However, it didn't have that edginess of Emily's photos. Now I'm not seriously trying to create an exact replica portrait from Emily's work, but I was highly jealous of her perfectly/imperfect approach and I'd be lying if I didn't say she was a huge inspiration behind this. I took it upon myself to figure out how could I add the features she possessed in her photographs. I came to the conclusion that her, as well as Lindsay Adler, were doing a lot of their post work in Photoshop... I absolutely suck at Photoshop.

This lack of skill that I possessed forced me to find a batter way. Side note, my creativity really comes into play during this kind of situations, if I had to guess I'd say I developed them from the times when I was younger and we had no food. We never had dishes that complimented each other, thus, I had to create something in order to have a full course meal, it didn't sound good on paper and probably would have gotten zero likes on Instagram... But boy was it delicious. Back to the story... So I Googled a few things, I came up with nothing. I then went to Instagram to check out my feed, I noticed my friend had tagged Mextures in one of his mobile pictures (the picture was stunning) so I downloaded the app. At the time I believe it was free, so there was no hesitation. I opened it and at first glance I wasn't really impressed, it seemed as if it was another filter based app, I had enough of those, but after playing around with it I really saw the potential it had.

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What Mextures is, is an overlay application. It allows you to add textures to your original image, but unlike most apps, it allows you to add several layers to the image, this makes the possibilities and outcomes almost endless. If you're no creative, then the app even allows you to utilize formulas created by other users. My favorite part about the app is that it allows you to control the opacity of the texture, this allows for the image to still shine while the texture itself remains an addition to the photograph. This was the app I needed, the app that would help me apply the final touches to my pictures. Here's how the picture of Gessica looks after the Mextures edit.

This was the app I needed, the app that would help me apply the final touches to my pictures. Here's how the picture of Gessica looks after the Mextures edit.