The "Old Style Camera" photo app, crazy quilt pieces, a little girl, and a Hosta...

Happy Tuesday friends! The weather here has been less than desirable, and so of course this is an excuse to stay in the house and entertain myself. 

This morning while drinking my coffee I decided to play again with photo apps, and thought that I would share some photos of my results with you. What I like the best about using these is that they are easy to use and they enhance my otherwise not-so-great-photos!

All of the photos below were edited with 

"Old Style Camera".

This works on both iPhone and iPad.

At 99 cents, it is worth every penny.

When you upload your photo, you can choose what portion

of the photo you want to use in your creation.

It has different filters that you can use to put different 

effects on your photo, such as sepia, black and white,

vignetting, and so on, 

though I did not use any of those here.

You can choose your frame and use the blurring tool

to blur the edges of your photo.

It also allows you to move "the blur" around

on the picture, and make it as large as you like.

There are several frames to choose from,

all wonderful.

Below is a photo of a piece of a crazy quilt 

from my collection of cutter quilts.

(You know how I love these!)

I find it better to choose your frame first,

since some are patterned overlays that may clash with

your photo,

and then apply the blurring tool to fade the portions

that you want to.

For the two photos below I used the same frame, 

since I thought that the black filigree really

enhanced this beautiful piece.

I did not alter the colors at all.

The three photos below are of different sections

of another old cutter that I have.

For these I used three different frames,

again, blurring the outsides.

On this third one, I used a busier frame. 

You can see the checkerboard design in it, but

I thought the colors enhanced the quilt piece.

I only blurred parts of the outer section.

Because I felt that many of the frames in this app

mimicked Victorian photo holders,

I decided to try one on one of my vintage photos.

All I did was snap a picture of the old photo,

I didn't even scan it in.

I like that it is not so clear. 

I chose only a portion of my photo,

and then used the frame below,

and blurred even a portion of the frame.

The photo below is of a Hosta that was blooming this 

past summer up at Birdsong Cottage.

I used the same frame that I used on the first two

photos above.

In this one you can see where the fading,

or blurring, changed the colors slightly.

Playing with different frames 

and points of blurring is the best way to discover

which choices will look the best.

I then used another app (Snapseed, which I talked about

in this post) for the framing.

(This will show you how you can apply effects from one app,

save them, and then move your edited photo to another app for

additional editing.)

The only thing to know about this program

is that you can't stretch the frames

to fit your photo,

so you will have to choose one that 

"fits" around the subject that you want framed.

For instance, there is a pretty oval frame,

but had I used it on the little girl, a lot of her head

would have been cut off. 

(Unless I just haven't figured out how to do it yet!)

But with everything else that I love about this app,

I am fine with that.

I can't tell you how much I enjoy working with these apps. 

Think of the possibilities while away from home.

You can edit your iPhone and iPad photos,

then put them on your PC later

and post them to your blog,

or print them out for future art projects.

And as usual, any of the above edits are up for grabs

if you want to use them!

Many thanks for stopping by!