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It is my pleasure to introduce to the creative Live Studios IPhone. Ah, Graffiti with Sally Cox. Sally is an adobe community professional and a published author of books and video training on design and adobe products. Welcome to Creativelive, Sally. Thank you. Thank everybody. Thing is my first session with creative Live, And I'm really happy to be here. And I want to thank my studio audience for being here a swell. So I'm Justin. I guess we're ready to go to my Kino, please. Great. So, um, I think it's important to understand there are a lot of different types of IPhone. Ah, graffiti out there. There are a lot of great instructors here for IPhone. Ah, graffiti. I met a whole bunch of them yesterday. Everybody has their own idea of what I've pornography is. And I'm not a professional photographer by trade, so I'm an artist and a designer, so my photos tend to have a little bit more of a creative edge. So I'm just giving you my take on how I use them. And I'd love to get your from the ...

people in the audience. I'd love to get your unionists would go along or any questions that you have. Just raise your hand. So I'm going to just go right through my slides. Just a little bit more information about me. I worked for Adobe, and I also worked for Mr Roger's neighborhood. In my youth, I have my own company called Create herbal dot com. I do instructional design, e learning and adobe training. I grew up in Pittsburgh, so guess what? My favorite football team is everyone. I'm also a single mother, and I I like lap swimming and this old kind of information about me. But just a little bit more information about my INSTAGRAM account. It's right down here. I'm at Create Herbal on Instagram. If you're interested following me, please do so Let's talk a little bit about what I photography is. So I Pornography is the art of creating images with your IPhone, and they're all different types of IPhone. OG refers as I said. So you may you have your IPhone with you at all times. Why not use it? I don't always have my camera with me. I run an adobe user group in San Jose, California, where you and I are from on. I I used to take my camera equipment with me, and then I just kind of stopped. I started just taking my IPhone. So a lot of people ask me when they want to Come on our photo walks. I just have a point and shoot. Can I come? And I always say that it's not really so much, in my opinion, the equipment. You either have a night or you don't, so I use my IPhone for everything. Now my Nikon equipment just sits at home, so it doesn't matter what type of IPhone you have. The newer ones have better cameras, but it really doesn't matter. Just get out there and shoot is what I say. OK, so let's move into talking about some basic guidelines for shooting thes. They're some of the picks that I've done, and you confined these on my INSTAGRAM account. I'll talk about them in just a minute, so don't move. I think one of the things I see that people do badly is I see a lot of blurry photo IPhone photos. So I think people are just they're not realizing that you have to hold down the button and release it. That's what takes the picture. So lots of great shots that would have been even better if they were in focus. So don't move. When you're taking your pictures, stabilize yourself. So hold your IPhone firmly in your hand, concentrate and think about composition. These photos were ones that I took that I think are really great. There's some of my best work because I took them from an unusual angle. So the one on the tough left Number one is actually in a vintage lighting store that I was in in Sacramento, and it would have been a lot less interesting if I wasn't pointing up with ceiling. In my opinion, I thought, It's just unusual angle. So I've got some of the skylight as well as some of the lighting in Thean Midge, and the number two is some door handles that I saw in a building in Indianapolis, and I thought they were really interesting. I don't think it would have been a Z interesting if I had had the whole door in the picture, so I crept in on that, and then Number three is the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, where we're from on that one I took just from standing up above. I thought it was such an interesting angle. And then Number four is just my sneakers, and the original picture was my sneakers were centered in the middle. But after I did my magic with my APS, I cropped it that way. And I just thought that was a much more interesting look than just centering the shoes right in the middle. So look at lighting, especially with moving subjects. I actually like to shoot into the sun with my IPhone. I get some really cool effects that way. So again, just try all sorts of different types of lighting. You wanna up for a natural light whenever possible. That's not always possible. You can always take it with your APs, and more could be better to take lots of shots. I don't just take one. I actually took a taxi down to the waterfront yesterday and Teoh Pioneer Square to get some images, and there were a couple I took. That son was really bright, and I was looking right into the sun, taking pictures of some of the sail boats going by, and I really like the effect I got which normally you wouldn't tell someone to shoot into the sun. Okay. And then my last trip on this slide is tried. Different angles and composition, which I just talked about here. I thought that made them a little bit more interesting. So do you guys think about composition? Do you try to get unusual angles when you're taking your photos? Anybody have any comments on that? Okay, everyone agrees with me. OK, eso next five I'm talking about the camera. Doesn't actually take the photo until you take your picture. Your finger off the button. I think that's a mistake a lot of people make. They just don't stop to think about you. Want to steady your camera? Too many pictures I see online of that would have been great shots if they were just in focus. And you want to line up the shot? As I said, lift your finger when you're ready. Okay. So this one talks about some more tips about getting good images, focusing some of these. I focused when I'm taking the picture, but I'm not gonna lie. I'm big on going back and blurring what I don't want and focus later, and I'll show you a little bit more about that. So in this particular shot number one, when I was taking the picture, I pressed my thumb down and tried to get the cat's face and focus. But then I as I said, I could go back in and fake it later with my APS and then number two. I just tried to focus on the trucks and the background just a little bit blurry, and I did that intentionally. So you touch the screen where you want to focus. And so, as I said, the cat's head is in focus in this one. I guess I'm jumping ahead here. And then I focused on the trucks in the shot. So another thing to keep in mind this rule of thirds of any of you ever heard of that rule before. It's kind of boring to have things just right in the middle of the screen, so I like to shake things up a bit, either when I'm taking the picture or maybe going back and cropping it later. So Number one, I thought, was a really interesting angle. It's an old building in Niles, California with a bunch of antique stores and I love the fact that my eye is drawn in toward the flag, but it's not in the center of the picture, and number two is my daughter on a dirt bike in shorts. And I'm not going to comment on that one, except to say that I like the fact that she's facing in, as opposed to having her just be centered in the picture. I thought that was much more of a dramatic look. And then the one on the far right is my hibiscus in my patio garden. I like the fact that my eye is drawn to the right. I think it's much more interesting to not have everything center, and I think most photographers would agree with that as well. So use rule of thirds whenever possible for more interesting shots. You can either do it when you're taking the picture where you can do it. Later, I mentioned that photo I took of my speakers. I centered them in the middle of the picture, but when I went back and cropped it later, I thought it was much more interesting to crop it off to one side. So don't center everything. That's kind of boring. Okay, so here a couple more images that I did using depth of field. That's my daughter on the left, in the red shirt in number one and in the picture, the original picture. Everything was in focus. I chose in number two. I did not take this picture, but it was taken with an IPhone. I chose to go in and use a used an app called Face tune to go in and blur the background a little bit. Lots of different options can use, and I'll show you some of the techniques that I use. I like that they're Maurin. Focus in the rest of the photo is a little bit more blurred. Just dress more attention to them and number two, I actually sometimes just go into stores. That's in Pier one. I just wanted to Pier one because I love to do so. Still lives and I walked around the store taking some interesting photos, and in the one on the left you'll see that everything is in focus. But in the one on the right, I dark in the background and blurted out a little bit just to draw a little bit more attention to the statue. I just think it's much more interesting when you're not looking at everything when you can focus in on one item and then number three. I actually did that. I focused when I was taking the shot. This is again in pure one. Those air Sultan pepper shakers, I thought were just adorable. But I used that rule where I touch the screen with my finger to focus in on the front row, and then the ones in the back automatically became blurry. So number one and number two I did that with APS post processing. But the number 31 I did that while I was shooting the picture. So there's nothing wrong with just shooting everything and focus and going back and manipulating it later. So create more visual interests and establish the subject with depth of field on, and you can create it while you're shooting it or afterward with a variety of different APS. Okay, and so have any of you ever heard of the term app stacking? Okay, so abstracting is where you use a lot of different APs to create one particular look. So all of these were done with multiple APs. So the one number one is just a little town. I was in Indiana, and I've applied a bunch of different APS to make it look. It has kind of a cartoony effect, and then I like to bump up the color so I usually saturate. My image is a little bit more first before I go in and process them. Number two is in Munich, Germany, and that one is greatly saturated, and I really did love work on that one. And then I went into Photoshopped touch in that one and added ingredient at the top just to make the sky a little bit more interesting. Number three is one that I took at the San Jose a Museum of Art in San Jose, actually San Francisco, last week, and that when I used an app called Auto Painter and that one goes in and creates kind of an Impressionist look and I was at the Impressionist exhibit, so I thought that was kind of appropriate, and I again I went in and saturated it, and then I blurred out the background a little bit, and then the one on