Phone Photo Phun

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Tampa, FL:  I really enjoy taking photographs. What I love even more is taking those pictures and adding a bit of magic to them, to turn them into proper art pieces, via electronic apps and programs.  On my laptop, I'm an avid user of Lightroom and via my iPhone, I'm a big fan /  participant of Instagram.

However, in the last few days I discovered a new photo app (thanks to my tour partner's amazing photos from Europe), which may be my new favorite phone obsession.

Snapseed is a photo-edititing app which allows you to do basic adjustments (manually crop, adjust brightness, change contrast, etc.) but also gives you the option to do "creative adjustments," including settings for grunge, drama and vintage.

Once a photo has been snapseeded (hey - if google can be a verb, so can snapseed), I will save it to my phone, then usually run it through Instagram -- mainly to keep it on my feed.

Here are a few of my most recent favs -- before and after:

Godduaghter #2 on her 3rd birthday:



Entrance to the Houston Rodeo:


Taking photos sometimes stops me from eating corn dogs at festivals:

 

Photo art at my fingertips. iLove.