I love applying this smooth painterly look to photos. It works particularly well for minimalist landscape photos like this one taken of the beach near my home. The effects I use in iColorama are perfect for creating a light, dreamy and happy mood which is generally my state of mind when I head out along…
Upright lines or more properly put in photography terms, verticals feature strongly in this week’s Apps Uncovered photographs. The presence of vertical lines can really strengthen a composition especially if they’re repeated like the lines of the lamp posts and tree trunks seen below in our featured photograph from Mark Walton this week. Vertical lines…
Welcome to this week’s eclectic mix of images shot and edited with an iOS device, usually an iPhone or iPad or a mix of the two. As always, our photographers and artists featured below have been asked to include the apps they used and if possible the backstory that lead them to take create the…
Here’s this week’s photo picks for the weekly iPhone photography gallery Apps Uncovered. Thanks to New Instant Autocrat (J B) for our intriguing abstract feature image this week. Scroll down to see how it was created. Also rounding out the Apps Uncovered group this week are images from the following top iPhoneography talent: i2pixel, Clix2020…
The sky’s the limit in this week’s Apps Uncovered where you’ll notice in most of the images how a large part of seemingly empty space adds to the drama and feel of each photo or artwork. Thank you to Michael Beresin for our feature image this week “biking” where the shape of the clouds sandwich the…
My huge apologies for the late post this week. As some of you might know, I’ve been working hard (and having fun – see screenshot filming in my garden below) creating a new mobile photo art course launching in just a couple of weeks. I’ll be sharing all of my new discoveries creating digital collages…
Selected by Nicki Fitz-Gerald I’ve been saying this for over 10 years now…the iPhone is an extraordinary tool in the hands of creatives and this week’s gallery proves that once again. With most of us in a lockdown situation the challenges of confinement are forcing us to look at our immediate surroundings with fresh eyes.…
Hellloooo everyone, So sorry that I’ve been so quiet recently…but I just wanted everyone here to know that I am absolutely bursting with excitement as I will be announcing the new Creative Slow Shutter course very soon!! – in the next few days infact! In a nutshell, it’s time to let loose, let your imagination…
Hello fellow creatives! Eureka!! – It’s finally here…..my chance to share with you the most incredibly exciting and creative way to shoot images with an iPhone. Thank you for your patience! As many of you who know me and follow my work will know that I absolutely love to shoot Long Exposure (also known as…
New digital collage tutorial – In February’s issue of Mobiography magazine, I demonstrate how to combine Slow Shutter (long exposure) photos with digital textures to make a cool winterish scene in this fully illustrated step-by-step tutorial. To purchase the magazine which is packed with creative iPhone photography articles …Download the app from the Apple App…
Podcast interview with Nicki FitzGerald – Yes, that’s me! If you have half-an hour(ish) to spare over the weekend you might enjoy this podcast of me on Apple Podcasts being interviewed about my mobile art journey over the last 10 years by Jon Gill. Jon is building a quite a library of interesting podcasts of…
Recently I have been using Procreate’s excellent Reference Panel tool to create quick “Ruff” paintings on my iPad. You can watch the 7 min video of how I made the painting below by clicking here. I call them “Ruff” paintings because the idea is that they’re not supposed to be a finished painting – they…
Do you know of a good OUTLINE app out there for creating thick, clean and stylised outlines like the image below created in PicsArt? – which is almost perfect by the way. You can see the original photo directly below this PicsArt outline. I’m obsessed with lines; quality of line and mark-making. For those of…
PLEASE NOTE: The deadline for this competition has now been extended until Monday 15 February 2021. With just a couple of weeks left until the 15 February, 2021, there’s still time to enter and win cash prizes in every category in The National Association of Digital Artists (naDA’s) Images of Resilience competition. The competition is…
Creative inspiration is everywhere! Sometimes you just have to look down to see it. I’m at it again, trudging the pavement, finding inspiration in the most unlikely places, this time under my feet in the sand filled cracks on Weymouth’s esplanade during my daily walk this week. The damp weather had pressed the sand blown…
