I don’t know about you, but my Instagram feed is blowing up with images run through faux painting apps. This one Waterlogue is especially trendy…
I love it. I hate it. I mean, it’s swell, but it’s also majorly irritating to know that regardless of the time and money I invested in art school, I will never, ever, paint half so well as my phone.
Hashtag: butthurt.
Photoshop has been able to do this stuff for years but the results have never been this good. Honestly. Hats off to these app developers for knowing their bidness.
My fav is this one called Glazed. Makes everything look like some funkadelic oil painting. Brush strokes run from gentle, Monet style stipples, to thick and sloppy Someone-Left-the-Toddler-Alone-with-the-Peanut-Butter style strokes. It took this badly lit photo of a football cupcake and turned it into something marvelous. Look!
Personally, I think all these apps work better on images of objects and landscapes than people, unless the person is wearing something really weird or interesting (coffee filter flower hat, anyone?).
They also work really great on cat pictures. Like, really great. I have a long-running dream to have Lolabelle’s portrait painted, and it’ll happen one day, but for now, this is enough to make me smile. And I sorta doubt Lola will know the difference.*
*shhhhh, nobody tell on me.
My favorite so far is this image of a pink church we saw in Italy last fall. The moment I saw that church in real life I thought, now this, THIS should be a painting…and now it is.
Okay, it’s not a masterpiece, but it’s a cheap thrill. Major niftiness. If you are in the app game, go and get you some Glazed. It’s free. You’re welcome.
Have to agree that it works better on objects. But don’t feel bad, it still can’t do Picasso 😉 also I don’t understand what Hashtag Butthurt means but want to because I think it’s funny
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Butthurt is one of my new favorite words. It essentially means to feel personally offended by things that are not intended to offend. Like, you know that person who always gets riled up that something was directed towards them, and it had nothing to do with them… yeah. That’s butthurt.
To Hastag butthurt (or hashtag# anything) is just to recap the sentiment of the previous statement. Social media speak is taking over our lives. Mwahahah!
Okay, now I just typed that and second guessed if I knew what butthurt meant. I messed on a similar situation when someone called something I made “ratchet” ….This is according to Urban Dictionary: “An inappropriately strong negative emotional response from a perceived personal insult. Characterized by strong feelings of shame. Frequently associated with a cessation of communication and overt hostility towards the “aggressor.”
That is pretty dang awesome. Awwww Lola, honey, you are a work of art. Hey i wanted to let you know I blogged about the valentine swap too, http://bonnieblogyou.blogspot.com/2014/02/valentines-with-aunt-peaches.html, now if only that app would be for my Windows phone.
Wahoo! Thanks for the shout out 🙂
Awesome. This is too funny. Now I will have to use this word all the time 🙂
I just saw a friend’s photo on Instagram using the Waterlogue app. I didn’t know about the Glazed one – that looks fun too! I do feel kind of funny using these, like you I went to art school, invested lots of time and money in it, and will definitely never paint as well as my phone. 😉 But c’est la vie, it’s a new world.
New World, indeed. I don’t want any painters out there to think they have been replaced, obv…it’s just amazing that technology can now be programed to pick up so many nuances in imagery — light/shadow/vibrancy. Stuff that took me years to pick up on. It’s a wee bit depressing!
*Dies happy* *adds new word to Dictionary of Popular Vernacular*
Although proper “Booooo” because neither are on Android.
Wait a month. I’ll bet Waterlouge is already on the way. Glazed is free so it might be longer…it’ll get there.
Thank you for this. I downloaded the app and now I am obsessed! I will waste more time than ever now. xoxo