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App Art School – Using Lens Blur for Elliptical and Linear Focus Techniques – Snapseed
Welcome to our brand new section within TheAppWhisperer.com entitled – App Art School. Within this section we publish a range of tutorials from beginner, intermediate to professional editing techniques to help you adjust your photo art in the best possible way. Today, we’re starting with a very popular app, Snapseed, it is available in both iOS (Apple) and Android (Google Playstore) platforms. This app is a highly comprehensive editing tool and it is free, originally created by Nik Software, it is now owned by Google. It is absolutely essential for your mobile device, I urge you to install it. Below, you’ll find a video demonstrating how to use the Lens Blur…
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‘How I Did It’™ with Rad Drew – Using the iPhone Portrait Mode and SnapSeed Portrait Editor
It’s great to be back with another How I Did It!™ video tutorial for TheAppWhisperer community! This video explores the 1-2 knockout combination of the iPhone’s Portrait Mode with SnapSeed’s Portrait editor tool. This video focuses on editing images taken with the dual lens iPhones. In this case the portraits were made with the iPhone XS Max, but any of the dual lens iPhones from the 7 Plus to the X can be used. In fact, you can use SnapSeed’s Portrait editor on any portrait, not just those taken with dual lens cameras. In this video, editing occurs in both the iPhone photo editor, and in SnapSeed’s Portrait Editing tool.…
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‘How I Did It’™ with Rad Drew – ‘How To Use SnapSeed to Keep Colour in Part of a B&W Image’
I’m glad to be back again to share another video tutorial on TheAppWhisperer segment, “How I Did It!™ with Rad A. Drew.” Today I have a very short and sweet video tutorial, How To Use SnapSeed to Keep Colour in Part of a B&W Image. SnapSeed by Google, which runs on both iPhone and Android devices, has a very robust masking tool hidden in the adjustment stacks. I’ll show you how to use masking to selectively color part of an image. Note: This video assumes some basic knowledge of SnapSeed. If you’d like more support learning SnapSeed, see my You Tube Channel, Rad Drew Photography, LLC for additional free SnapSeed…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – Four years of Tutorials: iColorama Basic Photo Enhancement
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look a back at the past year and the 37 app tutorials he has created (we have linked to them below). He also takes a look at the highly accomplished app – iColorama to help you get to know it a little better. Take it away Jerry…(foreword by Joanne Carter). “Well, another year has gone by. Four years ago, the day after the last US presidential elections, I started posting tutorials on iPhoneography apps. A lot has changed in those four years. I’ve covered over 150 apps, and learned a…
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Mobile Photography / Art Tutorial – VSCO: Heavy Hitter
We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our viewing pleasure. This time Jobe takes a look at the very popular app, VSCO. Take it away Jerry…(foreword by Joanne Carter). VSCO is free and you can download it here “There are certain apps that are almost universally revered in the mobile photography/art community. I always find it difficult to review these apps and teach about them because there are so many users who are better with them than I am. I could not presume to teach anyone how to use Procreate, for example. My art technique is weak and besides, Procreate has an excellent Artists’ Handbook…
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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 – 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 – 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 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 – Analog Film: Capturing Yesteryear?
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 Analog Film. Read Jobe’s thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter). Take it away Jerry… Analog Film retails for $2.99/£2.29 and you can download it here “Last month Google stunned many of us with their announcement that they would be making their Nik photo plugins, acquired in late 2012, free to all. Nik Software deserved their reputation for great Photoshop plugins on the desktop. They were priced accordingly, so the markdown to zero was surprising. Some have speculated that…
