![]() ![]() The Element editing controls are in the top bar of the Layers area. However, when I do so, the added tree looks unnatural against the background. The Elements are grouped into Trees, Dead Trees, Birds, Clouds, Moon and Sun.Įlements can be moved, resized and rotated with the standard drag and pinch motions. In the iPhone version, they are a subset of Filters.Įlements are the extra pieces to add to your image, like Effects in Alien Sky. You have to take the image out of SkyLab to make luminosity or vignette changes to the entire image.įade darkens the top of the “ground” portion of the image, and is more useful with night scenes. This makes it easy to create a totally unrealistic look. Color changes apply to both sky and ground, but luminosity changes apply only to the ground. Don’t worry, I know I darkened it too much below.īetween the above Brightness change, and the overdone Vignette below, you can see that Filters do not apply equally to the entire image. Now I’m free to use the Brightness slider under Filters to darken the ground. I return to masking and restore that vertical stripe. The darker background is showing through. That is from the masking, and a stray mark that masked out that line. When I use the Brightness slider to darken the ground, I notice that there is a darker line in the sky. I move on to the Filters area to try and bring the sky and ground together. I zoom in and use the soft round brush to erase the added sky where it obscures the non-sky areas of the image. There are sections within Mask that will erase the sky and the added elements. I move to Mask to erase the added sky over the wood crossbeam and the tops of the hills. When the sky is placed, I find that it overlaps some of my image. Add will always make the image brighter, so it is only really useful for Night skies. There are two available blend modes for the sky: Normal and Add. Notice in the image below how reducing the brightness leaves the brightest highlights the same. Moving the Fade slider down will create a sharp edge to the added sky.īrightness will darken or lighten the sky, but not uniformly. Moving the slider up will create a large area of feathering. This makes the sky stretch and contract.įade controls the feathering of the bottom edge. Vertical uses a slider on the right side of the image to move the bottom of the added sky up and down. Position, the default edit, allows you to drag and zoom to place your sky correctly within the image. A bar appears above the thumbnails with editing controls for the added sky. Selecting a thumbnail places the chosen sky over the top half of your image. Tapping the group name at the bottom brings up a selection of thumbnails in the row above. Skies allows you to choose from among seven different types, or groups, of skies: Clear, Cloudy, Sunset, Stormy, Vortex 1 and 2, and Night. Skies and Elements replace Effects and Edit. Along the bottom are selections for Skies, Elements, Layers, Mask, Filters and Textures. ![]() Load and Info are at the top left Save is at the top right. Cropping cannot be done except immediately after loading an image, so make sure any cropping is done now. Just as with Alien Sky, the crop handles are free-form, and the slider rotates the image to straighten the horizon. At the top is a selection of free-to-use images called Epic Horizons, and I will show you one of those images at the end.Ĭhoosing an image takes you to the Crop window. ![]() Buttons at the bottom right allow you to choose an image from iCloud or capture an image with the Camera. Tapping the words Photo Library at the bottom left brings up a list of your albums, and you can switch to any album you like. Selecting Photos brings up your Photo Library. Therefore, I think of them more as “inspirations” than as tutorials. SkyLab has some tutorials available, but they load a test image, give you the place to start, and then quit. The iPhone version works only in portrait mode, while the iPad can be flipped to landscape mode once the image has been loaded. It’s a universal app, working on both the iPhone and iPad. Unfortunately, there are some major drawbacks to this first implementation of SkyLab that makes it less useful than Alien Sky, in my opinion. It allows the user to not only put objects into the sky, but to change the entire sky. Immediately upon publication of that article, Brain Fever Media released a new app: SkyLab. Last week I covered Brain Fever Media’s Alien Sky, an app that’s been available for a few years. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |