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Creating One Picture Story – a Step-by-step Example

One picture stories are extremely easy to create. Just shoot a picture and type your story using TypeDrawing application. This post is to share with you some tips on how to achieve a more advanced look. If you know what you want, it’ll take no more than 20 minutes.

When you have an iPhone 3G the pictures are, to be polite, average. This one was shot at the Spectrum Museum in Berlin. I knew I had to deeply rework it.

I started with RetroCamera (AppStore link). This is a great app which lets you play with cool vintage effects. First I added a texture.

Then I selected a frame effect, which made a picture more magical, and saved work to photo gallery.

Next step. I opened a PhotoForge application (AppStore link), increased contrast and saturation and played a bit with hue. At this point I was satisfied with a visual effect and saved a picture to photo gallery.

Last step – drawing words with TypeDrawing (AppStore link). A piece of advice: the font size doesn’t have to be big. Just make sure it’s readable. Paint words in such areas and in such a way, so they can correspond with a picture – or bring a new meaning to it.

I’m sending ready-made pictures from an iPhone to my profile at Posterous via PicPosterous (AppStore link). They are automatically reposted to many networks including Twitter, Tumblr, Facebook and Flickr (a full list is here).

Was it helpful and inspiring? Take an iPhone, shoot a photo and think of a story. Or think of a story and find a good picture for it. And remember – you can share it with the others in a couple of minutes.