What Apps Are We Using This Month? with Fleur Schim
Welcome to TheAppWhisperer’s new section, “what apps are we using this month” series, where we discover which apps you are particularly enjoying. Kicking us off is non-other than Award Winning Mobile Photographer, Fleur Schim.
I am Fleur Schim,from Leucadia, California. I use an iPhone Pro 14, and edit all my images on an iPad Pro. I am celebrating my 50th wedding anniversary this year to my husband, Jack Schim. We both travel together, and I am fortunate when I’m able to capture him in my images. He is actually featured in three of the included artworks.
Joanne Carter invited me to respond to several prompts regarding my current editing app preferences:
I use a variety of editing apps as I create composite imagery. I always use SNAPSEED, and this month, I used its ‘double exposure’ feature for the image “All the world is a stage”. I also used a filter in SKYLAB, for the grey tones and added a sun feature. I like SKYLAB for its layers with skies, elements and filters. Sometimes I will go to the app for its filters, only. The sun element in all of these images is from SKYLAB.
I regularly use ICOLORAMA. I used it for the painterly effect (Van Gogh swirls) in both “And the sea” and “Blue Hour” Additionally, I used DISTRESSED FX in both images for sky features. I also very much like a feature in ICOLORAMA : ‘effects’—‘raise’, which intensifies textures.
In addition to the apps that I have previously mentioned, I also like COLOR THIEF, which gives a plethora of color and tone options that are stolen from images in your photo stream.
IMAGE BLENDER is in regular rotation for much of my work. I am often going back-and-forth with different apps and seeing how they mash up in Image Blender.
SIMPLY WATER is my favorite watercolor app. I often image blend my creations with an iColorama watercolor version.
I have a lot of fun with DIANA, when I am looking for random or purposeful double exposures.
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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)
