Sometimes I like the challenge of editing a photo that I took in Hipstamatic. When editing raw photos, the sky is pretty much the limit, but when editing a photo that’s already been heavily processed (with now raw photo available) it can be more limiting… which can be inspiring.
I spotted this fellow in Mint Plaza and shot with Hipstamatic’s James M lens and Blanko Noir film, leaving me with a very warm and faded image. I cropped the image in Camera+ and punched up the colors a little bit, then ran it through Noir B&W to create the illusion of heavy light to the right. I then used the Overlay feature in Image Blender to layer the black and white image on top of the Camera+ edit, and finally ran that saved image through Swanko Labs’s “Secret Sauce”…. which I then layered back on top of the Camera+ image until I got a blend I liked.
