Archive for the ‘iPad’ Category

Let me start by saying I’ve decided that Mobile Monet’s definition of “higher resolution” might not meet digi-scrap expectations. As with the layout in the last post I created the parrot “painting” with one of my own photos using the Mobile Monet HD iPad app. More testing will be necessary to see how big of a file I can bring into the app. But, this bird graphic came into the layout way too small. I hope it prints ok…and I’ll let you know. I blended the parrot as an overlay on a painted and textured paper, so I think the lower resolution will look painterly and not pixelated.

I love this template from the set, “Recyclables II” from Scrapping with Liz. You can get it today at 25% off at her Super Bowl Sunday sale!

Credits: MK Designs Blur of Color and Garden of Plenty, a Pickleberry Pop collaboration.

I tried a new app on my iPhone the other day, “Mobile Monet.” It is a really fun little app, I put it on my daughter’s iPod and it has kept her very entertained today. It will turn photos into a sketch and then let you paint the color in. The controls on it are really nice. You can adjust the line widths, the amount of grey and black. It is truly much better than using Photoshop to create a sketch! The great thing is that the paid version of the app (only $1.99) will save at high resolution. Something I have not found in any of the other artsy apps I’ve tried.

What is so great about that? We Digital Scrapbookers can actually use Mobile Monet HD to do fun effects on photos and use them in layouts! You can use the app on your iPhone as well, but, I’d have to play with them both a little to decide if fat fingers would get in the way of true art! Anyway, if you were needing another excuse to buy an iPad check this out!

Here is the layout I did using a photo manipulated with Mobile Monet. It was from a zoo trip in 2008, the bird exhibit was an amazing temporary event. My then three year old loved it but my oldest who was six was afraid to feed the birds!

Here is the photo before I “painted” it:

Credits: MK Designs Blur of Color and Garden of Plenty, a Pickleberry Pop collaboration.

It has been a very busy month! A month ago tomorrow I started a new job at a B2B publishing company. They have about 40 magazines and conference events. I am Digital Product Manager for the websites of three of their magazine brands. One of them is a 100 year old magazine that my dad, a Petroleum engineer, subscribed to his entire career. My other responsibility is Mobile Products across all of their brands.

One of my projects is putting their first magazine on an iPad app. While going through the iPad vendor selection process I started discovering all kinds of iPad apps. One of them was “Sketchbook Pro”. I downloaded the Adobe app but there was no comparison in the current versions. Sketchbook Pro has a large variety of brushes and Adobe does not. Surprising. I don’t know why Adobe would even bother publishing the current app.

Last Sunday I had some down time and I played with Sketchbook Pro. I was inspired by a blog I found from the Art Journal Caravan. The biggest downside of the app is that the illustrations will only export at 72 dpi. It is also limited to 6 layers, but when you know you are only playing (due to resolution limits) it kind of frees you up to work within the 6 layers. I found that by playing with opacity you can actually cover up any mistakes, similar to painting with oil or acrylics.

Anyway, since I’ve been too wiped out when I get home to do anything creative and my poor blog has been lonely I decided to share this little creation. I have not bought a stylus yet, so this was totally done with fingerpainting! Which gives you a total lack of control….and lends itself to this type of childish style.