Create beautiful and stunning impressionist artwork with Pocket Monet

*** FREE for a Limited Time ***

Pocket Monet lets you create what the developer says are "beautiful and stunning impressionist artworks", with your iPhone camera, or from images in your camera roll/photo albums.

Pocket Monet lets you preview the composition live on screen, modify the brush and colour palette combinations and then see the results instantly, before adding "a beautiful frame as the finishing touch", before sharing with the world via email or Facebook.

App Store Link: Pocket Monet; Sale Price: FREE

Comments

[Jen]

Cool app.

[Espekayen]

Pocket Monet (what a great name!) is a very nice app. I've noticed that the resolution of saved photos varies depending on the size of the frame; the thicker the frame, the higher the resolution.

PM is a great little app and well worth a look while it's free.

[Greg Mills]

Installed and deleted...

When I opened an image it apologized for cropping it into the canvas/easel frame used for the preview and promised to add more frames later. I don't think you can zoom/pan around the preview to inspect the detail before moving on. When I tried to switch the brush size it crashed. It seemed to fine when I opened the app a second time.

The interface is too cutesy for me. You get a half a dozen or so brush sizes presented visually as a set of brushes and you tap one to select it. There are no different brush shapes or strokes, just sizes. I think a slider would have been a more useful control there. Likewise, the "color" pallets are presented as a set of tubes of paint. It's fast and cute but pretty limiting. Again, I would have appreciated some custom color slider controls. Finally, you select a frame. Again, the frames automatically crop your artwork to fit them. I didn't see any zoom/pan controls to position the art in the frame before saving. The frames that I tried needed some alpha transparency where they met the artwork. That would allow the shadow to blend instead of creating another thin, white border between the art and the frame.

Interesting to note, my 2mp file after cropping and framing in the app became a 5mp file.

There's no reason not to try it for yourself while it's free. I'm sure someone will use it to make something amazing but it's not for me.

[Kathryn Usher]

I'm very new to smartphones. Just got the iPhone 4s the day it came out (my old phone was a 2006 SLVR). I'm so glad I've found this iPhoneography blog to see what is what with photo apps since the main reason I got an iPhone was because of what the camera could do.

Thought I'd try the Pocket Monet since it was free. Not sure how often I'll use it after playing around with it a bit this morning. I would think for someone who is passionate about the look of Monet it would be quick and easy to use. I didn't have any trouble with getting it to do what I wanted it to do to two photographs.

[Mr Tmney]

Same as @ Greg

Deleted after 2 mins, not impressed with the app

[Richard Bailey]

@greg
Ditto.
It can't hold a candle to AutoPainter.

[Glyn Evans]

Sorry guys, this wasn't one of my best recommendations, I posted before trying. Thankfully it was free :)

[Amy]

I didn't mind it. It has plenty of issues but it also created some pretty impressive photos for me.