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Applying multiple painting and drawing effects to iPhone Photos

I have played with a few apps that let me convert a iPhone photo to what looks like it was a drawing or painting. Today I started playing with the free app Photist.

Take a picture or import from your iPhone Photo library. The arrows along the bottom of the image lets you cycle through the Photist effects options.

Photist does offer 14 different effect to use as the base (notice the dots across the bottom). They go from a few simple sketch types to some rather interesting effects that defiantly work better on some pictures than others.

Applying the second effect to the photo is done with ‘Brushes’. These are adjustable through the button at the lower left corner.

Pick an effect and paint another effect over the image. Photist is proving to be a lot more fun than just converting a image to what looks like a drawing or colorizing a area of the iPhone photos. The only negative so far is the app will save your finished photo to the iPhone photo library or send through an email. Both, only 600 pixels wide… the original is over 3000 wide!

 

Painting detail colors on iPhone Photos

An update today to ToonPaint reminded me that I should mention the features it brings to your iPhone Photos. The update included better sharing of your photo creations on Twitter and Facebook, as well the resolution was upped to match the capabilities of the iPhone4s.

The ToonPaint app can take pictures or use images from your iPhone library. Upon import, the image is converted to Black and White automatically. You can adjust the line thickness, contrast, shades of gray, etc…

Then, through the color pallet of minor options or ToonPaint’s open color picker you paint color onto images to highlight as needed. For the right picture, a bit of unique painted color is striking.