Photo Apps

• Checking out ‘Frame’ options in various apps – Snapseed wins for ease of use, options and quality!
• Snapseed, the best app I’ve found so far to add text to an image
• Snapseed’s ‘Drama’ filter for making a volcano pop!
• Wild green Irish growth edited in Snapseed

• Turning Calla Lilies into Abstract Shapes with Stackables Formula ‘Cracked Sepia’
• Making Photos Look Old with Stackables Formula ‘Tintype’
• ‘Gimme the Night’ challenge where I fixed up a lot of shaky night shots in Puerto Vallarta with the Stackables formula ‘Sky Glow’
• Mexican traditional dances in Puerto Vallarta – it was too dark to get great shots so I ran them though Stackables
• Trying to Make Tulips Look as if They Were from 17th Century Holland.
• Exploring Stackables’ monochrome formulas in the Castle Garden in Ireland’s Glenveagh National Park
• A rusty Mobulette as edited in my favourite Stackable formulas
• The stonework of a Spanish Parador filtered through the warm glow of Stackable’s ‘Sienna’ formula
• Where I discovered Stackables ‘formulas’ and tried them out as a way to add interest to a simple, almost abstract image
• Comparing Stackables and Pixlromatic, two very similar photo apps
• My first foray into using Stackables, where I wasn’t that crazy about the results, and found that every thing I did looked ‘stackabilized’

• Testing Waterlogue on a bunch of cats
• Experimenting with Waterlogue on a bunch of different types of yellow flowers
• Testing out the whole range of Waterlogue’s styles on a photo of red bottlebrush flowers
• Explorations with Waterlogue where I tried out various Waterlogue styles on a range of photos from South East Asia. (April 20, 2015)

This was my very first photo app and I was instantly hooked. I don’t use it as much as I used to but it has some very nice effects and it’s free so it is worth trying out.

• Using the ‘Glow’ look to enhance the spiritualism of Buddhism
• Using the ‘Dream’ look to capture the otherworldly feeling of Myanmar
• Using a few Photoshop Express ‘looks’ on an old green truck

• Spain, as it’s never been seen before, using the sci-fi app Matter
• Matter, adding strange geometric constructions to images
• Explorations with Matter on the texture of winter
• Matter and reflections of clouds

• Playing around with Sketch Guru, a free photo app

• Irish landscapes in Psykopaint
• Trying out the ‘Monet’ brush in an attempt to capture his painting of Etretat on the French coast 
• Still trying to capture Monet but ending up with a Renaissance masterpiece instead

• Pixlromatic’s faux bokeh!
• Beyond hot, beyond dry in the American Southwest
• Waterlilies rising above their floating lily pads
• Sunset over a frozen lake