Hanif Rahman - Life Is Beautiful -

I got this for my birthday present.... thank you!

Opening the Box..

Work in progress...

50% Completed....

project put on hold... :) no time..

continue... after 2 weeks...

Completed!!! yea!!

Sketchbook Pro!

"Drawing App of the Year" - Macworld's 2010 App Gems Awards

"This drop-dead gorgeous app for digital artists packs a rich feature set into a surprisingly intuitive interface." - WIRED Magazine.

Find out for yourself what has made SketchBook Pro the industry standard for digital sketching!

Autodesk SketchBook® Pro for iPad is a professional-grade paint and drawing application. Using the same paint engine as its desktop counterpart, SketchBook Pro delivers a complete set of sketching & painting tools through a streamlined and intuitive user interface designed exclusively for the iPad experience.

Whether you are an occasional doodler or a professional illustrator, SketchBook Pro transforms your iPad into the ultimate digital SketchBook.

Features:

• Full Screen work space with support for any device orientation

✓Canvas size: 1024 x 768
• 6 layers on iPad 1
• 12 layers on iPad 2

✓Optional High Resolution canvas on iPad 2
• 2048 x 1536 with 4 layers

✓Multi-Touch Interface:
• Two finger pan & zoom navigation with 2500% zoom
• Three finger tap for controls
• Three finger swipe gestures for quick access

✓High Quality Brushes and Tools:
• Professional grade paint engine delivers smooth and precise brush strokes
• More than 60 preset brushes, including pencils, pens, markers and natural media
• Install more than 90 additional brushes and stamps brushes from the in-app Store
• Flood fill and smear tool
• Completely customizable brush settings for each brush
• Draw styles for creating straight lines, rectangles, and circles
• Synthetic pressure sensitivity (brush fade-off)
• 10 levels of undo/redo on iPad 1
• 20 levels of undo/redo on iPad 2
• Dynamic symmetric drawing

✓Layers:
• Import images from Photo Library
• Import from Camera on iPad 2
• Duplicate, Merge and Reorder Layers
• Move, scale, and rotate layers
interactively using Multi-Touch
• Toggle visibility and adjust Layer Opacity
• Layer Blend Modes: Multiply, Add, Screen and Normal
• Preserve Transparency mode to paint only on top of existing paint strokes.
• Template Library in the Layer Editor that includes a variety of grids, perspective reference and ruled paper.

✓ Video Output
• When connected to a compatible display through either the Apple Component AV Cable or the Apple Dock Connector to VGA adaptor your canvas and gallery can be mirrored to an external display or television.

✓Gallery:
• Store and view work-in-progress
• Export to Photo Library
• E-mail images
• Import/Export as a layered file (PSD)
• Import/Export via iTunes File Sharing or Dropbox
• Browse images in full screen mode

✓Colors:
• Color Wheel with HSB and RBG color space
• Customizable Color Swatches
• Eye-dropper color selection
• Erase color chip to convert any brush into custom eraser

✓ Customizable UI
• Customizable double tap canvas shortcuts.
• Palettes to store your favorite brushes and colors
• Radial menu so store custom brush and color combinations.

✓Stay Connected:
• Built in SketchBook News panel for live info about Sketching events and announcements
• Visual help pages

This will be my first art using the apps...

Picture Editing

Apps store have come out with several number of apps for Photography section and many of them have the same features. After a week using appshopper to find the best apps with a good value I have found FX PhotoStudioHD... jeng jeng jeng...

Apps Review

FX Photo Studio HD

Price:

Checkout the features!

Full List Of Features Of 'FX Photo Studio HD' Version 1.0.0:

- 128 Photo Effects (This number continues to grow with regular Free updates!)
- 14 Different Categories
- Multistep undo
- Multistep redo
- Crop image
- Crop area rotation
- Rotate and flip image
- Brightness adjustments
- Filters previews
- Random filter selection feature
- You can add any filter to favorites
- You can easily import pictures from Photo Albums on your device
- Automatic rotation of picture imported with wrong orientation
- Portrait and landscape modes supported
- All resulting images can be saved to Photo Albums on your iPad
- High resolution support up to 2048*2048 pixels
- Upload resulting images to Twitter and Facebook from the app
- E-Mail image from the app
- Copy Image to Clipboard from the app for later use in others apps
- You can easily combine all filters with each other, creating infinite numbers of your own unique effects
- Intuitive, easy to use user interface designed by usability professionals

Will above features enough for me... YES!~ and i like it so much... checkout the result :)

Before

After :)

Picture edited using FX PhotoStudioHD

Before

After :)

Picture edited using FX PhotoStudioHD

using iPad...

Amazing Scanning Electron Microscope Pictures

All these pictures are from the book ' Microcosmos', created by Brandon Brill from London. This book includes many scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of insects, human body parts and household items.
These are the most amazing images of what is too small to see with the naked eye.

01 - A wood or heathland Ant, Formica fusca, holding a microchip

02 - The surface of an Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory silicon microchip

03 - Eyelash hairs growing from the surface of human skin

04 - The surface of a strawberry

05 - Bacteria on the surface of a human tongue

06 - Human sperm (spermatozoa), the male sex cells

07 - The nylon hooks and loops of velcro

08 - Household dust which includes long hairs such as cat fur, twisted synthetic and woolen fibers, serrated insect scales, a pollen grain, plant and insect remains