Technical iPhone Photography Tutorial – Alt Photo To Etchings – By David Hayes

Starting with my source image….I captured this image just recently at a local flea market.

Opening in Alt Photo, I selected this image from my camera roll and then clicked on the “Edit” button to start the process.

As this isn’t a tutorial on how to use either of these apps, I’ll just say that I went to the filter menu in Alt Photo (click on the indicated icon) and chose “Platinum”.

I made sure to turn the “Border” off (A) as I knew I was headed for Etchings and might want to use one of their borders instead. (As it turns out…I didn’t! But read on!!) I also did some adjusting in “Brightness” (B) to give the scene a bit more drama.

I also played around with the “Effect Intensity” and in the end decided to keep it at 100%.

This finished up what I wanted to do in Alt Photo, so I saved and reopened in Etchings.

Here’s a full screen look at my image so far

Time for Etchings!! Starting with “fx”…I picked “Spectrum”

For the “Line Weight” I went to “Bold” as I wanted this effect to really show forth.

Finishing up with “Exposure”, I picked the indicated level.

All done! I decided to use Advanced Export options to save the image full size.

And here’s the final version. What do you think? Three or four clicks in Alt Photo… that many in Etchings…and done! I like it!!

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And here’s the final version. What do you think? Three or four clicks in Alt Photo… that many in Etchings…and done! I like it!!

Thanks again for taking in one of my tutorials. As always, please don’t be shy with your comments and/or questions. I do like hearing from you.