#Art Apps that add painted effects

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The last few posts I've mentioned my fondness for adding painterly effects to the images I create - most recently with the 'Paint Mee' app.
Another painterly app is 'Auto Painter.' (There's Auto Painter ll now as well) This differs from Paint Mee and Artisita Oil in that there are no adjustments possible. These latter two apps let you tweak everything from brush size to colour palette etc. With Auto Painter there are four different filters and that's it. Apart from the option to mask the area you want the most detail added to, but I've not noticed this making much difference really...

Auto Painter one has four filters - Aquarell, Benson, Cezanne, and Van Gogh.
I'm posting this from my phone because I'm in bed, (had a bad week pain and fatigue wise this week.) so I don't know what order the app will post the images in. What I'm aiming for is -

1: The original photograph of a tree (taken with the iPhone 4S) which I then tweaked in Camera+ and turned into a painted version with Paint Mee.
2: The paint Mee version
3: Auto Painter Aquarell
4: Auto Painter Benson
5: Auto Painter Cezanne 6: Auto Painter Van Gogh (I've never seen this filter produce anything I like.)
7,8,9: Are screen shots from the app.

Creative Jumpstart - Marmalade Moon

Kate England over at Marmalade Moon is delivering a free four week course via email about jump starting creativity.
In her own words;

"To make it easy to succeed, the course will be delivered to you in 8 tiny, to-the-point, practical and bite-sized chunks, so that it’s really easy for you to follow through and be successful. Creative Jumpstart is a free four week course, delivered to your inbox on Mondays and Fridays."

Although its already started, if you join now Kate will send you the tasks you've missed so far.
Here's the link for more info -
http://www.marmalademoon.com/creative-jumpstart-course/

And to jump right in and join, (it's all free remember) click here -
http://www.marmalademoon.com/club/

The photo above is of my notebook.
Yes, it's my iPad...but although I do have a sketchbook, my hands aren't often up to the task of using it. So my iPad and iPhone are my creative lifeline.
You'll need a notebook/sketchbook for the course. So dig one out if you don't already use one.
Or if your like me, create an album ready for your doodles and ideas, on the touch pad device of your choice ;)
Let me know if you join, I'd love to see what you create and I'm sure Kate will too.

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Photo Cube and Paint Mee - mobile digital art

Here are two pieces of art from my recent series of new images, 'Combinations of Infinity.' There are two apps that I seem to be using quite a bit recently;

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Paint Mee, (love the resolution the two 'Mee' apps can save at) and 'Photo Cube'. I suspect the Photo Cube app is intended to be a photo album slideshow tool but I like the geometry of the images it can create. Here are some of the steps that led to the above. 

I photographed a tulip in the garden. Then using 'Paint Mee' made it blue; 

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After a brief play with it in 'Kyoobik FX' I open 'Photo Cube'. I choose this shape;

You tap each surface and then choose from your photo album the image that you want to go there.

 You can alter the size of the faces, the background colour, the colour palette can be altered to a rainbow effect,

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 and there are various options about what to do with the finished shape;

I've posted some of the images to my sketchbook blog and am in the process of adding them to my neglected Zazzle gallery. I've also been spending most of my online time trying to wrestle my website into shape. Let me know what you think of it so far...bearing in mind I'm pretty thin skinned ;)

Have a happy weekend lovely reader.

 

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Two from my recent series of new images, 'Combinations of Infinity.' There are two apps that I seem to be using quite a bit recently;

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Paint Mee, (love the resolution the two 'Mee' apps can save at) and 'Photo Cube'. I suspect the Photo Cube app is intended to be a photo album slideshow tool but I like the geometry of the images it can create.

Here are some of the steps that led to the above.

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You tap each surface and then choose from your photo album the image that you want to go there.

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I've posted some of the images to my sketchbook blog and am in the process of adding them to my neglected Zazzle gallery. I've also been spending most of my online time trying to wrestle my website into shape. Let me know what you think of it so far...bearing in mind I'm pretty thin skinned ;)

Have a happy weekend lovely reader.

Website Terms - for website selling physical & download goods

Some extremely useful free and low cost downloads on this law site;

http://www.compactlaw.co.uk/terms-for-website-selling-physical-and-download-g...

Tagging and Keywords on Zazzle

http://www.zazzle.com/sell/designers/tutorials/tagging

It's worth doing a search in the marketplace using one of your chosen tags and seeing what other things the top search result sellers are doing.

TinEye Reverse Image Search

http://www.tineye.com/

Trying to catch up with some Skinny Artist articles and a comment led me to this site. Very useful...