iPhone Photography Tutorial – ‘What’s New Pussycats?’ – By Veevs

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

I took the photo with KitCam and used the Blowout Lens with the Bleached Film

Snapseed – Tune Image – I didn’t do too much editing in Snapseed as I knew I wanted a grunged image. I clicked on Tune Image filter and I slightly increased Brightness, Ambiance, Contrast and Saturation.

Snapseed Drama Filter – I chose Drama 2 and slightly reduced the Filter Strength and slightly increased the Saturation. I then saved the image.

BlurFX – I wanted to eventually apply grunge to everything in the image apart from the Pussycat Girls. I opened my Snapseed saved Image in BlurFX and selected Median Filter. I played around with the slider to find a look that I liked.

BlurFX – Clean area – I clicked on Show Mask, then chose the hard brush to quickly clean the blur from the 2 girls, not paying much attention to the edges

BlurFX Blur and Clean Areas I clicked on Blur and carefully went round the areas that needed to be re-blurred. Use two fingers to pan-zoom into the image. Alternate with cleaning and blurring.

BlurFX Saturation – I slightly increased the saturation in both the Blur and Clean areas.

Save your image. Click on the Save icon and I suggest first clicking on Setting and selecting Full Res, then click Save and Export to Photo Album.

I wanted to modify my saved image even more, so I opened up BlurFX, chose Load Session and selected the last saved image.

BlurFX increase Blur I just wanted to increase the blur area so I just moved the slider a bit more, then saved this modified version.

Iris Photo Suite – I opened my saved BlurFX image with Iris.

With Iris Photo Suite I selected, Polarizer Filter and I clicked on FX (from previous screen shot), selected the Polarizer Filter, left the strength at 100 and clicked on Apply with Mask

Draw Mask – When the message appears click on Draw Mask and OK on next screen making note of the instructions.

I like the strong filter but not on the girl’s faces so I reduced the brush opacity, clicked on the brush and brushed over their faces to remove some of the filter. Then I clicked on the check mark to accept the changes.

I clicked on FX and then the Grunge category and selected the first Grunge Filter. I left the strength at 100 and clicked on Apply with Mask

Draw Mask – As before I selected Draw Mask. I like the grunge all over the image but again not on the girl’s faces so I used the brush to brush off the filter from their faces. Use the brush and eraser as needed to either mask off or mask on the filter. Then click on the check mark to accept the changes and save.

And here is that awesome final image again. I hope you found this tutorial useful. We’d love to read your comments below…