Technical Tutorials
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iPad Photography Tutorial – iColorama 3.83 – Can it get any better? Yes
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s newest iPad photography tutorial, this time looking at the latest update to the uber popular iColorama app, don’t miss this. (Foreword by Joanne Carter). iColorama retails for $2.99/£1.99 and you can download it here. I had fully intended to write a beginner tutorial for iColorama. Even though this is my twelfth article on iColorama, I have yet to go over the basics of moving around in this marvelous app. But then this past Sunday Release 3.83 was approved by the App Store, and I knew that the new features should be covered first. So what’s new in Release 3.83? A couple of bug fixes…
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iPhone Photography Tutorial – RollWorld: Let’s Take It For A Spin
We are delighted to publish our latest iOS Photography Tutorial by Jerry Jobe. This week Jerry writes about the app RollWorld, one that you may find useful in your toolbox. (Foreword by Joanne Carter). RollWorld is free and you can download it here. A popular type of photo manipulation is “little planets”, where the horizon line is used to create the outer “crust” of a little world. Tiny Planet and Circular are two apps that do this type of manipulation. “I haven’t covered any of these because they haven’t lit a creative fire within me. They’re nice enough, but rather limited in my eyes. But there’s a brand new app…
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iPhone Photography Tuturial – Etchings: Scratching the Surface
We are delighted to publish our latest iOS Photography Tutorial by Jerry Jobe. This week Jerry writes about the app Etchings, one that you may find very useful in your toolbox. (Foreword by Joanne Carter). Etchings retails for $1.99/£1.49 and you can download it here “I often say that I’m not an artist. This is especially true with traditional media, where I can’t “draw a straight line”. Now I know that most artists can’t actually draw a straight line. What they can do is create a smooth stroke that goes pretty much where they want it. I can’t do that either. So I constantly look for aids for line work.…
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iOS Photography App Tutorial – ‘Water Battle Part 2: Flood – Color Lake
We’re delighted to publish the second part to this fabulous technical tutorial with the creative app Color Lake. Jerry Jobe has once again created a comprehensive and fully immersing tutorial, we are sure you will find it very useful. If you missed Part 1, please go here. Color Lake usually retails for $1.99/£1.49 but it’s actually free right now and you can download it here. (foreword by Joanne Carter). ColorLake, the app I covered in the first part of the Water Battle, was initially released in January 2012. Two years later, a challenger stepped forward to submerge your photos by the name of Flood. Flood was developed by Flaming Pear…
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iOS Photography App Tutorial ‘Water Battle Part 1: Color Lake
We’re delighted to publish this fabulous new technical tutorial with the creative app Color Lake. Jerry Jobe has once again created a comprehensive and fully immersing tutorial, we are sure you will find it very useful. Color Lake retails for $1.99/£1.49 and you can download it here. It has just been updated today and we have codes to giveaway for this app too, follow this link. Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). Back when my daughter (now a sophomore in college) was young, I wanted to share her interests. For a long time, that meant being immersed in everything Pokemon. So you’ll excuse me when I admit…
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iOS Photography Tutorial – ‘Matter – expanding your artwork’ – by Jerry Jobe
We are delighted to publish this incredibly comprehensive and well planned technical tutorial with the new iOS Photography App Matter. Jerry Jobe has once again written a very clear tutorial that we are sure you will all enjoy. Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). Matter retails for $1.99/£1.49 and you can download it here. “Ben Guerrette and the folks at Pixite have been producing some wonderful geometric-based apps over the past couple of years, and I’ve produced tutorials for them: DecoSketch, Tangent, LoryStripes and Fragment. Now they’ve got a new app that adds depth to those geometric shapes, and it’s called Matter. Matter adds shapes to your photos…
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iColorama Procedural – Limitless Horizon
We’re really pleased to publish this video by Jerry Jobe describing the steps he took to create the image below, really wonderful. Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). “Here’s something I bet you didn’t know: I take requests here on my blog. So when I created the image you’ll see below and posted it on the iColorama Facebook page, a user named Chris Harbinson asked, “Pretty please could you describe how you achieved what you did here?” When looking at the steps taken, I realized it would be better as a video tutorial than my standard screenshots-and-text entry. So here is how I created “Limitless Horizon”…
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iOS Photography Tutorial – ‘PhotoToaster Part 3: Borders and Brushes’ by Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish the third and final part of this wonderful Photo Toaster tutorial series by Jerry Jobe. If you have missed Part 1, please go here and Part 2 can be found here. PhotoToaster retails for $2.99/£1.99 and you can download it here. We are sure you will enjoy this very much, over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). “As I said last time, I made a couple of errors in the first installment of my articles on PhotoToaster, and I’d like to clear them up here. The first is a feature that I did not find while experimenting with the app. When using the Custom Picker…
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iOS Photography Tutorial – ‘PhotoToaster Part 2: Colors, Vignettes and Textures’
We’re delighted to publish the second of three Photo Toaster tutorials by Jerry Jobe (if you missed Part 1, please go here). This time Jerry Jobe takes a look at colors, vignettes and textures – I am sure you will enjoy this very much, take it away Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). PhotoToaster retails for $2.99/£1.99 and you can download it here. “We’re taking a multi-part look at one of the many basic photo editors available to mobile photographers, PhotoToaster. In the first part we looked at importing images, controlling the settings, using and saving presets, and the first set of basic sliders that help control your image. Note: After…
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iOS Photography Tutorial – ‘PhotoToaster Part 1: Introduction To A Basic Editor’ by Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish the first of three PhotoToaster tutorials by Jerry Jobe. This is an introduction to PhotoToaster – it’s an app that I personally enjoy and I am sure many of you will also, don’t miss this…Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). PhotoToaster retails for $2.99/£1.99 and you can download it here. “The majority of apps out there are specialized: they do one thing to make themselves stand out from the rest. Those are the apps I normally cover. The only app I’ve covered that attempts to be a basic editor is Snapseed. It’s free, and does a number of things wonderfully. But it’s not the…