the bottom is a self portrait and I ended using an app called Lumi that creates these cool little light bubbles all over the photo. So each one of those was created with at least four or five different APS, okay? And so I'm when I post my images on Instagram and I also used an app called I Am. I always list the APs that I use with the hashtag because I like to teach people I don't want to just post them. I like people to go back and be able to learn from them. And there are a lot of people I follow who do the same thing. And you might see an app that you don't recognize. And then you can go and download it. Yes. How many you have about 250. I don't use all of them at all times, but I do. I have about 250. So that's one way to discover new APS if you're on you on instagram. Okay, so you know, I can tell you certain people you can follow You can follow me if you like. And as I said, a lot of the good I photographers will list the apse with Hashtags. And then if I see an app that I don't recognize, I immediately go and download it and play with it. So that's one good way of learning about new APS, okay? And so don't give up. And I put this one up here just to show you, because this was when I did in my neighborhood, and I wasn't really all that thrilled with the picture on the left. I thought it was kind of boring. Like I said, I love to shoot into the sun, but I went in, and after about three or four different APS, I got the picture on the left and I just love it. So the one on the left is just, you know, the sun's coming through the trees and it has potential, but it's kind of boring. So then I went in and did a more dramatic crop. I oversaturated it because I do that with most of my images, and then I applied a bunch of different effects, and one of the ones that I use was that Lumi app. I talked about where you can add some really cool circles of light in there, so I thought the one on the right looks a lot more interesting, and I added, kind of a dirty border to its It looks like an old photo. So again, this is a good example of I almost deleted that image and I thought, I'll go in and play with it and I really like how it turned out. So have you ever done that? Have you ever had an image that, you know, I think about when I was a child and I would draw something and I didn't like it. And then you go and work on it a little bit more and you think a pretty good. So I do the same thing with my images, Have you? You shook your head. Have you done that before? It's a good feeling to to go l A stoppage. This this is is that is a nerve in college. It you really end up liking. Yeah, So the lesson there is, don't get rid of anything until you play with that. You might be able to do something with it. If it's blurry, there's not too much you can do with it. But, you know, just by cropping it and adding a little bit of drama. You can really make it much more interesting. So and then my most important lesson is to have fun. I'd like to have fun every day, so it's important to have fun. So, Justin, I'm going to switch back to my APS now. So I guess I need to turn on mirroring for you. So I'm going to start off with an app Cold snap feed. So anybody in here over you snap. See? Yeah. OK, so it snaps. It is made by Google, and it's a good basic app. So I'm gonna start with that one, and I'm gonna click in the upper left hand corner and I just want to point out I'm not going to show you everything about these obscene. Just to show you how I how I use them. So in the upper left hand corners where I can go in and add my image and I'm gonna go out to my photo library and I'm going to scroll through here and just grant randomly grab an image. So this is a couple I saw down on the waterfront yesterday. They were offering advice for 25 cents. I gave him a dollar, and they let me take their picture. So you choose the image you want. Then you click use and all of the different categories are listed across the bottom. So I'm going to start over here on the left with one called tune Image. Now, when you go to a category, you scroll up and down to change the subcategory inside there. So if I want to go to saturation, I scroll up until I get to saturation, and then it's a left and right to apply the saturation. So now I'm gonna just going here and drag to the right, saturate the image. I usually over saturate my images. It's just the way I like to do it. When you're happy with it, you click the right arrow. If you change your mind, you can click the left era. So I'm gonna click the right era, and I've applied that saturation. And then I can go down here, for example, if I want to go down to details and again, I can scroll up and down if I want to sharpen the image a little bit, or if I want to work with structure so I can apply a little bit of sharpening to it. So whenever you're done, you click the right arrow to apply it. Or, as I said, you can click the left arrow to go back. There's also an undue air up here at the top left and so you can scroll through. There's grunge effect, and you can apply a vintage look. If you want to, you can change the focus when you're happy with the image, you click the upper right hand arrow, and this gives you the option. You can automatically ticket right out Teoh different places like Instagram and so forth. I usually save them first because I'm gonna pull them into another app that later. So I'm just going to go to save photo in the photo library, and then I'm done. So it's a pretty easy up to use for basic edits. I use it a lot for similar things that I just showed you for saturation. We're sharpening my image. Sometimes I use the grunge effect and so forth, so that's called snap seed. So if I could go in here, maybe into the grunge, for example, when I go into grunge, there's all different kinds of effects that I can apply. Say, I love that kind of look. But in this particular instance, it's kind of distorting their faces, so I might want to cut back on the amount a little bit, Or maybe just go in and try a different effect inside here. So maybe they're saturation. Aiken, bump it up again. So that gives it an old look, and I think that's kind of cool. So again, if I'm happy with it, I click the right arrow and then I am good to go. So again, I can go out and say this again. You're going to find when you do, especially if you're doing the app stacking that I do, you're gonna have 567 different versions of your image. I don't save all of them. I was doing some work in bed last night in my hotel, so I've got a lot of versions of every image that I got yesterday, but I wait until I'm happy with it. And if I posted on Instagram that I could get rid of all the old ones, I always save my original, and then I save the most recent one. Yes, yeah, I would tell you always save your originals. I'm usually like a racing my originals actual. Oh, you are. I mean, there's something wrong with that, and you're happy with it? Yeah, just one kind of old school in that way. I like to save my images because sometimes I go back interest something different on it. So there's nothing wrong with doing that. Maybe when you think your phone, you might want to just save them on your computer and then get rid of them on your on your phone if you want to. I'm gonna go out here, actually, and show you I have some before and after. So I wanted to show you. So I do save everything. As I said, there's something wrong with getting rid of them. But, you know, just to show you this is an image that I took when I was in Indiana on this was a statue is called Lady Liberty. And it hadn't been removed since Prince, a princess since President Garfield was in office, and they were taking it down to clean it. So this is just the original image with some saturation done. And then I went in and over. I over processed it, probably, but I think it's really cool and it looks like artwork. So I think more often than not, my images end up looking more like artwork, and I just love how that turned out. And that was just a bunch of different APs that I used to create that effect. But that was really cool to be there and actually see them. Taking that statue down here is a child's pair of child sneakers. That's the original image. And then I went in and I used an app called Tangled Effects, which is another one of my favorite ups that you can really go in and create some really cool kind of cartoony looks. I just thought that one turned out really well and again, you can see that I do. I saturate my images a lot. This is one that I saw of some anti Christmas ornaments that I thought was really cool, and that's the original. And then here's the one that I did in again. I used tangled on this one it along with a couple other APS, but I thought that was really cool. It really added some dimension to the tissue paper and the reflections in the ornaments, but that turned out rather well. Ah, what else do I have? I can show you. So this is a cathedral I saw in Austria. I think it's pronounced begins. Is the city in Austria That's the original. The sky was kind of boring. So I went in and I used Tangled and I used in auto painter app. And of course, you can see that my saturation is off the charts because that's what I do. And then in Photoshopped Touch, which is one of the absolute used the most. I went in and added a Grady, and I'll show you how to do that or any of you photo shop users. Okay, so when I show you Photoshopped touch, you're going to see that you have Photoshopped blending modes and you have layers and lots of cool effects that you can use so that particular Grady in is on a blank layer. And I use the multiply blending mode because if you don't use a blending mode, it's going to cover up the top of the photo. But by using a blending motor, it actually I can see the the Steeples really clearly so I thought that one turned out rather well. Let's see if I can show you a couple other ones and then I'll move into some more. Working with the apse. This is a building in Indiana. I spent some time there for business, so I got a lot of pictures of the great architecture there. So that's the original. And then I went in and altered it, and I used the one of the Blur features in one of the apse to draw concentration on the bottom windows. But the tough ones are blurred out so again, turning it into almost like artwork. But rather than having the whole image be in focus, I thought it was more interesting to just kind of focus in on that bottom section. So let's try one more. Uh, let's see. So this is a photo of ah, flower in my garden and I went in and used Theo, auto painter APS that I like. There's three different ones. I use all of them, but they will create, sort of like an Impressionist or post Impressionist look to your images. So I went in and used one of those and I just thought it was Looks beautiful. It looks like a watercolor painting. So those are just some of the images that I've done And I'm going to take you now back into one of the app So we worked a little bit with snap seed. So let me show you Photoshopped touch what? I used photo shop touch for the most What I do. Almost in every case, I go into another app and I apply some kind of a look. And then I pull the original and the altered image into Photoshopped touch on layers and I play with blending modes. I find that works really well for me. So