Pocket Artist 2.5 Released

[Ed Hansberry]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.conduits.com/products/artist/index.htm' target='_blank'>http://www.conduits.com/products/artist/index.htm</a><br /><br /></div>Conduits has released Pocket Artist 2.5 for the Pocket PC platform. While 2.0 offered a staggering array of features for the handheld, 2.5 goes even further:<br /><br />• Photo tools <br />• Improved memory usage <br />• Redesigned menu interface <br />• Added filters <br />• Level adjustment <br />• Auto levels <br />• Hue/Saturation adjustment <br />• Grain reduction tools <br />• Red-eye tool <br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/2002/20021202-pocketartist25.jpg" />

[Boxster S]

$50????????????? I'd rather put that money to a full-featured desktop editing program like Photoshop 7.0

[sub_tex]

well, photoshop costs WAY more than that, but i understand your point.

:wink:

[Boxster S]

well, photoshop costs WAY more than that, but i understand your point.

:wink:

Well, the Photoshop 7.0 upgrade can be had for $114 shipped free at Amazon. I recently saw the full version for $300 on FatWallet.com


I just don't see how editing photos on the PocketPC can be at all productive...especially 2.0 - 4.0 MP images.

[Timothy Rapson]

I am warning you again for the first time, Ed. Do not post anymore items about the Dell Axim or PocketArtist.

I can only hold out so long under so much pressure. :?


I just keep telling myself $50 is outrageous. $50 is outrageous. $50 is outrageous.

And TextMaker is even more. And TextMaker is even more. And TextMaker is even more.

......On the other hand, I do need a new desktop Word Processor and there is that discount. And it would help PocketPCThoughts. I do have the money.....


Who said that? Must control hand. Must not buy new Axim, TextMaker, PocketArtist. Must.......AHHHHHHHH!!!!


I am warning you again for the first time, Ed. Do not post anymore items about the Dell Axim or PocketArtist.

[Ed Hansberry]

$50????????????? I'd rather put that money to a full-featured desktop editing program like Photoshop 7.0

That same logic could be said about all Pocket PC and PDA sofware at any price. As an artist, either professional or just fooling around with it, can you, using Photoshop (min $400 with your $300 base and $115 upgrade, plus shipping) and a honker of a laptop, work on your master piece while waiting to get a hair cut, standing in line at the DMV, pretending to take notes in a meeting, or even going to the park and sitting under a tree?

http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/2002/20021202-gallery1.jpg
King by Heidi Lingebark

http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/2002/20021202-gallery2.jpg
Fire by Thomas Twohy

http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/2002/20021202-gallery3.jpg
The Big Escape by Kim Andersen

http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/2002/20021202-gallery4.jpg
Office (3) by Michelangelo Capraro

I think not. :) It is about mobility.

I am warning you again for the first time, Ed. Do not post anymore items about the Dell Axim or PocketArtist.

I can only hold out so long under so much pressure. :?


I just keep telling myself $50 is outrageous. $50 is outrageous. $50 is outrageous.

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Timothy...
You want the 400MHz Axim, preloaded with TextMaker and Pocket Artist....
Do not resist.....

http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/hansberry/spiral_3.gif

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[sponge]

Actually Photoshop can be had for quite a bit less. Student discount baby! ;)

I do agree with $50 being a bit outrageous, these drawings were more an example of artistic skill (ie pen to paper) than program skills, so while the examples are quite impressive, it's more of artistry, than program power. Pocket Artist is more akin to Paint Shop Pro than anything else, if you must make comparisons.

[Boxster S]

Actually Photoshop can be had for quite a bit less. Student discount baby! ;)

I do agree with $50 being a bit outrageous, these drawings were more an example of artistic skill (ie pen to paper) than program skills, so while the examples are quite impressive, it's more of artistry, than program power. Pocket Artist is more akin to Paint Shop Pro than anything else, if you must make comparisons.

I agree, I don't pay more than $20 each for PPC apps. If it's more than $20, I don't need it.

[ledpocket]

I bought pocket artist 1.0, then paid the upgrade fee for 2.0

I also bought photogenics and acdsee mobile.

