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10 creative iPad apps for aspiring artists

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. 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 10.

Drawing tool Five Best Tablet Drawing Apps It seems to impress passers buy when you edit video with your fingers in iMovie on the iPad. It still impresses people when I edit photos on an iPad. I'm not so much out to impress people with what I'm doing, but what the end result may be. Though I do agree that it was skewed away from windows tablets. There are plenty of Android options up there, too. Not just Apple. these were user submitted and voted choices. next time speak up louder during the initial submissions and you'll see your preference listed here. oh, and the windows tablet digitizers are NOT more accurate then the cintiq, not even close. they are built by wacom but only have: 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity no tilt/rotation detection 2540 lines per inch detection resolution no tip/pen type detection the cintiq has: 2048 levels of pressure sensitivity tilt and rotation detection 5080 lines per inch detection resolution tip/pen type detection bahahahahaha, win7 tablet.. no self respecting artist will stray from wacom.

Cool Drawing Apps for Primary School So many classroom activities are only fully realised when your students add their sketches to embellish their work, or to annotate a concept. Sometimes they just need to describe an object. Here are a series of apps that allow the creative little Picasso or Frida in your class to express themselves. Most of these are so intuitive that your students will be drawing before you know it. Drawing Pad: $1.99 AU Drawing Pad offers an incredible amount of fun and creativity as a stand alone App but we've worked extra hard to allow parents the ability to extend the fun by offering in app coloring books). Doodlecast for Kids: $1.99 AU Doodlecast is a unique drawing app that records your voice as you draw. Kid Art for iPad: $0.99 AU Kid Art is now on the iPad! ArtRage: $7.49 AU Doodle Buddy: FREE Doodle Buddy is the most fun you can have with your finger! Bamboo Paper: FREE

ICTmagic - home Corel Painter User Resources Resources for users of Corel Painter, the image editing and natural media painting tool. Includes resources for earlier versions including Fractal Design Painter, MetaCreations Painter, and procreate Painter. New Features in Corel Painter X3Explore the best new features in Corel Painter X3 in this screen shot tour. The Clone Source Panel - Creative Color in PainterThe Clone Source Panel in Painter can open up new and exciting ways to render your photographs and with a little imagination you can create beautiful paintings that have your personal touch. Corel Painter Lite ReviewPainter Lite is based on the features of Corel Painter 12, but offers a limited feature set to make it easier to learn for those starting out in digital art. Real Watercolor in Painter 12 - Blending Watercolor TutorialLearn how the Real Watercolor brushes in Painter 12 can help you with blending color in your paintings. Corel Painter 8 Screen ShotsThe new user interface of Corel Painter 8.

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. 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). The rest of the process is then the same as the educator can annotate and grade the assignment on any web based device including the iPad. This process really is a game changer for any institution using iPads as an educational tool. Like this:

40 Wonderfully Creative iPad Apps We all have the capacity to be creative, it’s in our very nature. The iPad is a wonderful tool for creation is almost every sphere you can imagine, from expressing poetry to capturing artistic ideas, from exploring musical invention to manipulating captured light. Whether you consider yourself a creative professional, or are simply a person who loves to dream and imagine, there are hundreds of awesome iPad apps to help you do just that. Exercise your mind, make something new today! Artistic Apps Procreate Procreate touts itself as possibly the most exciting digital painting app on a mobile device, I think it lives up to that claim. It features a great deal of functionality that’s packaged in an effortlessly intuitive interface, it can’t fail to appeal to the artistic among you! Zen Brush Zen Brush is a beautiful way to get involved and make your own art! Rather than being a fully fledged painting app like Procreate or Brushes, the beauty of Zen Brush lies in the simplicity of the concept. djay

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.

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. 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. Yoshitoshi ABe first gained fame in his work on the avant-garde anime Serial Experiments Lain. He didn't stop there.

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. The app includes works by hundreds of artists, organized alphabetically by artist and also by art period (called Rooms within the app). Art Authority also includes detailed information about each artist. 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. Free

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