Digital Art

I'm currently doing Traci Bautista's digital canvas e-course and learning how to use Procreate, Artrage and Noteshelf apps. Apps that confuse me somewhat, not having a photoshop background I find them  a little baffling to say the least. Anyway one of the tips Traci imparted is to utilize your own artwork in your photos, so today I got out my mixed media art journals and photographed a stack of pages.

Using Blender, Snapseed and a texture from Dan Marcolino this is what I came up with. 

The above photo was taken in the city last week. I think I used snapseed and photocopier, sometimes I can't remember which apps I used. 

Soaring

Just a bird, some clouds and the top of tree.

Purple Haze

From this ........

To this........

Two apps, Slow Shutter Cam and Snapseed.

So don't discard those not quite so good shots, turn them into abstracts. It's a lot of fun and the results can be quite amazing. 

Another Errant Seagull

The Waiting Room

Umbrella

I took this photo on the weekend at a festival in North Perth. It was an extremely hot day, despite the fact we are a month and a half into autumn. This lady had the right idea.

I converted it into black and white, then used Blurfx to well.....blur, then retouch to remove some distracting elements, snapseed to crop and apply a filter or two, then distressedfx for some grunging and then pixlromatic for framing.