Favorite Lumiforms from last week by Marcus

Title: “I am a bird now”

This was taken during my afternoon seaside bicycle ride. We had halcyon days at that time and it was beautiful, so I stopped for a while to watch the seaview. I love the sea, nothing tops the sea in my opinion. It soothes me. And I love birds, for me they represent anything from freedom to transition. So I couldn’t help but notice some pigeons sitting on the edge of the awning, with sunlight falling on them creating nice shadows. I pictured it in my mind and I thought I needed to keep this scene in my camera roll. I approached very gently so as not to disturb the birds and I took no less than a dozen shots. I got back home and saw that in one I got a pigeon flying and it was the most perfect one! The way it was positioned against the clear sky, it just made my heart skip a beat; I wanted to be in its place, soaring sky high free as a bird. Instantly, this song by Antony and the Johnsons came into my mind, so there I had my title. Had to post.

Editing process

I use an iPhone 5 for my mobile pics and their editing. I never know how to start the editing process or what I want it to look like. The first thing I do is try to adjust the image usually with Filterstorm, VSCOcam or Snapseed. So I started playing with curves and levels in Filterstorm until I had the result I felt most happy with. Saved in photo library and transferred to VSCOcam for further adjustments in temperature and exposure. I just love the result this app gives to a pic. Saved this again and went straight to Snapseed. Did some more adjustment with ambiance and brightness, and then went to apply a vintage filter, the first one. Kept texture to zero and increased saturation around 35. Then proceeded to grunge filter, kept texture to zero and adjusted center size to fit the square. Started playing with the different options until I got the one that suited my mood. Saved this again to Photo library and transferred image to Magic Hour for some extra editing and texture and saved again. This latter one I loaded to superimpose and started thinking with what overlays it would look nice. Tried several that I thought didn’t go so well until I saw some saved Archmachines images and thought I’d give it a try. That was it, instant love. I kept the flying pigeon centered and with brush tool erased all parts of Archmachine image that covered it or the sitting pigeons. Merged the two images in normal mode around 55% and saved again. Then transferred this one to Phonto for the typography, and finally took it to Superimpose for adding Lumiforms and Mextures. I knew exactly which lumiform to use (Suede Dreams), and just had to do some turning around till I felt most happy with it, merged and loaded the Mextures and saved. That was it. Posted!

 I love Lumiforms! I think together with Mextures they give an amazing result to the final look of my edits. I always use them, or at least try to. Haven’t figured out yet how to use some of them (Solaris is the one that puzzles me the most) but Tombraider and Polygonetic are among my favorite! In general, Lumiforms help improve my photos in terms of noise defects and other minor flaws. And I have more than respect for the Android Editors, for their creativity with these and for letting us all work with them. And I am grateful that they liked my pic and gave me the opportunity to talk about my work!

Lumiforms inspiration feature by Christina

Christina is one creative mind, open to experimenting with different ways of editing and to adopting new techniques/resources to bring that extra value to her edits. She was an early adopter for Lumiforms and, from the beginning, she has showed great ability to add them to the mix in a way that one can no longer imagine those images without Lumiforms on them. She makes them fit perfectly and ensures the geometries are always in harmony with the photo.

We love your creative use of Lumiforms! Keep up the good work Christina.

Android Editors feature Lumiforms edits every week on Thursday. So remember to use the hashtag #Lumiforms (topic Lumiforms on EyeEm) when you make your work official.

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Android Editors Lumiforms Feature

Of all the quality #Lumiforms edits here are our 16 selected artists for this week. Please congratulate them and make sure to visit their galleries to say hello!

TOP ROW: @alexisweaver, @oceanuants, @___backwords, @sunflowerof21
2ND ROW: @nazsiwa, @mime8, @thekimbots, @arbynatticus
3RD ROW: @shkfrhn, @cloudynana, @earniekeen, @wlad
BOTTOM ROW: @roscoedude, @jesserogersdotnet, @naomimeran, @missnap

Android Editors feature Lumiforms edits every week on Thursday. So remember to use the hashtag #Lumiforms (topic Lumiforms on EyeEm) when you make your work official. We will now contact our favorite and feature this image next week, including the detailed editing process.

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Favorite Lumiforms from last week by Corinne Wyss and Erin McGean Cindric

Corinne Wyss
The photo was taken in Morgins/France, in Europe’s biggest ski resort called Portes Du Soleil, with 650 km of downhill. I was having fun skiing, but the mountain view was so impressive that I had to stop. The shot that was taken too fast because of the freezing temperatures. I almost couldn’t use my phone because of the stiffness of my fingers… But finally I got that view on my screen. In the meantime, my beloved partner was skiing all the way down the hill - I was completely alone, but very happy with my mountain photo.

Erin McGean Cindric
Corinne and I have been Instagram friends for a few months and I admire her photography a great deal, often telling her how jealous I am of the stunning surroundings she lives near. So when she offered me some photos to work with I was very grateful and excited. I sat with the images for weeks… played around with a few but wasn’t pleased with anything. Then one night I was experimenting with the Diptic app and I saw the zigzag pattern collage template and I thought of Corinne’s beautiful mountains.  It’s funny how you can work and work at an edit and its just not working and then the best edit comes in a spontaneous moment of play. I just wish I had more of them…LOL.

Editing process

Apps Used: Diptic, Image Blender
Overlays Used: Lumiforms, NDpatterns, Mextures

With an iPhone 4 the edit started in Diptic using a zigzag pattern collage template with three sections. Corinne’s mountain image is loaded into all 3 sections of the template then the top section is flipped vertically and horizontal and the middle section enlarged to include only sky. Save. Open again in Blender and added the Lumiform “Fog it” using “overlay” mode at about 75%. I found this increased the contrast between the three sections and created depth, it made the zig-zag pattern look a little more 3D which gave me the idea to use the NDpatterns to further that illusion, I added them with Image Blender. Then I created the “mountaineer” text in Over on a black background and then added the text with Image Blender (screen mode) as Over doesn’t allow for tilting of text. This font (Wisdom) has a nice tilt that matched the angles nicely. Save…reload in Image Blender AGAIN to add the mountain climber, which I got from Google. Save. Reload in Blender…one last time to add a dusty black and white Mexture using “screen” mode at 75 %.

The Lumiforms set has become almost indispensable to me in my edits. The shapes and lines in some overlays can accentuate elements in a photo or help emphasize important areas. The subtle filters like “Fog it” used here, almost always improves a photos tone and lighting. Plus all of overlays have a subtle texture that helps hide noise and imperfections. I recommend trying them out using Image Blender and experiment with different blend modes. Rotating and enlarging the filter is also a great way to experiment with them and hope for happy accidents. 

Download Lumiforms HERE. 

Android Editors Lumiforms Feature

Of all the quality #Lumiforms edits here are our 16 selected artists for this week. Please congratulate them and make sure to visit their galleries to say hello. If you want to see this amazing collage in full scale please go to our website.

TOP ROW: @halley88, @moveslike_pao,  @metmot,  @twistdee
2ND ROW: @creativewright,  @ronenfo,  @wlad,  collab with @sirdikie and @bbxb
3RD ROW: @oli8888, @Ivar_,  collab with @emilypocahontas and @clarkey, @trrrudi
BOTTOM ROW: collab with @corigold and @lifewithart, @alvinpck, @muzzlehatch, collab with @_tania420_ and @yudisullivan

Android Editors feature Lumiforms edits every week on Thursday. So remember to use the hashtag #Lumiforms (topic Lumiforms on EyeEm) when you make your work official. We will now contact our favorite and feature this image next week, including the detailed editing process.

Download Lumiforms HERE.