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Woke up before 5 this morning, thinking about my sister-in-law’s rhododendrons. Above is my initial photograph of them. Below are a few different iterations of “paintings” that were done on the iPad using a variety of “Apps”, from my old standby Brushes, to Sketchbook Pro, also Photogene (a photography app.) It’s probably more interesting to the person with her finger on the screen (i.e. me) than to a viewer. Still, the variety of possibilities is really pretty amazing.

I find that I can understand how “Brushes” works better, especially in terms of the layering. You can directly manipulate where you want your layer (foreground or background). (This may also be possible with Sketchbook Pro but I certainly can’t figure it out.) Sketchbook Pro, on the other hand, allows you to adjust the transparency of layers. This is quite cool if you want to leave a ghost of a photograph in the picture. The screen also sometimes seems more responsive with Sketchbook Pro. (You can spend several minutes running your finger over the screen in Brushes and then find that, for some reason–perhaps you were moving too fast–very little has actually come out.)

The hardest thing for me, of course, is deciding which iteration I prefer. Here are different combinations of the three Apps. (Photogene also which is often needed to rotate the Brushes images.)