Old Warbird

I did some editing to a picture I posted earlier, the original you can see here. I wanted to make the picture look like it was taken on a WWII military base but the original had all these people walking around and other things in it that were obviously out of context. To remove all of that I did some extensive editing using TouchRetouch, using auto mode for some of the gross fixes and the clone brush for detail work. After the clean up was done I used OldPhoto Pro for that aged look.

Polaroid

I took a quick snapshot of my son and my sister-in-law and to me it just looked like something I would have taken with my old Polaroid camera I had as a kid. I used two separate filters in Lo-Mob to create this image; one for the Polaroid style frame, and another to achieve the right color balance I was looking for.

Playtime

I was watching the kids play in the back yard with this beautiful sunset as a backdrop. I took this picture with Pro HDR, the yard was actually in pretty deep shadow and the processing in Pro HDR washed it out quite a bit. I put the image in PhotoWizard, masked out everything above the roof line of the houses, then applied some exposure and color correction to the bottom portion to bring back a more natural look.

Toothy Smile

With a newborn son I spend a lot of time at the doctor's office making sure he is healthy. One of the exam rooms has an exam table that is styled like an old carnival hippo. I took this picture of it and was inspired to make the picture look like an old photo that may have been taken in the 30s or 40s at some long lost carnival. This was taken with the iPhone 4, color treated in Photostudio, edges darkened and roughed up in Lo-Mob, and finally the creases and scratches added in OldPic Agent.

Apps apps and more apps!

With the purchase of a new app; picfx, I now have 60 photo editing apps, not including my video editing apps, DSLR tools and miscellaneous photo apps. Many of the newer apps have some pretty powerful features so hopefully I will be able to produce some interesting pictures. I currently have over a thousand pictures in my iPhone camera roll, I plan on spending some quality time playing with all of my apps to see what I can create with them.

Vista

This view is from the Courthouse clock tower in Santa Barbara. This is a panorama consisting of 7 individual shots assembled in Autostitch. The sun was low in the sky and really affected the exposure of the shots which caused some banding in the assemble image. Had I thought about it ahead of time I would have used Camera Plus to take the photos which would allow me to exposure lock the sequence, which might have created a more even image. Next time I am going to try this.

Path of Solitude

Another quick snapshot of my stepdaughter, which is really the only way to get pictures of her as she simply won't hold still for the camera. I managed to catch her as she was wandering a garden path lost in her own thoughts. I cropped out the bright sunlight at the top of the picture with PS Express then used TiltShift Generator, now one of my favorite apps, to enhance the color and blur the edges of the photo a bit.