That's close to $150 in sofware, and I am not an artist.

I do, however, enjoy using all 3 programs to view and edit digital pictures, and do the occasional freehand drawing, and make new themes for Icbar.

If I didn't pay for them, my 30 day trial would be long gone, and I wouldn't have the ability to prove how uncreative I am.

Just to compare, I just spent $60 on SOCOM for the PS2, and in a couple weeks, it wll be collecting dust. (I have been using pocket artist for at least a year and a half, and expect it to be useful for at least another year = good value in my book)

Just my opinion

[ipaq adam]

Pocket Artist is indeed wonderful, fully featured software. But here's something I ran into the other day: Moblie Atelier, which can be found at FreewarePPC.com. It's also called Mobile Painting and NFCanvas2.
http://www.freewareppc.com/graphics/mobileatelier.shtml

This software is only built to handle 240x320 images, and it doesn't hold a candle to Pocket Artist as far as features go. It's got a very steep learning curve, but once I figured it out, I quite liked it, and I've sketched a lot of stuff in it. I've found it very useful for sketching pictures while I stand in bank lines (no kidding!). Here's the software's official web site: http://www1.mahoroba.ne.jp/cgi-bin/user-cgi/%7Enefa/ecafe.cgi

If you have a digital camera, though, Pocket Artist is very useful and very cheap compared to some of the Pocket PC image editing software I've looked at (some software is so expensive, it includes an iPaq!). But, yes, I would own a copy if it were $20. I just blew all my PPC software fund on TextMaker.

[mookie123]

Somebody should port GIMP to PPC already. It already has been ported to Windows. I wonder where is that programming guru. heh

[Rirath]

If it was just $20, or even $25. I'm not one to complain about software prices, I've got quite the library of academic software including 3ds Max 4... but $50 for a handheld program that as said, compares more to PSP than PS? And :lol: yeah, a port of Gimp would be quite cool to have. :wink:

I can't see making a finished image on this for business use. Unless you are insane good, I can't see pulling out the PPC and making a logo or anything with this. The only use I see for this program is fun doodles and at most rough drafts. Sure, it'd be cool to yank out the PPC on location and doodle up a rough draft for a client or something, but other than that, no.

[Ekkie Tepsupornchai]

I think this software fits into the same category as the finance calculator that Ed posted on a few weeks back.

The $50 price tag is too high for most people's usage, but as Ipaq Adam's post shows, this is highly specialized software that is most useful to those that want to do more than casual doodling.

I honestly don't understand criticizing the price based on PC software. That's apples and oranges in my opinion. You're obviously not going to carry a laptop in your pocket and whip it out at any time.

In defense of this software though, I've heard from numerous other posters that this software is by far the best graphical editing tool available for PPC and amongst the best PPC software around, period.

[jizmo]

Here's (a somewhat poor) example of what I doodled last spring with PPC and Photogenics:

http://koti.mbnet.fi/vgames/naama03.jpg

I use my PDA for sketching design for graphical elements or images I plan to continue drawing later with Photoshop. Sometime's I've even send my clients pictures made entirely on PPC, thought I generally like to go trough the material and clean it up on desktop computer.

I'd say that PPC's are perfect for this kind of doodling. You have a device with a surface that reacts with pen, just like holding a draftbook and a pencil. Only difference is that with PPC the drafts I make are almost finished works. With a traditional draftbook and pencil, I'd have to redraw the whole thing again with Photoshop. Neat.

/jizmo

[sub_tex]

These examples are mostly creation of graphics/drawings.

Photoshop is usually used on massive files (at least by me) with MANY many layers. Pressure sensitivity on a Wacom used in conjuntion with dual monitors for working on high quality prints.

There's really no other way to work on professional images.

With a desktop monitor set at 1280, i still have to work on only 30 -60% or so of an image at once - the size is just too big when you work with high res images. I can't even fathom having to do that looking at 240x320 chunks at a time!

This software seems nice. But more like a paint program on steroids for a PDA than a real photo editing app.

(that is, unless all of your photo work is low res web images. But even still, the need for a large canvas is a realistic one)