Post #686781 by Gene S Morgan on Sun, Jul 21, 2013 6:21 PM

As I have said before, with digital images you are never really done until you decide you are done. With these digital sculpts you can save them as image files and treat the images just like you would any other image. This is another of my Ipad pages. On it there are a large number of apps that can add after effects to any image. Digital art gets a bad name because there are many effects out there that can mimic natural art. Some folks just apply a filter that, for instance, makes your image look like a watercolor, oil paint, or a pencil sketch. My approach is just the opposite. I try to make images that are very hard or impossible to create with natural media. I think digital is a new media and should be explored digitally in new ways.

This is the same image I displayed in the earlier part of this post. I played with color a bit and came up with something I kinda liked.

Next I posterized the image a bit. This reduces the color level and adds some interesting shaping and color levels. I love texture, so I overlayed some grungy textures over the image.

Playing with contrast, saturation, and brightness makes things pop a bit.

Some new color and texture adds add interest. You can do this all day, but with the right apps, it won't take near that long.

Hey, want another size or shape, no problem. There are limits to this kind of distorting. Too much and pixels start stretching and looking weird. And, the image starts looking too distorted and crappy. Next I will show you some of the apps I use to get these kind of effects.