Cape Cod - Boat

I am not usually obsessed with color but with the advent of applications for the Mac I can not seem to stop playing with images and color. This image managed in Photo Studio (mac), PSColorHD (iPad2) with a bit of help from Paintmee (Mac). With all the new applications available on the Mac there seems to be no end to the textures one can create......

If you want to learn more about iPhone/iPad/Mac creativity the Pacific NorthWest Art School located on beautiful Whidbey Island is hosting a 4 day iPhone creativity workshop with myself and Teri Lou Dantzler....

Click here  for more information about the workshop..we will cover all aspects on creativie iphone photography including final printing techniques.

Indianapolis - The Pyramids

The Pyramids are an Indianapolis Landmark and world-class office park located on the north side of the city. When I stopped by to see these structures a few weeks back it was overcast and raining - made one or two images and never gave it another though until last night....

Original

I was in the man-cave watching the end of the baseball season wondering who the Yankees would be playing on Friday - and it is Detroit...no Red Sox Nation this year - how strange....the curse is back....but I digress...

 I started playing with the original image at the top of this page in various color applications such as Filterstorm, Color Cross, color claw and color leap...then did some blending and color control in Filterstorm and Blender - lots of opacity brushing and masking was involved - the various results of which are posted today.

So many variations on the theme.....

Toon Paint Blend

Leaving for Indiana again on Sunday - moving my Music, iPhone and Other Neighborhoods show to Toledo for the 1Matters.org benefit. Prints from this show are also available on the  'print sales' page which is live on my website, HarrySandler.com.

Dramatic Black and White for the Mac

New application arrived on my screen this morning - Dramatic Black and White - an Application for the Mac.....We have all used this on the iPhone and iPad and now it is on the Mac. This application from the same people who bring us the Artista applications like Oil, Haiku and Grungetastic....Really good developers and they did not let us down with their new offering....They are definately ahead of the Mac App game at the moment....

So I thought I would process an iPhone image on my mac...I used the new Mac application to convert the original image (at the bottom of this blog page) to Black and White - there are a multitude of choices in the Mac App - good choices by the way from Black and White look to grain structure.......

Random Color Painted IN

I then took the image into the iPad and painted back in some random color using Filterstorm....Check out this app whether on your mac or mobile device....so much fun...

Black and White conversion below....

Processed in Dramatic BW on the Mac

Original Image below:

Touch ReTouch and more......

About a week or so ago I made a comment about a student image on my facebook page. Mostly I was saying that some lighter round artifacts were taking my eye away from the subject. She sent me the original and her finished piece and asked that I show her what I meant.

The original image is above. Her version is below. The three or four lighter round artifacts on the lower left were the artifacts mentioned above. Keep an eye out for these artifacts when processing on the iPhone or iPad.

In the image below touch-retouch was used to take out the artifacts in the lower left but left some in the upper right for reference. I used Filterstorm to  lighten the lower right of the image for detail and sharpened the building to bring it forward in the image.

 

In the end it wa my thinking that the circular artifacts took away form the image by moving my eye to away from the subject. Additionally the sharpened building pops a bit and I like the extra detail in the lower right. I also reduced the saturation a bit....

Mostly I like doing these tutorials to show what is possible with different applications. These are all tools to help the photographer make decisions about the post-processing of their images.

Applications on the MAC

Original

I have been playing with the applications available for the mac using both iPhone and high resolution images. Additionally after finishing on the Mac I import back into the iPad2 for finishing, usually in Filterstorm.

Today's Image above was an iPhone TrueHDR original. I then took this image into the Mac application Hand Tint and painted in some vintage color.

Next it was Grungetastic on the mac for a frame and a slight bit of grunge effect.....

 

Then it was photo studio on the mac to add noise and a few filters.....photo studio is an excellent choice for subtle textures and color..

I imported this last image and the original into photoshop as layers. With the Noise on top and the original on the bottom I set the opacity to 80% and the blending mode to darken creating the image below.

Using wireless I imported the image above back into the iPad2. Used Old Photo Pro to create the antique look and then made local corrections using Filterstorm...Below is the final....

I forgot to mention that I used the watercolor effect in Photo Forge - slipped my mind exactly where...

I like working with these applications on the Mac....Give me many more creative choices and ways to bend the rules....give them a try....

iPhone4 Tip - Camera+ and Clarity

Camera+ is a fantastic application for making images. It allows selective focus and luminosity in a rather straightforward way - but more on this later. Today it is the clarity adjustment in Camera+ that has my attention. Do not confuse this Camera+ with Camera Plus - they are very different applications.

The photograph above was made using the camera that comes with the iPhone4. I had the camera set on 'HDR ON' which creates a light and dark exposure.  Instead of blending in an application like ProHDR  I will copy and paste this image into Camera+. You do this by holding your finger on the image until the 'copy' icon is visible.

You then go into Camera+ and get into the lightbox mode. This is done by a tapping on the black/gray square in the lower left corner. It might happen that you are in light-box mode and no step is necessary.

 You will then see this screen - light-box.. If you have other images they will also show in this screen.

Hit the 'Paste' icon and the image begins importing into the light-box. 

 Once import is finished you will see this screen. Note that if you have several images the new one will show up in the top left corner of the screen, usually with the dialog boxes below. You then tap the edit tab on the left.

 

Once in edit tap the 'clarity' icon.  I am amazed at what this one adjustment can do to save darker images. It does not work on all images - it is simply another tool for your workflow should you need it. Once this is completed - tap the 'Done' icon in the upper right.

Then tap the 'save' icon and the image will move to your camera roll for further processing. If you want to save all the images to your camera roll use the 'save all' tab in the top left corner.

 Below are the two images for comparison.....The only change was adding clarity - no sharpening - nothing else

Before Clarity

After Clarity

Selective Local Control

Original from iPhon

Kathleen Stevens, one of the students in the Carmel workshop a few weeks back has been working on this image for several days. I thought the image and it's variations would be a good iPhone/iPad processing tip. The original image is above....

After several days the image below was posted to our student facebook page...I felt she had a good image but wanted to create more separation to make the car stand out a bit more. Also, the trees growing out o the roof of the car had to go....I would have wanted a clean line to show off the curve of the roof.

The image below is after much hard work by Kathleen in Touch-Retouch....I admire her persistence..Darkening the sky also helped the focus on the car....the eye is always attracted to lighter areas...

Now I am thinking this wold be a good lesson to show a few tips on local processing so the car pops off the page - after all it is the star of this show....So here is the car locally sharpened in Filterstorm by painting the sharpness into the area selected - this pops the car out a bit..

 

Then I thought why not use this and add a bit of saturation using the same Filterstorm workflow to bring even more attention to the car.......

And lastly you can use a vignette to bring even more attention to the car - darkening the edges makes the eye move to the middle of the frame....

I have been holding workshops in tandem with Teri Lou Dantzler. Check out our blogs below for more information on these workshops.Come learn creative ways to use your iPhone/iPad - and then print the image.........

Teri Lou: http://iphoneographywithterilou.blogspot.com/

Harry: http://iphone-antics.blogspot.com/

Pencil Paint 2 Workflow

I often use Pencil Paint 2 in Photo Studio in my work-flow......here is a short tutorial on PP2 and Filterstorm...the original hipstamatic photograph is above.

Import the original into Photo Studio HD and choose Pencil Paint 2 - used the settings below:

 

Image after saving out of Photo Studio HD

 

Took the original and Photo Studip Pencil Paint 2  version and used Blender in the 'Plus Lighter' Blending Mode to create the image below.........

 

Put the Blender version into Filterstorm - added expposure using the original image and locally painted back in the details I wanted in the final image.....

  

Took the final image into Grungetastic and created a frame - 4th down on the right

  

 Final Image with frame added....

 

Indianapolis Car Show

Old Buick.....

There are quite a few iPhone applications now available on our laptop and desktop computers....Lately I have been processing on my 'macbook' playing using a few of these applications.
Today's image was created by using the application pixel blender and then blending this image back into the original using layers and blending modes in CS5......I am traveling and really tired and will post a tutorial in the next few days showing how this is accomplished...

For now I had fun with an image photographed at the car show Sunday morning at the Indianapolis Raceway.......there must have been 500 cars or more....I posted a few big boy images from this show on the http://hsandler.blogspot.com this morning........stay tuned for more...

Finally getting home today after two weeks on the road....

I fell in love with the the Dodge truck below....Difficult to isolate a vehicle at a show but the owner was kind enough to pull the vehicle out a bit for this iPhone HDR image....this would be a great truck to photograph from.....

Dodge truck

Creating Textures with Artista Haiku

iPhone tip 102: Creating  textures in Photo Artista Haiku...............

1. Import an image into Artista Haiku: I started with hispstamatic image of graffiti:

2. Pick a style under icon 1: my choice was Abstract 1.....

3. Play with the sliders under icon 2 : my settings below......

 

Image after applying the settings above........

4. Add a texture under icon 3: totally subjective.....try a few - you can also save and continue to stack background textures to taste.....

I then blended this using the application Blender in the OVERLAY mode....note that the most textures show through the lighter areas which is indicative of this blending mode......You can see the texture showing through the headlights......

You can also take an image you like - create a halftone type texture - then place the original image back on top as a separate layer - I will show you this tomorrow if I survive the party I am going to tonight......


Remember to save your texture as a preset......

The way that layers interact with other layers in the layer stack is determined by blending mode of the upper layer - more on this tomorrow....

iPhone HDR

iPhone Tip 101:

In the workshop last weekend we talked about differences between ProHDR and TrueHDR. On Sunday morning I made these photographs with the iPhone on a tripod. The True HDR is a bit more saturdated which gives the iamge more contrast. The Pro HDR is more neutral then Pro which makes it a bit softer. Saturation increases contrast and contrast increases saturation. Something to think about when shooting and then making adjustments in your images. The True HDR was set ot the enhanced mode to emphasize the saturation and contrast.

Stay tuned for more iPhone tips in the coming days. 

Pro HDR

Ture HDR

Renaissance Fine Art and Design Gallery

Gallery framed in Grunge

Fun opening and show in Carmel this weekend. Workshop could not have gone better other then maybe another day or two to cover the material. I am going to start teaching Photoshop and Lightroom next time I am in Carmel. This is very important if you are going to print your iPhone work, not to mention the more traditional files from larger resolution cameras.

Played around with the gallery window today for the posted image.


We are planning an intermediate workshop for November in Carmel - please check Renaissance Fine Art and Design for more information. Should be there in about 10 days.

Carmel iPhone Workshop

Car Detail - Carmel, Indiana

Just finished the first day of the 2 day iPhone workshop in Carmel, Indiana. There are 16 participants in this workshop from as far away as Washington, DC and Asheville,  North Carolina. This is the first of several workshops I am co-teaching with Teri Lou Dantzler, iPhoneopgraphywithTeriLou. The next workshop  is Nov 4-7 at the Pacific Northwest Art School located on Whidbey Island.

Workshop participant

Workshop Participant

We were lucky enough to have an antique car show just outside the workshop location - we stopped early so the participants could photograph the cars and use those images to process in class tomorrow....

Workshop Particpant