360 - More iPad Art

Day 360. I thought I'd take yesterday's image, which was already quite manipulated, and push it even further. So I passed it through a few more apps but mainly Repix, which has some very interesting effects like bokeh, scratches, smudges and drips. In the end the original image looks even more different.

196 - Characteristic

Day 196. I was sitting in the K-2 library yesterday waiting for some iPads to update so I pulled out a couple of children's books at random and took photos of the characters on the covers. Then I used a new app from Adobe called Photoshop Mix which lets you easily eXtract images from their backgrounds and used it to combine a few different cover images into one combined composite image. I then composited it one more time with a background image I drew in Repix, then imported the whole stack into Adobe Photoshop Touch for iPad where I played with the colour saturation, etc, and added a few effects. This is the final result, which is made of several randomly selected individual book covers.

I find it interesting that even though the characters in this image came from totally different books, it would not be at all difficult to come up with a story based on this image that involved all four characters.

174 - Facing Off

Day 174. I quite liked the faces I made for yesterday's create so I chose one and kept app smashing it through other apps. Starting with a identikit face made in FlashFace and then coloured with Warhol:DIY, I then opened it in Repix and applied a series of filters and effects to it, then brought it into Adobe Photoshop Touch to tweak the colours and textures a little more. App smashing, or passing an artefact through a series of apps can come up with some interesting results.

 

157 - Excited

Day 157. I don't usually use the same tool back to back, but this Repix tool is pretty interesting. It really helps give a very painterly look to a photo. I used a Jot Pro stylus on this image too, which tends to help a lot when going for that brushed, arty look. It's a very cool app with lots of potential. I like the textures that can be built up with layers of effects.

156 - Art For Art's Sake

Day 156. I was playing with a new app tonight called Repix, a very interesting painting app for iOS. It has a series of brushes and filters that can be applied over a photograph to create effects that range from painterly to other-worldly. It's quite cool.

This completely abstract image started life as a small cropped corner of a larger photo ( this actually started out as a picture of a teacher and kindergarten kid using a iPad together, not that you can tell that now.) After applying a few effects and brushes it quickly distorts the image beyond recognition. I'd like to get my kids trying this app.

"But what's it a picture of?"

Nothing now. I just found it to be an interesting arrangement of colours and shapes. Does it have to be "of" something.