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.

Wallpaper obsession continues...

...only this is for desktops. I did this for me because my screen needed a make over (much as I love Fringe, it was time for a change ;) If anyone else wants one like this in a different size, just let me know.
Wondering what to do with all this wallpaper actually...?

It's a fluid motion image given some texture and resized in PSP - so not pure iArt...

Free iPad wallpaper

Here's some wallpaper for your iPad - any future freebies will go out via my mailing list, so sign up using the link on the right if you're interested, thanks.

Right click to save, or press and hold if you're viewing this on your iPad, then go to photo album and click the arrow button in the middle of the top left of the screen and choose 'Use as wallpaper'. The home screen is what you see all of your apps on, the lock screen is what you see when you turn the screen on. (Depending on your settings of course ;)

Peace in a fractured world #iphoneography

Yesterday I couldn't speak for a little while. Not the usual "oh darn it what's that word I need" kind of way. No that's familiar now, I'm sure it is to all chronic pain sufferers. The brain just can't cope with that much information to process and a big chunk of the time the pain wins the brains attention. So it's not unusual for me to say things like "can you pass me that....(pause)... white stuff that you shake on your food please."
Oh I'm sure you know what it feels like up to a point. It happened to me before Fibro when I was overtired or stressed. But this is most of the time. I'm clumsy, I'm slow, I say things wrong, I can't spell anymore. The pain has stolen so much from me.
Then yesterday, fatigue worse than usual, I was recounting the message I'd just received in a text. Not complicated, short text, familiar person, familiar place (too familiar because I'm still housebound) and I stopped mid-sentence. Nothing came out of my mouth. It wasn't that I was lost for a word. I didn't know what I was talking about. I managed to squeeze out "can't talk" and then shut down again. After a few long minutes my brain stopped being an empty vacuum and thoughts came back into it. I was reminded what I was talking about. Still no relevant thoughts came along, let alone words to try to speak. Long story short what eventually got me out if it was having the last thing I said repeated back to me and I was able to recite it back the second time it was said and after another long pause was able to finish it.
Might not seem like a big deal to anyone else, but it scared me. My post op recovery is as slow as treacle, my patience is turning out to be finite after all and I'm feeling bereft again.
I had a profession, a brain that could teach people how to understand and learn new things. Now I can't walk up the stairs unaided and I can't even rely on my powers of speech.
I know I'm being self indulgent, forgive me! This too shall pass...my internal and external worlds are fractured and I wish I knew how we could find our way to peace.

This is another AppIt entry for iPA, processed from MaryJane's iPhone photo.

Just watched the second episode of Torchwood. A two parter being stretched into 10 episodes is how it seems. How the mighty fall...why do they try and fix things that aren't broken? I have no idea if it's a strong enough story yet but surely it would have worked better as a story arc running alongside the usual monster of the week format. Ignoring the fact that they KILLED OFF MOST OF THE CAST.
Sorry, but I need escapism in my fiction.
Anyone still there?? Hello lovely reader :) hope that wherever you are you're safe and that lady luck smiles upon you everywhere that you go. Thanks for 'listening'.

#inkpad play Vector art...

After getting enthusiastic feedback for the previous post I've continued my doodling art play. I was lucky enough to receive a Bamboo stylus to use with my iPad for my birthday so I used that and the Inkpad app.
I've been busy putting together some ideas I have for a new site and have been learning (or trying to learn) about vector layers and their importance when it comes to using text in a design. I've been creating a logo and header and I used my usual Paint Shop Pro, but alas that programme can't save as a PDF thingy something file so if I wanted to create a business card or similar from the designs they'll be fuzzy. So, I need to get to grips with Photoshop Elements. But Fibro brain isn't cooperating with that plan... Remembering that I have a vector drawing app on my iPad (Inkpad) I thought I'd see if Fibro brain could cope with a doodle or two created with that instead. It means thinking in a whole different way, or does for me, so it was a little frustrating at first, but I'm quite pleased with this drawing. I was hoping that the text tool in Inkpad would have the versatility of a desktop programme but alas it doesn't. So I'm still going to have to learn PSE...I have a book with lessons in...but I'm too impatient! I want to have the knowledge delivered to my brain directly, Matrix style.

A question for those out there with more knowledge of this subject than I (not difficult as I'm sure you've realised) do the online vector conversion sites do a good enough job for printing small scale items like buttons and stickers? Thanks...in advance.

*PS - Nel I salute you! And Blu. You guys are so encouraging and I'm lucky to have you out there. Thanks ever so much.

Day 6/30 #iphoneArt #30daysofcreativity

An unexpected gift.

Summer 3 #photoforge2 #iphoneography

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Into the blue

Untitled #tinyplanet #artistaOil

Ink space #iPhoneArt

Blue roses #art #digitalArt

I usually put geometric art on to the items I print/get printed...but for some reason I wanted to see if I could do a design based on roses. I'll see what it looks like on a purse tomorrow.
Managed to leave the house and venture out into the glorious sunshine today. Nothing exciting; recycling and a few groceries.
Although I am red eyed and pink cheeked through fatigue, it was nice to manage to do it. #FFs will, alas, have to wait until the morrow. As will everything else...
Sleep well if you read this in the evening, may the sandman bring you uplifting visions. Have a glorious day with your muse beside you if it's the day...

The Burden - Muses' 2nd challenge. #digitalArt

To see the process/methods that led to this image, please visit my post on the Muses' Playground.