Yesterday morning I was still stumbling around with my first cup of coffee, checking my bloglovin feed with a sleepy eye, when french Über-blogger Garance Doré’s blog provided me with an information my inner procrastinator responded to immediately. An i-phone (or i-pad) app that could transform photos into pretty watercolors – I just had to try this out immediately, despite the lousy grey weather.
It took only a few hours for the Waterlogue app to spread like wildfire and get family and friends hooked as well. Eventually, I even ended up trying another one – Percolator – from the same developers. Since some online commenters seemed a bit skeptical, comparing the results to the watercolor filter on photoshop, I used the same (admittedly bad) pictures, absolutely untouched, in both programs, so you can judge by yourself.Image may be NSFW.
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Above, 2 versions of the same picture created with Waterlogue.
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Above left, the original picture, above right the same picture after putting it through the watercolor filter in Photoshop CS5.
Same thing below: original left, Photoshop version right.
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From left to right: Original, Photoshop (a bit brightened), Waterlogue.
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The rainy picture after a psychedelic bath in Percolator.
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Above left, Percolator, right another App called Glaze (I found this one a bit less convincing, to be honest).
If you want to find more funny gimmicks and photo accessories for your phone, check out Photojojo. And if you really want to dig into the subject, check out FLTR, the smartphone photography magazine.
