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Penultimate For iPad Now Free; Gets Evernote Sync & Handwriting Search

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Evernote is great if you want to make sure your idle scribbling and great ideas never get lost. There are times, however, when you don’t have enough time to type everything. Say, you are attending a lecture, and want to make notes quickly, your inclination might be to grab a pen and use your handwriting to get the work done. Fortunately, you can use your smartphone to achieve this in a really efficient manner. Evernote offers Skitch for annotating images, but if it’s a standalone sketching/handwriting app you want, give Penultimate a shot. Acquired by Evernote in 2012, Penultimate is a well-crafted, user-friendly sketching and handwriting app for the iPad. The app has just been updated with a revamped UI and Evernote integration, which includes handwriting search and the ability to sync all drawings and scribbles with your Evernote account. The character recognition makes your handwritten text searchable both from within Penultimate as well as any Evernote client. What's more, the app has gone free! Read More

Drawnetic For Android Turns Simple Sketches Into Artistic Animations

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Fresh to the Play Store, Drawnetic is a fun-filled and unique sketching app that analyzes your drawing patterns, and then automatically converts your piece of artwork into wonderful kinetic drawings or animations in real time. On the forefront, Drawnetic works just like a conventional drawing tool that provides you with a canvas to sketch and doodle on using a variety of customizable brush types, stroke styles, color combinations, painting tools, background effects, animations and other tools. Once done, you can enjoy seeing your rough sketches transformed into vivid and visually-rich animated graphics, thanks to the app's automatic generative system. Besides sporting plenty of preloaded sketches, Drawnetic features a dedicated online library from where you can download several graphics shared by other users, and share your own masterpieces with the rest. Each animation created via Drawnetic can be saved to local storage or cloud, and replayed as many times as you like. Read More

Get Galaxy Note 2 Photo Editing App Paper Artist On Android Jelly Bean

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Besides being an awesome pastime, the Paper Artist app that comes bundled with Samsung Galaxy Note 2 is as stylish a camera replacement and photo editing app as you will ever see. The problem, however, is that not everyone owns or can afford the Note 2. Thanks to XDA member tmantanner4, Paper Artist can now be enjoyed on any device rocking Andorid 4.1 Jelly Bean or higher. Having played around with the app for a good part of an hour or so on my Galaxy Nexus, I can assure you that it’s one of those apps that you simply cannot miss out on trying, especially if you’re a photography aficionado. Paper Artist sports Paper Camera and Cartoon Camera-like effects that make images look as if they were sketched. Using various editing tools on offer, you may enclose your photos in snazzy frames, paint over and annotate them in an entirely new way. Once done with the editing, you can save your work of art to your device, or share it with your friends. Read More

Pencil Camera HD: Live Sketch Effects For Photos & Videos On iPhone

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Photo editing is among the most popular app genre for iOS, and the subcategory of photo editing that has always managed to capture the imagination of a lot of iPhone users is sketching. Everyone likes getting an artistic view of their ordinary photos, and an iPhone can certainly help with that thanks to the amazingly large collection of photo editors available in the App Store. While there are many iOS apps that offer just one generic sketch effect, Pencil Camera HD is a lot better compared to all those. The app comes with a collection of 15 effects, but the special thing about them is that they are all related to sketching in one way or the other. Another feature that makes Pencil Camera completely awesome is its live filters. The app allows its users to get a preview of the way their photo or video is going to look before they have even shot it. Even during recording a video, you can change the sketch effect, or tinker with brightness, contrast or focus of the image on screen. Read More

Capture Video To Create Free Pencil Sketch Animation On iPhone/iPad

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The iTunes App Store is brimming with photo & video apps, and every now and then, we see a new entrant that brings something new to the table. Consequently, this is the genre of apps that we cover perhaps more than others, owing to the fact that either we find something new that’s catchy and flashy, or something popular goes on a limited-time sale, deserving the attention of our readers. Go2Share’s Pencil Sketch Video may not be revolutionary or unique, but it gets the job done well, and went free for a limited time. Essentially, this neat little app will let you shoot videos on your iPhone, iPod touch or iPad, in a pencil sketch layout, parting an artistic look to your otherwise-ordinary creations. What’s even better, is that the app is dead-easy to use. We’ll explore that further just past the break. Read More

Inkflow: Quickly Scribble Ideas In High Quality, Rearrange Them With Ease [iOS]

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Finger painting appears to be a popular app genre among iOS users these days. It’s not just “Draw Something”; there are also many other sketching apps that have managed to gather a sizable fan base. Most such apps come with a slew of colorful features, and that’s exactly what sets Inkflow apart from them. The newly released Inkflow doesn’t even have the option to change the pen color (in the free variant, at least), but it is still a good app thanks to the attention it pays to minor details like the smoothness of the ink, and extremely good responsiveness of the pen. The app can be used to write down lengthy notes quickly, or you can create monochromatic drawings using it. Inkflow comes with a pretty neat editor of its own, and you can select any portion of the page for resizing or moving to a new location in the document altogether. Read More

PowerSketch For iPhone: Convert Photos Into Sketches, Apply Filters & Create Collages

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There are two types of photo editors available for iOS devices; those that focus on convenience of use, and those that go for comprehensiveness. It is up to the users to decide if they want more, customizable filters, or an easy way of applying those filters to their photos. However, there are a few apps that provide a perfect combination of efficiency and thoroughness. PowerSketch is one such photo editor. Despite the app’s name, which implies that it does nothing more than converting photos into sketches, there are some really good filters and effects available in the app. Not just that, you can also use the app to create collages out of existing photos, as well as the ones shot using it. Read More

