Pixlr Photo App, Counting Sheep

Cat Ocha falling asleep with Baarina, the stuffed sheep toy.

My HTC One X is still in the service center. I've been taking casual photos on my iPad Mini.

For low-light shooting, I usually use my tiny bicycle light (Knog) instead of built-in flash. It is more discreet and definitely, more control for most usage. To capture moment like above without waking my cat up, using that light produces more comfort for the subject and an easier shot to edit on the go.

Note: I use the same bicycle light for my camcorder because it can illuminates pretty far!

I'm using PixlrExpress+ - another great app from Autodesk - on my iPad Mini, too. Correcting colours to give it some warmth instead of the cold, harsh tinge casted by the white LED light I've used. Using the same app, I can further soften the focus already intended during the lighting drops, making it more portrait-like than just another flat framing pic. I've even added one of the many Vignette styles in-app to totally cut out the background.

I've been using Autodesk's mobile photo editor for years on Android platforms and glad to find it on iOS, too. Pixlr is their latest and my current favourite. On iOS, this app looks a whole lot better. Especially the adding text alignment and fonts option, which is better than on Android. Sigh.

Purin's favourite hiding spot.

The above is another example of using the bicycle light. This time, I've gotten back my phone - upgraded to Android 4.2.2 - and the stock camera came with a pretty nice Night mode. Using it will cause quite a bit of noise and WITHOUT flash enabled. Using Pixlr, I can Denoise the photo after I've done the above mentioned steps. Still looks pretty sharp, right? All done within device, of course.