Two Flower Crocks: an iPad workflow

Here's an example of a common, everyday image that I like to capture and post-edit. I had been outside photographing the fall color, and as I started to enter the house these crocks caught my attention out of the corner of my eye. I snapped a couple of photos and didn't think much about them until later.

My wife liked my workflow so much that the final image is now framed and displayed in a prominent spot on our mantel.

All post-processing was completed on an iPad 3 after importing the original iPhone 5s photo. iPad apps used in the workflow include Snapseed, ArtistaOil HD and Superimpose.

Photo-by-photo workflow

Original iPhone 5s photo unedited

Glaze: add texture

Snapseed: tuning image and adding selective adjustments

ArtistaOil HD: add paint effects. Note the difference in the tray's texture and the overall color saturation.

Superimpose was used to layer Snapseed and ArtistaOil HD versions. Then a mask was created to expose the two crocks from the Snapseed seed version on the ArtistaOil HD version. I wanted the color saturation from the Snapseed photo and the tray's texture from the ArtistaOil HD version.

No Birds in Sight

Birds' absence noted in trees and at feeders. Do they know something we don't?

This iPad photo was processed with iPhoto for cropping, contrast, saturation and a diagonal ink filter. After saving to the camera roll, the new image was open in iPhoto for additional contrast adjustment and a splatter artistic filter.

Next, a drama filter and frame were added in Snapseed.

Finally, ArtistaOil HD was used to apply an oil paint texture.