Afternoon Apple, originally uploaded by purple0wl.
I took a photo of an apple with my iPhone 3GS. Displaying the photo on my computer screen, I finger painted it back onto the iphone in a paint app called Layers.
Layers created a stir among iphone artists a while ago, because for the first time it offered – guess what. Layers. Now other paint apps vying to be the best, including the old favourite Brushes and newer Sketchbook Mobile, also offer layers.
In this painting, layers allowed me to paint the wooden sill and window frame behind the apple without interfering with its outline.
Another tool absent in paint apps until quite recently was a blender.
A blender is really just an empty brush that allows you to smudge the paint and make a smooth transition between tones. In days of yore on your iphone or ipod Touch, you could make a reasonable transition by building up layers of transparent colour. Reasonable, maybe. Satisfactory? No, not really. For me the result was usually horribly streaky.
Than along came another paint app, Inspire, and for the first time, blending. Truly useful, even though Inspire, alas, did not allow you to import an existing image.
Since then, Inspire has opened its gates to images created in other paint apps. Meanwhile, Layers, not to be outdone, has added blending to its box of tools. Very useful for polishing apples.
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Interesting comments, Barb. As I said in another post, after using the smudge tool on my iphone – I think it was in ‘Inspire’ – the feeling was so realistic I found myself reaching for a tissue to wipe my finger before picking up my coffee cup!
By the way, I am puzzled as to why you or anyone would want a Kindle when you can read books so pleasurably and easily on a phone or pda. I haven’t read a book on paper in years. The narrow screen is ideal. After all, newspapers are set in columns since this is the easiest width to read fast.
I usually use eReader Pro, which allows me to choose the colour of paper and text, gives me a huge choice of type face, size and spacing so I never get bored or suffer eyestrain. I now read on my iphone, but before that I read many, many books on earlier phones and PDAs.
Of course the iPad will make a good reader too.
Hi Valerie. Technology continues to amaze me, and excite me at the same time! I love seeing what the techies create — much of it in the name of fun. All of it innovative. And I love that you can finger paint and still grab your coffee mug and not drink a mess!
Bet you soon have a new category of iPad paintings…
Now I’m having to set priorities… iPad, MacPro, Sony Netbook (I know — it’s still a PC) and/or Kindle. And what combination works best for this artist/writer/blogger person. Hmmm…..
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