Process:
Choose ONE or more of the posted originals to explore a new workflow (or refine a current workflow … where I started). You can use any of the apps we’ve used in class or another iOS/iPadOS app you have discovered. Your edits can use one app or a sequence of apps (called “app stacking”).
Document your apps using the Captions feature in Photos. In iOS 15 Charlene and I discovered the Caption text will become the Comment text in a Shared Album when posting one photo at a time. But iOS 14 doesn’t transfer the Caption as Comment and it would be helpful to copy the Caption and paste in the Post to Shared Album process, or add as a Comment after posting using paste.
You might be inspired by the animal and want to stylize the photo - you have probably seen many pet portraits. Maybe the animal you selected has a color that you want to transform into … something new. Also, sometimes the texture or details get our attention. Your final image does not have to be true to the animal.
Play Process Review (until you all help me clarify …)
- Choose one animal photo to edit/stylize and view it at full screen
- Tap Share > Save Image (goes into your Library at the date of the original image)
- Return to Recents list of photos (current work appears here)
- Look at the photo full screen
- Tap Share > Add to Album … under My Albums … tap Tease me (if you made this in class)
- Navigate to Tease Me album, look at photos there to see … no Captions
- Possible to use Retouch app as a Photos Extension to remove distractions …
- Open your edit/stylize app and navigate to the animal photo (interface is different with each app!)
- Make edit/style choices and Share > Save to Photos (or whatever the app says to export/save to Camera Roll/Library)
- Open another edit/stylize app and open the previous stylized image and process then save
- Open the original image and stylize in second app, stylize and save
- Open the edited image full screen in Photos app
- Tap ( i ) to access metadata and Caption field > add Teased
- In the Caption field append your workflow (i.e. Teased Waterlogue > Prisma > crop)
- Add this image to your Tease me album
During class I will ask for edits on animals - when your animal comes up, be ready to Post to the 2021 Fall Studio Shared Album.
- Look at your Tease me album photos in thumbnail view
- Tap Select > Share > Add to Shared Album
- Confirm name of shared album to be 2021 Fall Studio (if not, tap album name and tap to choose 2021 Fall Studio)
- Tap Post to upload
- Use the Comments feature to add additional workflow details as appropriate
- Use the Comments feature to ask questions about the posted images
When stylizing a photo, most apps let you try different effects before locking them into the image. It is not uncommon in my workflow to make five or more new images from a stylizing session. I also get inspired by a stylizing result and want to take a different image through the same process - let’s call this “inspired” and not “distracted.”
Many apps access the camera and can stylize on the spot. However, there is no getting the original image back. So I recommend always taking photos with camera apps and editing and stylizing later - because you will have the option to export a new image or revert to the original photo.
We will probably not have renderings of every animal posted. I hope that future photo selections will include an interpretation of the work shared from each participant.
Thank you for giving us a chance to practice new skills and ways of seeing the world around us.
