Create a Botanical Illustration with Apps
Painterly Mobile Art Monday - No. 18
adjective
of or appropriate to a painter; artistic
Bold and beautiful, soft and ethereal - so many words to describe the artwork created by the members of the Painterly Mobile Art Flickr Group. For more beautiful images, click on the photographs below to visit the artists on Flickr.
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Peter © Clint Cline |
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The Reader © Allan Copson |
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Protea and Ranunculus © Christianna Pierce |
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I Said No to You Today © Michelle Robinson |
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Untitled © Jane Fiala |
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Find a Hidden Door © Chris Hawkins |
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Red © Roxi |
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Untitled © Trish G |
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Lory Striped © Nicki Fitz-Gerald |
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Nice Pear © Skipology |
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Play It © Dezadie |
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© Cristian Margarita |
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Free Ride © Roger Guetta |
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Forest Bathing, 1 © Meri Walker |
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The Look © Paul Cutright |
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Take me to the river © Sarah Jarrett |
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Cold Morning © M a r i k o |
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South-Eastern Norway © Vadim Demjianov |
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Untitled © Aylin Argun |
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Untitled © Wayne Greer |
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Fowl © Poetic Medium |
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Revised Myths 2 - Daphne © Giancarlo Beltram |
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Flowers Series © Erika Brothers |
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Back Yard © Anne Highfield |
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in fragments © claudinedefayartiste |
Friday Favorites–Week No. 31
Here it is another Friday and already starting the month of May. Where does time go? One of the reasons that I’m glad I discovered smartphone photography is because of the way it has changed the way I view the world. I notice the beauty around me and I also see things with the potential in mind of what I can create! It’s helped me to see everything anew!
Here are my favorite edits for the week.
App Recipe: ProCamera, Snapseed, PhotoForge2
The Connection (above)
App Recipe: ProCamera, Snapseed, PhotoToaster
App Recipe: Snapseed, PhotoToaster
Equine Beauty (above)
App Recipe: ProCamera, Snapseed, Sketch club, PicsPlay Pro
Portrait of a Girl (above)
App Recipe: Snapseed, Shockmypic, Repix, FaceTune, Painteresque
The Not So Happy Family (above)
App Recipe: Procamera, Snapseed, FaceTune, Shockmypic, Repix, Andifwarp, Anticrop, TouchRetouch, PicFX
Portrait of a Man (above)
App Recipe: ProCamera, Snapseed, Repix, FaceTune, Sketch club
The Recital (above)
Repix Does it Again! Another update and one in the works!
Every morning when I wake up, before I grab my cup o’ Joe, I grab my iPad. My ritual starts with checking for app updates and I’m always excited to see the little superscript numbers on the blue App Store icon! This morning when I clicked to see what was new, I literally got an adrenaline rush when I saw the Repix icon in the update list! I love Repix and it is a major player in my app arsenal. In fact, the portrait that I recently had featured in the Dive Festival in Barcelona was in part edited with Repix. If you thought the last update was great, wait till you see this one!
What’s New in Version 1.2?
- New grunge brushes let you make awesome gritty photos
- New pack of super-cool jazzy filters
- Improved + mode brings two styles into one brush.
- Usability improvements and bug fixes
Here’s my first creation with the new update
From what I’ve heard through the grapevine, a new update is in the works and will be released soon – what have they got up their sleeve next? Guess we’ll just have to wait and see. To be continued…
Repix App Releases Thursday March 14, 2013!
For the past few days I’ve had the pleasure of experimenting with the soon to be released Repix app as a beta tester. Repix will be available FREE in the App Store on March 14th with additional brushes available as an in app purchase.
Repix in action - The Fox from Repix on Vimeo.
I tested it on my iPad but I’m assuming the functioning is similar if not identical on the iPhone. The Repix brushes allow you to remix the pixels for a variety of painterly looks and styles. There are also brushes that boost the color, add stylized brushstrokes and even light brushes to add Lens Flares, Stars, Glow Smoke and more! Further adjustment tools allow the user to Crop, alter Brightness, Contrast, Saturation, Vibrance, Temperature and Vignetting.
Brushes included with the FREE version – Cartoonize, Charcoal, Edger, Dotter, Flares, Drips, Posterize, Silk, Bleach, Undoer, Eraser
In App Purchases Available -
COLOR BRUSHES – Sepia, Hollywood, Vintage, Freshen (set €1.79/$1.99/£1.49)
ARTISTIC BRUSHES – Hatching, Daubs, Van Gogh, Spray (set €1.79/$1.99/£1.49)
LIGHT BRUSHES – Glow Smoke, Stars, Sparkler, Glow Line (set €1.79/$1.99/£1.49)
or
Unlock everything with the Master Collection ((set €4.49/$4.99/£3.99)
Here are some examples of my early experiments.
I’m really liking the Drips and Daubs brushes – perhaps because of my painting background. With the image below I used the Eraser tool to completely remove the original photo and then “painted” it back in using various Repix brushes.
Like most of the other painterly apps I use, I like to create several edits with one image and then combine them using a blending app and touch up with a bit of sharpening as I did on the two images below.
I suppose as an honest beta tester I should also state any drawbacks I experienced with this app. The only drawback for me was that I would like the Undoer tool to have an opacity level which I could change to allow me to keep some of the effect while allowing the original image to show through. For any upcoming updates my wish list would include a sharpening tool in the adjustments toolkit, the ability to rotate the image while editing and an even more powerful zoom. I have another app that allows me to zoom 12800%! Although this app will be FREE with in-app purchases available, I would definitely pay to get even the most basic version as I know this is one that I will use again and again!
Thank you Repix for allowing me this sneak peek!