AppArt School – How to use the Afterlight app to improve your Street Photography
Here are 10 steps to help you use the Afterlight app to improve your street photography:
- Open Afterlight and import your street photography image.
- Adjust the brightness, contrast, and exposure of the image using the app’s basic editing tools. This can help bring out the details and colors in your street photography.
- Use the app’s sharpening tool to enhance the details in your image. This can help make the street scenes appear sharper and more detailed.
- Experiment with the app’s various filters to find one that suits your street photography. You can adjust the strength of the filter to create a more subtle effect.
- Use the app’s texture overlay tool to add depth and interest to your street photography. You can choose from a range of textures, such as grunge or film grain, to create a unique look.
- Add a frame to your street photography using the app’s framing tool. This can help create a more polished and finished look for your images.
- Use the app’s cropping tool to adjust the composition of your street photography. This can help you focus on the key elements of the scene and create a more impactful image.
- Add a light leak or lens flare effect to your street photography using the app’s light effects tool. This can help create a more dramatic and eye-catching image.
- Use the app’s selective adjustment tool to make targeted edits to specific areas of your street photography. This can help you bring out the details in the shadows or highlights of your image.
- Experiment with the app’s color adjustments to create a unique color palette for your street photography. You can adjust the saturation, hue, and color balance of your image to create a distinctive look.
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Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said.
Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London.
Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery – TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art.
Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK.
She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: joanne@theappwhisperer.com
