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Six reasons iPad is an artist's productivity tool

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. [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. iPad portraits, the art of David KassanArtist David Kassan uses an iPad and the Brushes app to create incredibly realistic portraits of sitting subjects. He didn't stop there.

ArtTIP2.0 About this webmix : No description last updated at: Sep 12, 2014 3:00:38 PM Create - Picassohead Sumo Paint Paper Camera for iPhone 3GS,.. Escher 360 Tessellation Town -- tessell.. 10 best iPad art apps for pa.. Symbaloo-ers that viewed the webmix above, also viewed: 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). 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 Strip Designer Adobe Photoshop Express Free ArtStudio

How to Find iPad Apps - iPad Basics With over 300,000 apps designed for the iPad and many more compatible iPhone apps, you can imagine that finding a good app can sometimes be like finding a needle in a haystack. Luckily, there are several ways to help you find the best apps. One great way to find quality apps is to use Google rather than searching the App Store directly. For example,if you want to find the best puzzle games, doing a search on Google for "best ipad puzzle games" will yield better results than going through page after page of apps in the App Store. Simply go to Google and put "best ipad" followed by the type of app you are interested in finding. But Google won't always yield the best results, so here are a few other tips for finding great apps: Featured Apps. Next: Learn how to install iPad apps.

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.

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...

ICTmagic - home 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. 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 the Intuos is even better, but has no display on the digitizer so it is a different beat altogether.

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.

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