{"id":7867,"date":"2015-08-03T23:58:54","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T02:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/culturedarm.com\/?p=7867"},"modified":"2015-08-06T21:13:39","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T00:13:39","slug":"photo-edits-i-fused-blends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/photo-edits-i-fused-blends\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo Edits I: Fused Blends"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"sc-dropcap\">W<\/span>ith the tagline &#8216;Double exposure made easy&#8217;, <strong>Fused<\/strong> is an\u00a0iOS application &#8211; designed for both iPhone and iPad &#8211; which allows you to blend two photographs, videos, or a combination of both. Selecting one visual element to serve as the background layer, and another to serve as the foreground, the app offers a variety of blending tools, plus colour adjustment and layer masking. It was released last October, with the most recent update &#8211; version 2.0 of the app &#8211; arriving\u00a0in June. Fused&#8217;s artist&#8217;s collections afford a range of free and paid-for visuals which you can use to blend with your own photos and videos.<\/p>\n<p>The app can achieve\u00a0fairly complex effects very easily: it is intuitive to use,\u00a0and fun given how quickly you\u00a0can start to create interesting\u00a0blended images. Here are eight edits I made, all blending photographs taken in <a href=\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/umea-2014-jokkmokk-winter-market-instagram-viii\/\">Ume\u00e5<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/culturedarm.com\/staging\/5793\/umea-skelleftea-stockholm-photographs-via-instagram-vi\/\">Skellefte\u00e5<\/a>\u00a0around the turn of the year: along the Ume river, at Ume\u00e5&#8217;s\u00a0new cultural centre\u00a0V\u00e4ven, at Bildmuseet, and at Skellefte\u00e5&#8217;s Campushallen. 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