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

Today, T is for Tintype.

Tintype is a very simple app.  Coming from Hipstamatic, Tintype’s one job is to make your photos look old.  There are four “colour” options:  BW, two kinds of sepia (Tintype does not give them names), and colour.  You can crop to square from rectangle (but you can’t decide how it crops), you can adjust the plate grain and add a frame (type decided for you), can emphasize eyes when working with portraits, and adjust the depth of field.  That’s it.  No sliders or anything else to do.

Here are some websites to check out

• Tintype App Brings the Magic and History of Tintype Photography to iOS

• How To Use TinType App To Create Beautiful Vintage iPhone Photos

• TinType Review

And here are some examples:

Original image

B&W with frame

Sepia 1 in square with frame

Colour +increased grain and frame

Sepia 2 + lowered grain no frame

Sepia 2 + high grain no frame

BW with low grain and narrow depth of field and frame

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

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

Today, S is for Snapseed.

I’m gonna keep this short because most people who work in mobile phone photography know about Snapseed, and I can’t possibly do it justice in a short post.  I also have “used” Snapseed for awhile, but only knew some of its features until last night when we learned WAY more about it in my iPhone Artography class.  I’m looking forward to trying more!

Snapseed has an amazing suite of editing tools, presets (that you can add to), curves, filters, brushes, healing, cropping/rotating/perspective, and masking (which is cleverly hidden, but cool cause you can walk through all your edits and delete them, revise them, or use masking to apply them to only specific parts of the photo.)  And the best part of all?  It’s FREE!!!

Anyway, here are some sites that can talk to you more about it.

• Snapseed online
• Snapseed at Wikipedia
• Complete Guide To Using Snapseed To Edit Your iPhone Photos
• NavEdits YouTube Channel for Snapseed – amazing tutorials!

And here are some recent creations I made, all created in Snapseed:

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