Welcome to my April 2022 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

Today, Z is for Glaze.

I’m gonna keep this short for today as it’s Saturday, I am writing this of course at the last minute, and it’s the last letter of the A to Z challenge….We made it!

So Glaze, like TangledFX, is one of my go-to apps, one of the first apps I discovered on this journey to appdom of photo editing.  According to the iPhone Photography School “a photo to painting app that converts your pictures into textured paintings.”  And it is indeed.  There are 12 sets of glazes each with five styles, and using the “workshop” you can mix and match your glazes. I confess I haven’t quite got the hang of this but I tried and some of those tries are below.  There is also a masking tool, but as we all know I still haven’t learned how to use these yet…a summer vacation goal!

Websites

• Poem about Glaze

• GLAZE is still a standout ‘photo to painting’ app

Examples

Original Image

Glaze from set 1

Glaze from set 5

Glaze from set 12

Mix of 1 and 5 above

Mix of 1, 5, and 12 above

Thanks for visiting my 2022 A to Z Challenge – Letter Z. You can find links to more blogs participating in this challenge at Letter Z, A to Z 2022 Challenge Master List (Google Docs).

Welcome to my April 2022 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

Today, Y is for Skylab.

Skylab is an app for changing, basically replacing, skies.  I am curious to see someday what it can do to photos with no skies, but it is a little trick to figure out since I believe masking is a key component of the manipulation and, well, masking still eludes me.   The interface is very similar to AlienSky and Reflect.  The only site I really found was it’s creator’s site:  Skylab

Here’s what I found myself:

• There are several sky types with specific types in each Clear, Cloudy, Sunset, Stormy (my fav), Vortex, Vortex 2, Night, Moonlight, Pastel Skies, Heavy Skies, Rainbow Skies, Unstack Cities, Unstack Sunsets, Unstack Auroras
• There are masking tools which I have yet to learn
• You can add Elements like moons, trees, and people
• You can work with layers for your Elements
• There is a set of filters

Examples

Original Image

One of the Stormy Skies

One of the Vortex 2 with an Element

One of the Moonlights with a filter

One of the Unstack Sunsets with an Element

One of the Unstack Auroras with an Element

Thanks for visiting my 2022 A to Z Challenge – Letter Y. You can find links to more blogs participating in this challenge at Letter Y, A to Z 2022 Challenge Master List (Google Docs).