This is an abstract that I did while on a recent trip to Maui. I think I was somewhat influenced by some Hawaiian colors.
I did this on my iPad in an app called Procreate. Procreate is a go-to app for many artists who paint on their iPads. It is sold as an illustration app, but I use it as a painting app with no problems.
These are more shells I did. I used an app called Decim8 after I shot the shells.
Decim8 takes pixels and mixes them up and down and sideways. It is known as a Glitch app. There are several Glitch apps out there for iPad and iPhone but this is one of the better ones. Unfortunately this one really only works on the iPhone.
It is slow and crashes on both generations of the iPad.
I have a first generation iPad and it really gives me fits.
One thing that helps is to reboot the iPad prior to using the app.
The good news is Apple is coming out with new iPad Pros in June.
In the 80’s some time I was in a hurricane while on Maui. It completely destroyed Kaui and we only had very high winds on Maui.
The next morning the beach was covered thick with shells. What a find! My mother and I grabbed up all the shells we could get our hands on.
I doubt I would do this today. These shells are needed by sea creatures for homes. They are part of the sea’s eco system. But I didn’t understand that when I was younger. That you go to the ocean you look, you enjoy, but you leave it there.
Today, we have digital cameras to capture the beauty of places we visit. There is no need to collect things and bring them home.
I enhanced this photo in Enlight, then TangledFX.
This is another edit I did in iColorama. The beautiful dancer is from Pixabay. There are roses and trees in here that I shot. The purple flowers are from freepng.
I’m having a lot of fun in iColorama. My skills are building on themselves.
On Instagram, this piece has been my most popular piece so far.
But I have this nagging question. Is it my work or the work of this dancer that is touching people? I really believe it is mostly the latter. She is on her bare feet and on her toes in a perfect stance. Yes, I did good edit work. But without her, the piece would be lacking.
I am very critical of people on Instagram who get beautiful photos from Unsplash and put them together in an edit and then somehow think they have done something marvelous. When in fact, it is the photography that is carrying the edit.
It is a tight line we walk when we use other people’s work in our edits.
I’m not entirely comfortable with this. I’m new to doing this and I don’t know how much longer I’ll be doing this.
I’m going to have to think this over.
Due to health constraints, I don’t get out much to photograph. So I’m stuck using copyright free photos by others.
Anyway, this edit is about stretching yourself as far as you can. Because you never know what you’ll find when you do.
If you look close, you’ll see our dancer has found a beautiful bird that is bringing her happiness and a smile!
Have a great day!
I am still working in iColorama. For details about the app, see my previous post.
iColorama is an app full of different options and the possibilities are endless.
I think that is what makes it such a popular app that people use. It can be hard to understand and if you are a Photoshop or Lightroom user it is not intuitive for you.
But now that I’m using it more, I’m seeing lots of possibilities.
I still find it an odd app to mask in and sometimes go over to Leonardo for that.
This model is from Pixabay which provides copyright free images for people to use.
iColorama is an app that is very difficult to master. In fact, I bet that aside from the woman who wrote the software, there are very few people who can tell you everything this app does. But, there is so much this app does it’s amazing. Once you get familiar with it and start to understand how it works, you find that the possibilities are endless. It also has a sister app called Metabrush. But I’ll leave that and it’s other sister app iColorama Painter for some other blog.
I’m currently taking a class by two women that both use iColorama to teach the class. It’s an ok class. But I am disappointed they did not cover the app more in depth and go over more of its features. For what I paid for the class, I expected more explanations about the app.
What the class has done is get me using the app more often and exploring it more on my own.
I did learn a few basic things that I had not quite fully understood before.
It also has me doing some different kinds of edits than I normally do.
Unfortunately iColorama is only available for iPad and iPhone.
This last week a new app was released for iPhone and iPad. It’s called Kino Glitch. $1.99 at the App Store.
For those of you unfamiliar with Glitch apps, they’re meant to pretty much destroy your photo or drawing.
But this app is different. You have quite a bit of control over it. It’s different from any Glitch app I’ve ever used.
You choose the type of grid you want. Then you can adjust the size of the grid and how much Glitch effect comes through the grid. I chose none for this.
Then you can add a background and overlay.
You can also take your fingers and start moving the piece around. This is proving to be great fun.
The developer seems responsive to problems.
For anyone interested, I own a page on Instagram that features all kinds of photography, edits and art. If you would like to be featured, just tag to #BPA_Arts.
Enjoy your day!
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