What Apps Are We Using This Month? with Kerry Mitchell
What Apps Are We Using This Month? with Kerry Mitchell
Welcome to TheAppWhisperer’s new section, “what apps are we using this month” series, where we discover which apps you are particularly enjoying. Kicking us off today is non-other than Award Winning Mobile Artist, Kerry Mitchell.
Thank you Joanne for asking me to participate in What Apps Are We Using This Month?
I’m Kerry Mitchell and I live in Seattle, Washington. I’m retired from working in law and medicine. I paint digitally and take photographs.
I have to agree with my friend, Marco @vastumarco that all of a sudden many apps disappeared a few years ago. I believe this was due to Apple no longer financially supporting apps the way they once did.
Tricia Dewey and I used to have a page on Facebook where we showed a new app every week. But we gave it up partly because it got so difficult to find new Apple apps that were worthwhile.
I’ve cut back on my art due to severe issues with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). So I’m having to keep things much simpler than I used to do. So here are some of my recent works from old standard apps.
My stand-by apps are Procreate (which if you are having trouble learning go check out @nickifitzgerald_iphoneart beginner’s class), iColorama, SuperimposeX, Trimaginator, Repix, Tangled FX, DistressedFX+, Decimate. I’ll just give examples of a couple of these today.
This first is a daffodil that I cut out in SuperimposeX. I chose to save it as png and shared it to Procreate from SuperimposeX. I then opened it in iColorama and chose Textures/Leak. That’s where I got the yellow gradient light to dark. Now for some reason iColorama wouldn’t save my png with the leak on it! Am I the only person with these kind of problems? So I took a screenshot and cropped it. Next, I opened DistressedFX+ and applied filters only. I saved a few examples. I tried their birds. But I didn’t like them. I’m not very hot on their birds. You can’t resize them and quite frankly they mostly look weird. So I reopened this in Procreate and brought in some of my own birds. Of course, for some reason, they had lost most of their color and I had to color them in.
I got a huge bouquet of flowers from my husband for my birthday. We have this amazing woman here in Seattle that puts together amazing bouquets of flowers. So I’ve been taking photos of that. Here are some of the flowers from that bouquet and what I’ve started to do with them.
This was a beautiful tulip that had a really busy background. So I took it into an app I use called Blur Photo. I hit Magic Select and got this.
I rather like it like this. But I can now go to DistressedFX+ or any iColorama or Decimat8.
Here’s another example from my birthday bouquet:
I really liked the orange flower in this but all that was going on around it was very distracting to say the least. So I took one of my best friends and one of the best apps around Touch Retouch. It cleaned up the distracting pieces in this picture!!! That app has gotten so great!
Then I took the flower into the lenses in Photoshop Camera/Artful and got this:
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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)
