Image Effects, Filters, Masks and Other Image Processing Methods

Digital cameras have made the process of infrared photography relatively simple and very accessible, compared to the days of shooting with infrared film. No darkroom is required and all you need to get started is an infrared filter on your lens.

We’ve all seen photo-editing apps that give your images a retro look and feel. Quite frankly, we’re all a little sick of them. Instead, Bidness Etc takes a look at some other, unique photo editors available for smartphones.

Adobe published a new Photoshop CC sneak peek video of Focus Masks. This is most likely one of the new features that will be announced on June 18th. Here is the video.

A list of 30 amazing photography links to tutorials, great photography and interesting blogs.

Three apps in one, iPhoto's best filters along with the effects that enhance and adding textures to your images. Let's get this roundup started...

Selphee App:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/29/selphee/

Instagram, Snapchat and Vine has someone to worry about. And that is the cleverly named app Selphee. First you start off by taking a photo of anything you want and you get the choice to hold down that shutter button a little longer to form a vine.

How to use iPhoto's best filters and effects:

http://www.icreatemagazine.com/news/how-to-use-iphotos-best-filters-and-effects/

iPhoto's software needs a little more praise. When it comes down to filters and effects, these best picked out bunch are ones you should try out. 

How to Apply Textures to Your Photographs:

http://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-apply-textures-to-your-photographs/

Adding an antique quality or even a newspaper feel to your photograph can be done by these textures. First off learning how to apply them will definitely help out.

iPhoto's filters are honestly a bit better than Instagram's photo filters. Some are heavy with saturation but others are subtle and perfect for that capture. Textures can give time and depth, while the Selphee may become a major competitor to three apps. Keep coming back at the end of each week.

Are you not impressed with your average Instagram selfie? Is the lighting too bland and out of place for your liking? If so, a team made up of a researcher from MIT and a few individuals from Adobe and the University of Virginia might just have a solution to your problem.

Let me start off by saying that I don’t use textures all that often, but there are certainly times where I feel that an image could use just a little something extra. 

We’re delighted to offer a few more codes to giveaway today for the wonderful new movie app, Cinamatic by Hipstamatic. We have featured eleven videos created with this app in Donna Donato's fabulous Mobile Movies Column this week.

OS X Daily writes, both the actively applied Camera filters and the later added Photos app based color filtering in iOS can add some nice stylizing effects to pictures, helping to give them a unique look.

What is this amazing analog making photo editor that I'm talking about? It's an app for you mac, called Analog (what a surprise), available in the Mac App Store. The app costs 8,99 euros and for this price you get 35 filters and optional 15 borders.

Filters, warp tools and the new Irista cloud storage that Canon has graced our laptop screens with.  Here is what this week has been rounded up for your information.

Funky Fun Filters:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEbiqTI7R3k&feature=youtu.be

Filters besides the one you can get from an app are fun to mess with and become creative towards. Check out this Youtube video that shows of a unique kaleidoscope lens filter.

Irista:

http://theappwhisperer.com/2014/06/05/irista-from-canon-%E2%80%93-where-every-image-lives/

I suggest you go and take a look at the actual website before you choose to not take the time to read what Canon has come up with. The beautiful new cloud storage offers organizing and various other ideal concepts that will have you breathing a bit easier.

How to Use the Puppet Warp Tool:

http://weeder.org/rLH0Drj

Manipulation and Photoshop has the titles when it comes to creating outstanding photographs. The Puppet Warp Tool can go from the lesser extent to the full brilliant possibilities of technicolor glory. Meaning from a zero to 110 percent difference. 

Nevertheless this round up was focusing more on what you can do to store your images, fun filters to change perspective and a tool to turn your photo into a work of art unlike anything else. Come back next week for more on Image Effects, Filters, Masks and Other Image Processing Methods.

Canon today reveals irista – an advanced, cloud-based image management platform that allows users to access, enjoy and manage their photo libraries like never before.

Knowing when to use iPhoto's powerful filters and effects is an important creative skill. Given the ease with which you can access powerful but also easy-to-use photo-editing software, more of us are keen to try it.

So in this little case study/tutorial we will show you how to play to some basic masking, photography and typography to create a beautiful wallpaper. The process won't take more than 45 minutes but I am sure you will have a lot of fun.

Colorful designs are here to stay and Japan's Uniqlo allows you to design a t-shirt right from your smartphone. Photoshop has all these shortcuts and tools so for you, knowing the cool content aware scale tool is a must. Now a movie app for the film-makers in all of us, Cinamatic.

Japan's Uniqlo Lets You Design Your Own T-shirt From Your Smartphone:

http://mashable.com/2014/05/20/uniqlo-t-shirts-smartphone/

Maybe this is were Adidas got their very cool idea to pair up with Instagram. The app called UTime! gives you creative control from snapping a photo, drawing or text to create your own tee.

How to Use Photoshop's Cool Content Aware Scale Tool:

http://petapixel.com/2014/05/24/back-basics-use-photoshops-crazy-content-aware-scale/

This one calls for a few select situations, nonetheless you should know about it. Taking a square image and transforming it into a landscape one can be easier said than done. 

Cinamatic by Hipstamatic:

http://theappwhisperer.com/2014/05/24/cinamatic-by-hipstamatic-another-ios-app-giveaway/

When apps come out, we are interested, we want a few reviews and eventually try it out ourselves. So Cinamatic seems like a really cool idea especially if you want to start taking creative videos that will set you on a path of your very own. 

Visit this page at the end of each week to see what we've rounded up for you, that could mean a notice of a possible app giveaway on various sites to learning about the cool unique ways fashion has integrated itself into the mobile world.