Create High-Impact #Visualsl using #Unsplash and #Prisma

You Can Create High-#Impact #Visuals in Eight Simple Steps. Here’s How

1. Find a photo

For the visuals above I used Unsplash’s landing page and I used Annie Spratt’s horse below to illustrate the process.

Here’s how to use Unsplash:

Download the photos to your computer by going to unsplash.com and clicking the Download box beside the photo you want.

Annie Spratt’s photos are always beautifully composed and atmospheric. Click on the Download button.

The picture info will appear in the bottom left-hand corner of your screen.

2. Drag-and-drop the picture into your Medium story.

That’s it — just drag and drop:

Here you write a brilliant caption. My strategy is usually to find a good picture then throw words at the caption to somehow relate it to the surrounding text. You can take a horse to water but you can’t make him drink. Is someone changing horses midstream? I’m not above slinging out cliches either.

3. Publish the story. Unlist it if you don’t want anyone to see it yet.

I explain here how to unlist: scroll down this story to the Method 2 Heading: Unlusting a Response:

Undress People Privately on Medium

Few people are watching my feed so I’m not overly concerned about that.

4- Open the published version of the Medium story on your mobile device.

5. Click on the photo, turn your phone to landscape if appropriate and screen grab using Home and the button at the top.

Notice the X at the top right of the photo and the white bands at the top and bottom that are contributing nothing. They gotta go.

This stores the photo on your mobile device.

6. Edit the photo, cropping and lightening as required for the aesthetic.

To do this, go to the Photos app, select the photo you want to edit and click the three-lines-with-dots icon to the left of the trash can icon:

Cropping is usually neccessary to erase the white bands at the top or sides.

Click the Crop icon to the right of Cancel:

Move the corners to crop then press Done to save the cropped image:

7. Import the photo into the Prisma App, process it by selecting the desired filter then press the arrow to save it on your device.

8. Re-import into Medium from your mobile device then delete the Unsplash original from the Medium story.

I’ve done this with several articles already with other filters but there’s something special about the illegal-beauty filter I used here:

I Met a Woman

It makes the subjects more human, more vulnerable somehow.

Illegal beauty filter is also interesting for landscapes

Check out my Medium series for more examples:

Make your Own Personalized High-ImpactYou Images - Medium

Thank you for reading. Let me know in the comments if there’s anything that’s unclear. Be warned: It’s all unclear unless you’re actually following the instructions. Learning by doing.

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