Mobile Photography/Art – Tip Of The Day – The App Whisperer

Here’s an old Photoshop trick that will add instant depth to any image.

Import your photograph into any app that supports layer blending (my favourite is Image Blender), then on a second layer, import the same image again and select MULTIPLY blending mode. You’ll need to experiment with the exact amount of the blend, especially with darker images, but setting it to around 50 percent is a good average. Preserve highlights by using the eraser tool to erase lighter areas of the top layer. 

Nettie Edwards (@Lumilyon) took up photography 13 years ago, following a successful career spanning two decades as a Theatrical Designer. In 2009 she embraced mobile art and photography and has not looked back since. Her mobile career is exploding at a phenomenal rate and she has won a huge number of awards and accolades including: winner, Fine Art category, 4th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards and runner up: 2013 Lumen Prize for Digital Art. She was a Lead Juror for The Mobile Photography Awards 2011 & 2012. Her work has been published and exhibited extensively including Mobile Photo Paris and the LA Mobile Arts Festival. Nettie runs Mobile Arts and iPhoneography workshops and is featured in Mobile Masters – an ebook featuring 50 of the World’s leading Mobile Artists and Photographers.
Nettie is the first ever Mobile Photographer to have her work exhibited at the birthplace of photography: the Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock Abbey, England, as one of six photographers featured in the exhibition “Arrangements in Black and Grey, Black and White Photography in the 21st century”

‘You can read more about Nettie on her blog http://lumilyon.wordpress.com/about-2/
To look more closely at her work, go to her Flickr Photostream here – http://www.flickr.com/photos/lumilyon/