Last week I had the great pleasure of working with a client who wanted to master GLAZE and do some iPhone work. Their home is like a large studio with white walls, soft white sheer curtains and beautiful windows with lots of natural light. As I worked with my client my eyes were just seeing small still life vignettes everywhere! So we used the natural light and set up a few stills to process on the iPhone. This was one of them. The beautiful china cream pitcher with Cafe Paris on it by Bernardaud and the blue checkered breakfast napkin, just begged to be photographed, so I arranged a little comp by the window with the soft drape of curtain behind it.We placed a white foam core board behind the curtain to balance the interior light.
Staring with Camera+ and choosing an appropriate exposure using the lock exposure feature we made a few comps. I liked this one.
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| 1. Original capture using Camera+ |
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2. To begin the processing, I brightened it a bit and used a
warmer White Balance in Snapseed. Then I wanted to add a bit of color to
the edges. I used Artista Oil to accomplish this by reducing all the slider
effects except the border and then toned the border to work with the blue in the
napkin.
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3. Next I wanted to add a bit of color to the comp.
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used Artista Sketch to accomplish this, by choosing a sketch look I
liked and changed the sketch color to yellow which I thought would work
nicely with the blue of the napkin and china. |
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| 4. To the original image #1, I blended in ImageBlender image #2 to soften the effect of the blue border toning. |
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| 5. Next I blended image #3 with #4 in ImageBlender choosing an appropriate blend mode to achieve the look I had in mind. Then I ran that blended image through Glaze and achieved the look in this image. |
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| 6. To finish off the image I used Snapseed and boosted saturation and sharpness as well as applied the border. I used Impression to add my copyright and toned it blue to match the image. |
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