I’ve been fooling around with the Photoshop Express App for the iPad – mostly because I’m not clever or patient enough to master the REAL Photoshop. Given the right photo, you can use the (relatively) limited effects available on the app to do some interesting things. Besides the usual tools like cropping, adjusting saturation, exposure, etc – by sliding your finger back and forth on the iPad screen by the way – there are a handful of color effects that add a mood or a look with the click of a button.
The photo below was originally in normal color. The first option I used was simply to convert the photo to black and white:
Then, I tried the “warm vintage” look. To me, this is the kind of effect you see so often in Hollywood these days – everything is bathed in yellow morning light, and life is somehow brighter than it really is.
Lastly, I played around with the “add frame” tool and played around with the sliders to create this “vintage sepia” look. There are other apps that will do this in one click, but you can experiment with Photoshop Express and get the same thing.
