iPad and iPhone Artsy Apps!

Many artists these days are on the run and

 using apps has increased our productivity.

We all have our favorites but seem to return

to the ones we love the best.

Peggi Meyer Graminski & I (Lynne) came up with 

a short list of our favorite art apps to use on 

an iPhone or an iPad. If you have an iPad, 

the iPhone apps do work. 

Not all of them are free  & some have in-app 

purchases but I don't think I've ever spent 

more than $5 for any of these apps. 

So here's our list: 

BeFunky

InstaEffect 

PS Express

MasterFX 

Light Over Pic

Instagram 

PicsArt 

TangledFX 

Glaze 

SuperPhoto 

Mystic 

Snapseed

Pixlromatic 

PhotoForge2 

FilterMania2 

GrungetasticHD 

PaintFx 

Scratch Cam

Photo Toaster 

Laminar PRO 

Photo Wizard 

Brush FX 

Photo FX 

As long as you save your work, you can always 

open it up in another app and add to it. 

Some of these apps allow you to simply hop

from one app to another in their list 

but saving each semi-finished photo 

to your Camera Roll is the best course of action.

The photo at the top was created from scratch

in Master FX then saved & opened again

in Mystic. I might even open it in something else

to add some cool frame later on. If you use your

apps often enough, you know what each one does

so you can just keep adding until you get the

effect that you were hoping for.

I'm sure there are apps for the Android

so go take a look at the app store for

your particular device.

Take a look and have some artistic fun!

New Collage Sheets On Special!

Who can resist a bargain?

Oh, what fun!!!

We have a $2 Specials page on

MoonlightJourney with sheets listed

there all the time. These are sheets that

can help you fill up your Collage Sheet Stash

at a good price for the same high quality

merchandise that we offer all of the time.

They're not old or retiring sheets... they're sheets

that we put on the site for you to buy when you

have a bit of extra jingle in your pocket!

This time, we've added 4 new sheets to the

collection (my two are pictured above.)

You can see them all HERE

By the way... the Mandala sheets were created

on my iPad 2, yet another fun way to create art.

I love to share my app discoveries so this app is

called Mandalas HD found in the iTunes App Store.

No, I don't get a dime for mentioning these apps

but I do like to share my experiences. I appreciate finding

new & helpful apps so I'm glad to pass that news to you.



New Collage Sheets

It seems that the only creative time I have lately

is in the evening when I'm playing with my iPad.

The two collage sheets that are pictured above

were created on the iPad, transfered to my computer

and finished off in Photoshop. You can have a lot

of fun if you put your mind to it and learn the

new gizmo as fast as possible!!

On the iPad, I used Photo Booth to take pictures

of my wood floor, the gravel driveway, the

side of the house and anything else that had an

interesting texture to it. The photos were saved

in Camera Roll (in case you don't know where

they get saved to - LOL!)

Then I used an app called PicGrunger (.99 cents)

to make the photos grungy. I also found a great

app to get the photos from the iPad to my computer

without using the sync wire thingy. It's called

PhotoSync and it's the best $1.99 I ever spent.

It comes in 2 parts: the app for the iPad and

a download application that goes on your

computer. You can transfer images back & forth

among all sorts of devices - wirelessly!

Ah... isn't technology a wonderful thing?

These sheets can be found at MoonlightJourney

on the $2 Specials page.