Animoto!

Hi, Digital Dude here with a fabulous new site for you to check out. It's called Animoto and it makes incredible slide shows out of your images, be they from the iPhone or your big boy cameras. Pay a small fee ($30 per year), upload your images, choose their music or upload your own. Click! And they put together a spectacular graphic slide show in sync with the audio. You can play it on the net at their site, upload it to Youtube, or download a high resolution file for making into a DVD. Click above and check it out for yourself. This is a show I made using some of my favorite iPhone images. Let me know what you think! (If you should choose to sign up for Animoto use my referral code: uextanqo and you will get $5 off)

iPhone Art Hawaiian Style

What do you get when you cross a gecko with a plumeria blossom? No, not auto insurance! You get wonderful iPhone photo art, especially if you use the double exposure app DXP. The different blend modes allow for these different effects - first halfmix, then hardlight, then difference.

Lockton Loaded: iPhone Art That’s All In The Family

Yep that’s right! A whole family of iPhone artists has just shared some images with us! Check these out:

Lindsay Lockton took this wild photo by shooting subsequent photos displayed on iPhones - kind of a mirror reflected in a mirror reflected in a mirror......... How creative is that?



Her Mom, Kelly, shot this fabulous photo of cowboys and proceeded to tweak it in the following apps:
1st- Perfectly Clear to brighten up the picture, added more color vibrancy and over sharpened a bit.
2nd - PhotoForge to crop, adjusted the Vibrance again and "Posterized" it.
3rd - Photogene to frame it.
4th - ArtCamera, used the crumpled paper filter.



And dad Ron, the most recent iPhone convert in the family, “shot and shocked” this photo of Kansas City's autumnal splendor. He calls it simply “Midwest in Fall.”



The Lockton family by their own description have become official iPhone art addicts. And we’re so happy they are.

Trees at my window, window trees.

Digital Dude here. I was in Kansas City this week. Lovely fall view from my hotel. Great experience, but not much of a photo (see below). Ah, but we live in the age of the iPhone!

Brought the photo first into PhotoForge and did a little HDR on it. Then into Effects Touch and inversed part of the back ground to add color. Then into ArtistsTouch and painted it with chalk and an exacto knife. Into EdgePix for the framing, and finally into Photogene for the caption. There you have it! As I seem to say far too often on this blog -- 2 much fun!

From this...


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Vivid Southwest iPhone Photo Art Pix

Digital Diva here. More Southwest images - from pastel to vivid color! Used DXP Double Exposure app, Brushes app + Vihgo.

Pastel Photo Painting On The iPhone

Hi photo pals - Diva here. As the Dude said, we rode our lil phones hard and put them up wet while in Phoenix, so get ready to see more Southwest images. I've always loved the pastel tones in that region from pale sage to aqua to sandstone pink. In celebration, I created these three collages (along with literally HUNDREDS more). I used DXP, Brushes, and Collage as the apps. All the photos were taken and processed on the iPhone.

The Days are Just Packed!

Dude here, speaking for both of us. The Diva and the Dude had some down time here in Phoenix after a talk I had to give. Down time, you say? Not when we have our iPhones with us! Who knows what we did to make these images?!

Mine, the one with the birds and the one with the night time trees in the background, were made on two apps new to us -- Effect Touch and PicMix. Both are excellent, allowing one to blur the transitions between layers and to paint in effects where you choose.

Diva's images (the other two) were made mostly with DXP (double exposure) and many, many layers.

Hope you enjoy looking them even half as much as we enjoyed making them!!!!!