to show you how I do that, I'm gonna first start in another app called etchings. This is one of my favorites. I love old fashioned things. I was born in the wrong era, I think, but it didn't have IPhones back then, so that would have been a problem. I'm just going to go out here and find an image. So, for example, maybe I'm going to use, um see, I'll just use this guy, so you have to move it in scale. It has to be a square format, so you can either cut cut it down in another app first, or just crop it in here. So this little guy was on the waterfront yesterday. I love this up because I could do a lot of cool looking like a lot line drawing effects. So you have different filters across the bottom and you'll see that I bought some extra ones over here on the right. So one of these, for example, this one it just gives a real pastel effect on the middle button at the bottom. You don't have a lot of different controls in here, but the middle button at the bottom allows you to change the width of your lines. So if you want to go a little bit lighter or you want to go heavier on your lines, and then I'm going to click back on the effects button again. One of the ones I really like is this spectrum. It really pumps the color up, which is, you know, I love, but I could also still see that hand etched looking there. So if that's the one I like, I click the check mark to apply it now. Ordinarily, when I was first learning this one, it saves them on a low, very low rest format. So it's smaller than the original image, smaller in size down here on the bottom, right. If you go to advanced export, you can turn off the square crop and you can actually save it out in a higher resolution. So I'm going to save that one to my camera roll, and then I'm gonna pull that one and the original into Photoshopped touch, which is this is what I do all the time. I find that the apse by themselves were great, but I like to go in and manipulate them even further. Anybody in here use finish up touch before it's the most expensive app I own? It's 99 but it's worth it. Do you like it? It's fantastic. Okay, so I'm gonna go back out here now and go to photo shop touch. I thought I turned my notifications off. I guess they didn't eso down here at the bottom. First of all, you can see some of the other projects that I've been working on. At the bottom in the middle is where I can choose to bring in an image and start a new project now has anybody? Hopefully, you've heard of Creative Cloud, a dubious new creative cloud. Now there is a paid subscription to Creative Cloud, but there's also a free one. If you go to creative dot adobe dot com and you just create a pre free profile for yourself, you can get to gig of cloud storage space. And so then you can go in on upload your images if you want to work on them even further in photo shop. I don't often do that, but I like the idea of being able to do that. So the little image on the left there, the little icon on the left is the creative cloud. So you want to go into your settings first, let me show you how that works appear the little gear on the upper right. You go in there and you go into your settings so I can go into my account and I'm already logged in. So you log yourself in and then you can go. When you click the button on the bottom left, you can actually choose one of your projects and uploaded to creative cloud, so the advantage is you'll be able to save the layers. It will save it out. It's what's called a P d x et Sorry PST X file, and that will allow you to then pull it off the cloud into photo shop, and then you can work on it even further. So that's one of the big advantages of Photoshopped. Touch any of the other APS they're gonna flatten. Your image is when you're done with them. But this one allows you to save the layer project so I can go out here at any time and open one of my previous ones and see all of the layers. So this is the little layers button on the bottom, right? This is my friend Kelly's little boy, who was playing in the bathtub, and I went in and manipulated him. And then so if you can see, I brought it in on a separate layer on the left hand side. On the right hand side, you can see all my different layers, so back to the main screen again. So these are all my previous projects. As I said, the button on the bottom left takes me to creative cloud. The one on the bottom in the middle is where I can go to start a new project. So I'm going to go down here and click this one to start a new project. I can grab images that are on my creative cloud account if I want, or I could go to my photo library. So I'm gonna go out here and find that that little guy there he is. So there's the original image. You can see that you have some different drop down menus at the top. You could make selections. One of the things you cannot doing here yet is masking. So anything that you do on the images destructive editing. That being said, I always go in and duplicate my layer before I start working on it so that I have a copy in case I screwed up. Sorry about the notifications on the bottom, right is my layers. So if I click on that, there's a little plus sign so I can go in and duplicate my layer. That's the first thing I do. So I go in here and I click the plus sign, and I duplicate that layer that way. I always have a copy of it in case I do something to it. I don't have to start all over again. So I've got my copy, and then I'm gonna go in and add another image. So I'm gonna click the plus sign again, and I'm gonna open a new photo layer, and I'm going to go out to my photo library and grab the one that I just etched. So it came in and I'm going to click the plus the check mark to accept it. So now you can't see the layer underneath because this one isn't opaque layer certifications. So I'm gonna go down here and change the blending modes. So I'm gonna go in here and change the blending mode on this one, maybe to be multiplied. So now it's mixing with the layer right below it. And then I can go in here and adjust my capacity so I can get some really cool effects that way. Now I have the etched layer on top. If I want to move it down, which sometimes I do as well, I can just click and hold down on it and move it, and it goes down below. And then if I choose the top layer and I'm clicking that little layer icon right next to the plus sign, I can go in here and adjust my blending mode so again I can choose Multiply. I can adjust the capacity if I want to, so I'm getting some really cool effects by blending both of them to both the layers together. If I click the little button at the very bottom, right, Aiken, turn off my layers, hide them rather and then up at the top. I can choose the adjustments if I want to go in here and adjust saturation. Aiken do brightness and contrast levels and curves. I can also click the effects button, and here I have four different categories. I can work in starting under basics the ones that I actually used. I use the lighting button. I'm down here. I've sometimes creative and yet effect. I've done the edges one as well, so maybe I might want to go in here and they go down out of this and go back to my bottom layer, which I haven't done anything to yet. And I can turn off these other two layers by clicking the buttons next to them. So right now I'm targeting that bottom layer that I haven't really done anything with. It was a duplicate, and I'm gonna go back up to my effects button. And under the basic tab, I can click edges. So here it's going to go in and create kind of. Now, that's kind of a cool effect. Just like that, I can adjust the with of the edges by clicking here and dragging so I could get some cool effect there. And when I'm happy with it, I can click the check mark. Now, if you look at the bottom, you can change the edge color. You can change the background color. You can adjust the threshold. So if I wanted to adjust the threshold here a little bit, I can adjust that when you're happy with what you've got, you can click the check mark and then I can go in here and move this one up. Turn these other ones back on again. And on that top one. Aiken Gwynn, here on apply of lending mode. So, for example, if I wanted to apply the blending mode of Multiply now I get a whole different kind of look. Okay, so you can work with the filters that Aaron here, Or as I said, What I often do is I apply different effects with my APS, and then I bring them in and just basically use the blending modes in here. So it's a very powerful app. Other effects that I've done in here, I can apply, Grady. And so I have a few pre made ones. But for that you're gonna want to put it on a separate layer. I believe in always putting things on separate layers so I can edit them later. So what I'm gonna do next is bring in a blank layer and put a Grady in on it. So I'm gonna go down here to the plus sign and add an empty layer click done. So now I have just this blank layer, and if you're used to adobe applications, that little checkerboard means it's transparent, and I'm gonna go up to the ampersand and choose the great aunt. So I have a couple preset ones that I use. I use mostly blues, cause I'm trying to fix guys, so I'm just gonna grab one of these Now I can adjust this Grady and however I want, and I can change the colors. This a little color palette over here. If I want to adjust the strength of the Grady aunt or adjust the color, I'm just going to click the check mark to apply it. But you can see how it's it's actually affecting the image, and I don't want to do that. So I want to go back into that layer and apply a blending mode. So maybe I want to use darkened. Or maybe I want to apply. Multiply so I could go back in here and change it to multiply if I want, and I can adjust the capacity. So that's a cool way to fix guys if I have a sky. If you remember that one of the cathedral in Austria that had a white sky, I applied that radiant. But by using a blending mode, you still can see the cathedral underneath, but it just adds something to the sky a little bit. So that's those are some of the ways that I use Photoshopped touch. You can also add text. If you go up here, you can create selections and Phil and stroke them. You can use the warping feature. So if I wanted to go in here and warp this guy, I could so I can get some. Oh, I'm on the great layer. Let me go down here and turn that layer off. Go to one of my different ones, maybe turned this one off. So now I can go in here and apply that war. So if I wanted to go and distort my image and you can see because I've got transparency on the layers below, you can see that that's shining through. But you can apply all kinds of warp. If you change your mind, you can just undo it or click the X two to stop the action. So this is one of the apse that I use the most. Have you done this? Have you brought any images in and what have you What kind of effects of you use? Um, I'm sorry. What kind of effects of you used? What have you used photo shop touch mostly for, um, adding effects when I don't have my laptop with me and I've got an image that I want to share. That's kind of in my style, and I want to process it the way I would process on the big computer. I'll go into Photoshopped and do and do things and add layers and saturate. And I tended, not sharpen. Just because I find if I do