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Abstract Glowing Art HD Review

This week FreeAppaDay.com hosted Abstract Glowing Art HD as a their free iPad App giveaway and I picked it up, not thinking too much about if I would like it, just simply to have a drawing App on my iPad and, this one seemed cool.

Well, it is cool. It’s supercool.

For the mechanics of drawing you have 35 different brushes to choose from, ranging in shapes – however you also have the option to customize the spacing of the brush shapes, from 1-20px, in my experience this pretty much determines the ‘Brightness’ of your brush. While the size, from 5-128px, well, that’s size :)

There are 11 preset colours, however you can choose literally any color from the rainbow wheel, and at any brightness too. Which, given enough time and talent, means that the possibilities for fantastic glow-style art are unlimited!

You can share via Facebook, Email and upload to Flickr right from within the App (however, I do have to say that it uploaded my photo to Facebook upside-down and flipped horizontally, and I’m not sure why). The tracking is great, a very important part of touch-draw Apps. And I really am constantly impressed by the glow effect – which looks stunning on the iPad but only slightly less so once exported to jpg.

For the time being, I’m absolutely addicted to doodling on this thing. If you can catch it while it’s still free, I highly recommended it. I do not know what the regular price will be, but I’d be willing to pay up to $1.99 for this App.

Here are a few examples of what I’ve made:
(Please click on them to see full-size, they’re much better that way)

Self Portrait

I call this one Troll Baby Flower:

Bright Angel:

The Time Vortex: (For all you Doctor Who Fans out there)

and my favorite Far Away Earth:

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