"Big George" painted with SketchBook Pro on the ipad
PAINTING with PIXELS
Spring Semester
For the first time, we will be offering a full length “Painting with Pixels” class. This course introduces ArtRage, SketchBook Pro, ArtStudio, PhotoShop Touch, and Brushes as well as specialists for ink (Zen Brush), charcoal (Asketch) , and watercolor (Auryn Ink). We will also touch on image processing and other very useful apps as well as fun and non-traditional media and special effects.
Contact me with Questions, and check out the
APPS for ARTISTS heading.
Come see what you can do with this new medium!
Nine week course syllabus
1- Intro. Basics of pixel based images. Charcoal. Ink.
2- Using pixels to help traditional media. Fun stuff.
3- Finding and learning new apps. Watercolor.
4- Multiple media apps. The nature of the medium.
5- ArtRage 1 - Traditional media studio. Basics, tools, colors
6- ArtRage 2 - Brush control, layers, blending modes.
7- Art Studio. Selections, filters.
8- Creative image manipulation 1
9- Creative image manipulation 2
Spring Semester
For the first time, we will be offering a full length “Painting with Pixels” class. This course introduces ArtRage, SketchBook Pro, ArtStudio, PhotoShop Touch, and Brushes as well as specialists for ink (Zen Brush), charcoal (Asketch) , and watercolor (Auryn Ink). We will also touch on image processing and other very useful apps as well as fun and non-traditional media and special effects.
Contact me with Questions, and check out the
APPS for ARTISTS heading.
Come see what you can do with this new medium!
Nine week course syllabus
1- Intro. Basics of pixel based images. Charcoal. Ink.
2- Using pixels to help traditional media. Fun stuff.
3- Finding and learning new apps. Watercolor.
4- Multiple media apps. The nature of the medium.
5- ArtRage 1 - Traditional media studio. Basics, tools, colors
6- ArtRage 2 - Brush control, layers, blending modes.
7- Art Studio. Selections, filters.
8- Creative image manipulation 1
9- Creative image manipulation 2
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New Step-by-step Demo
Oil Sketch in Green and Pink
Oil Sketch in Green and Pink
Painted on the iPad in virtual oil paint with ArtRage Click here for full demo |
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Blank Canvas Specialists
These apps start with an empty "canvas" and can do one thing really well. There are some excellent traditional media impersonators and also special-effects apps that produce compelling visuals and are easy to use. 
Use your smartphone or tablet to improve your painting
Some useful tricks to help with composition, visualizing, and technique, out in the field or in the studio. |
Camera Specialists
There are many fun and useful apps that work with the camera. You can see them doing their magic in real time, as you shoot, and some even modify moving video. 
Transformation Specialists These are apps that transform existing digital images in an astounding variety of ways. Each generally performs only one type of process, but does it very well. 
Other Useful Apps
There are apps for expanding, retouching, organizing and presenting your images, along with sculpting, illustration and other specialties. 
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Complete Studio Apps
These apps simulate a full range of traditional media as well as not so traditional media, allowing you to draw or paint in oils, crayon, watercolor, ink, marker and so on. With most you can start with an existing image or a selection of different backgrounds. 
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Full Darkroom Suites
The workhorses of the image world, these apps offer a huge array of options for manipulating pictures, with a full range of filters and controls. 
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FUN WITH CAMERA 360
I've been spending huge amounts of time with Camera360 (and a few other apps as well), going back and reworking several promising images. Camera360 can show you most of the effects "live", which is great for composing, but it saves at a low resolution. A couple of months ago, when I was trying to free up some memory, I noticed that Camera360 took up more space than all my (many, many) photos combined! Further exploration revealed that it also saves the original, unfiltered photo at full camera resolution, which you can revert back to. This, plus the stronger and more useful tools and filters that the latest upgrades has given us, has opened up a whole new world of possibilities! So I've been having too much fun, and not getting very much else done. The final (latest?) version of this image uses HDR, Sketch, and Cartoon filters, plus the adjustments, rotate, and crop tools. |
"Cascade in Green and Pink"
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