Number Two-Hundred-And-Seventy-Six: Center Stage

Maybe it's because there are less than one hundred days to go of Art On My iPhone but I find myself wanting to dig around in my arty apps and revisit some of them. I was quite excited about colour isolation when I downloaded an app for it and did a few of them but I didn't want to go overboard. It's one of those things that can quickly become repetitive and boring, but for today's picture I thought it was fitting. My mom has a rosebush that produces these exquisite cream-coloured flowers and I found in the pictures I took recently the background colours kind of overwhelmed the delicate, pretty details.

So after taking the picture with Camera+ I fired up Color Effects and used the easy interface to crop it, paint the original colour back on the flower with the Original Color brush, then touch up the edges with the Gray brush. That's it!

Number Eighty-Three: The Tree

I was a bit nervous about the tree this year because Essie is not quite three and impulse control still isn't her strong suit. So far, though, she's been pretty great about it; only taking off a few ornaments here and there and being OK about having to put them back on the tree. She's started to realize, though, that I like to take pictures of special things and asks me to take a picture of the tree almost every day.

Of course I experimented with some of my apps and used Color Effects to take the colour out of everything except the tree, then imported that to Artist's Touch where I used the razor brush. I used a larger brush on the gray parts and a smaller one on the tree so that the tree really was the focus although I feel like the end result gives the impression of a brightly lit tree in a dark, abandoned house. Which is also interesting, so why not?

Number Eighty: The Colour Of Temptation

Today's piece first started out as a photograph of an apple I took in the late summer using SynthCam, an app for taking photos with a shallow depth of field. I am not terribly good at using this app, unfortunately, but come back to it every so often. This was one of the rare ones that I was pleased with although the colour of the apple didn't contrast with the green of the grass enough for my tastes, staying a kind of washed-out pinkish-red.

It wasn't until I downloaded Color Effects that was able to give the apple the colour I wanted without messing with the green of the grass. Color Effects has replaced Dash Of Color for my colour isolation needs. It is far less buggy and has the option to recolour anything you want in any colour you want. I found when I played around with the app that I liked having just the re-coloured red apple against the black and white grass.