Showing posts with label Make Your Own Textures. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Make Your Own Textures. 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!
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Textures - Make Your Own
There are some excellent apps for those of us who like to texturize our images. In no particular order some of my favorites are Stackables, Mextures, Distressed FX, Pic Grunger and ScratchCam FX. With these apps you upload your image and use one of the many presets or create your own using the various elements within the app.
However, if you have a blending app, such as Image Blender which allows you to layer images and change the blending mode, you can add your own textures to an image.
How to Create Your Own Texture
Take a photo of any surface that has a texture. For this example I chose a cardboard box in our garage. Other great surfaces are cloth, paper, stone, wood. Be on the lookout for textured surfaces wherever you go.
The above image could be used as a stand alone texture, but I decided to enhance it a bit using a few apps. I opened the image in Snapseed and made the following adjustments in the Tune Image module:
Brightness -50
Ambiance +50
Contrast -100
Saturation -100
Warmth +25
Apply changes and Save to Camera Roll
For the final step I loaded the above image into Effexy. Select the + sign at the top of the screen and then select Texture. From the Texture folder select Emboss to add a slight embossed effect to your image. Next, while still in Effexy, click the Texture Folder again to get back to the previous menu. Click the + button again and choose the Effex folder this time. From the Effex folder select Motion Lite and swipe your finger up to add a slight motion blur to the image. Save the image to your Camera Roll for use as your own texture.
Here is the texture applied to an image using several blending modes. I used Sketch Club to layer and blend the texture with one of my photos but you could use any app you have that allows you to add layers and adjust bending modes.
Method 2 - Hipstamatic and Brushstroke.
Shoot any flat surface with a random lens and film combination using Hipstamatic. The image below is a close-up of the palm of my hand using Hipstamatic Wonder Lens and C-Type Plate.
Open the image in Brushstroke and add one of the painterly filters. I selected Abstract A2. Save to Camera Roll to use as your Texture.
Apply the texture to your photographs using a blending app - experiment with blending modes. You can add the texture on more than one layer. In the image on the bottom right I first loaded my photograph, then added the texture layer set on Overlay blending mode at 100%. On top of that I added the texture again, this time using Normal blending mode at 60%. There is no right or wrong way - experiment and see what you like!
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