Sumo Paint

Sumo Paint is a painting app that has been around for a long time. SP is very similar to Photoshop or Paint Brush. SP 2.0 is a nice upgrade as a person now has the ability to add layers and adjust some cool looking filters.

Below is my example of a tile/3d cylinder filter...



Give Sumo Paint a try by clicking here.

Every Stock Photo

Every Stock Photo is a site I learned about from the always great blog, Free Technology 4 Teachers. What makes this such an attractive option for users is that all the photos are free, can be tagged, rated and commented on. The only downside I see to this site, is that it is not very safe for education. There is no filter and like most photo search engines inappropriate images do show up.

Give Every Stock Photo a look by clicking here.

Fun w/ Photoshop

Due to working w/ some kids in the art lab on a "layering" project.  I decided to join in the fun and put together this little pic.

We used Photoshop Elements 3.0 to create this easy little design by using the: magnetic lasso to cut out a pic, and the pasting it on top of another.  We then used the opacity filter and brush tools to get the pictures to merge.

(ignore the spelling error, I didn't save to re-do ;-)

Easy to do and a lot of fun!!!

Live Quartz

Live Quartz is a nice free image editing app/download for Leopard. I consider it to be a cross between Photoshop and Acorn, w/ a very user friendly appeal to it.

At first glance it looks like your typical photo/drawing app, w/ familiar buttons such as: crop, draw, shade, etc. but by digging deeper you'll notice there is so much more. There are a ton features similar to Photoshop that allows you to add layers, effects, filters and so on. View Pic for filter/effects list.

Below is a pic I made using the Edges Effect and Circle Splash Distortion Filter.



For more info click here.