PICSART MONTHLY October 2013
Magazine Team: Editor-in-Chief: Arusiak Kanetsyan Art Editor: Cristina Gevorg Designer: Ina Sarko Editorial Contributors: Mark Gargarian, Heather Parry, Miki Ross Karakla In-House Photographer: ma_lina Address: SocialIn Inc., 800 West El Camino Real, Mountain View, CA 94040 Website: http://picsart.com Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/PicsArtPhotoStudio Twitter: https://twitter.com/PicsArtStudio LinkedIn: PicsArt on LinkedIn Media and Partnership enquiries contact: info@picsart.com
About PicsArt
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ased in Mountain View, CA, PicsArt is a fun and full-featured mobile photo editing and drawing app for Android and iOS. A full art studio packed into a mobile photography solution, PicsArt enables anyone to become an artist and share his/her work with a global community of other artists. PicsArt dominates Google Play for photography and has the highest customer rating among the top 50 apps.
Photo Gallery A USER GALLERY FROM EFRAIN SALVADOR
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ome photographers have a special air for spectacle and imagination, a knack for creating shots that stay with us and haunt our thoughts. We have quite a few of them in our community and with this gallery, we are showing the proof in the pudding. The images in this gallery are shots taken by Efrain Salvador, a user with an especially attuned artistic sensibility to create images that make us look twice. He has compelling visual ideas, which he is skilled at reproducing with his camera and through the art of editing.
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HOW TO USE SHAPE CROP
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ost of the images on the internet come in some form of rectangle, but every now and then, you need to get a little crafty and think outside the box, or at least change the shape of the box. Shape Crop allows you to cut your photos into all sorts of shapes, anything from perfect circles to stars, and hearts!
It’s a great way to make your collages really pop by sticking photos of various fun shapes over a background. It’s also great for making stickers and printing pictures for lockets!
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To start, upload a background photo from the main screen. This will be the photo to which you will be adding your newly cropped images.
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MICHELLE’S CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY
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ichelle is a PicsArtist who has a unique vision and style to her photography. She stages photos, and on top of her air for creating beautiful and creative stillMichelle has a thematic sense of color and composition that makes her photos truly her own. This is someone who is evidently engaged in building a body of work, an artist chasing an aesthetic and developing her eye.
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NEW MASKS, THE CURVE TOOL, IN-CAMERA GHOST EFFECT AND MORE...
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ur latest upgrade offers some new features and expansions that will give you an even more satisfying PicsArt experience. We have expanded the app to include all new masks and introduced the completely new “Texture” category.
We have also enhanced the quality of existing masks and added the options to flip and rotate masks, when applying them to photos!See how the new masks can change an image, making it more stylish and attractive. Try it out for yourself and share your photos with new PicsArt masks. The update also includes an all new and improved “Log In” page, which makes sign up process easier and more fun!
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Android Update
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Android Update
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Android Update Ghost Effect in Camera
Halloween is quickly approaching, so we have come up with the new Ghost effect for the PicsArt camera to make it more fun to shoot the party. This effect lets you blend two or more photos together while in camera mode. You shoot one photo first, then you choose a blending mode and shoot as many photos as you wish. When you push the done button, the effect blends them all together to create a ghostly final image.
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Try it out on your Halloween photos and create spooky and ghostly images.
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Photo Gallery COLORFUL HOMES
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lusters of colorful houses infuse cities with character and vibrancy. Photographers are well acquainted with the power of color to instantaneously evoke strong emotions on sight, and this is precisely what happens when you line a street with multicolor houses. Passer-bys are pleasantly startled, their eyes widening as they enjoy the natural pleasure of color, like coming across a field of flowers. This gallery features photos of colorful homes from our community. These are homes bursting with flavor, comprising a gallery of houses that look so good you can almost taste them.
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Photo Tutorial CAPTURING THE COLORS OF AUTUMN
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all is one of a photographer's favorite seasons. Not only is the light in the autumn months a lot less harsh than in the midday hours of the summer, but there is such a gorgeous natural color scheme from September onwards that it's impossible not to want to shoot pictures every falling leaves the streets every image picture perfect. But how do you best capture the essence of autumn and all the beauty that comes along with it? Fall photography is often all about nature; the falling leaves, the bare trees, the darkening skies–all of this is what the autumn is about.
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Art Contests
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Art Contests
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Photo Gallery STUNNING FEATHER PHOTOS
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n this gallery, PicsArtists have turned their attention towards feathers and we have gathered them here, forming a plumage of wonderful shots. Feathers are standing evidence that perfection exists, their fine, soft, and light form engineered by nature to aid birds in flight, waterproofing, and thermal insulation from the cold. Their brilliant colors and artistic designs frighten predators and attract mates, and when they are spread in flight, they glide over us like beautiful kites. In other words, they are not only amazingly beautiful, but they are exceptionally remarkable objects that endow birds with extraordinary abilities.
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Photo Tutorial TIPS & TRICKS ON TAKING SCARY HALLOWEEN PHOTOS
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Interview
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Interview
All photos in the interview section are the property of Irwin Wong.
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PicsArt: Where Everyone Becomes a Great Artist
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You Can Download PicsArt Photo Studio here:
Please check http://blog.picsart.com for more details.