{"id":23134,"date":"2016-05-19T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/picsart.com\/blog\/?p=23134"},"modified":"2020-08-19T09:57:34","modified_gmt":"2020-08-19T16:57:34","slug":"6-tips-flower-photos-anything-cliche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/picsart.com\/blog\/6-tips-flower-photos-anything-cliche\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Tips for Flower Photos That Are Anything But Clich\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"

April showers bring\u2026 a million May flower photos. And we love macro shots<\/a> of raindrops on roses as much as the next person, but this season, we want to take a slightly different approach to flower photography.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ve searched high and low in the app and picked out some of our favorite photo editing techniques inspired by our very own community members, so if you\u2019re looking for some tips for flower photos that are anything but ordinary, read on to see what\u2019s been inspiring us lately.<\/p>\n

1) Do Something Unexpected<\/span><\/h1>\n

Let\u2019s start with a little non-traditional inspiration. For this edit, Anton Square (@antonsquare<\/a>) used the Floating Flowers package to create a surreal storm of rose petals. The finishing touch? A bit of the Zoom Blur Effect for an enhanced sense of motion. Brilliant.<\/p>\n

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2) Get Your Proportions Wrong<\/span><\/h1>\n

You can create some pretty whimsical landscapes simply by playing with the proportions of added photos or Clipart. Try using Clipart or the Add Photo Tool to create a forest of towering flowers.<\/p>\n

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Pro tip<\/strong>: Here\u2019s a super simple trick for overlaying images: take a shot of a flower against a white background (we nabbed this one from @smalld1171<\/a>) and save it to your device. Open a landscape photo (the @freetoedit<\/a> account has tons of cool ones for you to play with) and use the Add Photo Tool to overlay your flower photo \u2014 but before you confirm, select the Darken blending mode. Your white background will completely disappear and the flower will blend seamlessly into your shot! Voil\u00e0<\/em>. No tedious erasing necessary.<\/p>\n

3) Keep It Simple \u2014 Ridiculously Simple<\/span><\/h1>\n

A great edit will make you say, \u201cwhy didn\u2019t I think of that?!\u201d And\u00a0sometimes, the best thing to do is to keep it simple. When we saw this image on @freetoedit<\/a>, we knew exactly what to do with it. A little bit of Clipart and the soft tones of the Vintage Ivory Effect, and that\u2019s it \u2014 almost too easy.<\/p>\n

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Pro tip<\/strong>: When you\u2019re applying Clipart, you can always erase parts of it to make it blend into your image. For this edit we erased a few stray petals around the lips on the left to make it really look they were coming out of the mouth.<\/p>\n

4) Remix Your\u00a0Flower Fields<\/span><\/h1>\n

A field of flowers can be the perfect backdrop for a dramatic landscape. To create this edit, we grabbed a couple of #FreeToEdit images and used the Add Photo Tool to combine them. The original cloud photo is actually taken from a plane above<\/em> the clouds \u2014 we flipped it upside down when we were adding it.<\/p>\n

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Pro tip<\/strong>: Images with a centered horizon like this run the risk of appearing flat (we totally disregarded the rule of thirds<\/a>, after all), so we added a little bit of drama with the Zoom Blur Effect to draw attention toward the center of the frame. Much better.<\/p>\n

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