Creative Tutorials
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Satur8: Color Gradient Tool
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe features Satur8 and the outcome is not entirely favourable…. (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… “Being an app developer is hard work. Even when you come up with a great idea and an app that delivers on that great idea, users are constantly looking for what’s next. Therefore, you have to come up with another great idea or update the first app on a regular basis with more good stuff. No one can succeed 100% of the time, so sometimes you miss. My next two articles will be about apps…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – iColorama Texture Masking
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe has created a video to explain more about texture masking in the app, iColorama. (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… iColorama retails for $2.99/£2.99 and you can download it here. “Here’s a technique that may or may not interest you. As stated in the video, textures are usually blended into an image. That means that some of the color of the texture and some of the luminosity of the texture are combined with the pixels of the underlying image. But what do you do if you like the pattern of…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Flowpaper: Mesh these effects into your artwork
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at the app Flowpaper. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… Flowpaper retails for $0.99/£0.79 and you can download it here “Computer art has been around for over fifty years. Allowing software to create lines based on user input is computer art at its most basic. Today’s app, Flowpaper by Diatom Studio (available for both iPhone and iPad), is a beautiful new take on that initial foray into computer art”.
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How To Record Your TrueView Interviews – Video Tutorial – TheAppWhisperer
Welcome to this spectacular video tutorial by our wondrous Editor, Jerry Jobe. This week (by popular request), Jobe has created an iMovie tutorial to help our interviewees create their own TrueView Videos for us (if you haven’t seen these, then you must! Please go here). iMovie (for iOS) retails for $4.99/£3.99 and you can download it here. So many thanks to Jobe, this is wonderful, thank you! "By request, here’s a video tutorial about making videos using iMovie, the free app for all iPhone users. There are a few points I want to make before you watch the video: Video does take off the edges of your photos. If I…
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Adobe’s PaintCan: A Nifty Addition to Beginner Paint Apps
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at the app Adobe’s PaintCan app. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… PaintCan is free and you can download it here “Painting apps can take several different forms. There are the auto-painting apps, that apply the brush to the canvas in a specific, software-driven way. Glaze, Brushstroke and the AutoPainter series are among the auto-painting apps I’ve covered. There are those that allow you to “trace” photos, but the user completely controls the brush strokes…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Artoon: Keeping it Simple
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at the app Artoon. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… Artoon retails for $1.99/£1.49 and you can download it here. “I’m rather fond of JixiPix apps in general, although there are some, like Fold Defy and Chalkspiration (covered back in May), that are so specialized as to be essentially useless. On the other hand, today’s app, Artoon, performs a task that I frequently wish to use in my artwork: creating a simple, flat image…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – AfterFocus: Add Some Depth To Your Photographs
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at the app AfterFocus. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). AfterFocus retails for $0.99/£0.79 and you can download it here. If you’re familiar with shooting with an SLR, whether digital or not, you know that a wider aperture (a smaller number, f2 vs. f11 for example) will result in a narrower depth of field (area that remains in focus). The iPhone lens does not generally shoot in the widest apertures, so you lose that ability to set off your…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Three Years of Tutorials: A Recap, an Assembly Feature, and an iColorama Procedural
Huge thanks to Jerry Jobe on his Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial Third Year Writing Anniversary. We have loved and enjoyed every single one of Jobe’s tutorials and we know that you do too. This week, Jobe does something a little different, take a look…(foreword by Joanne Carter). “On November 7, 2012, I published my first tutorial on Hipstamatic. As usual, on my anniversary, I like to take a look back. But there’s more to this article than a walk down memory lane. There’s a feature currently in beta for Assembly that I’d like to show you, and an iColorama procedural on how to create a multicolored water color painting…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Abstract Painting: It’s Time to Play
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at the app Abstract Painting. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Abstract Painting is free and you can download it here. “Some apps I’ve discussed over the years are very serious photo editing apps, giving you’re the ability to manipulate curves or eliminate color casts. Some have given users serious painting tools, such as iColorama and Pixelmator. Some apps, though, are not serious and give users tools to experiment with or to have fun with. These tools may take…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – ‘Over’ Release 3.0: Does it Add the Right Features?
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This week Jobe takes a look at the new the update to the app ‘Over’. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Over retails for $3.99/£2.99 – click here to download “Over is a type-and-clipart app that has been around for a few years. I hadn’t covered it up to now, and I’m glad I didn’t. The newest release of Over (3.0), which arrived last week, is a major rewrite of this app with multiple new features. I hate writing articles that are out of date…
