I invented a new word with the title of this piece: Winterrupted. I bet I don’t even need to define it, and you could use it in a sentence like this…
We are traveling for the holidays and I hope our trip isn’t winterrupted.
See? I’m liking this word.
I’m liking this piece too! I spent waaaay too long on it Tuesday morning, with a lot of false starts. I thought I would share the sequence of the final edit, and also give you an idea of how unrealistic it is to expect to just move through an edit directly, in so few steps.
First, it started with this image, captured in ProCamera. Hello bare trees! It’s so good to have you back. Now we can have some fun with editing.
I cropped it in Snapseed, and also increased resolution in Big Photo.
Next, into Mextures for a color filter.
And then into Autopainter for an artistic effect. Remember, in Autopainter you can stop the process before it finishes, which is what I did here.
I’m loving the colors at this point! I want to get the detail of the branches back in, so it’s into Image Blender to blend back with the cropped version above.
I’m enjoying Decim8 again lately, I think it’s the combination of the geometric effects on the organic lines of the trees. I played around with a few effects, finding two I liked:
These two were blended in Image Blender, to get to the final image: Winterrupted.
Looks like a straightforward sequence, right? Of course, when I’m at the end and can trace the steps backward, it is clear. But look at how many steps were really in this process. Each image is something I tried, something a little bit different:
The same image, the same apps, but lots of variations in sequence. There were problems with the image in the original sequence I tried. As I got further along in the edit, the upper branches became too dark and muddy and there were some blobby spots appearing in other locations, both of which required me to go back and try again. And again. I loved the colors and how they varied with the effects, so I knew I was onto something good. I kept working it until it came together. Good thing I was able to work without winterruption. 😉
Don’t ever get to thinking that mobile photography and editing with apps is a slam dunk. I’m not just tapping a button and getting a finished result with this kind of process. It’s messy and experimental and can be frustrating at times. But the mess is part of the fun, and getting a finished piece you are happy with in the end, like this one, makes it all worthwhile.
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing your beautiful work. I will sometimes spend an entire evening working on one photo – it’s so easy to get lost in the process! I find it very therapeutic.
Yes! I hear you! The process matters as much or maybe more than the end result. That’s something that artists understand, but others don’t necessarily get.
Awesome edit… I really like the result and your “new” word!
Thanks Louise! Start using the word, let’s get it into the dictionary!
Kat, I love your new word! It’s so perfectly descriptive of its meaning — there could be a whole story in that one word.
I have a question: do you do all of this editing right in your iPhone, or do you use your iPad? With the phone, I find I have trouble seeing if I’m really getting the results I want because the screen is so small. And in most apps, the photo is only a part of that already small screen.
See, I know! It’s a great word! I’m sure you have lots of opportunities to use it in Maine. 🙂
I typically don’t edit on the iPhone unless I’m travelling. Because of the small screen size of the iPhone, I prefer to transfer and work on my photos on the iPad. Like you mention, I’ve had trouble seeing detail on the small screen, although I’ve recently gotten reading glasses and details on both the iPhone and the iPad have become much easier to see! So I wonder if my eyes weren’t a good part of the problem all along…
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