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All images © Tim Clinch

THREE APPS

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1 TouchRetouch – a useful little

retouching app for removing unwanted

content from your pictures, like spots or

telegraph poles. It’s ludicrously easy to use,

simply use your finger to ‘paint’ over

whatever you want to remove, tap ‘start’

and the objects will disappear, being

replaced with pixels from surrounding

areas. It’s cheap at 79p and very effective.

2 Not so cheap at £2.29 (but still not going

to break the bank, which is one of the great

things about mobile photography) is Noir

Photo. It’s a dedicated B&W app and one

of the best I’ve used for creating

monochrome images. Again, simple and

intuitive to use and capable of producing

some very dramatic images by applying

selective spot lighting to highlight the most

important part of your image.

3 – No number 3 this month, simply a

plea to take the apps that you already have

seriously. If you have decided to take my

advice and not take your camera with you

on holiday, you will have plenty of time to

learn what suits you and to get to know it.

You need a proper processing app (my

favourites are either Snapseed or VSCO

Cam) and, like any software, taking time to

see what it can do really pays dividends.

3

Make this your chance to really get

to know your editing software and

familiarise yourself with your apps.

Put your pictures through several apps,

find which ones you prefer and stick

with them.

4

Push a few boundaries. Experiment.

Apps are relatively cheap, so get a

few that you like the look of and play

around with them. Break a few rules – shoot

into the sun, smear some suntan lotion on

your lens and see what happens (then clean

it off again), shoot through that glass of rosé

before you drink it...

This month I want to show you a few variations on a theme. It’s exactly the

same picture put through different apps and treatments.

1

This was taken in a great bar in Jerez de la Frontera in Andalucia called

Taberna de Dolores. This is the original file, shot on the native camera in

my iPhone. It has not been treated at all.

2

Imported into Snapseed and simply converted with one click to B&W.

No other treatments.

3

The original file, imported into Snapseed, added Drama, exported to

Camera Roll, imported into AltPhoto and added the Tri-X Pan filter.

4

The original file, opened in AltPhoto and the Lith filter added in the

B&W Vintage effects.

5

The original file, opened in Hipstamatic’s Tin Type app, converted to

sepia and with the depth of field taken down by 50%.

THE PICTURES

‘Shooting some deep and

meaning ful portraits of Greek

shepherds. Getting up at dawn

to capture the beauty of a

Mediterranean sunrise. All

have fallen by the wayside as

soon as a glass of chilled rosé

and a plate of prawns appear.’

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