Friday Grind

 

I haven't played around with the app, Percolator in a while, but recently did with the recent picture of the orange bullseye up on my design wall.  The Grind reference in this post title is the name of one of the actions you can do to your photo in the app. 

In this first one, I really like how you can see the bubble/circle overlay clearly in the lower cream color. It's like a white lacy design, almost like a spiderweb.

The abstraction or blurring of the fabric patterns is quite striking.

Changing the circle pattern to black really gives it a different look.

I might like this one the best.

Percolator

 

The sun was hitting just right the other day on my Rangpur Lime so I got this great picture.

At last night's SBAMQG meeting, we had a presentation on a photo manipulation app called Percolator. Oh my goodness, it's so wonderful.

Can't you just see the quilt designs that could come out of this?

I love how abstracted you can make your photo. There are so many different combinations and tools to use this app.

I'm going to try and figure out if it's possible to somehow turn this into a Cricut cutting file. Get all those circles cut out to the right sizes, iron them on, and boom--done.

Happy August

Happy August!

I've been playing around with a new picture editing app, SnapSeed (for android and iOs)and made myself this monthly header picture.
It's a picture of our Happiness Tree (Mimosa) which is currently blooming and looking sort of tropical, combined with a selfie I took at the doctor's office the other day when I was bored and waiting.
Really fun app with a whole lot of options.

Cornucopia Of Fun

	Yes that's the name of this blog spelled out in cats.  Which you can do   with any words you choose here.  Thanks to the blogess for once again providing something that I did not know I needed until I saw it on her blog .

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• I'm having sporadic fun over on Pinterest, (thanks Jaye for suggesting it!),  you should definitely check it out if you like :
• remembering pictures
• making collections
• finding inspiring new pictures
• finding inspiring new artists
• being able to find something again and not have to print it out...

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You know that saying to make a new thing a habit to do it for 30 days straight?  Try Chains for keeping track.  It's a cool visual app that is a little customizable and fun to see all those days stacking up in a row.

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If you need to be reminded of how very very small you are, or how very very big you are, you should check out this: It's A Matter Of Scale

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A combination of one of my very favorite bands and one of my very favorite books.  If you like The Decemberists, Infinite Jest, tennis, funny music videos and/or utter catastrophic global thermonuclear war you have to check out this video.
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Another musical treat, listen to some messed-around with songs by Radiohead for free on their website.
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Another app, this time on the iPad, which Maureen recommended as a fellow color lover, a great color matching game, Blendoku (also on android too)