want to do anything with the image later, it can get sharpening. Seems the one thing that is takes it to a point over sharper images so easily. So I agree with you on that. I don't do a lot of sharpening either, but it's nice to know that you're using finish up touch so lots of people use it for different reasons. As I said, one of the main things I do is I use another app, like the etchings at. And then I bring the original and the etched one in, and I play with the blending modes and get some really cool effects. With that, you can add text in here if you wanted to. A swell, which I don't do often and you do have tools, so you have some clone stamp tools. You have smudged tools. You have healing brush, so if you're used to Photoshopped, some of these should look familiar. The reason why I don't do a lot of selections in here, and I'm just being honest. I love this app, but there's no masking featuring here yet, So if I'm going to select something that's going to be deleted. So anyway, when you're finished with the photo and you like the way it looks, you click done gives you the option to save it. So I'm gonna save my image. Now the thing you need to remember is it saving it into Photoshopped touch. It's not in my photo library. Have you ever made that mistake? I'm rushing. I quit out of Photoshopped touch and then where's my image it saved in this library? I have to do one other steps. So this little button at the bottom, right? If I click that button, it gives me the option to save it to my camera roll. And I choose the one and you can use multiple ones here if you want. I choose the one I want when I click. OK, then it will bring it out into my camera roll. So the nice thing is, it keeps all of your layers. This was a beautiful thing. I saw down it Pioneer Square yesterday. I love that I don't know what that's for, but that is just awesome. It's very old fashioned looking, and I went in and turned it into It looks like an Impressionist painting. And if you look at my layers, I actually used auto Painter. I used other painter to to create this effect. Excuse me. And then I brought it in and I put it on a layer and multiplied it. And then I brought the original in, So I actually have two of the original image and two of the auto painted one, and I really like that effect. I thought it looked really like a like an impressionist painting. So really, really great effects that you can do in here with Photoshopped. Touch any questions on Photoshopped touch before I move on to other APS. Okay, so I'm gonna finish with that one, and as I said, that wants a little bit more expensive than the others. But it's it's a great out. I use it all the time. A free one that Adobe offers is finish up express, and they just redid this up within the last week, so I had to go about relearn it all over again. Adobe has a feature called Adobe Revel, and you can get a paid account or a free account of for this one, too. I am so sorry about the notifications. I swear I turned them off. I thought I did. So you can store images in Adobe Revel and you can share photo albums with other people If you want to, I can take a picture right from here or I can open it in my camera roll. So these were some of my images, so I could go back in here and grab an image and pull it up in in this apple, etc. It's fine, This one. It's really cool old building that I saw that I liked. So what they've done now is they've added the ability to do things faster. You used to be able to go in and do everything manually, which you can still do for the most part. But in this new update, they've added these new filters down here. So if you click on looks, you're gonna be able to get to all the free ones. If you click on premium looks, you have to purchase those. And of course, I went out and purchased them because that's what I dio. So there are some premium ones in here that I can get to sing, get all kinds of different effects quickly. So this is where it's going to do it for you automatically. You can still go back and edit things individually if you want this little button at the bottom that looks like sliders allows you to go in and adjust different things individually if you like. So I'm gonna go back here to my original, and I can actually now go in by clicking that middle slider. Now, I've got different categories. I can edit like exposure and highlight. I can go in here and change the temperature if I like. So I'm going in here for that particular category and just adjusting the slider so you can see at the bottom left that's gonna take you to the pre made filters. The second button from the left is the crop feature, so you can go in and rotate. You can flip your image. You can constrain it so that you keep the proportions the same without little lock or you can unlock that so that you can crop it to any proportion that you like. And then Asai said, this middle one allows you to going to make some adjustments, such as clarity. You can do the saturation, Which in here is called vibrance. I really like to over saturate my photos, so that's a good one as well. The fourth button from the left is the red eye removal. So if you want to go in and do a little red eye removal, you can. And then the one on the far right allows you to put borders and frames on your images. Sorry to interrupt, but I'm gonna ask you a couple questions that have been coming in for the Internet, if you don't mind, just pausing for a second. I don't mind it all. Okay, great fashion TV is what is from Singapore and one of our long time ah watchers here on creativelive. And they're asking, Sally, do you have any practical tips on shooting awesome selfie with an IPhone? So many of us are out and about in the world and especially, you know, for a virtual photo walk this afternoon, I think a lot of people will be taking cool photos of themselves and just wondering if you have any great tips for that. I dio I use the future where you can actually turn it on yourself. I use that a lot on Die. Do I like to sometimes get some of the background in? So I might take photos of myself off to one side? That's something I do a lot as well. Basically just a lot of the images that I do. I turn it around so that I'm actually seeing myself so that I can I can actually position myself in the center. But you also have to remember if there's something in the background or if you have some writing on your shirt that's going to be flipped us well. But yes, for taking self portrait photos. I visited a bunch of covered bridges in Indiana last year, and I loved the idea of having the bridges in the background and there was nobody to take my photo. So what I did was I just kind of positioned it off to the side so that I got part of myself in part of the bridge and I love till they turned out. So I think Sophie's air great. I take them all the time and I put them on Instagram and I hash tag them selfie And I just think those selfies air great. I do them all the time. So another app that I like to use is 100 cameras. Um, it's a free up. This one has guess how many filters this one has? What's called 100 cameras, Can you guess has 100 filters. So I'm going to go in here and just open an image, for example, and maybe the totem poles, and you can move and scale it around here. If you wanted to seek in pension zoom if you want. Oh, zoom in on it. I'm going to choose that one. This one has some cool effects. And honestly, I don't know which ones I'm going to like more than others. So I just go in here and try different effects, and you can click a little right arrow and it will bring up a bunch of your different filters at one time, and you can adjust the strength of the filters by dragging from left to right. Now, if you like the effect that you've applied and you want to go on, apply another effect. You just have to hit the save button, and then you can click out effect and do another one so I might go in and apply. So maybe I like how that looks. I hit, save, and then I can go in and add another effect and it takes me back to that menu. There are certain ones in here that I like more than others, and some of them just distort the images too much, so I don't use all of them. But you can apply Frames in here is well, it's a very basic up, so you don't really have a whole lot of settings for each one of your your filters. But I do like this when I use this one a lot. When you're happy with the just click share that gives you the option on this particular case, I usually take this one right into instagram, so it doesn't really give me the option of saving it to my my camera library. So I usually just go in and open this one right in instagram. But it's a simple basic free app that gives you a lot of really cool effects. So some of them look like paint drippings or different types of vintage effects. Since I do like that vintage look a lot I do. You use this app a lot, so on that's that was called 100 cameras. Another one that I use a lot is shocked. My pick. This one also doesn't have a lot of different settings. And this one is not really very intuitive, in my opinion. So you have to click on the screen, and then you can go in and choose a new image from your album. So if I go in here and choose an image that I took yesterday, so maybe I go in here and choose the Paris will. Everyone keeps asking me if I went on the Ferris will. No, I did not. I'm afraid of heights. So this one I had already done in a different program, so may go out and pick a different image. So I'm gonna go out here and, um, the back to my photo album and find another image. Any questions? What were were waiting? When you're working, do I use a stylus. I do. Sometimes I probably should use one more often. Do you use a stylus? Uh, I don't And I often find that I get frustrated cause I can't get the details. Some absolute you to pension. Zoom in. But I don't always get the perfection that I would like, so Yeah, I do use the stylist. I use it on my IPad more than I do on my phone. Probably I should start using it more. Because when your pensions him in, you can get a little bit of a closer back. But I'm a perfectionist. I suspect you are too. I want perfect edges, and I don't always get them when I'm using my phone. So here's this is some some of the little wooden dolls I saw in a story yesterday at the waterfront. So it's actually gone in and done the effect already. You can't really see it to well up there, but it creates kind of a cartoon painter. Effect three Only setting I really have is the option to change my brush size and to change my resolution. So once. But I do like this look a lot. So once I do this one again. It's not intuitive. You need to tap on the screen, and then it gives you the option to go in and save the image. So this one's called Shock. My pick. I love the look that I get with it. I don't know how easy it is to see upon the screen, but it does kind of go in and create a cartoony kind of painted look. And I love that one, and that's a free app. So that was called shock. My pick Tangled effects is one of the ones that I love. Anyone in here ever used tangled another great app that has a lot of really cool effects. So the first thing I do is I go to my settings and at the very top. Under general, you want to turn on the advanced effects settings that allows you to go in and get a lot more