Apps in the Art Room
2017-2018
Google Apps
Classroom: is a blended learning platform for schools that aim to simplify creating, distributing and grading assignments in a paperless way.
Drive: is a file storage and synchronization service created by Google. It allows users to store and edit files with collaborators in the cloud.
Docs: is a word processor program (within drive) that allows users to create and edit documents online while collaborating with other users in real-time.
Slides: is a presentation program (within drive) that allows users to create and edit presentations online while collaborating with other users in real-time.
Sheets: is a spreadsheet program (within drive) that allows users to create and edit spreadsheets online while collaborating with others in real-time.
Photo Manipulation
and Editing
Great to customize and create photos!
PicCollage
Snapseed
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Fused
Fused is an app that is really interesting but weird, because you combine pictures. You can combine, cut, and place pictures onto one canvas.
Prisma
Prisma transforms your photos and videos into works of art using the
Styles of famous artists.
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CONS:
Phonto
Phonto is a photo editing app that allows you to add text and cropped images to a new or existing image.
Pros:
> lots of different fonts
> easily adjustable
> can airdrop from the app
> can crop shapes
> provided backgrounds
> has photo editing options in the app
> simplistic/ easy to navigate
Cons:
> (in terms of crops and provided images) limited selection.
> Does not save your work
> small advertisements
PicsArt
Picsart is an app that offers for easy photo and collage editing as well as a social network for people to share their creations.
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Cons-
Glaze turns your photos into paintings with your unique style. Select one of dozens of included styles and compare variations before sharing your image with friends or saving it for professional quality printing.
Load images from your library before applying styles from the sliding style bar. Share or save your final image with the button on the right side of the toolbar to the gallery, Facebook, Twitter, Email, or to other photo processing applications.
Studio
Canva
Canva is an app that allows students to pick out different layouts for posters, business cards, and even your logo. It is free to use with in-app-purchases. It gives you the opportunity to design and download your custom designs.
Adobe Photoshop Mix
This app is one of the Photoshop Mobile apps that allows users to mix and create new works of art from multiple photos. It's a great way to mix objects, and free cut objects and shapes.
Drawing Apps
Great for Drawing, duh :)
Drawing Grid
The traditional way of drawing your photo would to make a grid on your photo and copy the photo onto another grid, making it easier to draw the picture .You would scale the picture from there but with Drawing Grid, the app makes the grid for you and makes it much easier and quicker to create a grid to scale your photo.
Positives
Negatives
Sketches (Tayasui)
Studio
This app allows you to layer photos or move them around to make a collage with a translucent background.
Note: You can insert pictures from your camera roll, take pictures, or use the app’s preloaded patterns
Sketchbook
Autodesk Sketchbook is an intuitive painting and drawing application designed for people of all skill levels.
The app contains painting and drawing tools such as pencil, markers, and brushes. It creates similar effects to traditional materials.
NOTE: YOU CAN’T SAVE ANYTHING!
Adobe Draw
Main Purpose: Drawing and vector design
Procreate
Procreate is not your average digital drawing and painting app, one of the highlights is after you have completed your artwork, you can watch a timelapse of your learning and how your art came to life. Procreate is made for professionals so you can fully experience your passion.
UMake 3D Sketch
uMake allows you to add definition to your sketches for a feeling beyond just the average sketching app. Quick learning means you can get to making your masterpiece in an instant, with multi-plane sketching it can make your old boring work presentation into a rotating 3D stand-out-in-a-crowd still image or gif.
Back Eraser
This app allows you to import photos and erase anything on the photo
Instructions:
1.Import a photo
2.Use your hand to delete parts of the photo
Video and Motion Editing
Good to create videos, and edit videos together.
Adobe Spark (Video)
Adobe Spark is an app that allows users to create videos, just from text or photos. It's built to make quick messages for Social Media and other services. You can share to Social Media and other services. As well, you’ll be able to record voice over, and place images and pictures into the video, and add/upload music to your videos.
Quik
Quik is an app where you can:
Musemage - Amanda M
MUSEMAGE
Musemage is a video editing app that gives its users a large variety of options to apply to their work. You can film a video while in the app, or you can edit videos imported from your camera roll. When you first open the app, you will be in the camera. Among the camera modes are blue screen, magic color, manual, video only, photo only, time-lapse, and stop motion. To edit previously made videos, tap the three bars in the top left corner, and tap “video editor.”
The blue screen option allows you to replace one color with a background image.
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Neon filter
Thermal filter
On the bottom right corner of the screen is a little magic wand icon. Tap on the wand to be presented with an array of filters and color screens. The lens filters include distortion, fisheye, zoom blur, sketch, night vision, and various weather elements. There is also over 40 style filters, including decades themes ranging from the year 1910 to 2000. You can also mix together any lens filter with any style.
Stop Motion
Stop Motion is a app where you can do
Stop Motion videos. It was a very fun
app and it was fun to play around with.
With this app I made this video that I
am quite proud of.
iMotion
iMotion is an app to easily make stop animation videos or time lapses
iMovie
This app allows you to make simple movies, either on your own or using a template. You can save your movie to your device, upload it to the cloud, or airdrop it. Music and sounds are available as well.
Adobe Premiere Clip
Veescope
Veescope allows users to chroma key backgrounds, and key them out of videos. As well, users can control what shade of green can be controlled, and choose from various present backgrounds, and videos.
Social Apps and Miscellaneous
Great for sharing work and finding ideas!
Padlet
Padlet is a social platform that allows users to post and collaborate on one board. This is a great way to comment and view other artwork, photos, and more.
Adobe Spark (Pages) Zac D.
Created by: Zac DeLane
This app allows user to create short videos to create meaningful statements. This app is like Animoto, which allows users to create small videos and social graphics, just by providing words and phrases. You can also create graphics for Social Media, other digital resources, and lots more.
Pinterest is a form of social media for people to share their DIY ideas with all the different users, you are able to make different categories that you choose to pin posts with similar themes. You can also post your creative ideas and allow other users to follow your recipe or creative process.
Aurasma
This app changes every day objects into interactive experiences, through the power of AR technology (Augmented Reality). You can scan various objects to create a new experience, and view photos other people have taken from these experiences.
For more, click here
Google Arts and Culture
Main Purpose: Explore various types of artwork and cultural institutions across the globe.
Explore famous pieces of art and the history behind them. Be ready to immerse yourself in the culture of the artwork and learn more about historic art and the cultures behind them with this app.