iPhone Photography – Tutorial – How To Create A Stunning Dali Inspired Time Piece Image

Copyright Image – David Hayes – ‘Holy Dali’ – Apps used – Fisheye Lens, Iris Photo Suite, Watermyphoto

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

To start things off, I opened the FishEye Lens app and pointed this at a small mantle clock. As you can see in the above screenshot, the app gives you six different lens to pick from….for this tutorial I chose “Stretch Up”.

Use the slider bar to determine how much of a distortion you want….

And I settled on this! I saved this image to my Camera Roll and opened up the app, Iris Photo Suite.

In Iris, I opened the FishEye lens image. Clicking on the Adjustments button, I then clicked on Layers….

When this screen came up, I clicked “set as base”. Once you click on that, this screen will disappear leaving just the clock image. Now…and I don’t have a screen shot showing you this…at the bottom right corner of the screen there is an icon that looks like film roll. Click on this and a screen will come giving choices for new images. Click on “Open a New Image”. This will take you to your folders where you can pick a background image. (Of course you could pick “Click a New Image” and take one using your camera apps!).

I opened a pic that I had shot earlier of a wall. (I chose this one because it gave a nice feeling of a cloudy sky which I needed for my composition.) Pulling up the crop control from the bottom tool bar, I selected a portion of the wall, using a 16:9 ratio. (As you will see, this ratio seems to work best when using the WaterMyPhoto app).

That done, I repeated the Layer step from above, but this time I picked “Blend with Base”.

Clicking on “Blend with Base” brings up this screen. I picked “Current” as I wanted to have the clock image fit within the wall background.

It is in this screen that you will do the initial positioning of the clock image and the blending. The first thing you need to do is to click on the Layer/Base arrows in the lower left hand corner…next to the done button….reversing the order of the layers.

Clicking on that will bring the clock image to the front. (All of this may sound a bit backwards…but the blending process seems to go smoother this way!)

Using the toggle points around the clock image, resize/reposition the clock so it’s in the top center of the wall background. Once you’ve done that, click on the “Blend Mode” bar and a pop-up of blending options will appear. Click on “Overlay”…then use the slider bar to determine your blend percentage. For this image I stayed at 100%. To finish up this step, click on the “Done” button in the lower left corner.

When this screen appears, click on “Draw Mask”.

When this screen appears, click on “Draw Mask”.

Now you can mask out the background around the clock image using the “paint brush” tool. (Iris does allow you to do the two-finger pan/zoom so you can get in tight with your mask).

And…to finish the blending process all together, click the “check mark” symbol in the lower left corner. Now it’s time to “process-up” this image.

I’m going to speed things up a bit and skip a couple of screens, but I think you be able to figure things out. Once you’ve clicked on the “check mark” symbol in the last step, Iris comes back to its home screen. Click on the FX button on the top right corner…and a selection of filters, etc. will come up. On the bottom tool bar, click on the “More” button….then on the “Dust ‘n’ Scratches” button.

In this screen, pick “Classic Grunge”. Keep the strength at 100 and click on “Apply”.

In this screen, pick “Classic Grunge”. Keep the strength at 100 and click on “Apply”.

Once you’ve clicked “Apply”, you’ll be returned to the home screen. Repeating the steps….click on FX, then “Surface”, then “Clouds”. Keep the strength at 100, but this time click on “Apply with Mask”. A screen will appear as before so you can paint out the clouds from the clock face. Click on the “check mark” in the lower left corner when you’re done. Time to move to the WaterMyPhoto” app. Save your work to your Camera Roll and take a break!

The WaterMyPhoto app doesn’t have much in the way of controls or options…which is a good thing actually! When you open the app, you’ll get this screen….pick “Photo Album” and open your image.

WaterMyPhoto has only one crop size…and you’re looking at it! You can reposition and do a little “resizing” of your image, but that’s about it. Make sure to place the clock image towards the top of the crop lines…this will also place the horizon line. Click on “Crop”.

The “waterize” screen will come up and you can see what you have so far. If you like where the horizon line is placed then you can decide if you want to add “rain” or “snow” or nothing at all. Or…you can start over with the crop step until you’re happy with what you get. (I had to do this a couple of times myself!) I picked “Rain”…and then clicked “Done Editing”.

In this step, you have the option of leaving the image alone and saving/sharing it…or use a black and white, sepia, or negative filter. You can also rotate the image. I didn’t use any of these, picking “normal” and saved to Camera Roll. Done!! Surreal!!

Copyright Image – David Hayes – ‘Holy Dali’ – Apps used – Fisheye Lens, Iris Photo Suite, Watermyphoto

As you can image, it took me a bit to put this all together. If you’re experienced using these apps, I’m sure you’ll either know faster or “different” ways of doing this…which is great. Just have fun!!

WaterMyPhoto
Iris Photo Suite
FishEye Lens