10 creative iPad apps for aspiring artists Ever wonder how to use your iPad to expand your creative potential? Whether you're an amateur doodler or the next Picasso, there are a variety of phenomenal iPad apps out there to help you paint your masterpiece. We've separated the best from all the rest to compile a list of apps sure to help you unleash your inner Van Gogh (ear cutting not required). 1. SketchBook Pro Price: $4.99 This is the holy grail of art apps. 2. Price: $2.99 Lucky Clan's ArtStudio isn't as extensive as SketchBook Pro, but for a beginner, it boasts a rich array of features, including fun filters and art lessons for the true novice. 3. Price: $7.99 Inspire Pro is fairly bare-bones for an art app, but it handles basic painting, drawing, and sketching extremely well. 4. Artist's Touch can work as a blank canvas, but it also allows you to paint over photos, creating a unique version of a beloved image. 5. iDraw Price: $8.99 6. Price: 99 cents 7. Price: $5.99 8. Price: $6.99 Download: ArtRage 9. Price: Free Download: Morpholio
Art and Artistry iPad Apps If you've always wanted to be an artist, you can find iPad apps that let you do just that. You can also use iPad apps simply to appreciate good works of art. Art Authority for iPad Having Art Authority is like having the history of Western art in pictures and words on your iPad. Brushes Brushes is a drawing-and-painting app designed exclusively for the iPad. Color Splash for iPad Color Splash focuses on doing one thing well: converting a photo to black and white, and then enabling you to colorize specific parts of it. When you open a picture in Color Splash, it's converted to black and white automatically. This picture shows a finished Color Splash picture, in which the Color brush reveals the colors in the sky and sunset at the top of the image and the pool and chairs at the bottom. Photogene for iPad Photogene is an image manipulation program with an exceptional and user-friendly interface. Unlike most similar apps, Photogene can edit high-resolution RAW files. Strip Designer Free ArtStudio
ICTmagic - home iPad as the Teacher's Pet [Infographic] Update: iPad as the Teacher's Pet was updated to Version 2.0 Click to see the new version! Hey, teacher! Got an iPad? Then you've got a toolbox that you can fill to help you be an even better teacher! It's all about verbs, that is, the things teachers can do with an iPad. So take a peek to see how iPad can help you capture learning artifacts, plan lessons, poll students, visualize concepts, share demonstrations, and much more. Edmodo is THE iPad Workflow Solution The world of iPad workflow just got a whole lot easier. After months of ‘work arounds’ involving screenshots, Dropbox and pre-tablet technology, the latest Edmodo update has changed the game. Put simply, you can now use the iOS6 function ‘open in app’, to open a document in Edmodo. This allows you to upload a document to your Edmodo library on an iPad. You can then link the document to a direct post, note or assignment within the Edmodo app. Lets look at an example to illustrate how easy this has made the sharing of assignments for a student and an educator. Once the student has completed their document they should tap on the share and print option in Pages and then tap on ‘open in app’. They should then select open in Edmodo and choose a file type to share – I can recommend the ‘Word’ option as this works well with the Edmodo annotation tool. This will upload the document to the student’s library (Backpack). Like this: Like Loading...
35 Great iPad Apps for Designers, Geeks and Creative Individuals - Creative Can Creative Can Because of its mobility and large array of useful apps available, iPad has become very popular these days, and this trend is not likely to end anytime soon. With the capability that almost rivals desktops, iPads, have also become the gadget of choice of designers while on the go. With the help of some iPad apps, designers, geeks and creative individuals can now do their job while away from their workstations. Here, we are showcasing some of the great iPad apps for designers and other creatives to use while on the go. You will find here apps for mock-ups, sketching, social media, web development and etc. that you can use to accomplish varied tasks. If you like this article, please share this to your friends. Wireframing, Mind Mapping and Productivity Apps iMockups for iPad iMockups for iPad is the premiere mobile wireframing and mockup app for your web, iPhone and iPad projects. OmniGraffle Need to create a quick diagram, process chart, page layout, website wireframe, or graphic design?
20th Century Art Lesson Plans written by: Lynn-nore Chittom • edited by: Wendy Finn • updated: 9/11/2012 Learning about 20th Century art can be a fun and expressive experience for your art students. This lesson plan teaches various 20th Century art movements through the use of representative artists as an inspiration for student creativity. 20th Century CreativityStudying 20th Century art should be a fun experience for the teacher and the students. Most art from this time period is bold and expressive and more easily reproduced in student work than art from previous periods. The best way to teach art from this period is to provide students with sample pieces that represent the various movements and inspire them to create their own original work based on the themes of the period.
