Geek out at Campus Party in Berlin
This afternoon I was geeking out at Campus Party in Berlin talking about some of my fave photo apps. Here’s a quick run-down:
Snapseed: My always-by-my-side app. Great for general editing and tilt-shift. And I’m taking the detox pills to get me off that Drama button. It also pays to explore all its nooks and crannies. I recently discovered a feature called “Structure” which gives a 3D effect to a photo without any HDR nonsense or any sharpening noise.
BlurFX: Like tilt-shift but you can apply clarity to various parts of a photo. Great for adding drama or a narrative to a photo, especially for faces. The median blur feature allows you to create some weird dreamscapes.
Touch Retouch: a must-have in the toolbox. As a Mr. Fixit app, you wouldn’t know how often people use this app. I probably use it on 50% of my images: never let a white van example ruin one of your photos again. You can also use it creatively to remove things that are conspicuous (or weird) by their absence.
Filter Storm: One for the geeks. Great for changing the brightness or contrast on specific parts of images. Curves, histograms, layers. It’s photoshop in your pocket.
Image Blender: Or just straight Blender to its friends, aswell as opening a whole world of surreal blending possibilities, this is also a great stacking tool that allows you to mix and match effects from other apps.
Shockmypic: Should have been called Van Gogh. Adds that starry starry night look to your images.
Toonpaint: Extracts the lines and vectors from your image and gives you a comic-book unreality. With or without colour.
ArtistaOil: Monet or Manet?
Photosynth: The world is too wide sometimes and those fish-eye lenses are a bit rubbish. Big wow factor.
Decim8: Ah yeah man. Can you take an app to a desert island, Sue? Endless hours of psychedelic appsperimenting.
Slow Shutter: Another one where we’ve only scratched the surface. So many creative possibilities.
Diptic: Can’t choose which shot you like? Make a diptic and put them all in. Then make a new one with that one and get creative. Cubist possibilities.
Action Shot: Snap that moving target and blend.
But sometimes you just need to take a nice photo
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