Wednesday 21 April 2010

iPhone to CS5 Workflow

I have been experimenting with the iPhone as part of my creative workflow - I already use a variety of applications to get interesting and creative results out of my iPhone photographs such as Photoshop Mobile and Shakeit Lite - and I wanted to see what the possibilities are for creating a full design using the iPhone as a launchpad.

My first iPhone app in this workflow is Adobe Ideas - a simple vector drawing tool for making notes on photos and creating sketches and proofs of ideas in note form. I'm also a big fan of Shakeit Lite and other 'effects' apps for the iPhone - the camera on a 3GS is not actually all that bad and performs very well in daylight. I really like to use it as a visual journal - I'm not going to take a Canon 1Ds MkIII with me everywhere all the time its simply too bulky. I have started to take a few of these 'digital polaroid' images every day with the intention of making a project out of it at some point.

I enclose below a simple workflow diagram for working with the iPhone and Photoshop CS5:

evolution of an idea

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I read your tutorial here:
http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/tutorials/index.cfm?featureID=1662

about how to make a political poster...then I heard here:
http://targheemusic.com/bluegrass-festival-poster-contest

about a poster contest that I think your poster style would fit well in...I was wondering if you could make a tutorial about how to make a band or gig poster with the same style, but in photoshop cs4?

Anonymous said...

Excellent post. Thanks.