Create Artistic Pictures with Composite App for iPad 2

Create Artistic Pictures with Composite App for iPad 2
I’m still owning the 1st generation of iPad and satisfied with it. The front-facing camera, FaceTime or the dual-core A5 chip offered by the iPad 2 are great but they’re not great enough to convince me for the upgrade. If you’re like me and finding a good reason for upgrading your iPad, the Composite app [...]

I’m still owning the 1st generation of iPad and satisfied with it. The front-facing camera, FaceTime or the dual-core A5 chip offered by the iPad 2 are great but they’re not great enough to convince me for the upgrade. If you’re like me and finding a good reason for upgrading your iPad, the Composite app may be an answer.

Developed by James Alliban, the Composite app lets you paint your surroundings to create an artistic composition. You don’t have to be a great artist. What you need is an iPad 2. By using the built-in front and back facing camera, you can easily paint pictures with your finger. The app is very easy to use. Simply point the iPad’s camera towards your subject and start painting. Don’t understand how it works? Just check out the demo video and see it in action.

Cool, right? The Composite app can turn anyone into an artist even you don’t know how to draw. It’s a fantastic app that really makes use of iPad 2′s unique features and transforms the device into an artistic tool.

Here is a sample drawing and you can find more from the Flickr gallery:

As mentioned by the developer, the idea of the app was inspired by the collages of Robert Rauschenberg:

I take a great deal of inspiration from the abstract art of the 20th century and through my own work I often aim to replicate these aesthetics in a digital context. In particular, I’m pretty enamoured by the neo-dadaist collages of Robert Rauschenberg. These pieces consist of silk screen prints from magazine images overlaid with paint. Using this technique, Rauschenberg found that he could comment on modern society using the very imagery used to shape that society.

I love the app but the catch is it only supports iPad 2. As warned by the developer, it doesn’t work on the 1st generation of iPad. If you got an iPad 2 and wants to become a collage artist, go ahead to App Store and grab the app. It only costs $1.99.

For those owning an iPad, what do you think about Composite?

This article, Create Artistic Pictures with Composite App for iPad 2, was originally published at simonblog.com.