smartphone art

September 25, 2014 by Kat

Smartphone Art Workshop in two weeks!

I’m getting excited… my “Smartphone Art Weekend” is just two weeks away! I’ve added a second day of material to the Smartphone Art workshop, going deeper into advanced editing and blending techniques. You know, the ones where you say, “How did you DO that, Kat?” All my secrets will be revealed! It’s going to be a good time.

Smartphone Art 1 & 2
October 11 & 12, 2014
Sequoia Gallery + Studios
Hillsboro, OR
Cost is $95+apps per day, register through Sequoia

New students can register for both days or the first day, Smartphone Art 1, only. Returning Smartphone Art students can register for the second day, Smartphone Art 2. The classes build on each other, so Smartphone Art 1 (the original one-day class) is a prerequisite for Smartphone Art 2.

You will be amazed at what you can create, just with an iOS device. Come join me for some mobile photography fun!

July 11, 2014 by Kat

Smartphone Art 3: Creative Editing beyond Photography

[This week I am reposting a series of articles originally written for another site, because they are no longer available there. Note that some of the app icons have changed since these original screenshots were created, but functions are located in the same place in the app. Enjoy! –Kat]

It’s time to take your Smartphone Art in a new direction! In Smartphone Art 1, you learned how to get a good photograph with your smartphone camera, and in Smartphone Art 2, you discovered how to make that photograph even better with basic photo editing. In this installment, we’ll look at some creative editing apps that take your images beyond photography, and how you can combine and blend the output of different apps to create unique works of art.

One of the best things about mobile photography is the proliferation of apps that can quickly and easily take your photograph and transform it into something different.

It can be a painting…

App: Glaze

a drawing…

App: Portray

or something wholly new…

App: decim8

The apps range from simple one-click transformations, such as the Glaze app shared in the painting example above, to effects with multiple setting adjustments to customize the look, such as the Aquarella example below.

App: Aquarella

The outputs of these apps are fun, but I often find that the look of an image after processing with a single creative app is predictable, especially if it doesn’t allow customization. It doesn’t look like a unique piece of art to me; it looks like a photograph processed with an app. To go beyond the predictable, you can blend app outputs to create something new and interesting.

Blending Apps

A blending app allows you to combine two different starting images in a variety of ways to get an alternate effect. You can blend two different images, adding textures or creating collage effects, or you can blend two of the same image, each image processed by different apps to develop unique looks. This second way, blending the same image processed in many different apps, is typically how I use a blending app to create a finished piece.

The best blending apps will offer multiple blending modes (like multiply, darken, soft light, etc.), as well as masking and arranging/resizing of one image relative to the other. Image Blender, Juxtaposer, and Superimpose are all examples of iOS apps which have these features. (Note: I have not been able to identify a similar app for Android yet! Please leave a note in the comments if you know of one.)

My favorite app for blending images is Image Blender, so I’ll share a few instructions on this app. When you open the app, you first have to load your images. At the bottom of the screen, tap the empty frame on the left to load your bottom image, and tap the empty frame on the right to load the top image.

For this example, I’m loading these two images:

Bottom Image. App: Distressed FX

Top Image. App: Autopainter II

First, I select a blending mode. When you tap the blending mode icon, the menu shows up. Tap each blending mode to see a preview of the blend. When you find a blending mode you want to play with, tap the blending mode icon again to commit the mode.

Now, you shift the slider back and forth to change the relative blend of the two images. Some blending modes, like Normal, work the same regardless of which image is on the bottom or top. Other blending modes, such as Lighten, change depending on which image is on top.

If you have an area where you don’t want to blend the top image with the bottom image, you can mask the top image. Tap the Masking icon, and now you can erase parts of the top image from the blend. If you accidentally take away too much, you can tap the pencil to switch modes and add the pixels back in.

If you want to change the size of the top image relative to the bottom image, you can do that via the Arrange function. Pinch in or out to change the relative size of the top image, shift left or right, or twist to change the angle.

You can always reset your mask and arrange settings by tapping on the top image to get to the reset menu.

When you like the blend, you can save by tapping the Export icon and selecting the “Save to Camera Roll” option. From here, you can either play with more blending modes with the same two images, or you can combine the newly blended image with more processed images. To do this, you need to flatten the two images you’ve blended, which is done by going to the Export menu and selecting the “Flatten” option. After the image is flattened, you can import a new image to the top.

