St. James Park

While walking to Buckingham Palace to witness the changing of the guard, I glanced to my right to catch this view of St. James Park on my iPad 3 (June 2012).

This totally iPad photo was processed with iPhoto for adjusting contrast and saturation, along with spot desaturation and softening. 

I adjusted the color in portions of the sky with ArtStudio. Then, I took the photo back to iPhoto to further adjust contrast and sharpen the image.

As I finished, I noticed a wire running through part of the lower foreground, which was removed with TouchRetouch.

Australian Gate

I captured this photo of the Australian Gate, which stands near Victoria Memorial Circle and Buckingham Palace, during a 2012 visit to London, England.

This totally iPad photo was processed in iPhoto with adjustments in contrast and saturation. Unwanted elements were removed with TouchRetouch HD.

Using TouchRetouch HD to remove unwanted elements in an iPad photograph

One of my favorite iPad apps is TouchRetouch HD. This app provides the ability to remove unwanted from a photograph. I'm really amazed by TouchRetouch HD's simplicity and effectiveness.

The photo was taken with my Pentax K100D Super DSLR and imported to my iPad via the Camera Connection Kit.

This video demonstrates the basic steps to remove unwanted elements in a photo on the iPad while using the TouchRetouch HD app.

View TouchRetouch HD website.

The video was created with Mac OS apps ScreenFlow 4 and Reflector, and a Blue Yeti microphone.

Hangin' on the Porch

After visiting this front porch display, I decided to add some extra qualities to help extend this pumpkin's season.

This totally iOS photo was captured with an iPhone 4 and processed on an iPad 3.

Masking was used in Superimpose to add a black texture in the eyes and mouth, along with a color texture in the nose. The PicShop stickers feature was used to add the eyes and teeth clip art, and spot healing was accomplished with TouchRetouch.

Adjusting the color curves was completed in Laminar, and saturation was increased with iPhoto. Several areas of spot color and brush techniques were developed with ArtStudio.

Finally, a 50% drama effect was applied in Snapseed.

Welcome, My Friends!

I captured this seasonal image from the front porch of a relative's house.

This totally iPad photo was created after repairing with TouchRetouch, adjusting the histogram and adding an FX miniature effect with Laminar, adding a Grunge drama 2 filter in Snapseed, and selecting white balance and saturation levels in iPhoto.

London Bobbies on Horseback

London Bobbies on Horseback, London, England

This totally iPad photo was taken through a bus window with the London Eye visible on the far bank of the River Thames. TouchRetouch, Snapseed and iPhoto were used to process the photo.

Riding Sunbeams

Photo Walk for Exercise, Rock Springs Park, O'Fallon, Illinois

Shooting this image late in my walk, I really didn't think much about it until I spent a couple of minutes playing with it in iPhoto.

This totally iOS photo was taken on an iPhone 4 and processed on the new iPad using TouchRetouch for spot healing and iPhoto to adjust contrast and saturation, while also adding an artistic warm gradient filter.

Street Reflections

"Street Reflections", Tallinn, Estonia

This totally iOS photo was captured on my new iPad during a visit this summer to Tallinn, Estonia.

I used iPhoto to adjust the contrast and color, along with adding an oil painting filter.

The image was then imported to ArtStudio to adjust a contrast issue by adding some color to the blown out area. Finally, TouchRetouch HD was used to remove a blemish.

UFOooo!

Photo Walk for Exercise, Moody Park on Longacre, Fairview Heights, Illinois

While walking through the park late one night, I was startled by an unexpected noise. While reaching for my trusty iPhone 4, I spun around just in time to witness, what I can only explain as a once-in-a-lifetime experience, this rotating disc pictured in the photo. And, no, the disc is not one of those soon to be unidentified objects that folks my age call a CD.

(Disclaimer: Actually, it wasn't late at night. I'm usually in bed shortly after dark. And, some "slight" post-processing might have been involved.)

This totally iOS photo was captured on an iPhone 4 and transferred to the iPad via the Photo Transfer app. I used iPhoto to crop, adjust contrast, add spot lightening and darkening, and select a black and white filter.

Snapseed was used to add additional spot lightening and darkening, along with the tilt-shift and center focus filters. ArtStudio was selected to provide brush strokes and spot blurring effects.

I returned to iPhoto to further adjust the black and white filter, and finished with TouchRetouch HD to clone grass in the foreground.

This second photo is the original, unprocessed image.

Copenhagen Canal Photo Workflow

Here's the process used to create this totally iPad photo.

The original photo was shot out a bus window as we stopped along a Copenhagen street. The photo is marked to highlight the areas to be removed from the original. I used ArtStudio to circle the target areas.

To begin the post-processing, the original photo was opened in TouchRetouch HD to remove the man, wires and shadows, and TV antennas.

Then I used iPhoto to enhance the overall color and selectively saturate the water’s color to the right of the frame and the lamp’s globe to the left.


The final photo "Copenhagen from the Bus" was processed with ArtistaOil HD and may be seen on RonStephenson.com.