Creative Tutorials
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Photo FX Ultra Part 2: More Filtering
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a deeper look at the app Photo FX Ultra (Part 2 – with Part 3 to follow next week). Take it away Jerry…(foreword by Joanne Carter). Photo fx Ultra retails for $2.29/£1.49 and you can download it here “When I started working my way through the filtering app Photo FX Ultra in the last article, I thought two articles would be sufficient to cover the entire app. I was wrong. So I will have to extend it to three articles, covering Lens, Photographic and Special Effects groups this week and finishing…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Photo FX Ultra Part 1: Not An Editor
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art video tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at the app Photo FX Ultra. Take it away Jerry…(foreword by Joanne Carter). Photo fx Ultra retails for $2.29/£1.49 and you can download it here “When I decided to write iDevice app tutorials, I realised very quickly that I could never cover every app out there. Hundreds of new ones are released every year, on top of the thousands that already existed when I started writing in November of 2012. Even though I’ve covered over 140 different apps, I still have some that I haven’t touched. Today’s app,…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Percolator: A Strong Brew
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art video tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at the app Percolator. Take it away Jerry…(foreword by Joanne Carter). Percolator retails for $2.99/£2.29 and you can download it here “One of the effects of covering as many apps as I have is that you can begin to know, just by looking at an image, whether certain apps are being used. If the look of output from an app is particularly strong, that lessens its utility in my eyes. Of course, that may be because I am constantly trying to figure out how an artist achieves the…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Glitché Part 2: Deconstruction At A Price
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art video tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This is Part 2 of Jobe’s Glitche Tutorial (if you missed Part 1, please go here). Take it away Jerry… Glitche retails for $.99/£0.79 and you can download it here Part one of our look at Glitché showed you how to bring images or video into the app, how to create an animated GIF, and the first half of the available effects. Part two will wrap up the look, and there’s a lot to cover! The effect LCD also makes multiple copies of your image, with color shifts. The color can be shifted further…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Circular Tiny Planet: Funny Shapes?
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art video tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at the app Circular. Take it away Jerry… Circular Tiny Planet retails for $1.99 and you can download it here “The story behind the title of this week’s column is that it comes from a line in the movie Raising Arizona and a scene where two small-time hood brothers discuss some provisions they picked up for a kidnapped baby: Evelle: I got me some baby grub, baby wipes, diapers, them disposable kind. I also got a package of balloons. Gale: They blow up into funny shapes and all?…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – iColorama Procedural: Studies of a Brush Tip
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art video tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe shares with us some really great brush tips in iColorama. Take it away Jerry… iColorama retails for $2.99/£1.99 and you can download it here “I created a piece in iColorama the other day that used a variety of techniques. It started simply – just a background and a single dab with a brush tip on a mask. These kinds of works, the ones that use variations on a single theme, are valuable to teach these multiple techniques. So here’s a 10-minute lesson on how I came up with this work, which…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Ultralight / Photo Editor: Quick and Easy Filter Creation
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 Ultralight / Photo Editor by Timi Koponen. Read Jobe’s thoughts about this app as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… Ultralight / Photo Editor is free and you can download it here “A few months ago I covered a couple of apps that allow you to create filters or presets: MaxCurve and Preset. Both offered many controls; MaxCurve allowed for fine adjustments while Preset sometimes did not. Those multiple controls meant that neither were easy apps…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial with 100 Cameras in 1: Making a Game of it
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 100 Cameras in 1 by Stuck in Customs. Read Jobe’s thoughts about this app as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… Stuck in Customs is free and you can download it here “Photography and mobile art are fun pursuits. They can be all-encompassing, or a hobby that helps you pass the time in your down moments. Games can do the same. However, I find it strange that some would consider mobile photography and art a game.…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial with Simply HDR by JixiPix Software
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 Simply HDR by JixiPix Software. Read Jobe’s thoughts about this app as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… “Everyone is disappointed, when they first start taking photos, with the results they get in tricky lighting situations. You’re in a lovely cottage with a spectacular view of the country out the window. You can see the details in the drapes and the fluffy clouds. When you look at the photo, after taking great care with the exposure,…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Alien Sky: Exploring New Worlds with Jerry Jobe
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 Alien Sky by BrainFeverMedia. Read Jobe’s thoughts about this app as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… Alien Sky retails for $2.99/£2.29 and you can download it here. “Many artistic/photographic apps try to cover all the bases. These “suites” offer the user many different ways to manipulate their images. Others choose to stick with a certain function. This can be tricky, because the developers need to be fairly certain that they protect their little niche by…