- SketchBook Ink Autodesk® SketchBook® Ink is an intuitive pen & ink drawing app Built on a new resolution independent engine, SketchBook Ink lets you create beautiful line work and export high resolution images directly from your iPad. *Recommended for 2nd and 3rd generation iPad. Features: ✓ Introductory Tour Guide to help get you started ✓Full Screen work space with support for any device orientation ✓ Retina Display on 3rd Gen iPad ✓Multi-Touch Interface: • Two finger pan & zoom navigation ✓Preset Ink-styles: • 7 different presets each with different line weight and behaviors • 2 eraser types ✓Colors • Color Editor & Color Picker • Tap-hold customizable Color palette ✓Import a background image from the Photo Library as a reference ✓Export options • Save up to 12.6 MP PNG images to Photo Library or e-mail. • Save up to 101.5 MP PNG images to iTunes File Sharing or Dropbox • Option to export as transparent PNG ✓Gallery: • Store work-in-progress ✓Stay Current: • Link to SketchBook News Blog
Six reasons iPad is an artist's productivity tool There's a lot of folks who say the iPad isn't proper competition for netbooks because it isn't a 'productivity tool'. They're all wrong. Take the visual arts, for example, and you'll find a growing army of examples of artists using the Apple device to create stunning pieces of art, here's six stories to illustrate this. Clearly this illustrates why netbook sales have cramped up and why Apple's iPad is such a success, because it unlocks imagination for users, developers, old and new media. [This story is from the new Apple Holic blog at Computerworld. Subscribe via RSS to make sure you don't miss a beat. David HockneyOne of the UK's leading artists, David Hockney is revered. "It can be anything you want it to be. Hockney last year made a splash when he revealed his work using the iPhone (and the Brushes app), as detailed in this video here. 'Magical' iPad's Manga magicManga artist Yoshitoshi ABe is enormpusly talented. He didn't stop there. More to explore.This isn't just hyperbole.
SketchBook Ink Autodesk Sketchbook Pro: Powerful, Digital Drawing The iPad, it’s not a device for content creation, is it? Ask many a tech pundit that question, and they’ll say, “No, it isn’t.” But, there’s a flaw in the opinion you’re receiving. You’re asking a writer if they can use the iPad to write professionally. That’s a little more specific a context than just “content” in general. The problem with the opinions of many a tech writer, is that they’re leaving out all of the other types of “content” we human beings can create. Today we’re going to look at one of the stand-out apps in the art category. The Interface If you’ve read any review I’ve done on AppStorm, you’ve probably seen me lead with a discussion of the app in question’s UI. Sketchbook Pro's "Main" UI Ok, so that isn’t really the main UI of Sketchbook Pro. But don’t worry, there’s a lot more power “under the hood”. Sketchbook Pro's Tools UI That’s more like it. Gestures, Gestures, Gestures Yup, gestures. The first gesture that’s really key in Sketchbook Pro is the 3-finger tap.
Procreate & Paper: The Engines Mean Everything Sketchbook Pro. Brushes. Penultimate. Noteshelf. These are only a handful of some of the most popular apps available on the iPad today. Some may have even considered them your only worthy options for illustrating and note taking on a tablet. While the aforementioned creativity apps are, in fact, excellent options for anyone looking to use the iPad as a digital note/sketchbook, a couple of apps have since crashed the party and are causing a lot of ruckus – they are Procreate and Paper by FiftyThree. Leaders of the Pack Before I get into the differences between Procreate and Paper by FiftyThree (which we will refer to as simply ‘Paper’ from here on out), I’d like to go over what they both do exceedingly well. Paper's gorgeous Journal selection screen. Where Paper and Procreate leave competition in the dust is found in both their inking engines. Procreate 1.6 now features art stacks for better organization! When it comes to user interface, neither app ever feels like it gets in your way.
David Hockney's iPad Art | Dan Costa Like a lot of New Yorkers, I only go to museums when I am travelling. It's been a year since I went to The Met, MOMA, or the Museum of Natural History, but last weekend I spent 48 hours in Toronto and had to swing by the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum) to see David Hockney's Fresh Flowers exhibit. It was a work trip, you see, because the 74-year-old artist made these works exclusively on the iPhone and iPad. The Fresh Flowers exhibit includes more than 100 iPhone drawings and 100 iPad drawings. David Hockney started drawing on his iPhone in 2008, and he graduated to the iPad when it was released in 2010. Go to the ROM website and you can download "free" copies of select Hockney drawings. Hockey's style is particularly well-suited to the iPad: the hurried composition, the bold lines, luminous colors. Even so, I found the exhibit quite inspiring. You can see Fresh Flowers at ROM in Toronto until the end of the year. Check out David Hockey drawing at the Louisiana cafe.