I didn’t want to waste too much ink and had already planned on getting a few photo prints at Walgreens so I just added an 8×10 to my online order picked it up within the hour. Once you’ve “waterlogued” them you can save them as large or giant files (I used giant), print and frame them. So if you have a photo already on your phone you could use that, capture new ones with your phone’s camera, or even just email yourself some photos from your computer and then save them to your phone. I couldn’t be happier with the outcome and of all the photos I’ve waterlogued since, this is by far my favorite. Ummm, AMAZING, right? I know this isn’t original art or anything fancy but for a girl with no budget for art this photo made me do the happy dance. Here is what the final image looked like: I still left quite a bit of white because it looked like light reflecting off of it, and honestly could have just left it as is. The waterlogued photo looked amazing but had a few extra white spaces in the leaves that I decided to fill in with photoshop. It’s pretty straight forward to use, but the photos below may help if you’ve never seen or used it.
So I decided to download the app and give it a try. We had just finished putting up our massive living room gallery wall, and I had frames that needed to be filled on a budget that required craftiness. It was then that I started thinking about the Waterlogue app and how this photo could turn into a fabulous print. It was just a crappy iphone photo, nothing special. I was so excited I snapped a photo and sent it to the hubs. By the way, she said she picked it out based on my blog colors, isn’t that so thoughtful and amazing? The colors are PERFECT and I quickly realized this little succulent I had would fit perfectly inside. The other day I was staring at this adorable vintage teacup my step-sister, Nancie gave me for Christmas and trying to figure out a way to keep it displayed in my creative office/studio. Giraffe has since been printed, framed and added to our living room gallery wall, woo-hoo! (I may move it into my office once I work on that gallery wall.) You may recall seeing this on my Facebook page: I wound up using illustrator to turn it into a grayscale vector image so I could blow it up without losing any of the quality. It wasn’t colorful though so I figured it didn’t need to look like a watercolor painting anyway. I originally planned to use the app on a giraffe drawing I made 6 years ago and wanted to hang in my office.
I finally gave in a few days ago and it was sooooo worth it! Which is why today I am sharing how to create DIY wall art using Waterlogue. I was so close to buying the app a few weeks ago but decided against spending the $3. Have you waterlogued yet? Is that even a word? In case you don’t know, Waterlogue is a phone app that creates a watercolor effect from digital photos.