Layers

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You all know I love manipulating my photographs in the computer. Donna over at Travels in Therapy recently wrote an article about the place photographs play in our memories. She also shared a few thoughts about what a great time she has playing with them once she's got them transferred to her computer.

I know just how she feels.

While I really prefer to work on my pictures in the computer, I'm finding so many photo apps for the iPad that I spend an inordinate amount of time manipulating pictures that way.

My iPad, being a first generation, doesn't have a camera, but I've found it easy enough to transfer pictures from the computer to the iPad. While there are many apps that are full blown photo apps, I've found the ones I like best do only one or two things, but do them quickly and effectively.

Using layers in Photoshop isn't a really hard process, but I find it often requires quite a bit of fine tuning to get the look I want. Then I discovered Blender for the iPad. It sells for $1.99. You simply pick two different photos then you have the choice of eighteen different effects, each of which you can use with a slider to get different levels of the effect.

Once I found this, I spent way too much time playing with the photo of the statue from the cemetery yesterday.

Here are some of the results.
In this one, I just let some of the colors bleed through

With this one,
patterns.

I'm not sure why I like this one,
but I do.

With this one,
I really like the vision of the pansy's,
lightly showing through her face.

And finally, this one.

I've said it before, I'll say it again. I LOVE my iPad.

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I wanted to add that I just found a lovely "album" (what do we call them these days?" Anyhow, you can get a compilation of eighteen songs titled Native American Flute Lullabies for free over at Amazon. I love this kind of music, and free is always good. If you think you might want to give it a try, click on the title link and you can download it from there.