here comes the sun

I love this image. It's a genuine original. I cooked it up almost entirely on the phone, basically through intuitive play. I felt like I had invented a really good recipe. It started as a crack in a wall down the street from me.

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Starting image.

This is basically what I started with - I may have played a little with the contrast and brightness first, but as you can see, it's just a crack in lightly-textured plaster. The texture was pretty important to this image too.

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TinyPlanet version.

I ran the image through TinyPlanets. I'm already pleased!

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ShockMyPic version.

Then I put it through ShockMyPic, to give it a little more definition.

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100Cameras version.

Now, I need to introduce some colour to the image. There's several apps that you can do that with. 100 Cameras is one I like to experiment with occasionally. I didn't note which of the dozens of pre-set treatments I used.

It's getting interesting now.

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TangledFX version

There doesn't seem any reason to do the next step, it was just what I did when I created image. I put it through TangledFX. Again, I didn't note what setting I used.

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RePix version.

I now felt that the circle needed to be broken. I used Repix for this. The "Daubs" stylus was used to selectively blot out areas on the crack circle. That sounds like a drug ring.

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Laminar version.

The dear, departed Laminar was used next. It had several features that were useful for deepening tones.

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Phototoaster version (final)

Sometimes, the pre-sets in Phototoaster are a waste of time. It depends on the image I'm using. Whichever pre-set I used (didn't record it) I got a pleasing, dramatic finish.

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