control over the different look. So once that's turned on, I can then go out here and open my image. So I'm going to go out here and choose an image from my photos. So go to this my camera roll, and I'm just gonna choose on a totem pole image. So I really like that. Now this one, it's automatically going in and applying the effect that I have chosen at the bottom. So some of these I like some of them I never use. For example, I'm just going to randomly choose. There's pencil strokes now really distorted the image a lot, but you can go in and adjust the settings. The button on the bottom right words. His tune allows you to go in and change a lot of things, such as the stroke size I can control. How much color? So I like to boost up the color a little bit so I can go in here and make some adjustments. Click that button again, and then I can go out and see how it applied the effect. So it made the strokes a little bit thinner and it boosted up the color a little bit more. So I might like this looker. I might want to try a different one. I like the dark side a lot as well. It really adds a lot of contrast, and again, if I like that look, but I want to adjust the stroke size, I can do that also so I can go in here and adjust the stroke size. I can go in here and boost the color. I can adjust the gamma. So again, in order to get the most out of this app, you want to go in before you start working with it in turn on your advanced settings. So I'm going to go back up under. Since my notifications go away, I'm going to go back up under the top here on change. Just show you again. Under this settings button is where you turn on your advanced sex. So this one allows you to go out and save your images in all these different types of effects. And then I usually pull these into Photoshopped touches, I said, and I put the original on a layer, and I play with different blending modes, and I can get some really cool effects. So it did a really nice job on this image, but it's not as easy to see all the detail. So that's why I said, I'll just show you, I'll do one. I'm gonna go out here and save this now if I save it as the preview it's going to be smaller than the original. So I'm gonna click up here and have it save it in full size, which is gonna take a little bit longer, but at once it saves that image. Then I can go in and pull that into Photoshopped touch, so just one second it's still saving it. So I'm gonna go up here until it to save it to my photo libraries. And now it's saved the original size so I could go back out to photo shop touch. I'm gonna open a new project and pulling the original. So go back up here and find the original That it that's a different 1 may find the original, but that's it. And then I'm gonna open my layers panel at a new photo layer, and I'm gonna go in here and bring in the one that I just did. So they're on top of each other right now. So when I click the check mark, I can go in here and apply different types of blending effects. So maybe I want to use multiply, and I want to cut back a little bit so you can still see the detail from it and it's really colorful. And again I can change the rotation of the images if I want to move one up to the top. So maybe I want a click one and pull that one up to the top and apply the blending effect on that one. So again, this is my go to out for being able to blend the one that I've altered and my original one. So I think that looks That looks kind of cool. I like that effect. It still has some detail on the strokes, but it also has its very saturated from from the tangled up also really saturated it. So I think that's kind of a cool effect. So again, when I'm finished here, I can click done and go out and save that one. So tangled is another one that I go to a lot. Deluxe FX is another app that I like. I use this one. I'm fairly often as well. So I'm going to go in here and click the open button and I'm gonna go out here and choose my one of my photos. So here's my original. So this is one of the things that I saw Pioneer Square yesterday and love those lampposts, so I'm going to move and scale it, and then I'm gonna go out here and show you down at the bottom. I have different types of filters I can apply. So there are all kinds of filters, like rainbow effects. Didn't get that kind of effect really easily. Um and then I can also go. If I want to accept that I can then go back. I could do and undo here and go back. I can also go to my overlays. So if I wanted to apply some kind of different lighting effects, maybe scratches on the image, So this one's kind of an automated one as well. This one does allow you to put Grady INTs on the images, but I don't get to change the blending effects as easily as I do in Photoshopped touch. So I don't really do the overlays on here very much, but I do like these different filters. The filters conduce, um really cool effect. So that added kind of a rainbow effect. I'm going here and try some different ones. This is a really heavily used app on instagram. I see a lot of beach scene photos that they've altered with this up to create different kinds of effects. So I like this one too. Um, let's see, what other ones can I show you? I have faced tune anybody used face, chin basters, a good up. But I don't use it for the main reason that it was created. I used to go in and kind of blur out the backgrounds a lot so I can go in here and I can actually chew and choose an image. Now, I could bring in a face image if I want to, but what I tend to do instead and I'm going to go in here and grab one of my images from yesterday. So maybe this one if I wanted to blur out an area and not make it is obvious. So maybe I want to blur out the top right corner of this image just to show you you do have options down at the bottom. If you're working on faces, it's called face tune. So it was meant to be used for faces. I don't use it for that a lot, but you go in and smooth skin. You can whiten teeth. You can go in and reshape. If you want to make your face look thinner, you can go in here and paint with it, but I use it for the blurring effects. If you click the button at the bottom that says D focus and then you have the option of D focusing or blurring. This is one that I used a lot. I'm gonna pinch and zoom, and just to show you if I wanted to blur this top section on the top, right. If I click the Blur button, I can go in here and paint a blur on this image. So this is where the stylist would really come in handy and you can pension, zoom and move your image around if you want to, so I can go in here and just keep blurring. So if I really want, I'm careful and I didn't do too bad of a job there. But I can go in here and blur just to add emphasis to a certain part of the image. So this is what I use face tune for the most. So again you have these little buttons the bottom that you can use to go back and forth on, and I chose de focus. And then when you get into the settings for D Focus, you can choose to d focus it or blur it. And if you pinch and zoom and zoom in on it, you can then go in and blur certain areas. So I think that's one of the ones that I use when I was showing you my original images that I blur the backgrounds so that I can draw more attention to the actual subject. Yes, more questions from the A lot of people have a wonderful, wonderful questions coming in, so keep them coming. You guys, you have a lot of APS on your phone, and I was wondering how to best organize all of your APS because your phone can get so filled and when you're on the go shooting and you're like, Where is that one? In the app that does like the best you know, sienna hued, it is important to organize your APS. If you drag one app, you click and hold down on it for a second and drag one app over top of another creative folder, and then I name them I have six IPhone. Ah, graffiti, APS. I might even have seven. And you can I? I think you can put 16 different APS inside of folder. So to start that process, you click and hold down on one app and drag it over top of another, and it creates a folder, and then it gives you the option to name them and some minor called IPhone. Ah, graffiti. and six. And then you can organize. I believe it's up to 16 different APS in the folder. And so my eye photography one is one that has my the APS that I use the most. And then I used that to go down. But, you know, for social media, I use that for organizing on my social media, APs for my business, abs and things like that. So I think it's absolutely crucial to organize them, and putting them in folders makes it easier. You can name the folders whatever you want, and then you can put all of the important ones on your opening screen, and then the other ones can go on subsequent screens after that. So that's a really good question. Do you guys use folders to organize your abs. So how maney photo ops do you have? I'm just curious. You have a lot. I have a lot. I'm addicted just getting in trying to do. And sometimes I get once that I really didn't end up liking a others. So do you organize the men folder? Not as much as I'd like to, but the ones that I use the most. I do tend to put in one folder, and then I referenced back to that one, and I tried to delete the ones I don't like. Yeah, And then sometimes I've gone back and reap downloaded it again because I saw something cool that someone did with it. But yeah, Do you guys use I'm older of them? Because I feel like I feel like you could just get so many, you know, like, and not exactly know which ones to pull in photos. I try to keep it more streamlined and just have, like, have like, one folder. I think that's, like, eight total in a folder. I think it's one of those, Uh, yeah, I think you can have 16. So I think a 16 for 16 in a folder. You know my eye pornography. One up. Is that your back to your priority? One of the weather. Let's my go to one. Give it just a second to catch up here on the screen. But I haven't a folder called photography one. Okay, so my iconography one, these are the ones that I go to the most. My eye photography, too. I use these a lot as well, but I have to be honest when you get down toe iconography. Six. I don't use these all the time. Some of them I do. I use, but not as often. So I tried to put them in order of how often I used. Um Um okay, so hopefully we won't see any more notifications moving forward. Thank you, everyone. Okay, so I showed you etchings. That's a really cool when glazes another good one. That I like this one gets gives you a lot of really cool effects. And I again, I use this one a lot with Photoshopped touch or with another app called Filter Storm. So I'm just gonna go in here and open an image, find something that has some detail on it, so I got a lot of good ones yesterday at the waterfront. So here's an image. I saw a really interesting walkway. This may not be the best one for showing it, but I'll just walk you through if you scroll through the list of the bottom. Thes don't have any names. You just have to find ones that you like that work. So that looks kind of cool. I kind of like that effect on that one. There's a bunch of different ones, and you can even buy some premium ones. Ah, these. Or there's an orange flower. This one. I tend to use a lot, so you just kind of learned which ones you like. I wish they had names, but they