Easily Create & Share Beautiful Sketches/ Notes On iPad With Paper

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The iPad’s rather large screen makes it perfect for activities like watching videos or doing some finger painting. Seeing the success Draw Something is enjoying these days among iOS users, many other doodling apps are making their way to the App Store as well. Paper is one such app, and using this beautiful app for the iPad, you can create sketches, illustrations, drawings, notes and reminders. There are many other apps which let you do that on your iOS tablet, like JotStudio and Draw Pad Pro, but Paper’s interface is its main distinguishing point. Apart from that, there is a respectable number of tools available in the app, and you can also create any number of new pages and notebooks within the app. Another area in which Paper can prove to be really useful is its easy sharing options, and the convenience it is sure to bring to your life. Read More

uSketch: Apply Sketch, Color And Other Photo Filters To Images [Mac]

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Apps that add effects to photos are as common as perhaps water, so if you ever decide to use one, you want to make sure it offers you both a good range of effects as well as good execution. uSketch is a free Mac app that applies filters to your photos, and its interface alone will blow you away. In addition to its 19 filters that are 100% customizable, the app also has a wide range of sketch effects that are executed very well. You can use the app to take photos directly from webcam, or add ones from your system. It also lets you print, email and share photos on Twitter, Facebook and Flickr. Read More

linesmART: Adjust & Apply Sketch/Line Art Effect To Your Images [Mac]

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Sketch and line art filters are some of the most common image effects that picture editors let you apply. While the effect is very common, there are few apps that execute it well. linesmART is a free Mac app that renders the line and sketch effect fairly well for animate objects, and exceptionally for inanimate ones. The app allows you to import any image, and applies the sketch effect to it. As opposed to turning the entire image black & white (which most apps do) this app retains the color and allows you to adjust the intensity, contrast, brightness, exposure and saturation. Read More

Sketch Me For iPhone: Convert Photos Into Drawings & Paint Over Them [Free For Limited Time]

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There are a lot of photo editing apps available in the iOS App Store, where some apps are focused on just one genre of photo effects. Sketch Me is one such app, the genre, in this case, being sketch effects. The app has seven variations of the hand-drawn effect, and in addition to that, it lets you doodle over your photos, and add annotations in colors of your choice. Read More

Easily Convert Photos Into Pencil Sketches Using Instant PhotoSktech

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Creating sketches out of photos is fun way to edit them, but the problem faced by a lot of people is that, usually, the applications that allow you to create pen sketches, for example, Adobe Photoshop, are too complex to use. Some days ago, we covered a Mac app from CPSSoftware called InstantPhotoColor, that allows you to easily color your images using the built-in brush tool and color selector. Today, we have another application, from the same developer, for Windows, that allows you to convert any digital photo into a pen sketch or drawing. Instant PhotoSketch is a multi-platform tool that enables you to quickly turn your photos into pen sketches by adjusting the black and white levels for an image. Keep reading to find out more about Instant PhotoSketch. Read More

Knowtilus For iPhone: Talking Browser, Text Editor, RSS Reader & Translator

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Knowtilus is an app for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, which is so multipurpose and versatile that it is impossible to place it under one category. The app integrates a lot of useful features, and makes using your iOS device a much more enjoyable and productive experience. The biggest part of Knowtilus is its web browser, which, apart from having a clean interface, also reads out whole pages to you, and lets you translate them to more than 20 languages. Other than the web browser, you get a text editor, which is not too complicated and lets you focus on the task at hand. There is even more to Knowtilus than that, and you can find out everything about its features by heading past the break. Read More

Draw Pad Pro: Create Drawings & Handwritten Notes On iPhone/iPad

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An iPhone or iPad is pretty useful for carrying around all sorts of documents and notes, but if you are in a hurry, it is not always possible to whip up the Notes app in iOS and type something. For such occasions, taking notes through drawing is the best and fastest option. Draw Pad Pro is an app which will let you create drawings and notes, and it also comes with the option to let you add notes to an existing photo. Read More

Sketch Cam: Make Your Photos Look Hand-Drawn Or Pixelated

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Although the stock camera app for iOS is pretty good, there are a lot of apps out there which make shooting photos even more fun. It is one thing to apply effects to a photo which has already been taken, but it does look impressive if you can get a preview of the scene in front of you before you actually take the picture. Sketch Cam is an app for the iPhone, using which you can snap photos with 8 different effects, and all of the effects offered by the app give really good end results. Read More

MobileMonet For iPhone & iPad Turns Your Photos Into Sketches

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There are countless photo editing apps for iOS. MobileMonet is an app from the same genre that adds a little more simplicity to its functionality. All you have to do is import or snap a photo, and MobileMonet will do everything for you automatically, giving you a great-looking black and white sketched version of the original image. It then allows you to paint over the edited image to reveal its original colors. The image editing options offered by MobileMonet are a neat combination of color splash and sketching. One of the best things about the app is its simplicity and ease of use (not to mention the option to let users load images directly from their Facebook account). Read More

Convert Your Photo Into Painting, Sketch, Drawing, Or Cartoon With FotoSketcher

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Do you have a photo and would like to convert it into something more fun? Try FotoSketcher, it is a free little app that automatically converts your photos into art with the click of a button. You can create professional art images, make greeting cards out of them, or simply print them out and hang them in the wall. According to the developer,
Different styles are available: pencil sketch, pen and ink drawing, various painting renderings. You can also improve your original photo with simple tools (enhance contrast, sharpen, simplify image, increase luminosity, color saturation etc...).
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