Envy - Mannequins in Bellagio Hotel

This is one of my all time favorites.

I was nicknamed Smudgie by my good friend Harry Sandler soon after I started producing these painterly images on the iPhone. I just love creating them. I always wanted to paint but never felt talented enough. It is so wonderful to feel my finger slide over the smooth glass and create an art form I never thought possible. I will spend hours working on a particular part of the canvas to make sure it looks just right. 

With this particular image it was very important for me to keep the details in the lace of the sweater blouse. I also wanted the hair to look fine and soft. The lighting was also particularly difficult to keep crisp. The artistic decision to make the face pure and totally detailed like a porcelain doll was given much thought. All the elements work well together in the end.

This is an image I definitely did just for me. My heart smiled the whole time I was creating it. 

Hipstamatic
PhotoForge
Filterstorm
Impression

iPaintery Flowers

Costco Flowers

Some days you just don't have the image you want to paint right in front of you. That is when it is great to have a friend post an image that just screams the need to be iPainterly'd. John Barclay, in fine iPhoneography style, was shopping in Costco and stopped to capture several versions of this gorgeous bouquet of flowers with his iPhone. When I saw it I knew I wanted to iPainterly it. So I asked if I could. Next I found an email from him that was titled, "Have Fun!" Which of course I did. Thanks JB.

Take your iPhone images to the next step with the power of blending, brushing and masking. Teri Lou is offering her first online advance course starting April 18th. Ask for more information of the course at teri@terilou.com

Morning Coffee

picGrunger Review
Pioneer Coffee, Cle Elum, WA

Today I am reviewing the update to picGrunger, one of my favorite apps. The addition of seven textures is a great one, unfortunately, they didn't add a strength slider however. I do like the options of textures they added and used the appropriate one "burlap" for this image. I felt it added a great look to the coffee theme of this image. I was impressed that you could still read Pioneer Coffee after the texture was added.
Another change is the way the image is saved or "Share". The Share screen is confusing even for veteran iPhone users. The term "share' shouldn't be used in the case of 'saving' the image to your Photo Album. In order to save you must turn the sliders from off to on in the Photos line, every time, and then tap 'share it". Basically strange and therefore confusion terminology.
However the addition of being able to share with your Facebook, Flickr, Twitter  and Email friends is helpful to many. I for one never use these ways of sharing because I always want to sharpen after using picGrunger, as I did with PhotoForge for this image. Also, I always want to add my copyright with Impression. I also used PhotoStudio during the processing of this image.
Overall, I think the simple addition of seven textures to picGrunger was a worthwhile. I do hope in the very near further a strength slider will be added. Unfortunately I haven't found a link to contact the developers to make that suggestion.


Advanced Course starts April 18th
Take your iPhone images to the next step with the power of blending, brushing and masking. Teri Lou is offering her first online advance course starting April 18th. All critiques will be done via a weekly phone call. Ask for an outline of the course at teri@terilou.com