Technical Tutorials
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – BeCasso: Painting for Powerful Devices
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at a painting app, BeCasso. Take it away Jerry…(foreword by Joanne Carter). BeCasso retails for $1.99/£1.49 and you can download it here. “Apps that give your images a painted look are numerous on the App Store. I’ve covered several apps that produce an overall painted look, like Glaze, Brushstroke, Waterlogue and Artista Impresso. I’ve also covered several that allow the user to control the painting themselves through brush strokes, like Mobile Monet, Adobe PaintCan, and (of course) iColorama. DigitalMasterpieces has given us another one of the first type of…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Snapseed and Assembly Apps Want To Have a Word With You
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look both Snapseed and Assembly apps, specifically at their textual input functionalities. Take it away Jerry…(foreword by Joanne Carter). Both Snapseed and Assembly and can be downloaded below: Snapseed Assembly “Two apps that I’ve covered a number of times, Snapseed and Assembly, have separately come up with text additions in the past couple of weeks. Neither one has all the capabilities of a full-featured text app like Phonto or Over, but each has capabilities that are not found in text apps. My first image is one I created in Snapseed,…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Photo FX Ultra Part 3: Lighting It Up
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 in our final part three of this series. If you missed Parts One and Two, please follow the highlighted links to view. Take it away Jerry…(foreword by Joanne Carter). Photo fx Ultra retails for $2.29/£1.49 and you can download it here “Part three of my look at Photo FX Ultra brings me to my favorite part of the app: the Light presets. Before I get to those, however, I want to show you the Crop and Straighten tools. Once again, I’ll be…
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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 – Glitché Part 1: Mangled Beauty
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 Glitche – this is part 1 of 2 parts. Take it away Jerry… Glitche retails for $.99/£0.79 and you can download it here “Sometimes I start putting together a tutorial and think it will be a simple matter of throwing up a few screenshots and cruising to some neat images. When I stopped getting screenshots for Glitché, I found I had 90 images and videos. It is a much deeper app than I gave it credit for being. Glitché sells for 99 cents on the…
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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…