Posted: October 16th, 2010 | Author: 1918underwood | Filed under: Collaging, Friends, Intro to Creation Tools, Tutorials | Tags: Beginner, collage, Friends, photo | 1 Comment »
Muzy’s Friend Collage app is similar to the Collage app, but it allows you access to your friends’ photos on Facebook. Creating collages with your friends’ pictures is a social activity, something you’ll want to share. It’s easy to start. If you’re not connected to Facebook, it’ll ask you to connect so that you can get and use your friends’ photos.
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Posted: October 8th, 2010 | Author: 1918underwood | Filed under: Effects, Intro to Creation Tools, Introduction, Tutorials | Tags: Beginner, Effects, photo | No Comments »
When you use the Muzy Effects app, you have a choice of frames to add to your image. Let’s take a look at the frame options and what they add to your pic. The frame option is separate from the other effects. You can only add one frame to your picture. If you change the frame, it takes off the old frame. The frame you’ve chosen appears at the bottom of the list of effects, and the other effects don’t change the frame. The first frame is the Instant frame, and it makes your pic look like an instant photo.
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Posted: September 18th, 2010 | Author: 1918underwood | Filed under: Effects, Intro to Creation Tools, Tutorials | Tags: Beginner, Effects, photo | No Comments »
Let’s take a close-up look at one of the photo effects in Muzy’s Effects app… “Blurry.” Blurry applies a directional blur moving outward from the center of the image. Here’s a picture of my cat, Chaplin, that I brought into Effects. I chose this picture because Chaplin is pretty much in the center of the photo.
I chose this picture for the Blurry effect because Chaplin is pretty much in the center of the photo.
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Posted: September 11th, 2010 | Author: 1918underwood | Filed under: Effects, Intermediate Tips for Creation Tools, Tutorials | Tags: backgrounds, Beginner, Color, Effects, patterns, photo, tutorial | No Comments »
wall by 1918underwood. Click to view.
The Effects app can have some striking results with backgrounds and patterns. Because it plays with color and texture, Effects lends itself to abstractions as much as to photos of people or pets. Here’s an example of what I did with a pretty static brick-wall background that I made in Collage a while ago. My goal was to take something that had a very regular pattern, without a lot of texture, and create something with a lot more variation and mood.
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Posted: September 11th, 2010 | Author: 1918underwood | Filed under: Color, Effects, Intermediate Tips for Creation Tools, Tutorials | Tags: Beginner, Color, colors, Effects, photo, tutorial | No Comments »
Black-and-White to Color
Muzy’s Effects app is a great way to pump up (or completely change) the color on any photograph, drawing, or collage. You don’t need to start with a bright or colorful image to get bright and colorful results. One of the fun things I found you can do is take a black and white picture and make it brightly colored. The image that you see to the left of a young and sinister Tony Perkins was created in Effects from a black and white drawing.
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Posted: September 10th, 2010 | Author: 1918underwood | Filed under: Color, Effects, Intermediate Tips for Creation Tools, Tutorials | Tags: Beginner, Color, colors, Effects, photo, tutorial | No Comments »
Meno takes a rusty, gray grunge wall and uses the Effects app to create this vivid burst of color in "Riff's Rust, colorized." Click to view.
The Muzy Effects app can be used for a lot of, well, effects. One of the effects I like best is color shifting. In the image on the left, Meno has taken one of Riff’s photo… a great piece of grunge in and of itself, of a rust-ridden dusty gray metal wall… and turned it into a vibrant, charged blue-and-orange background that I just couldn’t resist using. Very Muzy, isn’t it?
So let’s explore a little bit and see what the Muzy color shift effects are in the Effects editor and how to use them. First, let’s start with a tour. Read the rest of this entry »