really don't. So that one I like. It still keeps a lot of the detail of the image where some of these really distort the image, like probably probably wouldn't use them. That one's kind of cool to, But again, I'm not seeing a whole lot of detail in this one afterwards. So so you know, it just depends on the image itself. I still think that's kind of cool. It looks like an Impressionist painting so you can scroll through here. What I wish they had with names, and they don't. So it kind of gives you an idea. Some of them are for scenery. Some of them are for faces. So this one has a little bit more detail than the last one. But I do use this up a lot. I really like the effects I get in this one. So, you know, some of these might be a little bit too. That one I probably would never use. But, you know, it depends. Maybe if it was just a picture of a piece of fruit or something, it might look OK, but I lost way too much detail. It almost looks like it distorted the buildings. But glazes and up that I use a lot for scenery. Not so much for faces, but I use this one a lot for scenery. Okay, Another one that I like is grunge. It's called modern grunge. So I'm just gonna go out here and grab one of my images for that one. We'll just use this one again. So I have different types of filters that I can use to apply. So if you click the presets button. You're gonna see a lot of different types of effects. It shows you a photo. That kind of gives you an idea of the type of grunge effect is going to use. So if I click on this, it applies that effect. I don't like it to be covering their faces, so I'm probably not gonna use that one. But there are a lot of different filters in here that you can apply. That one looks kind of cool, goes with the theme of the image. I think using this kind of grunge effect. So really like this one. I use this one a lot, too. Some of them are a little bit less detailed than others. Some of them create kind of crinkled paper. Look, and again, when you're done with it, you can then click the button in the top right to save it out in my settings. The only really real controls I have here are my output resolution. So if you wanted to be in full output, resolution takes up more space on your camera. But it you might want toe go in and paint it so I can also go in here and click and create rips in my image, which you might like to do to. But so you know, you do all kinds of cool effects like that with this one. So let me see if I can find another image and show you a different look. So, uh, see, So maybe this doorway, it's interesting doorway that I saw asked that again. Any questions? While I'm searching for a photo, there are a lot of great questions coming in from all over the Internet and a couple. There's a couple from Net ingenuity in Austin having a lot of wonderful questions talking out to you. What naming convict convention Do you recommend naming conventions for my images eyes their way to rename the images as they're being taken inside your IPhone? I don't do that. Let me double check. I don't think I don't know that you can rename them. I named them. When I get them to my computer, I don't name them on my phone, but I save all of my images on my computer, and then I go back and save them. By the year and month, I'm pretty particular about saving things in the correct folder So I have a knife pornography folder on my external hard drive, and then I have 2013 and I have them by month. Or if I go on photo walks, I organize them. I have a Seattle fold or already that I've saved everything in, so I don't change the name of them on my phone. But I do recommend that you save them at either by location if you're going on a photo walk or by month because I always like to go back and access them again. So good question, though you want to continue on with absolute excellent What sharing platform do you prefer for all your beautiful photos that you take? I do share them on Instagram. I know a lot of people complain who are photographers because they think they say their images air being share being used by other people. If you're a photographer, that's absolutely a Valley concern. It's not something that I I worry about too much because I don't make my living as a photographer. But I do like instagram. I think it is. You could see from my notifications pumping up. I do like instagram a lot. Another one that I was just introduced to recently was called I Am It's e Y e M. And I hear that a lot of photographers prefer that one because they are a lot stricter about sharing photos, sharing your work once you posted. Does anybody in the audience do you use anything else for sharing your images? I am. But I know of photographers who do because of just like the policies for the meal to use. Your images are a lot better that would like her to the ground. This fall is like on my Facebook, so they have a lot of the same policies that law bloggers don't like. So I know a lot of people that use on you. Yeah, I am is supposed to be really good. I just recently started using that one myself. But yeah, that's thank you for the input. I had heard that as well, so that might be a good one to look into. The next one is from Fashion TV again in Singapore, wondering if you have your thoughts are on the lens attachments that are designed for the IPhone, like the close up lens fisheye that any recommendations that are actually ideo. And so I'm actually doing a promotional video that goes with this. If you purchase the recording of this course, that would talk about the one that I use is called Olo Clip. It's O L l o clip there many other ones out there, and I'm constantly experimenting with new ones. That's an easy one that you can clip over your phone. I usually have a case on my phone, so I have to take the case off to use it. But it's three lenses in one, and it's under bucks, and I love that one. So if you do purchase the course there, you'll get that promotional video where I talk about using the old clip. But thanks. That's a great question that Singapore. Thank you. That's great. A bonus video? Yeah. Cool. All right, let's see. Next question. Did you have one in class? Anyone? Okay, Sorry. I thought I saw him. Ok, uh, let's see. Do you have any recommendations for photo collage? APS? I see this being used a lot more and more, and I just threw the only one. That's a really good question. And I'll show that to you didn't that turn out nice, But I think that looks really cool, especially because of that subject. So the one that I use is called pic Stitch, and I have to find out what you want. Here it is. It's the only one that I use. Does anybody in here use a different one? I love this one, cause it's super easy. So you can even purchase additional layouts if you want to. And of course I will do that. I just haven't done it yet. But you can pick a layout. So, for example, I'll choose this one, and then you just simply double top on the one that you want to add an image into. So if I go out here to my album and I probably want to pick some images that are horizontal so this one one of them and I could make adjustments to it so I can apply effects right here. That was from yesterday is not beautiful. That was just right down by the waterfront. Shouldn't complement my own photos. But I thought that was okay to do that. Yes, absolutely. That's why you photograph. And then I'm going to double click on this bottom one and go in and choose another. And again for this particular layout, I want to pick things that are kind of horizontal. So maybe I would choose, um, this one also. So that was a nice one, too. Isn't that gorgeous? Photo also. So then you could go in. I should have done it before I applied that. I could go back in here and change the photo if I want, but you can move them around inside there. But that's a really easy one to use that one school pic stitch on. That's that. You said you use that one as well. It's super easy to figure out how to use. Have you used that one? Also so and then you could just save out from here. Didn't click the little export button. But I like the fact that it has some filters that you can apply, and you can go in and crop your images and do some things to them. In here. A swell my images air so over done by the time they get here that I don't usually use the filters in here, but yeah, I just I just free one Yeah, everyone to just actually a couple days ago got the pro version of it, which takes the advertisements away. Well, I do kind of get on your nerves if you use it a lot, but it also gave me additional borders. You can get some really cool custom borders this way. So there are two professional packages that you could buy, and I think it was a dollar 99 for the each one one gives you additional custom borders, and the other one gives you different layouts, and I'm happy with the number of layouts that I have already. So I agree anything that you can use the free version for. Absolutely. So that one's Ko pic stitch earlier in the chat rooms was wondering, How many APS do you put your photos through and process on average? That's a really good question. It depends on the image. I would say I haven't done more than maybe six. That's probably a little you're probably cringing over there using six photo, but it just depends on the image that one that I showed you of myself, a portrait that was yellow. That one was probably the most I used six laps on that one, but most of them average between, you know, maybe 2 to 4 APS. I guess it just depends on the image. How about you do use a lot? It's probably one or two, OK, so clearly I'm you know, there's a down side of that. You can over process the image as well, but I do like to add, like I said that, Lumi, I'll show you that in a second. I like to add cool lighting effects with them, so I would say probably an average of 2 to 4 would be would be. That's my story, and I'm sticking with it. I think I do about one or two as well, because I think I just want to hurry and get the photo out there, like as fast as I can and also for professional photographers. They're probably cringing, seeing how much I over process my images because there are people who like and I respect that you like to keep the original photos looking the way they do. I like to turn them into artwork, so it just depends on your style. There's nothing wrong with just using one or two abs and there's nothing wrong with using five or six. Anybody in here use just one or two APS and don't want to go any further than that. You are you a photographer? So this probably makes you crazy. Single the over processing. Do you have to stop looking at the mess like images? You just have to look out of this because they're not just photographs anymore. So you just want to be the mist like pictures. It's kind of Ukraine's, but then you realize that they're not just That's a good point because I do like to turn them into artwork. I think there's this. You look really nice together because our our own Kate Hayley here is one of my favorite I photographers that I love following. Yeah, she's a wonderful photographer. She has hundreds of iconography APS on her phone and I always asking her questions. But whenever I see her images, I'm always inspired to want to use more apt to process the images because they are pieces of art. They're just absolutely