Cheryl Richards: The Wonderful World of Smartphone Apps

I know I've been raving about the fun I've been having with my smartphone camera. But I am having even more fun with the photo-editing apps that come with all kinds of filters and gadgets to turn photos into works of art. Here's a modified photo I edited in Paper Artist by JFDP Labs. Then I pulled it into Instagram and added the Dream filter. There are endless possibilities and combinations using multiple apps! Let creativity explode!

Guideposts:

passionate - adj. 1. having or showing strong feelings; capable of or susceptible to passion 2. resulting from, expressing, or tending to arouse strong feeling; ardent; intense; impassioned

perceptual abstraction - n. a broad term referring to a reaction against several types of abstract art originating in the 1950s such as hard-edge painting, minimal art and op-art indicating a change from expressive and painterly qualities to an emphasis on clarity and precision based on objective perception. i.e. M. C. Escher

photography - n. the art or process of producing images of objects upon a photosensitive surface by the chemical action of light or other radiant energy

play - v. 1. To amuse oneself 2. To participate in 3. To act frivolously or idle 4. To perform 5. To cause to emit sounds 6. To move lightly, rapidly, or sporadically 7. To make a pretense of being

promote - v. 1. to raise or move (a person) forward to a higher or better position 2. to further the growth or establishment of (something)

prose - n. the ordinary form of written or spoken language without rhyme or meter

The Wonderful World of Smartphone Apps

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