You repeat the same process of importing, blending, saving and flattening with a variety of processed images until you get a finished product you like. Don’t forget, your newly blended image can be processed through other apps and create even more unusual effects.

Variable & Unique

When you use this method of creating altered photographs, you come out with a distinctive image which varies greatly with the starting photograph and the apps used to process, along with the sequence and method of blending.

This is what makes each final image an inimitable work of art. Even for myself, I couldn’t exactly recreate the output for many of the images I create, because the sequence, blending mode and percentage of blend are not recorded.

To me, part of the fun is in the serendipity of the process and knowing that each piece I create is truly unique.

Now it’s your turn! Try editing your images with apps that take them beyond a photograph, and then blending them together to see what you can create. You may be surprised at how addicting this process can be!

If you’d like to learn more about blending apps to create interesting images, you can review the mobile tutorials on my site or take a Smartphone Art workshop with me in the future. I’d love to share more with you!

July 9, 2014 by Kat

Smartphone Art 2: Improve your Smartphone Photos with Basic Photo Editing

[This week I am reposting a series of articles originally written for another site, because they are no longer available there. Note that the Snapseed icons have changed since these original screenshots were created, but all functions are located in the same place in the app. Enjoy! –Kat]

In Smartphone Art 1, you learned how to get a good photograph with your smartphone camera, and now it’s time to make that photograph even better with photo editing. In this installment I will cover the basics of adjustments, filters, and effects, taking your photographs to the next level.

Processing App: XnView PhotoFx

In all cases, I do my photo editing in different apps than my camera app. I choose my camera app for its functionality, and I want to do the same with my processing apps. I want full control of how the final image looks, often using multiple apps to get the right look. Most processing apps, even if they are considered a “camera app,” will allow you to import and edit a photo already saved on your device. Look for the icon that looks like two boxes overlapped, or the menu selection that allows import from your device’s image gallery.

Basic Adjustments

You don’t always get the perfect photograph out of your camera, and that’s why you need options for basic adjustments like brightness, contrast and saturation. My go-to app for basic adjustments is Snapseed, a free app available for both iOS and Android. It’s fast, intuitive and powerful. I’ve tried many other apps for basic editing and they are definitely not created equally.

I’ll quickly share how and why you would want to do some basic adjustments in Snapseed. Here’s the starting photograph, captured using the ProCamera app:

It was a windy day and getting focus, exposure and composition perfect in the camera was nearly impossible. This image has great focus and the elements I want, but it’s too dark and the composition is not quite right, so it needs some basic adjustments. To get to the basic adjustments for your overall photograph in Snapseed, use the “Tune Image” option.

From there, by swiping up and down you get the menu of options to tune your image. Select an option from the menu, such as Brightness, and then swipe left to right to make the adjustment. You can see the changes real time and tap on the button for your original image to compare. You commit the adjustment by tapping the right arrow. If you are not sure what each menu option does, play with them. If you can’t see much difference, go to extremes to observe what the adjustment does. If you don’t like the result you can always cancel out by topping the arrow or “X” on the left to cancel.

To save your changes, save from the main screen after you’ve committed. It’s that simple! Here’s the image after the basic adjustments, where I increased brightness and adjusted contrast slightly.

One warning about Snapseed: There is no “undo last step” button. If you make multiple edits using different menus you can’t undo the last one, you can only revert to the original image. I’ve made it a habit to save after each editing step so that if I want to “undo,” I can load a previous version of the image from my camera roll.

If you just have a specific region you want to adjust, Snapseed is one of the few apps that also provides a spot adjustment tool, and it works amazingly well. Go into the “Selective Adjust” menu and then tap the circled + Icon to add a marker. Place the marker where you want to make the adjustment, and then select the range of the adjustment by using a pinch motion. As you pinch in and out, you will see some pixels switch to red – these are the pixels you are selecting to adjust. Once you are happy with your selection, swipe up and down on the marker to select Brightness, Contrast or Saturation for the selected region, and then left to right to adjust. You can do multiple adjustments for each selection, and add multiple markers if you have more than one place to adjust.

Other basic adjustments within Snapseed include the cropping through the Crop menu, straightening or rotating your image in the Straighten menu, or sharpening using the Details menu. Here’s the same image again, after a selective adjust to brighten one side of the main flower, cropping to a square, and rotating 180 degrees.