beautiful. Absolutely take more time. Fabulous. I just had a conversation with her yesterday, and that's a good point because everybody is different There are some people. I have some friends. We're gonna mention my friend Michael Klassen, who you can follow him on Instagram his instagram I d is big fish. His company is big fish creations. His he comes more from a photography background than I do. So his look more like photographs where mine look more like artwork and there's no right or wrong. And just everybody has their own style. And I think that's the cool part about it. So any other questions you ever print, amount or put together books, sir? Because I haven't done that yet. Have you know I'd like to try it? I'd like to. And that's where being able to save some of these. You can't save them in high resolution, so they probably wouldn't be good for that. But I would really like to try that. And I Would you email me if you do it? I'd love to see how they turn out for you, because I'm thinking about it myself. I have a Have you done it? Have you? I e just send them to my precious lab. I use pretty p I. And they actually have a really cool square crop with a white border on it, and so you can send your your all your instagram exports to them, and then they just print them and they're really reasonable. And it's really, really fun to actually just have these physical images toe hold eight and have. And yeah, so if you could try not to. No more than I think the iconography is so interesting because you have all you have. All this information of all this data in one little tiny device, you know, we're losing kind of that are, you know, are we losing something with not having physical images anymore? I think of that with pictures of my own daughter. When she was little, we had photo albums, and now she has a on album on my Facebook profile. But what happens? That's when that goes away. So I agree with you. So I think that's great. Thank you for animate, and I think it is a great idea. I have a friend in L. A. Who I think it's watching. Our name is Cat and she uses She's doing a lot of photographs of street art of street graffiti, and I I told her, you need to put a book together of this. So I think that's a great idea. And I think you just lit a fire under me. I think I should do that. That's a great idea. You know, if the print and you know it exporting all of your instant frozen, this printing them and getting them it's just that joy of like having your hands are going like, Oh, absolutely. Have you done any of that? Have you done? Have you printed on any of your instagram? No, I haven't. I really I should. Like I'm an offer to go with, like, printing things out. But how? I go through phases where I use my phone a lot. I have my cat, my, my DSLR me a lot. So it like it varies. I've been taking more again. I kind of like I wasn't instagram for a while. I was incredibly active, and then I just My obsession went away, and now I'm trying to use it again. So it would probably be hard for a photographer because you might take a photo with your IPhone. I think I could have done, you know, it's a beautiful shot. And why didn't I use my camera for that? That I think that's probably I don't again not being a pro photographer. I don't really have quite that as you probably do. Have you ever done that? Have you ever taken a photo with your IPhone and thought, Why didn't I use my like, Why is Android? But little thing I like about the phone photos is that you can upload it right away, and if it's just a couple times, I don't have my camera there. It is really nice, like I've been walking on sometimes and the sunset's beautiful. Sure, the just being able to have it right there. And then we'll put it online right away. And then even if I do take them with my DSLR than I can upload and say, Hey, look at this like we're just sunset or something or if I see something, then I can later due process like the DSLR images, and I have no those. So it's nice to have both. And like the thing that I really like, what Instagram is, it's just it's a media you contribute. What you doing? The tooth instant. And by the way, most of these absolute. I think all of these are available on Android. So yeah, a lot of the more I just have I pretty much have the one that I use. Like I've tried like Photoshopped Express because they have it, But pretty much I just have the one that, like, photo softened that I can do. Look, everything that I would normally do to my images anyway, So it's like I like everything you said it was very depends on what you're doing. Like I can pretty much get what I want it off like one app. But, I mean, you can't do always really more effects if you want to try and make them more painterly. Absolutely. What were you going to say? Say that, you know, with the having your SLR having your IPhone, you know, Chase Jarvis says the best camera is the one that's with you. That's exactly right. And that's why I said I have my IPhone with me. I would take it in the shower. I work for myself. I'm constantly checking. As you can see. I got notifications coming on all the time. I like. I was with Instagram name in the chat rooms. That was probably why you find a problem. So Okay, so let me show you. Um I was I in which one was showing you? So we did etchings. We did grunge. This is a new one that I just discovered, and this is kind of a silly one, but it does some cool things. It's called perfect. 3 65 It is four faces. So I have a picture of my daughter here that I've used It scans the face. It doesn't scan every face. I find that some of the selfies I've taken I've no idea why. If it doesn't consider me human or what, It doesn't scan every face, but this one. It did. And it goes in and pixel the key points on the face. And then when you click, OK, you have some options down here at the bottom where you can apply. And we had a good laugh over this cause I did fantasy for her, and it does some cool, different effects instantly. But I have to say that my daughter and I both have big eyes. Thank you. My daughter and I both have very big eyes, and I've noticed that Sometimes the eyelashes are like right puts the eyelashes right in the middle of our eyes. So if you have big eyes, this may not be the app for you. But if I go back here now and choose, let's see, I'm gonna go back to the original. If you click the edit button, you have some options over here on the side. So from mouth, you can go in and whiten the teeth to click the button that you want to whiten the teeth and then you've got a little slider here that you can use in. It detects the teeth automatically if you want to change the lipstick, and you can choose a color so you can increase the lipstick. If you want to, just a little bit more lip color on, go back to the edit button and go to the eyes on. Go in here and change her eye color if I want to all kinds of cool things that you can do with this particular up. So this is a good one for smoothing the face. If I go back to edit, they just did an update on this one yesterday where they have foundation I haven't used that one yet, but if you go to skin, there's a foundation that is so I guess it goes in and tries to apply foundation to your face on. But if I go to the face one here, I can lift the chick the cheeks. Aiken slim the face. I'm all about slimming the face thing whenever possible so you can go in here and still in the face down if you want to, so it's kind of cool. I use this one alive. I had a good time, like I said, laughing with my daughter about the fantasy ones, which were kind of funny. So you can, you know, the fantasy ones where that goes in and applies the eye makeup really easily. But so lots of different filters down here at the bottom. If you click the edit button, you can go in. Like I said, you can add it. You can increase the smiles to make your smile even bigger if you want to. It's not funny, so I think that was a free out. But I I like to use it to slim the face. I like to use it to maybe just increase the lip color a little bit. It will refine the nose, so add some shadows on the side for the nose. Things like that that would take a little bit longer. In other APS, I'm not real big on the fantasy eye makeup, but you know it's there if you want to try it. So there's this smoky What does that do? It looks like it added circles under her eyes, so you can get a lot of cool effects with that one. That one's called perfect 3 65 So no end that one. Um, I have another one here that I like cold, gloomy, and I mentioned that I used this one a lot. Now this one, I haven't figured out a way to actually have it saved in high rez, and the photos need to be square in order for it to do a good job. Otherwise it distorts them. So before I go into that one, I'm going to show you one called Square Ready Pro. This one. I use a lot to that. I use this one to go in and turn my images and just squares. If you're putting an image in Instagram and it's a rectangle. It's gonna force you to crop it to a square. And sometimes I don't want to lose detail. So I go in here and I open an image, and then I can go in and apply this one. Turn this one into Ah, square. You can add color on the outside. So just use this image of Emma again so I can go in here if I wanted to and apply. This is already a square, so I can go in and apply a border on the outside. So a lot of times I just leave the border white. But the point is, when you're pulling it into instagram, then you're not forced to crop the photo. You can get the whole photo, so that one's called square Ready pro. And I use that one a lot as well. So, um Olu me, I was going to show you. Let me just open an image in Lumi so you can take a photo or you could just choose the little button on the right to choose a photo that already exists. So if I go in here and just choose a photo and it gives me an option to crop it and scale it. This one is I don't use the hearts, but I could see where somebody might like that. It's not one of my favorites. I use the glitter a lot, so these different glitter effects. So if I choose one of these now you get some buttons down here that you can pick from, and every image is different, so I tend to click the dark button a lot. But you have an option between three different ways that you can apply it. That's kind of cool. And I might pull that one then into photo shot, foolish of touch and used the original. Maybe it's a blending mode on top of it to get a little bit more detail back on their faces. This is just what I do. So I think that looks really cool. But if I wanted to add a little bit more detail back in their faces, I can't really mask it in here. But I would pull this one into Photoshopped, touch well, the original on a layer above it, and then just use a blending mode and opacity, and that way I can get some detail back in their faces but still keep the effect. I love this one. I haven't found out a way to save images in high Rez out of this one. So this probably wouldn't be a good one if you were gonna print your images. But I think the effects here are really cool. So there isn't an undue You just have to go back and start again. So you go back, and if I choose that same image or just I could just choose any image and I can go down through here and you can see there's a bunch of different effects