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

Today, W is for Wagterlogue.

Waterlogue is a VERY simple app.  It takes your photos and turns them into watercolours.  You import an image, then select from any of 14 filters.They are: Vibrant, Natural, Bold, Luminous, “It’s Technical”, Streamlined, Travelogue, Rainy, Illustration, Soaked, Shallow, Color Bloom, Fashionable, and Blotted.

For each filter you can change the size of the brushstrokes (small, medium, large, giant) and you can adjust the brightness (dark, darker, normal, light, lighter) of your images to add more variety.  And you can add a border…and that’s it!

Websites

• The Waterlogue App is Awesome – Here’s What It Does

• Easy Watercolor Paintings with the Waterlogue App {Turn a Picture into a Painting}

Examples

Original image

Bold, Large brushstrokes, auto light

Rainy, Jumbo brushstrokes, Medium light

Fashionable, Small brushstrokes, darkest light

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

Today, V is for VSCO.

VSCO, like Snapseed, is a really robust photo editing application.  Unlike Snapseed, however, it is not entirely free (you need to pay a subscription for full functionality) and it is a little harder (in my opinion) to navigate.  VSCO is not, however, just an editing platform.  It is also a social media platform allowing you to share images and comment on others’ images.  You can also follow your favs.  I have too many SM platforms, so I do not avail myself of this option.

Once you have imported a photo and opened the image editor, you have a lot of options.

First is an endless list of filter presets (Featured, Essential, Popular, Favourites, Recent, For this Photo, Warm, Cool, Vibrant, B&W, Portrait, Nature, and Urban.)  You can either choose a preset filter to begin with or keep your original image and click the Edit function.

Under Edit you have Dodge&Burn, Blur, Text, Adjust (crop), Exposure, Contrast, Remove, Sharpen, Clarity, Saturation, Tone, White Balance, Skin Tone, Vignette, Grain, Fade, Split Tone, Borders, HSL.  Under FX you have Essential, Distressed, Frames, Light, Texture.  Finally, you can create a “recipe” from your edits.

Finally, I know there is a lot more you can do with this app, so I will need to explore further (or invite you to do so and let us know how it goes!)

Websites

• VSCO at Wikipedia
• VSCO online
• How To Use VSCO App To Shoot & Edit Beautiful iPhone Photos

Examples

Original Image

No filter, basic edits, FX Distressed (Expired 3)+Frame (8mm5)

Nature Q5 filter, some edits, FX Texture (Scratch 3)

Processed with VSCO with p8 preset

Reopened image #1 and applied a Cool filter (G5)

Processed with VSCO with g5 preset

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

Today, U is for Union.

Union is another app that allows you to blend photos.  In this case, one photo as the background and one as the foreground (you can’t add multiple foregrounds…it’s more like a double exposure app.)

Basically the background image is static, but you can manipulate the foreground using some good masking features that allow you to blend your photos in some pretty amazing ways, which I have yet to figure out.  In a nutshell:

1. Load a background image, solid color, or transparent layer
2. Load a foreground image, solid color, or shape
3. Efficiently erase areas of the foreground image using Union’s palette of intuitive, user-friendly tools
4. Adjust the position and size of the foreground image to reach desired composition
5. Make color adjustments on the background and foreground so they blend seamlessly (https://www.tapsmart.com/apps/union-photo-blending-combination-editor-goes-free-app-store/)

Websites

• Union
• Union: Combine and Edit Photos
• Union app review: image-blending at its finest 2021
• Union Quick Advice

Examples

2 of the Original images

Some random fun (showing that I really don’t have a clue what I’m doing….)

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