Here are two sets of polygons pretending to be Art.
Can you spot the difference?
…Don’t spend too much time on it. This is a trick question. Here goes.
iPhone Art Painting 1: Posing Polygons
Polygons Posing as Art
iPhone Art Painting 2: Suspicion
Suspicion
You may have noticed that the first format is a bit fatter than the second, but otherwise they are exactly the same image.
Whether you see it as the Dance of the Polygons, a suspicious face with a green beard or something else entirely, it’s up to you to make up your mind’s eye.
That’s the interesting thing about seeing things.
…But where was I? Ah yes. Technical details.
Digital images love to confuse us because they can be three kinds of large. Come to that, three kinds of small. It all depends whether you’re counting in:
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pixels
inches
or bytes
I painted the first image in the iphone app Colors. The Colors app allows you to export your art in three sizes as measured in pixels. Small (320 x 440 pixels), Medium (640 x 880) or Large (1280 x 1760). I saved the picture Large.
I then imported my picture into Brushes, another wondrous iphone (or ipod) art app. David Hockney drew his by now rather famous flower doodles in Brushes. Jorge Colombo has used the same app for a New Yorker cover.
I imported into Brushes by first saving the Colors painting into my iPhone Photo Gallery, then opening it in Brushes.
The Brushes app will only save at 320 x 480 pixels, if you save on your iphone. This is a mere few pixels larger than the Colors Small size.
If your desktop is a Mac, you can save your Brushes images at quite a range of sizes and formats. Later versions of Brushes may make this possible via a PC.
Meanwhile, both versions shown above were saved on my iphone. They look almost the same, but the original of the first, saved in Colors, contains many more pixels than the second. This makes it larger in bytes as well.
You can see the differences in pixel sizes in the screen grab below.
Colors Big. Brushes Small.
TIP. If you want to use both Colors and Brushes, start in Colors. You can transfer your artwork into Brushes via the Photo Gallery, but you can’t do it the other way around. Colors does not import outside images.
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Really like the image and title. It’s good to see smaller when so much just keeps getting bigger on the internet.
Anita
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It is interesting to how the littlest thing can impact your online images. In the era of faster connections, I see more and more designers ignoring their image sizes but not everyone has access to fast connections and they are getting left farther and farther behind.
Yes, Bean. With cameras piling on the megapixels file sizes are getting just huge!