When I take pictures with my cameraphone, I generally open them up in PicSayPro, an image-editing app for Android phones (I have the Motorola Droid) and do a bit of adjusting, mostly for temperature/white balance and tint (my phone tends to take pictures a bit on the bluish/greenish side.) Given the fact that (a) it’s a program on a cell phone, and (b) it cost all of $3, I can do some fun stuff with it (like this picture I took of my niece last Christmas.)
Anyway, PicSayPro has a ton of neat filters that I keep thinking I want to use, but then I almost never do. I’ll play with them, and then decide I want a more realistic look. I don’t know why… that’s just how I roll, I guess.
But in an effort to break out of the “realistic” rut and do something different, I took a picture of a random decoration on the side of a parking garage a couple blocks from my house, and then I dinked around with the filters. (You might remember I did something similar a couple of months ago… that was the same program as I used for these.) The results were kind of fun… not something I’d do all the time, but it was a good way to spend the 20 minutes I spent fiddling with them. :-)
This is the original shot
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Inverted.
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Neonified.
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Messing around with the hue...
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Heat map. Kinda fun!
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Cross-processed, then I upped the saturation and contrast.
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Rainbowized. :-)
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