The basic adjustments can take an image that wasn’t perfect out of the camera (too light, too dark, low contrast, etc.) and make it look great.

Processing with Filters and Effects

Now you have a nice photograph, but you may want to change the mood or the feel beyond what you can do with the basic adjustments. Maybe you want to convert your photograph to black and white, or give it a 1960’s vintage feel. How about making it look soft and dreamy? For these types of adjustments, you’ll use filters and effects.

Processing App: Handy Photo

Filters are automation which adjust the colors, brightness and contrast of your photograph to give it a specific look. Many photography apps also add effects such as textures, vignettes and frames. It’s like having the power of Photoshop or Lightroom in your mobile device. You can now do with a few screen taps and swipes what used to take expensive software and specialized training.

Just as with basic editing, not every processing app is created equally. The best apps will have:

Full resolution output. The files you save out of the app should have the same resolution of the files you load into the app, or you might find yourself with files too small to print.
Adjustments available for the filters. At a minimum, it’s nice to have at least an opacity or intensity adjustment available when you apply the filter, to tune the application of the filter for your photograph. The best apps allow you to adjust many different aspects of the filter
The ability to apply multiple filters and effects to the same photograph. At worst you can save the image out after each filter is applied and reload it into the app to process further, but it’s nice when you can apply multiple effects within the same session in the app.
An ‘Undo last step’ option. When you can apply multiple effects within the same session, it’s nice to be able to undo the last step. You want to try different options without worry that you are going to lose a good edit by going one step too far in the processing. If the app doesn’t have an ‘Undo last step’ button, you can save your edit at various points so you don’t lose your work.

Every photography app has a different selection of filters and effects, so you have to play with the app to see what the app offers and when you might use them. Snapseed (iOS/Android), Pixlr Express + (iOS/Android) and iColorama (iOS only) are all great apps to get you started, since they include a broad range of filters along with effects such as textures and frames.

Since it’s a free app, Snapseed is a great place to begin playing around with filters and effects. It has an amazing array of filter choices which include adjustments, it saves full resolution files, and the app supports multiple filters/effects applied to the same photograph within the same editing session. The only thing Snapseed doesn’t have is an ‘Undo last step’ option, so be sure to save between your editing steps.

Just like the basic adjustments, Snapseed’s filters have a similar operation. After loading your photograph, start by selecting the type of filter you want to apply along the bottom menu. For the main filters, you can choose between Black & White, Vintage, Drama, Grunge, and Retrolux. Other effects you will find on the main menu are Center Focus (for vignette and other edge-specific effects), Tilt-Shift, and Frames.

Within the filter menu, you have an array of selections. Look through the available styles and textures by tapping the icons on the bottom bar. In this example I’m in the Vintage menu:

Once you select a processing style, swipe up and down to see the adjustment options menu, and then swipe left to right to make the adjustment once you’ve selected the option, the same as in the basic adjustment menu. Once you like what you see, commit the edit and you will be taken back to the main menu. From there you can go on to apply additional effects. Here’s the final image, after all of my edits:

Pretty cool, huh? And that’s just a quick taste of what you can do in a single processing app. As you start to explore apps, you realize the possibilities are endless.

Finding and Choosing the Right Apps for you

Each available app is different in its options and operation. The fun of mobile photography comes with trying different apps and seeing what they can individually do, and then combining them in creative ways. Each app has different strengths and weaknesses, and fits different styles. While it’s fun to explore new apps, it can also be frustrating to purchase an app and find out it performs poorly.

To choose an app, I recommend doing a little bit of research first. The amount of time you spend in research should be commensurate with the cost. If it’s free, just download and try it. If it’s a more expensive app or you have a limited budget, you might want to do the research to make sure it has features you want before buying.

Processing App: Alt Photo

How to find and research apps:

Look for recommendations from photographers you like. Hashtags in Instagram, tutorials on blogs, and app reviews are great ways to find new apps. If you like an image you see posted on social media, you can always ask what apps the photographer used. Most people will readily share which apps they used in the creation of an image.
If there is a free version of the app, download and try it yourself. Nothing is better than a few minutes of playing with an app to see whether it has the potential to be useful for you. If you like it, you can spring for the full version or make the in-app purchase.
If you don’t have a recommendation and can’t download a free version, then use the information provided in the app store:
Read the description for information on the included features, such as the ability to make adjustments, and supported file resolution. If it’s billed as a “camera app,” make sure you can upload files already saved to your device for editing.
Look at the images supplied in the app store previews. Do the example images fit your style, or can you see the potential to fit your style?
Read the reviews in the app store. You can get a quick feel for how well the app performs through the reviews. Often you get more information about actual app operation in the reviews than in the description from the app maker.
Search elsewhere for reviews and tutorials on the app. Do a quick internet search to find blogs or YouTube videos on the app. You can get a deeper understanding from an independent source who has used the app.

