AMPt Challenges Are Back In 2013!
Be Challenged! Be Creative!

Our challenges begin again this year on EyeEm. The challenge topic will be posted on on our EyeEm account @AMPt.

Starts Friday, 11 January 2013.
Features done on Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Finalists announced Thursday, 17 January 2013
Voting begins … all AMPt Community members are eligible to vote (Come join the community at amptcommunity.com)

The winner will be announced Friday, 18 January 2013

Join us and get featured all over our networks and in our community!

TEACH | LEARN | SHARE | INSPIRE

Advanced Image Editing Using Masking & Picsay Pro on Android

If you’re like most photographers you’ve probably revisited images wishing there was something more to them. A unifying element of some kind that helped to bring an image to life even more. A bird flying over an already perfect landscape or a figure standing in the middle of a quiet meadow.

Capturing these types of images can be a challenge and are often dependent on simply being at the right place at the right time. Today, Android Editor member, @DroidEdit, Atle Rønningen shows us otherwise as he walks us through some advanced editing tips that will help you introduce these missing elements into your work. 

Check out the FULL ARTICLE where @DroidEdit member Atle Rønningen shares some incredible tips for manipulating and blending images on Android devices.

This is the final Darkroom Tutorial from DroidEdit for the December collaboration with AMPt. If you missed the other tutorials from DroidEdit you can check them out @ ampteam.org/darkroom or visit @DroidEdit on Instagram.

Monochrome Photo Editing Techniques for Android

It can be hard to give up beautiful colors in a picture, but a bw can take your picture to another level. Stripping it of colors will make the viewer focus on other things in your image.

Making a picture bw is not hard at all. The most basic method is to just drag down saturation to zero. But one can easily use different apps to work with a bw image to change the mood and enhance what you want the focus to be on, or give it a mood with a monochrome effect.

Check out the FULL ARTICLE where @DroidEdit member Pernille Scheele gives Android users some great tips for getting started with black & white and monochrome edits.

AMPt and DroidEdit will be collaborating on Darkroom Tutorials the entire month of December so check back for both Android and iPhone related articles every Monday & Tuesday @ ampteam.org/darkroom.

Top 10 Professional Image Editing Apps for Android (and 10 worthy mentions)
 

If you’ve looked for a list of the top image editing apps for Android lately you’ve probably been disappointed. Fact is, most of these lists are outdated (literally years old) or crowd sourced and feature mediocre apps at best. Well today’s Darkroom Tutorial aims to change that.

DroidEdit member/writer Jacob Dix has compiled a comprehensive list of 10 “must have” Android editing apps as well as 10 “worthy mentions”.

So how is this list different than the rest? Jacob is an active Mobile Photographer who has selected these apps with a focus on their professional editing tools, output resolution and overall quality. This list is compiled from the perspective of a mobile artist…not a blogger.
 

Read the FULL TUTORIAL where Jacob (@jacob606) shares his top 10 MUST HAVE image editing apps for Android.
 

AMPt and DroidEdit will be collaborating on Darkroom Tutorials the entire month of December so check back for both Android and iPhone related articles every Monday & Tuesday @ ampteam.org/darkroom.

The Twelve Days of Christmas

We have decided to celebrate the coming holiday season with a must have shopping list for mobile photographers. From editing apps to gear, our members share their favorites. Don’t forget to check the app store for cyber monday deals!

Read the FULL TUTORIAL to see what AMPt loves this year.

Check back for new Darkroom mobile photography lessons every Monday @ ampteam.org

AMPt Member Graham Preston @grahampreston Title: in the woods, is perpetual youth Description: For me, the main difference between the old world of film photography and the current world of digital, is number of shots I take. I take loads !! I do it when I shoot on the street because time is short and I like to give myself some choices when I go back through my work. But last week I shot with my film camera alongside my iPhone for an afternoon. I shot 1 roll of 24 b&w film exposures against well over 400 digital ones. My point is that does quantity give you quality? After waiting 5 days to get the roll of film processed and it costing nearly a tenner all in, I did get 5 keepers though. This shot above has taken me 3 weeks to select from 798 I took that afternoon. We spent about an hour on a swing we came across in the woods and I used QuickPix to shoot. This camera app allowed me so underexpose and fix it. Then you just stick your finger on the button and off it goes, rapid fire capture of frames and lots of them. I have concluded the iPhone isn’t the ideal platform for selecting shots from hundreds of similar shots, so I had to download to my mac for that - but I copied this shot back for editing. Used Snapseed for warming up the white balance a bit and a little center focus without blur.

Photo submitted by AMPt Member Martin Reisch @safesolvent Taken in St. John’s, Newfoundland at Cape Spear in September this shot was unfortunately left out of my “in realtime” posting but i’m glad to have a chance to put it up here finally :) The ultra-distance was achieved with iTimelapse.app setting to an interval of every 60 secondes in order to have enough time to make it that far. This was shot on my iPhone 4S at the time so it’s still part of the Cross-Process style i was using with that device. Overall i have a strong feeling that i was mimic’ing a Boards of Canada shot i remember seeing back in the day especially the cold-tones and being on the east-coast of Canada it looks alot like Ireland

How to Use A Vignette to Highlight Your Subject

The word vignette comes from the French word vigne and historically means a decorative border in a manuscript. Using a vignette, either white, black or any other color, should be determined on a case by case basis. In this tutorial we will discuss the major Dos and Don’ts when deciding when and how to apply a vignette to your photograph.

Read the FULL TUTORIAL where Anna will cover some basic tips to keep in mind when using a vignette.

Check back for new Darkroom mobile photography lessons every Monday @ ampteam.org

Incorporating Text into Your Images - AMPt Darkroom
Editing Walkthrough

AMPt is excited to share our first Community written tutorial for the Darkroom Mobile Photography Tutorial series. This week’s Community tutorial was written by mobile photographer Brent Mosley @sleekmaus.

From Brent: “Lately I have seen more and more images incorporating text into the photograph. I have been asked on several occasions what my editing process was to achieve this result. That being the case I have put together a tutorial to show how I was able to do just that.”

While a picture alone can say a thousand words you can often enhance this message through the clever placement of text in your image. Read the FULL TUTORIAL where Brent walks us through a full edit and shows us one way to add and blend text into an image.

Check back for new Darkroom mobile photography lessons every Monday & Tuesday @ ampteam.org