.
Effexy has a wide range of photo manipulation tools that give you complete freedom when editing your favorite photos. Whether you just want to touch up an image before sharing it on Facebook/Twitter, or if you’re looking to create more advanced motion blur effects, Effexy has it covered!
Add multiple layers of effects to your photos before sharing them on your favorite social networks.
Features:
★ 10 interactive "Effex" for dramatically altering your image: liquify, melt, hand shake, motion blur, spin blur, zoom blur, tilt-shift, motion lite, spin lite, zoom lite.
★ Adjust the brightness, exposure, contrast, gamma, shadows and highlights!
★ Play with the color in your images, including the saturation, hue, white balance and Sepia!
★ Add beautiful textures to your photos, including emboss, erosion, dilation, polka dot, halftone and kuwahara.
★ Add edges using toon, sharpen, unsharpen masks, sobel edges and vignette effects.
★ Blur your images using gaussian, fast and bilateral blur effects.
★ Choose the size of the output image after editing, up to full resolution.
★ Full Twitter, Tumblr and Facebook sharing support. Share with #effexy.
Many of the effects can be adjusted to any level of intensity by using simple sliders, giving you great flexibility when it comes to manipulating your images.
We’re always happy to hear your feedback on our app, and are actively working on new features! Feel free to get in touch with us via our support page!
Here’s an image I created using Effexy. I blended it with the original image in Image Blender and tweaked it a bit in Snapseed.
One of my favorite features and one I haven’t seen in any other app is the Hand Shake effect. By setting the sliders and shaking your device you can get a cool effect either subtle or dramatic.
I’m not always conventional when I use apps and I ended up creating a photo texture using the Hand Shake effect. I started with a photo of a painter’s drop cloth.
I applied the Hand Shake Effect in Effexy.
and then from the Texture folder, I applied Effexy’s Emboss Effect to create this cool texture below. I know this will look great layered over one of my images!
It’s all about experimenting! Have fun!
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Photo App Friday - Creative Blur and an Effexy App Giveaway!
It's Photo App Friday and I'm here to share a way to use Snapseed and Effexy to get a creative blur effect. Also, don't forget to Tweet one of your favorite photo apps and hashtag it #photoappfriday. I'm looking forward to finding some I don't already know about.
If you have a USA iTunes account, keep reading to find out how you can win a promo code for Effexy (used in this tutorial).
If you have a USA iTunes account, keep reading to find out how you can win a promo code for Effexy (used in this tutorial).
I really love this image just as it is, but with the method below I can get a little different result.
Step 1 - Open the image in Effexy and click on the + sign at the top. Open the Effex folder and select Zoom Lite. Pinch the image to create a custom zoom. For my image I had the Blurring and Intensity sliders set to maximum. Click the arrow in the upper right hand corner and Save Image.
Step 2 - Open the image in Snapseed and select Tilt Shift. For Style choose Elliptical. Center on your area of focus. Slide your finger up to reveal the Tilt Shift adjustment menu and adjust Blur Strength, Brightness, Saturation and Contrast. Save.
Step 3 - Open the Snapseed version in Sketch Club. To do this press the arrow in upper right hand corner and choose New. Select the size of the "Sketch". In the upper left hand corner select the Layers icon and select Load Image. Choose your saved Snapseed version. On the layer BELOW the Snapseed version, load your original image. On the top center, you will find the tool menu - select Eraser and choose a soft-edged brush for your eraser. Erase the center of the image to reveal the in focus image below. Save.
Step 4 - (Optional) Open the image in Snapseed again and apply Center Focus and adjust to suit your image. I added a bit more blur and vignette around the borders.
Below is another unedited image:
Step 1 - Add Zoom Lite in Effexy
Step 2 - Add Elliptical Tilt Shift in Snapseed
Step 3 - Layer Snapseed version over original in Sketch Club and erase the center of the image to reveal original.
Step 4 (Optional) - This time I wanted to add a bit of a grunge effect, so I opened the image in Snapseed and selected Grunge from the menu. I chose a Style number that was around 1430. Slide your finger up and down over the screen of your device to reveal the Grunge adjustment menu and customize Brightness, Contrast, Texture Strength and Saturation. For this image I then applied Center Focus one more time. Save.
Apps Mentioned:
SnapseedEffexy
Sketch Club
If you have a USA iTunes account and would like to win one of ten promo codes for a copy of Effexy, just leave a comment below - Random winners will be drawn on April 5th at 9 AM PDT.
UPDATE - Congrats to the winners:
ShawnY
Davinia
AlanH
A7medsh3baan
Anya
RJ
J.Cyr
Chris Monty
Edin
Meri Walker
Add to Flipboard Magazine.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)