iPhone Photography Tutorial – Blurring, Blending, Masking, Croping and More…

Copyright Image ‘It’s Ok, You Can Walk Away’ by Lene Basma

The image above is the final image, the one that we are going to show you how to recreate.

This is the first (A) original unedited initial image.

This is the second (B) original unedited inital image.

First of all Lene opened Image A in Blur FX and selected the Median Blur Type, set to about ¾ strength.

In this particular shot Lene kind of liked the bright colors, and in order to enhance them, she opened up the Saturation Menu and pulled the saturation on the Blurred area to the max. 


With the opaque brush Lene cleaned out the figure, leaving her face blurred. As Lene knew she wanted to grunge and layer this image, she wasn´t too particular when doing the cleaning.

The result at this stage looked like this.

After saving the blurred image Lene opened it in ScratchCam. Lene often uses this app as part of her exploration process, just hitting the random button over and over, and then going to the edit menu to do the fine tuning when she sees something appearing that strikes her fancy.

In this first step Lene used the Scratches, Texture+Borders and Colors Combination shown in the images below.

To reduce the Impact, Lene turned down the effect to about 25%.

After that, the image looked like this.

Next, although Lene cannot explain it, she often finds herself doing additional things to her images, in this case for example, for some reason or other, Lene decided to blur it some more. For this she used the app FocalLab and the Soft Focus option

Next, Lene starting reducing the blur as shown in the image. 


The image then looked like this.

Next Lene then opened the image in ScratchCam again. Choosing a different set of effects shown in the images below. This time Lene left the effects at full strength.

The final image then looked like this.

Again, this post-processing process is like a game to Lene, and then she decided to try out a different favorite app of hers, PictureShow, to see what it would do to the image. After trying out different options, I decided to go for the HalfGrey Effect.

And then added Halation1 in the Style Menu.

Lene now liked what she had, the colors and the feeling that the mannequin had come to life on one level or another… She looked like she was walking or turning away from something or someone.

Looking at the colors and the theme, Lene remembered a street picture she took of a woman walking with a red bag on that same day, and decided to try to blend the two images.

When Lene looked at the second image again, she saw that the woman was walking the wrong way, she wanted her to walk into the image and not out of it, so Lene opened CropSuey.


And selected the Flip option,


Lene flipped the second image horizontally.

Ending up with this final photo of Image B
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Then for the last step… Lene opened Blender, tapped the first image icon and opened the Mannequin Image, tapped the second and opened the flipped image of the woman walking.

When Tapping the image once, Lene accessed the arrange function and positioned the picture of the woman where she wanted it.

After confirming the use of the position, Lene tapped the image again, choosing the mask option. Using the hard Brush she masked out the woman carefully, zooming in with pinch zoom to get the accuracy she wanted.

Finally Lene chose the Hard Light Blending Option, because it brought out the red in the bag the lady was carrying.

Copyright Image ‘It’s Ok, You Can Walk Away’ by Lene Basma

And then the final image was born. We hope you successfully managed to follow this tutorial, please send us your similar examples, we’d love to take a look.