Karen L Messick iPhone Adventures: National Police Memorial ~ App Stacking: Snow Daze ~ Stackables

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

National Police Memorial ~ App Stacking: Snow Daze ~ Stackables

Seems fitting since it is snowing that I make this post on Snow Daze by JixiPix and Stackables by Samer Azzam, for processing a couple images I made in Washington, DC at the National Police Memorial. The image above was captured using BracketMode by CogiTap Software, delivering two exposures to the camera roll, one light for the dark areas in the scene and one dark for the bright areas in the scene.

Bracket Mode capture image for bright sky

Bracket Mode capture for dark shadows

The two images captured by Bracket Mode were blended in Pro HDR by eyeApps LLC selecting the Actions: HDR from Library menu option, to achieve one exposure, then adjusted for tone and color and saved to camera roll.

Combined Bracket Mode exposures in Pro Hdr

Then I imported the blended image into the app Stackables and applied one layer of adjustment called Bleached in Blend mode "Color" which rendered the image into a monochrome file. I saved that image to the camera roll.

Then I opened that image in Snow Daze by JixiPix and applied both a cloud filter and a snow filter, making adjustments to each until I achieved my desired look.

Cloud strength adjustment menu choice

Snow adjusted image menu choice

Once I had the look I wanted in Snow Daze I saved that image and then imported that image into Stackables to finish it off.

First layer in Stackables: Filter Cotton Clouds: Blend Mode: Overlay Opacity: about 50% Then hit the + icon to add another layer

Second layer in Stackables: Filter Memoir (in app purchase) Blend Mode: Hard Light Opacity: about 55% then I added one more layer by hitting the + icon.