iPhone Photography Tutorial – ‘How To Create A Stunning Cherry Blossom Tree Complete With Artificial Lake’

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

This is the original unedited photograph, Jeanette believes, like many of us, that sometimes photos have objects that we wish weren’t there.

Firstly, Jeanette opened the image in Touch Retouch, it is great for removing unwanted objects. Open up the file and use the hand tool to move the image and pinch with your fingers to zoom in on the area you want to fix. In this case, it’s the markers in the ground next to the tree.

Secondly, select the brush tool and scale it to a small size.

Thirdly, paint over the area and hit the arrow-shaped Start button. Repeat this for other objects that need removing. Gone! Finally, Save the new picture (the symbol at the bottom right corner, from the above screen grab).

Jeanette wanted a little more of the ground showing. To fix that, she opened the picture in Anti-Crop. Jeanette dragged the bottom of the image to make it longer. In order to keep a nicer proportion, Jeanette also dragged the image slightly to the right to make it wider. Next she saved the new edit.

The next step is to apply some tonal adjustments and textures in Photowizard. Open the image by tapping the button at the top left corner.

Choose Filters from the menu and then Exposure/Contrast from the list. This photo was taken mid-day and is showing a bit too much brightness and contrast, so turn that down a tad. Tap the check mark in the upper right corner to apply the change you just made.

Next, select Hue/Saturation from the filters menu. Increase the saturation to make the colors pop some more.

To give the photo a warmer tone, go to Filters – Temperature.

Now it’s time for some interesting effects. Tap on FX and select Texturize from the list. Jeanette selected texture number 5. Adjust the strength with the slider.

Then apply Hot Wax, found in the Fx menu. Jeanette used a little, just enough to bring out some detail and texture.

The image may seem a little dull at this point, so next Jeanette added some Light Bloom from the FX menu. There are a great selection of colors to choose from but Jeanette went with pink, since it matches the flowering tree. Play around with the sliders, but a subtle effect looks more natural.

In the next step Jeanette chose to apply another texture to emphasize the painterly look. Here she picked texture number 4. Now, tap the Home button and then the arrow in the top menu to save the photo. Check the export settings before saving if you so wish and set it to max resolution. There’s the new image – almost…

Hold on, we’re not done yet! Open the photo in this very cool app called Color Lake.

By default, it will change the color of your photo, so go to Options and select Normal.

Here you can also adjust the amount of wave and their size.

Now drag the water level down so that it covers the ground, but not the fence and the flowers. Tap the lens symbol to save the photo. Now, it looks like the above.

Still not quite done…Open the new picture in Pic Grunger. Under Effects, select Sponged.

Tap on the Style button in the lower left corner. These are the ambience options and Jeanette then selected Gig for this one.

Then, go to Textures and pick Maple.

Now, adjust the strength of the effect (sponged). Jeanette chose a rather low setting as she didn’t want it to look too worn.

Finally, tap the arrow at the top and save. Here’s the finished awesome piece of art again. We hope you successfully managed to follow that tutorial, please send us your similar examples, we’d love to take a look.
 

Touch Retouch
Anti-Crop
Photowizard
Color Lake
Pic Grunger