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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – TouchRetouch: Now You See It, Now You Don’t
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at the newly updated TouchRetouch app. Take it away Jerry…(foreword by Joanne Carter). TouchRetouch retails for $1.99 (or the respective amount in your country) and you can download it here. “Back in January 2013 I covered TouchRetouch by AdvaSoft. It was an invaluable app then, with its ability to replace areas of your image with a fill based on the surrounding pixels. Recently they released an update that added new tools and changed the user interface, so I thought I’d show it to you all over again”.
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – BlackCam and Black: Dark Horse Monochrome Apps
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our viewing pleasure. Take it away Jerry…(foreword by Joanne Carter). “There are many monochrome apps, and I’ve covered quite a few of them: Noir, Dramatic B&W, Ansel (now called Nova) and others. Some are merely editors, and some have shooting capabilities. Some vintage apps, like Vintage Scene, Lo-Mob and Superslides have some monochrome aids within them. The two apps today (which, by the way, bring me to 150 different apps covered in tutorials since November 2012) are “dark horse’ monochrome apps in that they are not as fully-featured as some monochrome apps. However, each is surprising in its…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Pixagram: What Exactly Have We Got Here?
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at the app Pixagram. Take it away Jerry…(foreword by Joanne Carter). “I haven’t really become visible enough, even after writing articles about nearly 150 apps (more than 100 republished on the awesome and highly visible App Whisperer site), to have developers asking me to try out their apps for free. Therefore, I’m constantly on the lookout, like my readers, for free apps that give me value. Today’s app, Pixagram by Pierre Gougelet, has often been offered for free on the App Store. A little over two years ago, I…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Up Against the Wall: Graffiti Me and Fotoffiti
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look two apps, Graffiti Me and Fotofiffi. Take it away Jerry…(foreword by Joanne Carter). “There are thousands of photography/art apps on the App Store, and some of them are extreme specialised. That’s the case with the two apps I’ll be covering this time: Graffiti Me by Bluebear Technologies Ltd and Fotoffiti by amioli. Each take your image, run a Threshold filter on it, and apply it to a wall as if you’ve stenciled it there. Each allow you to add extra paint and text. Each also run on both the…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – ‘Coming to Terms with Brushes using PaintHack and iColorama’
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography / art tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe helps you to understand more about brushes and how greater knowledge can lead to greater mobile art. Take it away Jerry…(foreword by Joanne Carter). “Any time you try to learn a new skill, the first roadblock you encounter is the specialised terms associated with that skill. How are you going to play American football without knowing what a touchdown, punt or offsides penalty is? How are you going to operate a computer without knowing the difference between an icon and an operating system? Art apps use a lot of terminology…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Miscellany: Sizes of Files/Images; Big Photo; Snapseed; Over
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at some crucial miscellaneous issues that help will you understand more about some technical aspects to mobile photography. Take it away Jerry…(foreword by Joanne Carter). “While I generally write articles about how to operate an app, along with articles about how to achieve a certain look, I will sometimes get drawn into discussions of a more general nature. When Snapseed introduced the ability to Export images in the PNG format, as well as the ability to edit RAW files, it drew me into a discussion on file and image…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – VSCO: Heavy Hitter
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at the very popular app, VSCO. Take it away Jerry…(foreword by Joanne Carter). VSCO is free and you can download it here “There are certain apps that are almost universally revered in the mobile photography/art community. I always find it difficult to review these apps and teach about them because there are so many users who are better with them than I am. I could not presume to teach anyone how to use Procreate, for example. My art technique is weak and besides, Procreate has an excellent Artists’ Handbook…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Uptown & Co.: Graphic Curiosity
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at an app called Uptown & Co. Take it away Jerry…(foreword by Joanne Carter). “I’ve been writing weekly tutorials for nearly four years now. I write them because I like to see my readers get inspired by them, trying new apps and techniques. I have not tried to monetise these tutorials, because I don’t do them for financial rewards. It helps me continue, though, when I’m able to pick up some of the apps I cover for free. I keep an eye out for free apps with another app…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – BeCasso: Painting for Powerful Devices
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at a painting app, BeCasso. Take it away Jerry…(foreword by Joanne Carter). BeCasso retails for $1.99/£1.49 and you can download it here. “Apps that give your images a painted look are numerous on the App Store. I’ve covered several apps that produce an overall painted look, like Glaze, Brushstroke, Waterlogue and Artista Impresso. I’ve also covered several that allow the user to control the painting themselves through brush strokes, like Mobile Monet, Adobe PaintCan, and (of course) iColorama. DigitalMasterpieces has given us another one of the first type of…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Snapseed and Assembly Apps Want To Have a Word With You
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look both Snapseed and Assembly apps, specifically at their textual input functionalities. Take it away Jerry…(foreword by Joanne Carter). Both Snapseed and Assembly and can be downloaded below: Snapseed Assembly “Two apps that I’ve covered a number of times, Snapseed and Assembly, have separately come up with text additions in the past couple of weeks. Neither one has all the capabilities of a full-featured text app like Phonto or Over, but each has capabilities that are not found in text apps. My first image is one I created in Snapseed,…
