358 - iPad Art

Day 358. I had a play with a new app called Brushstroke which can apply brushstroke effects, canvas effects, image manipulation, etc, to turn a photo into a faux artwork. It's interesting, and adds to a long line of apps like this.

293 - Is this thing on?

Day 293 - I noticed that Adobe just released a few new tools for iOS. It was that long ago that Adobe had very little on the iOS platform, but now there are a bunch of great tools available, each doing something specific and most connecting back to the "big tools" of the desktop Creative Cloud. This image was made usingAdobe Shape, a vector analysis tool for photographs. Take a photo with it and it will trace out the main shape and convert them to Illustrator-like vectors. At first I couldn't figure out how to actually get the image off the iPad since it didn't seem to have an Export to Camera Roll option. It wasn't till I opened it using Photoshop on the Mac that I saw it sitting in the My Library panel. Nice.

This image of a microphone was originally just a black and white vector image, but I opened it in Photoshop, added some layers, and used a Wacom tablet to roughly paint in some colour.

179 - Pride Poles

Day 179. I was messing around in the new Adobe Sketch app, just throwing some colours around and using the line drawing tool, which was not a tool usually found in sketching apps. My fiddling was literally just a bunch of scribbles on the screen. I then sent it out to the Repix app and messed around with it there too. I applied a bunch of effects but particularly the drips and daubs brushes. End result reminds me a little of Blue Poles, but on a Pride weekend, with more colour than just blue.

 

096 - Just Do It

Day 96. I sometimes use this fun little Photoshop activity with my students so I thought I'd use it myself for a daily create. Using some Photoshop PSD files from www.pigmag.com, you can download images of sports shoes (and other things too) that have the various parts of the object split into layers, making it very easy to play around with colour schemes. Just use the brushes tools in Photoshop to paint, daub, smear, swipe, on the correct layer and you can get all creative with your design.

070 - Water Balloons

Day 70. I was in Canberra on the weekend to photograph the hot air balloon festival, and I just uploaded a bunch of my photos to Google+. While on G+ I noticed a couple of posts from Andy Inhatko about an iPad app he was very enthusiastic about called Waterlogue. It turns your photos into surprisingly realistic and good looking water colour paintings.

I have a few further ideas about how I might use this app. Meanwhile here's a few samples of what it can do for today's daily create.