Winners for JixiPix Giveaway

I drew 6 names today and luckily it all worked out that everyone who had a first choice got their first choice!  The stars must be aligned correctly.

Congrats to Pam Arthur, Leslie and Diane!  I will contact you directly with your promo codes for Photo Artista Oil 

 

 

 

Congrats to David Graham, Khooper and P.O. Pejsjo!   I will contact you directly with your promo codes for Portrait Painter.

 

 

Happy Editing!  Thank you again to JixiPix who provided this generous giveaway.

JixiPix APP Giveaway!

Hey there everyone.  I’ve got some iPhone apps to give away and you’re going to love them!
The first is Photo Artista Oil.  Check out what you can do with this fabulous app from JixiPix!  Give your photo the look of an oil painting in three art styles – Oil, Oil Impression and Oil Abstract!

The second is also from JixiPix (who generously provided this giveaway!) and it’s called Portrait Painter.  I’ve been using this one a lot lately to get my painterly portraits just right.

To enter:
Leave a comment and tell me which app you prefer (I have 3 of each to giveaway and will draw 6 names – I will give them out in the order drawn, so you may not get your first choice).
YOU MUST LEAVE A WAY TO CONTACT YOU IN THE COMMENT.  If I cannot contact you, another name will be drawn.  No duplicate entries please.
Good Luck!
Winners will be announced on Sunday, November 25th.  You have until noon PST on Sunday to sign up. 

An Easy App for Painterly Portraits–Portrait Painter!

As a former portrait artist (mainly sci-fi character sketch cards) I am familiar with the work involved in creating a painterly portrait from scratch. 

Here is an example of a portrait I did from scratch in Photoshop – no editing of a photo, each brush stroke was put down one stroke at a time.  This took about 8 hours to complete.

And here is a portrait I was able to create of my granddaughter – it took about 10 minutes after I made some adjustments and tried the different styles in the new app by JixiPix Portrait Painter!  It is available for the MAC, iPad and iPhone.

It’s easy to create your own beautiful images. 

Below is a raw image I downloaded from Morguefile.com

I uploaded the file into Portrait Painter and cropped it square

I chose my Portrait Style and made a few adjustments using the Brush, Stroke and Enhance sliders.

 

And here is the result – a beautiful portrait in just minutes.

I did notice that the resolution was a bit low when I checked the file size with PhotoSize, but I simply loaded it into Big Photo to resize it larger.

This will definitely be a KEEPER in my iPad painterly app arsenal and I may even use it in combination with other apps to get a really unique style of my own.

I would definitely give this one 5 stars!

If you’re interested in seeing more of JixiPix creative apps, please visit their website.  I own just about every one of them and they all give awesome unique results!