that you can apply. So here's some costume of cosmos ones. That's kind of crazy. But then I can cut back and try some of now that one school. So I added, some of the I can still seek some of the color dots, but it's not as overwhelming as it was before. So this is a simple little app, but I love it. I use this one all the time, and depending on the images, I can get some really cool effects. So I'm going to show you one more that I love any questions before I move on. I like filter. Storm filter storm is a really good one. Also, this one does have layers and it does have blending modes. But this one also has masking. So the first thing I'm gonna do is going to this one. If you look at the buttons, I have them on the right hand side. They originally on the left. But when I'm demo ing them, I like to put them on the right. So starting at the top gives you the ability that little camera icon gives you the ability to take a picture right now or load a photo the 2nd 1 down on your canvas. You'll see you can crop and rotate and straighten your images. The 3rd 1 is filters. It looks like a little brightness icon. This gives you a bunch of different filters that you can apply. The 4th 1 is layers. If anyone in here use this photo shop and you use actions in photo shots, that's what the automation are. What you do is you apply a couple of facts and then you save that automation. So if you applied a couple different effects to your images, maybe some filters or you cropped it. You can say that it's an automation and use it on other images, if you like, and it's even got a history panel. So I'm gonna go up here and load an image, and I'm gonna load, see good in my photo library, and I'm gonna go out and grab that guy. This guy right here again. Okay, So what I thought I would do is maybe put some kind of a texture on his coat. So what? I'm going and I'm gonna go down here to my layers and I'm going to click. By the way, you have to turn layers on first in your settings button when you first launch it. So I've got layers turned on. I'm gonna go in here and bring in another image. I took a picture of the wallpaper in my hotel room, which is kind of ah, textured effect. And I brought that in on a separate layer. So anytime you bring another image and it automatically puts it on the layer and I'm gonna rotate that and I'm gonna click fit to image so it's automatically re sizing that. And so now I'm gonna click the check mark to apply it. Go back to my layer. So now I have my photo on the bottom layer and I have my photo on the top layer. So the top photo is just that kind of textured wallpaper look, So I'm gonna click Edit mask, And this is where I can go in and apply masking. So maybe I want to apply that effect out here. Now, again, I'm working on a layer. Except I said I was going to do it on the, uh, the raincoat, so that didn't work. So let me go back out there again, go back out to my layers and bring that back in again. So there's my wallpaper, and I'm gonna resize it now. I could have just gone to the history panel there if I wanted to, and just gone back instead of bringing it in again. So I click the check mark to accept it. I'm gonna go into my layers and I'm gonna click the edit mask. And this time I'm going to have to use this little button at the top this second button down to be able to zoom in on a zoom in a little bit on it. Go back to the brush. So now I can apply that. And this is where that stylist would probably really come in handy. I can go in here and apply that wallpaper to his coat. So again, I'm a perfectionist, but I'm gonna try to get over that and do this quickly since we're live so again, I have to switch to that tool. Move this up a little bit. You can see I'm not doing the best job. I mean, I could do it perfectly, but so I'm applying this all over, and then when I'm done, I can click the check mark to accept it. When I go back into my layers, click that little adjustments icon, and then I can go in and apply blending modes. So here I can now see the raincoat underneath, but I can adjust the a pass it Ian here as well. So I've added a texture to the raincoat so I can put my layers away, and you can see that I've gone in here and added a little bit of texture to the raincoat. So one of the key benefits to using this program is that not only do I get layers like Photoshopped touch, but I get masking effect, which I really like. I love the ability to go in and just apply something toe one part of an image. So again, what I did was I opened up my original image. I went into my layers. I brought in that wallpaper photo. There's a demo online that they did, where they used crumpled paper. They just crumpled up a piece of paper, laid it flat, took a photograph of it. That's where I got the idea to just shoot my wallpaper in my hotel room, and then you can bring that in on a separate layer, resize it and then you can apply. Every layer that you bring in automatically has a mask on it, so you get the ability to go in and mask it. So another way this might be useful would be to blur the second layer, maybe duplicate him on a second layer and blur him and then just mask out so that he isn't focus and the background is blurred. So this is a great app. It's got a lot of power. I'm really just showing you a little bit of it, but you can go in here, Asai said. You have all these different types of filters that you can apply so you could do a blur filter. You could just open one photo. Do the blur filter it automatically will create a mask for you, and then you can go in and paint with your brush and decide what areas you wanted to be in focus in what areas you wanted to be blurred. So this is really a very powerful app. Has anybody used filter storm? What have you used it for the go twos for me? Because instead of having to to go to an app where it has an automatic preset, I can do it myself and and then stay within that one happening. I like that, too. And that's why when Photoshopped Express just got an update, everything was done automated. It took me a while to figure out how to do it manually. Again, I agree. I like to go in and be able to just ultra things individually. Have you done any masking in here? Uh, a little bit. I have. It's pretty easy, right, you see to figure out, and you can save you. You have all kinds of export options out of here. So what kind of giving an example for skies and stuff? Because the whole Grady in thing for me, the frustrating part is if there's a person in the image, I don't want their face to be blue. Sure, so this way I can just saturate the sky and avoid doing someone say That's a really good example. Great, Thanks. So there is the little history panel. The second button from the bottom allows you to go back up in your history panel. I'm a big history panel user in photo shop, so I love it in here as well, and then your export button at the bottom, where you can go down and choose where you want to save your image. You can export it right out from here. Click the settings, but you can control the size of your J. Peg the quality of your J peg. You can control the size of your image. This is a really powerful app. I'm just starting to as well Britain. It does operative absolutely so it's a It's a really great great application. I love it. I'm not using it to its full extent yet, but I'm planning to learn more about it. I just started experimenting with the masking because that was one of the things you want to be able to mask things. You want to be able to go in and do some nondestructive editing. So I love that. So, um so those are some of the apse that I owe it just end with because we're almost out of time. I want to show you the auto painter ones because I love those. And auto auto painter to is the one I use the most. You go in here and you open an image. The's work really well with landscaped images, landscape meaning, a supposed to portrait's, although you could do portrait's. But I love the felt tip pen. I don't know what this was going to do in this image. You don't really get a whole lot of controls. You just kind of have to choose it and let it do its thing. But I just get such a kick out of watching it. Sometimes I just go in and redo it over again so I can watch it build. It goes through several different steps, and then the final step. This workers back in adds detail, doesn't work on every image, but I've done some beautiful ones. I took some shots in my neighborhood off sun coming through the trees, and they just turned out beautifully. So here's the detail brush where it's going back in and just applying detail isn't that cool? So this is called Auto Painter, and there's 12 and three, and this is another one that I go in and pull this back into Photoshopped touch and do some different things with the blending modes. So it's kind of cool. It's making a look. Looks like a felt tip like you've created art with felt tip pen. So I love this one. Has anybody used any of the auto painter once before? I think they're free. I can't remember if they cost anything, but if they do cause something, start with Number two. Number two seems to have the best filters, but some of them have Van Gogh type effects or Claude Monet on bare, all based on art style. So I think that turned out kind of cool. We can't really tell what it is But again, if I wanted to get more detail back in that when this is one that I would either pull into filter storm or pull it into Photoshopped touch and put the original on the layer above it, apply a blending mode and then I can get get some of that detail back again. So that's one that I absolutely love. So any questions online questions that just came in? Uh, let's go with blending mode to speak in with. There is quite a few people wondering a photo maker and which she asking what blend modes or a passage Controls are in Filter Storm and then, uh, which he also is asking about. You can explain masking and blending in your case. Masking and blending Masking would be if you want to hide part of a photo. If I'm teaching a photo shop class, I usually say, Imagine looking at a photograph in laying a piece of black paper over top of it and cutting out the whole only where that hole is cut. Are you seeing the photo? The rest of it is covered up, so if we put things on different layers and you have for instance, that guy, this guy here and I want to cover up the background. Imagine me laying a piece of black paper over that and just cutting out a whole to show the fishermen on Lee the fisherman is going to show through. The rest of it is going to be covered up, and that's called Masking. The masking is where you control how much of the photo actually shows through, or in this case, how much of the layer actually shows through. Now they were asking about filters and blending modes, and here you have all of the Photoshopped blending modes. So if I go in here at you can see that I have normal. Does nothing multiply and darkened? Both dark and the image screen and overlay enlightened tend to lighten the image, but they all basically use the two layers, the pixels on the two layers together to blend to get a final. So I guess we're done. And I just want to thank all of you for joining me today and listening to me ramble on all about my photography. So thank you all very much for coming. Really appreciate it