You can often find an amazing array of information on a single app, so don’t get too bogged down. Check a couple of sources and make a decision, and then get on to playing with your photographs.

Because really, playing with your photograph is the whole point, isn’t it?

Processing App: Noir

Next time, we’ll look at some creative editing apps that take your images beyond photography, and how you can combine and blend the output of different apps to create truly unique works of art.

July 7, 2014 by Kat

Smartphone Art 1: Getting a Good Photograph with your Smartphone

[This week I am updating and reposting a series of articles originally written for another site, because they are no longer available there. Enjoy! –Kat]

If you have a smartphone, you have an amazing creative tool available! Not only do you always have a camera with you, but you have a vast array of apps to create works of art by modifying photographs.

Over the next few posts, I’m going to show you how to use your smartphone to go beyond snapshots of your family and friends at events, creating photographs and other pieces of art that can be worthy of artistic exhibition. The process of creating this type of art starts with getting a great photograph. Without a well-exposed and composed image, you don’t have the best start for creating app art.

With that in mind, today I am going to provide you with a few tips to “step up” the quality of the images you capture with your smartphone. Note: All images shared through the rest of this post are as-captured with an iPhone 5 using the ProCamera app, with no additional editing or filters.

1. Use a third party camera app to take the best photos

As amazing as smartphone cameras are, they are still a very limited camera in photography terms. No zoom, no depth of field control, no shutter control, limited low light response… you get the idea. You need the apps to help you get the most out this little camera. Your smartphone probably came with a camera app preloaded, but it’s not necessarily the best camera app available. Third party apps, those created for your smartphone by other developers, have more features to help you get the most out of your smartphone camera.

Some critical features to look for in a third party camera app:
– The ability to easily and separately set focus and exposure
– Anti-shake shutter options
– Image aspect ratio options (2:3, 3:4, 1:1, etc.)
– Full resolution support

I’ve found the most critical feature to be the ability to easily and separately set focus and exposure. This will probably have the greatest impact on your ability to get good photographs out of your smartphone camera. Typically, when you open a camera app, the focus point is set to the middle of the frame and the exposure (the overall brightness/darkness) is weighted for the whole scene. These settings often work ok, but they may not give you the best possible photograph, especially in high contrast situations where there is a dramatic difference in light and dark.

Here’s an example: In the first image, the camera set the exposure based on the overall scene, and in the second I set the app to expose for the sunset.

Do you see the difference? Because the camera app set the exposure for the overall scene in the first image, the sunset is brighter and looks washed out. In this situation with very bright and very dark areas an evenly lit scene is not possible, but the camera doesn’t know that — it only measures and computes based on its programming.

To get the tree in silhouette and the rich colors of the sunset, I have to tell the camera a little bit more about what I want it to do. I set the exposure point on the bright part of the sunset, telling the camera “here’s the part I really want you to expose for,” which shifts the entire scene darker. The colors become deeper and more vibrant.

After trying several different camera apps, I’ve settled on ProCamera 7. This app has all of the critical features I’ve listed above as well as an easy-to-use interface. Unfortunately, ProCamera 7 is only available for iOS, but for Android I recommend Camera FV-5, which has similar features. The ProCamera 7 screen shot below shows the key settings I use in the app.

The best part of the ProCamera 7 app is the ease of setting focus and exposure. With a quick motion, spreading two fingers on the screen, you separate the focus (blue square) and exposure (yellow circle) targets. From there, use your fingertip to move each target independently. Try it out – it’s amazing to see how much you can change the exposure of the scene by moving the target around.

If you know nothing about exposure and can’t figure out how where you should put the target to correct a problem if the photograph is too bright or too dark, remember this little tip:

If the area you care about in the photograph is appears too bright and you want to darken the scene, put the exposure target in a brighter area of the screen.
Too bright = Target bright.
If the photograph appears too dark and you want to brighten the scene, put the exposure target in a darker area of the screen.
Too dark = Target dark.

