Technical Tutorials

iPhone Photography Tutorial By Alexey Tsyganok

Welcome to our iPhone photography tutorial section, today we talk to Alexey Tsyganok about his incredible image ‘Walking Together’. Alexey talks us through the complete process as you can read below.

We previously interviewed Alexey in our Extension of the I series, if you missed that you can read it here. Alexey is a 40 year old, mathematician by education who graduated at Moscow State University. For the past 19 years Alexey has been working in the investment banking industry. He is married and has three children. In his spare time Alexey enjoys iPhone photography, bridge and poker card games.

Don’t miss this awesome tutorial below…

 

Final Image

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This is the final image, the one we are going to show you how to create.

 

Original Image

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‘Sometimes playing with quite ordinary pictures can create something special. I captured this image while walking from my office to home. I just needed the image of the couple holding hands for one of my projects, but decided to give picture a chance on itself’.

 

Step 1. Preparing figures.

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‘Load the image to Filterstorm, go to Layers menu and choose Add Exposure. Then load the same image as the second one. Adjust the second image to be a little bit shifted relative to the first image’.

 

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‘Then draw mask all over the image. Open Layers menu again and change the blend mode to Difference. The result should look close to the above’.

 

Step 2. Enhancing the halo

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‘Open the picture from previous step in Snapseed and play a bit with Tune Image option (brightness and white balance). Now the halo is brighter and more colorful’.

 

Step 3. Preparing the background

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‘Open the original image in Photostudio and choose effect #52 “Vertical Blur”. Move the amount slider almost to the right end’.

 

Step 4. Combine figures and the background

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‘Open the image from step 3 in Filterstorm, go to Layers menu and choose Add Exposure. Then load the image from step 2 as the second one. Now it is the most boring part of the work. We have to carefully (preferably using a stylus) mask figures to obtain the following result’.

 

Step 5. Moku Hanga magic

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‘Open the picture from step 4 in Moku Hanga. Select Nature effect from Multi-Color tab. The result should look like the above’.

 

Step 6. Pic FX

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‘Open the picture from previous step in pic FX, crop it to square and apply Blue effect from Classics set’.

 

Step 7. Finalization. Snapseed.

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‘Open the result picture in Snapseed, select Tune Image and play with brightness, ambiance, contrast, saturation and white balance until you get the result as above. Now get to Details section and increase sharpening and structure’.

 

Final Image

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‘Here is the final image again. It looks arty, colorful and unusual. Hope you liked this tutorial. Have fun’!

Screenshow Of The Process

 

Links To Apps Used In This Tutorial

Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)

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