Apple &Useful Links 06 Apr 2011 01:55 pm
Sketchbook Express for iPad
Another piece of software that’s been added to my “useful apps” list: Sketchbook Express for iPad. I’ve had to do a few “rich pictures” on T214 to illustrate TMA answers – in days gone by I used to do these on paper, then use a digital camera to snap the picture and insert the photo. Not particularly elegant.
Sketchbook Express provides an easy answer – fingertip drawing, exportable as a JPEG image which you can email yourself, and it’s capable of doing some rather impressive effects & text manipulations. The end results look far more impressive in the TMA doc, I can tell you.
Express is a free app – there’s a £4.99 Pro version as well, but it seems to be overkill for simple doodle purposes (some of the sample art I’ve seen produced with Pro is very professional-looking). Worth checking out if you have an iPad.
on 13 May 2011 at 01:27 1.Michael said …
Hi Bryan,
I am glad to see you are still studying. I think we where on the same course (T175 or M150) back in 2005. I am due to graduate in Belfast this Saturday and have been looking back at old assignments and i see i responded to one of your posts for an online discussion for T175. We where defiantly on M257 together.
Anyway keep going if you are not already finished.
Best wishes
Michael
on 13 May 2011 at 10:33 2.Bryan Morton said …
Congratulations on your graduation! I do remember you from back in the ‘early days’ – glad to see you stuck with it as well.
I still have one more year to do after this one, T306 – kids got it in the way for a while – but at least I can see the finish line now. Hoping to go on to postgrad if I can persuade work to support it.
Seems OU study’s a bit like a tube of Pringles – once you start, you can’t stop.