Creative Tutorials
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Creating Magical Collage Ephemera Cards With Layout and HalfTone
My partner’s father and grandfather were magicians and a couple of years ago, we inherited their magic books. They are a treasure trove of vintage imagery and typography and I’ve been thinking of all the ways I might integrate them into artworks. One idea is a set of surreal postcards. In this tutorial, I’m going to take you through my process of creating a design for the first of the set, using LAYOUT and HALFTONE by app developers Juicy Bits. Before we begin, here’s a peek at the finished design. I used LAYOUT to create a composite, then exported the artwork into HALFTONE where I re-colored and…
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ProCreate Tutorial By MaryJane Sarvis – Adding To Your Brushes Collection
We are so pleased that MaryJane is back with this brand new and excellent ProCreate tutorial to help you add to your brushes collection. MaryJane is an inspiration, over to you MJ (foreword by Joanne Carter). ProCreate can be purchased here, it retails for $4.99/£2.99. There are 3 basic ways to add to your brush collection: 1. Purchase the extra sets from Procreate Artery. You’ll find the link at the far left on the top brush collection strip. I’ve found uses for all of them. 2. Go to the Procreate forum and go to the custom brushes sharing page. I’ve gotten some of my favorites here. 3. Make your own!…
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Creative Mobile Photography Tutorial – Ghosts Of Crimes Against Humanity – By Natali Prosvetova
We’re delighted to publish this creative tutorial by Nat Prosvetova. Nat has contributed many tutorials and if you have missed those, please go here. In this tutorial Nat combines a powerful story line with an equally powerful final image. Don’t miss this…Over to you Nat (foreword by Joanne Carter). “I may say, I don’t know the way to start this tutorial…This is quite dangerous dancing with fire and ashes.. I would say so. This work, which I would like to consider today, concerns a very complex subject … I have been thinking about it for a long time before deciding to write the tutorial. However, this work does…
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ProCreate Tutorial By MaryJane Sarvis – ‘My Collage With Painting Method’
We are delighted to publish this excellent tutorial by MaryJane Sarvis using ProCreate to create an absolutely stunning final image. Follow these steps closely and you will be totally captivated with MaryJane’s workflow. Don’t miss this…over to you MaryJane. (Foreword by Joanne Carter). If you haven’t picked up ProCreate yet, you can do so here. It retails for $4.99/£2.99. Step 1 “When you open Procreate you’re in your gallery. To open a new work you hit the +. Choose your canvas. Step 2 Your first toolbar is on top. Hit the wrench. The drop menu then displays the bottom bar of tools and choices. To insert a…
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iPhone Photography Tutorial – ‘Going On A Trip’ By Natali Prosvetova
Recently one of my iFriends, Roger Guetta, one of the most talented artists, whose work never ceases to amaze and inspire me, gave a task.. a very challenging favour… He gave us an original photo of one of his students, and asked us to retouch it… and here we go! What looked as a challenge before became a superb and interesting project and I truly enjoyed it. Well, for some reason I’ll keep silent with others details of this challenge and move on now to my tutorial 😉 Original Image First of all I decided to give more fun for this pic =) and I ran it through…
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iPhone Photography Tutorial – ‘What’s New Pussycats?’ – By Veevs
We’re delighted to publish this great tutorial by Veevs, who has been a long term contributor of theappwhisperer.com and has written some excellent articles for us, if you’ve missed those, please go here and here. We have also published A Day In The LIfe Interview with her here. In this tutorial Veevs had the opportunity to take some images in London last weekend for the Iconic Exhibition near Brick Lane, and I was so pleased to meet with her there too. Links to the apps are within the document in bold text. We’re sure you’ll love this, over to you Veevs (foreword by Joanne Carter). ‘I was very…
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iPhone Photography Tutorial – Photo To Painting By Natali Prosvetova
We’re delighted to publish another of Natali Prosvetova’s iPhone photography tutorials. In this one Natali explains how to turn a photograph into a painting. If you have missed any of Natali’s other tutorials and articles, please go here. Links to all the apps used and mentioned can be found at the end of this article. (foreword by Joanne Carter). “I hope you will enjoy this tutorial. It will help you turn your ordinary image into a beautiful painting look in just a few simple steps. (for your experiment)… Step 1 Well, a few days ago I shot this pic, using the Slow Shutter app, lazily lounging on…
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Nude Tutorial – iPhone Photography/Art – Not Safe For Work – (NSFW)
Warning: First off, I want to apologize to anyone who may be offended by the content of this educational tutorial. I have published nudity previously and have been shot down. I have added to the title ‘not safe for work’ – NSFW and would recommend you don’t open this in a workplace or family setting if it is likely to cause offense. My purpose in publishing this article is to inspire iPhone photographers/artists to learn from this incredibly talented mobile photographer/artist, Elaina Wilcox and to enable them to learn how to create similar images. If you’re offended please send your comment/s to the end of this post and…
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iPhone Photography Tutorial – Vintage & Aging Photo Effects (for beginners)
We’re really pleased to publish Natali Prosvetova’s latest tutorial with us. In this one she explains how to create vintage looking images in just a few easy steps. This tutorial is aimed at beginner level. This is an inspiring tutorial and one we think you will really enjoy. Over to you Nat…(foreword by Joanne Carter). If you really love the vintage look for you images, you can create it in a few easy steps, using different ways, fortunately there are many! While the word vintage means old, old and vintage are relative terms. For one person, a vintage portrait could mean one specific era, at the same time for other…
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BlurFX – Tutorial – Using Blur To Improve Your Mobile Images
Recently we published two similar articles by our Columnist ItalianBrother aka Dilshad Corleone, in the first one he used the app Big Lens, in the second he used After Focus. This time Dilshad takes us through the paces of using a similar technique with BlurFX. Over to you Dilshad (foreword by Joanne Carter). A few days ago I was having a lovely conversation with my very good IG friend Ian Garrington (@iangarrington on Instagram), about the various blurring apps that one can find around. At one point he said something that made me come up with an idea, one of those moments when a light-bulb lights up over your…