Creative Tutorials
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – ‘Assembly’ – Time To Shape Up
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 app ‘Assembly’ by Pixite LLC. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Assembly currently retails for $1.99/£1.49 and you can download it here. “Often, in photography and art education, one of the first things emphasized is that we should observe and recognize what we see. In sketching, you are taught to reproduce certain shapes, and then recognize how those shapes are inherent in everything we see. A framework of these shapes is the “bones” of a person,…
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Mobile Photography Tutorial – Hipstamatic 300 Part 2: No longer A Toy Camera
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photograph tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This week we have published Part 2 of Jobe’s two-part series on Hipstamatic 300. If you missed Part 1, please go here. Read Jobe’s thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Hipstamatic is free (there are in-app purchases) and you can download it here. “Last time I discussed the new release of Hipstamatic, and how it changed the app dramatically. I mentioned that the bug fix release, 301, still left Hipstamatic with multiple crashes. I mentioned that the new “pro mode” camera, while adding new features, did not…
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Mobile Photography Tutorial – Hipstamatic 300 – Revisit your Pictures with an Editor
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photograph tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This week Jobe takes a look at the update to Hipstamatic, Apple’s original App of the Year. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Hipstamatic is free (there are in-app purchases) and you can download it here. “I have a special place in my heart for Hipstamatic. As with many iPhoneographers, Hipstamatic was my gateway into the possibilities for wonderful images created with my iPhone. I selected a lens and a film, and snapped away, leaving hundreds of square images on my Camera Roll. When I…
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Mobile Photography Tutorial – The Value of Layers, featuring Leonardo – Photo Editor
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 comprehensive mobile photography app, Leonardo. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Leonardo retails for $4.99/£3.99 and you can download it here. The current explosion of mobile art and photography has introduced multitudes to digital techniques of manipulating images. Many, if not most of them, have no experience with the behemoth of desktop image editors, Photoshop. There’s certainly nothing wrong with that. Those of us that have, though, realize that there is an enormous value in using layered…
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Mobile Photography/Art Tutorial – Nowvel: Pronounced “Novel” – Books for your Mobile Images!
I am especially delighted this week that our fabulous Tutorial Editor Jerry Jobe has written about the wonderful Nowvel books that I have had the pleasure of learning about, from many of you in the mobile photography and art community. Like Jerry, I was gifted one of these books my an incredibly talent mobile artist and very special friend, Carolyn Hall Young – (it’s beautiful and I keep it close). Read Jerry’s thoughts as he literally gets to grips with his images (foreword by Joanne Carter). Nowvel is a free app and you can download it here “I write about apps that push pixels around. Whether you are capturing photos,…
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Mobile Photography/Art Tutorial – RipPix: Tear your Art to Shreds
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 mobile photography/art app, RipPix by JixiPix Software. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). RipPix retails for $0.99/£0.79 and you can download it here “This week I cover the 110th app since I started writing about iPhoneography apps back in November 2012. That’s quite a few; but with the large number of new apps arriving almost daily, I’m barely able to scratch the surface. One app that I’ve been meaning to cover is Modern Grunge, by Appnotix.…
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Mobile Photography/Art Tutorial – Brushstroke Part 2: Canvas the Area
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This week we have published Part 2 of Jobe’s two part series on the app Brushstroke. If you missed Part 1, Please go here. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Brushstroke retails for $3.99/£2.99 and you can download it here “In part 1 of my article on Brushstroke, I covered the painting and color presets. Part two covers the finishing touches: adding texture with the underlying Canvas; Adjusting the painting; and adding a signature to your work. The image I’ll be using is a portrait…
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Mobile Photography/Art Tutorial – Brushstroke Part 1 – A Dizzying Amount of Presets
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 popular mobile photography and Art iPad app Brushstroke. This is Part 1 of what will be a two Part series. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Brushstroke retails for $3.99/£2.99 and you can download it here “I’ve covered a few apps that turn your photos into paintings. Glaze has several fine presets, but doesn’t offer a lot in the way of control. Artista Impresso gives you quite a bit of control, but it is over a particular…
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Mobile Photography/Art Tutorial – iColorama 3.91: More Art Choices Than You Can Shake 1000 Brushes At
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 hugely popular mobile photography and Art iPad app update to iColorama. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). iColorama retails for $2.99/£1.99 and you can download it here “Teresita Garit, the developer of iColorama, is everything you could wish in a developer of an art app: she is responsive to users and develops tools that she would use in her own artwork. Every month or two she comes out with a new release full of goodies, presented with no…
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Mobile Photography/Art Tutorial – KaleidaCam – A Beautiful Diversion
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 mobile photography textural app, KaleidaCam. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). KaleidaCam retails for $1.99/£1.49 and you can download it here “When I look for an app to follow up a multi-part tutorial on a full-featured app, I try to cover a simple app. This time is no exception. KaleidaCam is an extremely simple app to operate, but it can take up a lot of your time as you exclaim, “Ooh! Look at that!” KaleidaCam is an…