JixiPix Software Releases New Chalkboard Artistic Software for Mac
JixiPix Software announces the release of a new chalkboard artistic creation software for Mac OS. Chalkspiration is the new creative canvas for businesses and artists to create chalkboard layouts and art digitally. Creating chalkboard art is crazy and fun. Call it old school but chalkboard art is making a comeback and Chalkspiration is the main software tool to lead this new push. The swooshes, the light shading and the dusty backgrounds are just a few elements.
This new app available for Mac OS 10.6 provides all the creative tools needed to transform an image into a professional-looking piece of chalkboard art and is the perfect compliment to a series of JixiPix artistic apps developed for digital artist, photographer and creative professionals, giving them the ability to achieve realistic chalky chalkboard art creations true to a traditionally difficult media. The app also boasts a collection of pre-made clipart.
Chalkspiration for for Mac is $7.99/£5.49. Chalkspiration – Chalkboard art now being served at the JixiPix website and Mac App Store, click here to download.
Creating chalkboard art is crazy and fun. Call it old school but chalkboard art is making a comeback. It’s everywhere these days and the more we see it, the more we swoon. The swooshes, the light shading and the dusty backgrounds are just a few elements that makes this media enchanting to behold. Chalkspiration is the new creative canvas for business design, events and home decor.
Chalkspiration starts by automatically converting your image to chalky outlines with light shading then allows you to place objects from a library of included flourishes, banners, embellishments and fonts. To get started, choose one of our ready to customize preset templates; or create your own using tools from within the app that will add images and clipart then allow you to resize, flip, rotate and duplicate them exactly the way you want.
A few favorite ways people have used their Chalkspiration art are from invitations to placemats, photo backdrops to chalk-like artwork in wedding details and decor – the possibilities for this fun and artsy media is endless!
Features
Fully adjustable control on all aspects of the process: Chalk color and texture, shade strength, outline detail, edge style and chalkboard border. Also allows placement objects and text with the ability to resize, flip and rotate of them.
Includes:
* Two chalk styles – one that shades on the inside of the lines and one that shades on the out
* A library of embellishments, banners, flourishes and dividers
* A way to add and edit text from within the app
* A powerful brush to colorize chalk
* An erase brush to remove unwanted chalk from images and clipart
* A variety of dusty looking blackboards
* The ability to add multiple images and your personal clipart
* The ability to resize, flip and rotate images and clipart from within the app
* An array of presets and customizable templates
* A way to save your project in a preset for future use
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
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