Path On

We are delighted to publish Jerry Jobe’s latest mobile photography/art tutorial for our reading and viewing pleasure. This week Jobe takes a look at the mobile photography textural app, Path on. Read his thoughts as he puts it through its paces (foreword by Joanne Carter).

Path on retails for $1.99/£1.49 and you can download it here

“Now and then I’ll get questions about apps I haven’t covered. Usually those apps are the behemoths that do a little bit of everything. Sometimes, though, I get a very specific question along the lines of “do you know of an app that can do ____?” That blank is often filled with “circular text” or “text on a path”. It just so happens that I have a good recommendation for that very task – Path On by Peta Vision.

It’s not a perfect app, by any means. The main drawback (presented here so you don’t have to search through the long article to find it) is that you can move, but not modify, the path after typing. If your path does not follow the contour as you would like, or there are curves that are too tight for text, then you have to delete your path and start over. That aside, it works fairly well. Let’s get started!”