The last few posts I've mentioned my fondness for adding painterly effects to the images I create - most recently with the 'Paint Mee' app.
Another painterly app is 'Auto Painter.' (There's Auto Painter ll now as well) This differs from Paint Mee and Artisita Oil in that there are no adjustments possible. These latter two apps let you tweak everything from brush size to colour palette etc. With Auto Painter there are four different filters and that's it. Apart from the option to mask the area you want the most detail added to, but I've not noticed this making much difference really...
Auto Painter one has four filters - Aquarell, Benson, Cezanne, and Van Gogh.
I'm posting this from my phone because I'm in bed, (had a bad week pain and fatigue wise this week.) so I don't know what order the app will post the images in. What I'm aiming for is -
1: The original photograph of a tree (taken with the iPhone 4S) which I then tweaked in Camera+ and turned into a painted version with Paint Mee.
2: The paint Mee version
3: Auto Painter Aquarell
4: Auto Painter Benson
5: Auto Painter Cezanne 6: Auto Painter Van Gogh (I've never seen this filter produce anything I like.)
7,8,9: Are screen shots from the app.
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The photo above is of my notebook.
Yes, it's my iPad...but although I do have a sketchbook, my hands aren't often up to the task of using it. So my iPad and iPhone are my creative lifeline.
You'll need a notebook/sketchbook for the course. So dig one out if you don't already use one.
Or if your like me, create an album ready for your doodles and ideas, on the touch pad device of your choice ;)
Let me know if you join, I'd love to see what you create and I'm sure Kate will too.
There's just something about saturated bright colours...
I love the Sketch Mee app - for it's versatility and the high res output, so I just bought Paint Mee. A new app means revisiting completed artwork whilst I get to know the new effects.
App addict that I am I also bought Kyoobik today too.
Here are a few of the initial results of my experimentation, resized to 960 x 640 for the newer iPhone screen.
I've just altered my phone wallpaper, something warm and cheerful to try to coax the Spring to return...and thought I'd share.
Fluid motion, artista oil and camera+
I was about to start gathering together tips for resizing iPhone images, when I decided to start with the studio talk section of iPhoneArt.com
And lo! It's all there in one discussion :)
Find it here;
http://www.iphoneart.com/studio_talks/303Ah I love iPA...
@JimForADay over at iPA, you may recall, sent me a photo to play with. This post is a record of some of the stages I went through and my two favourite images after all the play/sketching/experimenting...what DOES one call the process?
The last first...these are the two images that I was most happy with;
I put Jim's iPhone photograph, (which is the first image in the 2nd and 3rd strips.) through Tiny Planet. Next was Stripecam, it's an app that I'm not 100% sure about, but as a tool simplify and focus on colour, it's excellent. Fracture came next. Water my Photo was the last one in this sequence and you all know how addicted to that I was for a while...but it did come after Kaleidoscope X. The 'X' is important, I don't like the app without the X...Kooleido is another kaleidoscope app that I love. Most of the others that I've tried have been a big disapointment. The two mentioned allow a good choice of variables and let you use photographs from your phone photo album.
I've been exploring Photo Studio again recently. Until now I've not used it very much, not sure why. Perhaps because of the amount of competition it has...yeah, I'm a bit of an app addict ;( This sequence is mix of Photo Studio filters and, naturally, Water my Photo again.
The Photo Studio filtering continues, but this time I start to layer the results using HDR Fix. I like using this for blending two images together - partly because it's quick and easy and partly because it allows for plenty of adjustment. Then I went to Juxtaposer to combine elements togther collage style. Juxtaposer was the best app for this for quite some time, now we have Superimpose too which has more scope but the UI isn't as intuitive.
How about that? I really did get back and edit this...but I did it in Posterous, so apologies for any typos, I'm lost without a spellchecker these days...
My plan was to post the work process behind this digital art work...but time has run away from me, so I'll do a longer post tomorrow.
September's 'App it!' has begun and this is my first entry.
Taken from an iPhone photograph by Clint Cline (@clix2020)
I think this mandala began as the doodle I did for @karinSF
Kaleidoscope X and then photo studio then addlib then back through Photo Studio a few times. The border was added with Filterstorm when I was looking to see how big the image was. Seems Addlib only produces small resolution images too.
Finally had a medic lay hands on me for the first time since my op. I made an appointment to see my GP to check my scars/wounds. (What do you call them at this in between stage when the outside is more or less healed but the inside isn't?) Everything seems as expected, she believes it'll be after Christmas before I start to feel the real benefits of being gallbladder free and made a lot of sense. So although I didn't think I was worried about the added pain etc I must have been, because I feel better for having seen her.
Fibromyalgia - never a dull moment.
And it's a really stupid name for it. Even chronic pain syndrome would be better. It needs the word 'neuro' in there somewhere. Just saying... ;)
The excitement of a trip out of the house left me exhausted, so I haven't dipped my toes in the twitter water today. My apologies.
One of the artists at iPA is astonishingly good at creating the most wonderful montages on his phone. Intimidatingly good actually...it's a whole new way of working and I've struggled with it because I've been trying to approach it using old skills. Skills from the real world and my folders of collected images...I'm still struggling greatly with it but at least I've started to play and achieve some almost pleasing results...so here are the first to see the light of day. Feedback (if not too harsh) is as always appreciated ;)
And pop over to iPA to marvel at Clint Cline's (clix2020) creations.
I am a disabled artist & designer based in Liverpool, a coastal city in the North West of England.