The camera will make the adjustment and if it’s not right, move the target to another area and try again. It really is that simple!

Another important aspect of a camera app to consider is the low light performance. Smartphone cameras are not as sensitive to low light as other digital cameras. The key issue for capturing a good photograph in low light, regardless of your camera, is stability. A smartphone camera is already inherently less stable than other types of cameras due to design, since you have to hold the camera out in front of you and you are often tapping the screen to take the picture. This makes the camera more prone to blur due to camera shake – the movement of the camera as you take the picture – and in low light it is even worse. Using the anti-shake shutter on your camera app will help, since the app won’t take the picture until it senses the camera is still. Propping the camera on a stable surface or using a tripod mount are other options to improve stability.

Depending on your smartphone and app combination, you may have an “ISO Boost” setting which can help you take photographs in lower light. ProCamera 7 on the iPhone 5/5S has this feature. If your favorite everyday camera app doesn’t have low light options, you can also look for camera apps specifically created for low light or night photography to extend your range.

2. Pay Attention to Resolution

There is a sneaky thing that happens in smartphone apps – they often default to a lower resolution setting than desired. The camera and app makers assume you will want to maximize your storage space and that you will only be sharing online, so they put default settings at lower resolutions to create small file sizes. If you are looking to create photographic or app art with your smartphone, these assumptions don’t hold true. If you create a great photograph or piece of app art, you want the highest resolution files possible so you have the option to print it later. Smartphone art can be amazing as prints! A few examples of prints from my smartphone art are below.

Check the resolution settings on the camera and post-processing apps you use. If there is an option to set the resolution, look for the “High” or “Best quality” setting and keep it set there. If there isn’t any mention of resolution in the app info or settings, consider that a red flag for resolution. When you can’t find a resolution setting, save an image out of the app and then check the resolution. On my iPhone, I use the PhotoSize app to verify the final resolution of the saved file. You may be surprised at how low the resolution is for some apps.

One other place where your resolution can be reduced without knowing it: Zooming with a camera app. Smartphone cameras don’t have zoom lenses, so using a zoom feature in a camera app means you are magnifying the image with software. In most cases, this means the image is cropped by the app which reduces the final resolution. For the best image possible, get used to zooming “with your feet.” Get closer to your subject by walking toward it and increase its size within the frame by physical proximity.

3. Pay attention to Composition

Now that we’ve gotten a couple of key technical elements for getting a good smartphone photograph out of the way, it’s time for the creative fun of my favorite part of photography: Composition. As with any 2D art, how you compose is critical to the effectiveness of the final image. In photography, you get to choose which elements remain in the frame and how they are arranged relative to each other. Even stationary objects can be shifted relative to other objects by changing your perspective, and moving closer or further away.

While composition can be a vast subject to learn, I’ll give you a few tips on composition below. To learn more about composition, download my free Digital Photography Basics eBook or review past Exploring with a Camera posts on my blog.

Composition Tips:

Pick your subject. Be clear about what you are photographing as you take the picture. Use a process of elimination to exclude as much as you can that’s not related to what you want to capture.
Play with aspect ratio and orientation. One of the best things about using a smartphone is you can easily switch between photo aspect ratios (2:3, 4:3, 1:1, etc.) as you are composing your image. Does the image you are composing work best as a square? Or maybe the subject is better suited to a rectangular frame? If you are using a rectangular aspect ratio, try both horizontal and vertical orientations for your image. Discover what works best for the lines you are working with and what you want to convey.
Explore balance of elements. How do the lines, shapes, and colors interact with each other? What happens to the elements if you move your point of view? The interrelationships within the frame, and the balance, will change.
Consider placing your subject off-center. A centered subject can work, but it’s very static and not as visually interesting in many cases. The “rule of thirds” helps you remember this tip, so use it as a guideline as you start to compose an image and go from there.
Explore point of view. A more interesting photograph may be just a few feet higher or lower than eye level. Most of the photographs taken in the world are from human eye level, so looking from a different perspective can surprise and engage the viewer.
Keep it simple. “Less is more” definitely applies to smartphone photography. Since you don’t have all of the standard camera controls available to isolate subject from background, the simpler you can make your composition, the more effective your final image will likely be.

Next time you are out and about and pull out your smartphone, consider seeing what you can do with this wonderful little camera! Whether you are sharing everyday events on Facebook and Twitter or you are using the photographs for app art, improving your smartphone images is not hard at all.

