iPhone Photography Tutorial – ‘How To Create A Stunning Grasses Image, Using Only PhotoToaster’

Here is the original image in the PhotoToaster’s opening screen. (I had brought it in from my camera roll.)

I had captured the image of the grasses using the 6×6 app…I wanted to start with a squared image. What I forgot about was the fact that 6×6 had put a white border around the image, so the first thing I wanted to do was a quick crop to remove the border.

The cropping done, I moved to the “Light” function and chose the “Hot” filter to liven up the image a bit.

Moving to the “FX” function, I chose the “B&W Contrast filter to knock back all the color. (I rather do this than desaturate…this keeps the lights and darks where I like them.)

Time for “Vignette”. Here I chose the “Deep Focus” filter to draw the focus more into the center of the image.

Finally, I applied the “Scratched” filter in the “Surface” function.

As I knew I wanted to do more to this image, I didn’t apply a “Border” at this time.

Here’s what it looked like so far.

I saved the image at this point. With PhotoToaster, your images are saved in their album as well as into your Camera Roll.

Not content to stop here, I decided to run the image through PhotoToaster’s filters one more time to see what “develops” (Pardon the pun….)

I reopened the image, and starting this time in the “FX” function, I applied the “Cross Cut” filter to add a little color back into the image.

This time for “Vignette” I used the “Color Burst” filter…again to add another layer of color.

Coming back to the “Surface” function, I decided to use the “Antiqued” filter…just ‘cause…

Finishing up, I did add a “Border” this time, picking the “Black Strokes” filter feeling it best tied everything together. Saved this to the PhotoToaster album and my Camera Roll.

Here is the final image, a huge improvement over the original and one that combines all the effects I wanted to achieve.

Links to apps mentioned in the article

PhotoToaster
6×6