Variations 2.0 - Pepper's Playpen

[RosewoodTulip]

Time is often what I have least of, but I do enjoy the creative process. I’m not sure this is the right place for it, but I would love to hear everyone’s favorite app and tips and tricks for these photo edits. I can’t speak for @Lmizzler, but the time required for the learning curve on tools/process is generally my barrier to entry.

I don't know how to photoshop at all but I use Pixlr for filters and find it to be very simple to use

 

[kara1234]

Time is often what I have least of, but I do enjoy the creative process. I’m not sure this is the right place for it, but I would love to hear everyone’s favorite app and tips and tricks for these photo edits. I can’t speak for @Lmizzler, but the time required for the learning curve on tools/process is generally my barrier to entry.

I love PicsArt best, and you can do so much with the free version (which is what I have). Pixlr is also free and really good. I sometimes use both on the same pic

 

[Deleted member 1498366]

Time is often what I have least of, but I do enjoy the creative process. I’m not sure this is the right place for it, but I would love to hear everyone’s favorite app and tips and tricks for these photo edits. I can’t speak for @Lmizzler, but the time required for the learning curve on tools/process is generally my barrier to entry.

The three I've used are picsart (which I thought you had to pay for, but you can X out of the subscription), prisma, and on my computer I'll use canva. I liked prisma because it's mostly just preset filters, but eventually got a little bored. Picsart is nice because they make it easy to layer multiple filters/presets and there are a lot of free tools to play with.

 

[Deleted member 6568729]

Time is often what I have least of, but I do enjoy the creative process. I’m not sure this is the right place for it, but I would love to hear everyone’s favorite app and tips and tricks for these photo edits. I can’t speak for @Lmizzler, but the time required for the learning curve on tools/process is generally my barrier to entry.

I use PicsArt as well on my phone. I love it.

 

[Deleted member 6568729]

I use PicsArt as well on my phone. I love it.

Adding on...I come on here and look at the picture and see what it reminds me of. I grab other pictures from the internet that I need. I use the remove background tool the most to get the pictures I want.

Here is the picture I used today in addition to the boots
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[vagrantx]

Oh I wasn't meaning that at all.
I love seeing all the amazing interpretations everyone comes up with. I'd love to be able to say I'm gonna teach myself how to do the clever stuff too but my ability to concentrate is severely lacking lately so I just make pretty colours that make me smile

No, not at all, lovely lady. It's merely that I can recognize that I don't have the same level of skills or creativity as some of the talented people who post their creations here. But I participate because I have the time and it's fun to play around and learn.

Whew, thanks You both have ideas that every day make me go "why the f didn't I think of that"

but I would love to hear everyone’s favorite app and tips and tricks for these photo edits.

Photoshop, recently upgraded from 2015 to 2023... And here's what my workspace usually looks like. I posted a quick-guide to layers some time earlier in the thread, but, other than that most of my tips and tricks are pretty useless unless you use photoshop.

But my #1 general tip for compositions an making them look natural is "think with depth, think with light". Imagine the picture has depth to it, try to visualize "where" the objects are located, and how light would fall on them, before adding shadows. It's the one thing that adds the most to pics.

 

[RosewoodTulip]

Whew, thanks You both have ideas that every day make me go "why the f didn't I think of that"



Photoshop, recently upgraded from 2015 to 2023... And here's what my workspace usually looks like. I posted a quick-guide to layers some time earlier in the thread, but, other than that most of my tips and tricks are pretty useless unless you use photoshop.

But my #1 general tip for compositions an making them look natural is "think with depth, think with light". Imagine the picture has depth to it, try to visualize "where" the objects are located, and how light would fall on them, before adding shadows. It's the one thing that adds the most to pics.

Ah see I do this on my phone. Maybe I need to get on the laptop if I want to branch out in the skills department.
Something to think about definitely

 

[Saltfountain]

Ah see I do this on my phone. Maybe I need to get on the laptop if I want to branch out in the skills department.
Something to think about definitely

I do it all on my phone

 

[RosewoodTulip]

I do it all on my phone

So I can't use that as an excuse then

I'm honestly really enjoying this thread. I do want to learn and to improve, not to compete with anyone, but just to see if I can

 

[AngelicaS1780]

I'm using Picsart. I haven't done my due diligence and tried searching for how to do certain things, but, for anyone who does use it, is there a way to filter just one section of a photo or layer? Also, anytime I want to apply more than one effect to an image/layer, I end up exporting the image, re-uploading it, and then applying the second effect on that image. Am I the only person who finds that you can apply only one effect and one overlay per image/layer?

 

[Deleted member 1498366]

I'm using Picsart. I haven't done my due diligence and tried searching for how to do certain things, but, for anyone who does use it, is there a way to filter just one section of a photo or layer? Also, anytime I want to apply more than one effect to an image/layer, I end up exporting the image, re-uploading it, and then applying the second effect on that image. Am I the only person who finds that you can apply only one effect and one overlay per image?

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The button between the eraser and the download are what saves the effect and lets you start on a new one. I use add picture to add a new layer, aspect. For the one below I used the free crop I think to get the mushroom, then duplicated it and I could give different effects to each one.
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[Deleted member 1498366]

it, is there a way to filter just one section of a photo or layer?

Some of the tools have a brush feature but for their preset filters I think you’d need to crop it and do different layers. But someone else might know more than me.

 

[AngelicaS1780]

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The button between the eraser and the download are what saves the effect and lets you start on a new one. I use add picture to add a new layer, aspect. For the one below I used the free crop I think to get the mushroom, then duplicated it and I could give different effects to each one.
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Thank you! Thank you! And I love that photo!

 

[Deleted member 1498366]

Thank you! Thank you! And I love that photo!

Thank you!!

Oh I used cutout to get the mushroom (and now todays boots that I’m messing with) out of the background.

 

[LadyLascivious1]

I appreciate all the tips and @Saltfountain for entertaining my tangent on this thread. It should hopefully lead to more contributions though!

 

[Saltfountain]

I used to have a pair of doc martens like that!

You do realise that those DMs aren't hers, and are in fact the same pair of DMs everyone's posting don't you?

 

[Deleted member 6568729]

I'm using Picsart. I haven't done my due diligence and tried searching for how to do certain things, but, for anyone who does use it, is there a way to filter just one section of a photo or layer? Also, anytime I want to apply more than one effect to an image/layer, I end up exporting the image, re-uploading it, and then applying the second effect on that image. Am I the only person who finds that you can apply only one effect and one overlay per image/layer?

I apply a filter then use the erase tool if I don't want the filter on the whole image. Is that what you mean? I also just hit the check box at the top after I filter it and then can add another filter.

 

[vagrantx]

You do realise that those DMs aren't hers, and are in fact the same pair of DMs everyone's posting don't you?

Maybe they meant their DMs were flung up over a phone line, as well?

 

[Saltfountain]

Maybe they meant their DMs were flung up over a phone line, as well?

No. I don't think so...

 

[Saltfountain]

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[AngelicaS1780]

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[Saltfountain]

Morning all!

Good luck today...

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[vagrantx]

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[Saltfountain]

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[RosewoodTulip]

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