January 16, 2014 by Kat

Adding Color (A Mobile Tutorial)

One wonderful thing about being an artist: Adding color to a black and white world. Isn’t that awesome? By the way, that statement is true in more than one sense. In the literal sense, as in my photograph today, as an artist I get to choose to add color to my work or not. I can leave my photograph as a direct interpretation of what I saw or I can change it, just with color.

And in the figurative sense, artists often add color and move outside of the lines of conventional rules of life. Who challenges the cultural norms of how we are supposed to act? To live? Historically, it’s the artists. And that adds color, lots of color, to a world that can otherwise seem black and white. You may or may not like the color, but that color enables our culture to continue to evolve and grow.

But enough of these deep thoughts… how about a mobile tutorial today, hmmm? It’s been a while! I created this piece a couple of days ago and thought it would be a perfect one to share with you, both for the relative simplicity of the steps compared to many of my edits, as well as I can share a new app I’ve been enjoying.

We start with the photograph, captured using ProCamera 7. As I mentioned in my blog post on Tuesday, I was feeling the urge to get out and photograph, and Tuesday morning was wonderfully foggy. I left for work early and spent some time photographing the trees in the fog on campus. There was this little tree with interesting lines I had never noticed before:

The photo looks a bit underexposed, which often happens in fog, even with the exposure control I have in ProCamera 7. The first step of the edit was pulling it into Snapseed, where I increased brightness and used the grunge filter to add color and texture. The nice thing about the way the grunge filter works, the bits of trees along the bottom, which are a bit of a distraction I thought I might have to clone out, end up blurred so there is no cloning work required. Bonus! And this is the first step to adding color, with the purple tint.

Next, the image went into Distressed FX. There are some great filters in this app for adding color! I use it all the time, playing with the different options and seeing which looks best. I love the range of color blends after using Distressed FX:

The next step is running the image from Distressed FX through a couple of other apps. First, the Autopainter app (I use the HD version, on my iPad) using the Benson filter. The great thing about this app is that you can stop it mid-processing to get different effects. I stopped the app at the end of Step 2, before Step 3 where all the detail strokes get added. It gives the image a rougher, more painterly, feel.

I also took the image out of Distressed FX, and ran it through a new app I’ve been playing with called Waterlogue. This simple app gives fantastic watercolor effects! I used the Soaked filter, set to Dark, and turned off the border. Love it!

The final step is blending the two images in Image Blender, to get more softness in the branches and a greater depth of color. I believe I used the “Darken” blending mode.

And that’s it! A very simple edit, but a wonderful result, adding a great depth of color to the black and white world I experienced that morning.

I’m going to be adding something a little extra to these mobile tutorials in the future! A map of the process I used, which I’m calling a “mobile recipe,” so that you can more easily follow the steps and try them out on your images. You can save these recipes and refer to them in the future when you’re looking for a little editing inspiration.

I know I’ve said there will be a Smartphone Art eCourse this year, but writing an eCourse takes a lot of time and energy, and as I move into 2014 I’m just not seeing when I will have that much available time and energy. So instead of a full-on eCourse, online I’ll be continuing these mobile tutorials, and will help you use the resources I already have available to learn more about mobile photography. Stay tuned.

And in person, I’d love to bring the Smartphone Art workshop to your area! This is such a fun class, and absolutely the best way to learn this material is in person. I’ll be adding a second day with more great content and we can make it a weekend thing. Contact me and let’s chat!

October 29, 2013 by Kat

Want to learn Smartphone Art?

At an ever-increasing pace, I’ve been fielding the questions: Are you going to create a Smartphone Art eCourse, Kat? When?

And the answer is: YES, definitely, I’ll be offering a Smartphone Art eCourse in 2014. Sometime in the first half, is my plan, but I haven’t penciled out dates quite yet.

I’m excited there is so much interest! But what to do until that time gets here? You can use the Smartphone Art series on the Seek your Course blog as a teaser. The third and final installment, Smartphone Art 3: Creative Editing beyond Photography is now available. In this episode, I walk you through how to blend the output of multiple apps to create a unique work of art. To me, this is the most fun part of creating Smartphone Art!

Come on over to read the article and then try it yourself. That’s the best part in all of this: Making art accessible. YOU can create Smartphone Art, too!