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iOS Photography Technical Tutorial – iColorama Masking Revisited by Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest iOS Photography App tutorial today. This time Jerry has revisted the iPad app, iColorama and updated a previous tutorial based on masking. We’re sure you’ll all enjoy this very much. Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). “One year ago I wrote my first tutorial on iColorama. It was on masking, a favorite topic of mine. It’s a step up in your thinking when you first realize that, rather than applying edits to an entire image, it’s possible to edit just part of an image. iColorama’s masking potential already set it apart from other photo/art apps a year ago. In…
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iPhone Photography Technical Tutorial – Layer Pic and Background Eraser: Images in isolation – By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest tutorial, this weeks’ tutorial is with two apps that you may not yet have tried using to create collages, Layer Pic and Background Eraser (just click on the names for a link to the app store). Jerry puts these two apps through their paces and comes up with some incredibly interesting images. Don’t miss this, over to you Jerry. (foreword by Joanne Carter). “Last May I talked about creating collages – putting various images together to create a new work. I reviewed Superimpose, which allows you to “lift” part of an image and “superimpose” it on another. During the last couple of weeks,…
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iPhone Photography Technical Tutorial – VectorSNAP and iColorama: Step-by-Step Pop Art – By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest tutorial, this weeks tutorial is with the VectorSNAP app along with a step-by-step procedural for using the output of VectorSNAP as a mask. I think you will enjoy this very much, over to you Jerry. (foreword by Joanne Carter). “About a week ago, a friend alerted me to the app VectorSNAP, which creates a black and white version of your images – solid black and white – with smoothed edges. This image can either be saved as a normal image file or as a vector file that can be adjusted with desktop products like Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape. However, the first thing I…
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iPhone Photography Tutorial – PopAGraph – Part 2 – By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest tutorial this time it’s on the app ‘PopAGraph’ and is in two parts, this is part 2. We published Part 1 last week, if you missed that, please go here. We think you will really enjoy this, over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). PopAGraph is free and here’s the link to download it “In the last entry we started discussing the PopAGraph app. One thing I didn’t mention is that typing the name of the app over and over is like typing a secure password – all those random capitals! But that’s my problem, not yours. At this point, our image…
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iOS Photography Technical Tutorial – ‘PopAGraph’ Part 1 – By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest tutorial this time it’s on the app ‘PopAGraph’ and is in two parts, this is part 1. We think you will really enjoy this, over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). PopAGraph is free and here’s the link to download it “With some apps, it’s easier to show you what they do than to explain what they do. PopAGraph by Flambe Studios is one such app. As suggested by the name, the app allows you to “pop” part of your image out over a frame, as if the frame can’t hold it. Let’s show you an example so you can know…
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iOS Photography Technical Tutorial – ‘VinylizeMe’ – By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest tutorial, this week he puts VinylizeMe through its paces and strikes a beat, don’t miss this. Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). “Time to spin some wax, lay down a groove on the vinyl…OK, I may be showing my age. But if you’re a person who knows that record albums were for more than scratching, then you might get a kick out of VinylizeMe by BlueSpark Studios, an app that turns your images into record album covers. As for the picture below, advertisers were convinced that the average person fanned out their collection on their coffee tables. I would never…
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Technical Tutorial – DistressedFX – By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to published this wonderful tutorial by Jerry Jobe on the very popular effects app for iOS photography, DistressedFX. This app brings quite a sophisticated look to your art and we’re quite sure you will find this tutorial invaluable. Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). “There are times when the perfect finishing touch for an image is a bit of grunge. I’ve already covered two grunge apps that make the image look as though the image was taken through a haze of dust, scratches and light leaks – ScratchCam and Mextures. But there’s a different category of grunge that has a more artistic quality. In this…
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Technical Tutorial – Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor – Part 3 of 3 – By Jerry Jobe
Last week we published Parts 1 and 2 of this three part series, if you missed those please follow the highlighted links. Today, we’re publishing the third and final part of these comprehensive tutorials on Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor, we’re sure you’re find this invaluable. Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). “In the first two parts of this tutorial on PaintFX, we discussed the new community and contest features, and showed how to apply the effects using the brush and/or masks. But we haven’t shown you all the effects that are possible in this app, and that’s what this final article will do. We’re…
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Technical Tutorial – Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor – Part 2 of 3 – By Jerry Jobe
Yesterday, we published Part One of this comprehensive series of three technical tutorials based on the updated Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor iOS Photography App (if you missed that, please go here). In Part Two Jerry Jobe delves deeper into these new features and in particular the contests. Over to you Jerry (foreword by Joanne Carter). “If you read part one of my expanded look at PaintFX, you’ll remember that the app has repositioned itself to include aspects of social media – a community of users who post their works, and challenges or contests to spark your creative juices. You’ll also remember that the help function, while…
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Technical Tutorial – Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor – Part 1 of 3 – By Jerry Jobe
We’re delighted to publish the first of three tutorials on the newly updated iOS Photography app, Paint FX : Photo Effects Editor app by our fabulous Technical Tutorial writer, Jerry Jobe. We hope to publish the additional two tutorials later on this week, check back for those. Over to you Jerry. (Foreword by Joanne Carter) “As I pointed out in my discussions of iColorama, Snapseed, Big Lens, LensLight and many other apps, tutorials can have a short shelf life. Within months of covering each of these apps, major changes have made my earlier glances at their workflow obsolete. Now another big change comes along, this time to Paint FX,…
