Haiku Deck

Posted on January 7, 2013 by Dennis Villano

Haiku Deck is a Burlington App Essential. Haiku Deck is a simple and powerful app for creating great presentations. Students and teachers can use Haiku Deck as a modern replacement for PowerPoint. Haiku Deck presentations are built around using images and less text. Students can use Haiku Deck to create presentations and for digital storytelling. Presentations can be shared and the app does offer additional content through in-app purchases.

Check out a great Haiku Deck review from Andy Marcinek on the BPS EdTech Team blog.

Cost: Free

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Art Set

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Rose Magliozzi

Art Set app offers users a variety of tools including oil, pastels, colored pencils, marker pens and waxed crayons. The five blending tools give you many ways to mix and smudge color around on the canvas with varying effects. Other features include zoom and pan for fine detail, import and export your own photos and images, and multiple paper textures and colors.

Cost: $0.99

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Artisan Paint

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Rose Magliozzi

Artisan Paint app allows users to create amazing pictures that they can save and share. The app has a fully customizable main brush tool, color cycle, darken and lighten modes, 10 levels of undo/redo as well as brush colors.

Cost: $0.99 (Free lite version)

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Pixlr-o-matic

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Rose Magliozzi

Pixlr-o-matic is a fun photo app that allows you to add filters and effects to any photo.

Cost: Free

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Adobe Photoshop Express

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Rose Magliozzi

Adobe Photoshop Express allows users to quickly edit and share photos. It lets you view images stored in your Photoshop.com online account. Features include the ability to crop, straighten, rotate, flip, adjust color, and apply effects. The original file is always saved.

Cost: Free

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Draw Free

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Rose Magliozzi

Draw Free app lets you sketch and create doodle drawings. Features include a variety of colors, picking a background style, undo and redo buttons, sharing, and draw lines, curves and points with a realistic rounded brush.

Cost: Free

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Color Effects Pro

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Rose Magliozzi

Color Effects Pro app allows users to remove colors or change them entirely. Features include importing photos directly from a camera or photo library, image cropping, selecting brush size, coloring, automatic edge correction, saving to photo library and multiple levels of undo.

Cost: $0.99 (Free Version)

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Doodle Buddy

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Rose Magliozzi

Doodle Buddy lets you draw and paint on blank backgrounds, over pre-installed wallpapers, or over photos from your iPad library. You can also stamp your canvas with images from a library in small and large icons.

Cost: Free

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Category Archives: Art

Haiku Deck

Art Set

Artisan Paint

Pixlr-o-matic

Adobe Photoshop Express

Draw Free

Color Effects Pro

Doodle Buddy