iPhone Photography Tutorial – How To Create Awesome Abstract Art With iPhone Photography

This is the final image, the one that I am going to show you how to create.

This is a shot I took of a vent from a hotel here in Boulder, CO. I was walking to the parking ramp & stopped to shoot this just because it looked interesting at the time.

This is me at about 8-years old. I took a shot of an old print (with my iPhone) that I found in a box of stuff I got from my mother.

I liked the metal part better than the stone, so I cropped it (pretty much any app with cropping capabilities will do here…

I opened the image in Diptic to create a little “mirror image” magic.

I then put the Step 4 image through some more Decim8 magic. Since I don’t know your security clearance, I can’t divulge the specific Decim8 filters, plus I’m not sure I remember.

This is the original step 4 image put through some more Decim8 magic…I then saved the image.

I then opened Image Blender and added Images from Step 5 and Step 6. While in Blender, the image from Step 6 was tilted using the arrange function. I saved the image.

Next, I opened the Image from Step 5 and ran it through “Tiny Planets”. Then I saved it.

Next, I selected Images from Steps 7 and 8 and combined them using “Image Blender”. I saved the image.

I then opened the Image from Step 9 and tweaked a bit with “Snapseed” using the “Tune Image” and “Details” filters. I saved the image.

Then I combined Images from Steps 10 and 11 “Image Blender” using the “Color Dodge” blending mode and saved the image.

I then cleaned up image using the cloning function in “TouchRetouch”. I could have used a Paint app here, but I wanted to keep the resolution the same as the original.

This is “Clouds #14” from my series of Cloudscapes (currently up to Clouds #142). I combined this shot with the image from Step 12 using Image Blender. The trick here is to load the larger clouds image on the bottom right “load position” in Blender so you can adjust the size and position. I did this until I found the right area to act as the background.

This is the result of combining Step images 12 and 13 using Image Blender.

With square-format images, I often like to have a minimal border, so I added a thin white border using Camera+. I used Camera+ for this because it adds the border to the outside of the existing image. Most other apps will place the border over the existing image which will effectively “crop” the image a bit.

A white border is somewhat harsh here, so I ran the image through Pic Grunger with the strength setting all the way down to zero to grunge up the border. A final run through ScratchCam for the final look I wanted and I decided to call it a day…

Here is that awesome final image again, quite an improvement from the original 😉

Links to All Apps Used In This Article

Camera+
Snapseed
Image Blender
Pic Grunger
Decim8

TouchRetouch