Mixerpiece

[juryjone]

There’s a new app called Mixerpiece that is drawing a lot of attention. It gives you many cutouts of paintings and allows you to piece them together in playful collages.

 

[juryjone]

From the start, I preferred to insert the figures into my own backgrounds. When I created my first figure, I knew how I wanted to use him. This image reflects the cluelessness of some men, who say they respect women but only respect some unrealistic “ideal”.

Sure, I Respeck da Ladeez...

 

[JillyG]

From the start, I preferred to insert the figures into my own backgrounds. When I created my first figure, I knew how I wanted to use him. This image reflects the cluelessness of some men, who say they respect women but only respect some unrealistic “ideal”.

Sure, I Respeck da Ladeez...

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Oooh, love this. That looks like an interesting app. I wonder if it’s available here. I’m going to look.

 

[juryjone]

There’s a New Cleric in Town

Mixerpiece, iColorama, Stackables

 

[RoseCat]

From the start, I preferred to insert the figures into my own backgrounds. When I created my first figure, I knew how I wanted to use him. This image reflects the cluelessness of some men, who say they respect women but only respect some unrealistic “ideal”.

Sure, I Respeck da Ladeez...

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There’s a New Cleric in Town

Mixerpiece, iColorama, Stackables

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Wow!! These are amazing!

 

[RoseCat]

...maybe this is iPad only? I searched the App Store for mixerpiece and mixer piece and got “no results”.

 

[juryjone]

...maybe this is iPad only? I searched the App Store for mixerpiece and mixer piece and got “no results”.

Unfortunately, it is. It does not download to my iPhone.

 

[lisamjw]

From the start, I preferred to insert the figures into my own backgrounds. When I created my first figure, I knew how I wanted to use him. This image reflects the cluelessness of some men, who say they respect women but only respect some unrealistic “ideal”.

Sure, I Respeck da Ladeez...

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There’s a New Cleric in Town

Mixerpiece, iColorama, Stackables

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These are so cool! I, too, have been seeing a lot of Mixerpiece on instagram.

 

[Starzee]

It’s a lot of fun. I can’t seem to find how to bring in your own background, though. Can you point me in the right direction?

 

[juryjone]

It’s a lot of fun. I can’t seem to find how to bring in your own background, though. Can you point me in the right direction?

I placed my figure on the lightest background Mixerpiece has, then dropped that background in iColorama.

I dropped it out to a green background, so I can reuse it in Effects>Chroma in iColorama.

 

[juryjone]

A Pair and a Pear.

Also uses iColorama and DistressedFX

 

[sinnerjohn]

A Pair and a Pear.

Also uses iColorama and DistressedFX

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brilliant

 

[JillyG]

A Pair and a Pear.

Also uses iColorama and DistressedFX

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I love it.

 

[dscheff]

I love it.

I love these Jerry! I bought the app

 

[RoseCat]

You inspired me to get Mixerpiece and actually edit on my iPad! It was fun, but a bit buggy?? (Maybe because my iPad is 6 years old?)

In your pieces did you add elements that weren’t found in the app? (‘50s woman for example)... because I don’t have those. And how can you bring in photos from the camera roll?

• I wish you could flatten bits or connect them.
• Making things small is a bit tricky... many times I had to make the object super big and then pinch it down quickly.
• My iPad was merely laying on my bed and I was doing something else, and when I looked again a bunch of my elements had been switched out - different eyes, torso, misc elements. I felt like I was going crazy.... luckily I had saved mine otherwise I might have thrown my iPad.
• Holy moly the quality is horrible! For $1.99 it should be hi-res. I had to run it through Big Photo just to get it to a decent size.

 

[terse]

You inspired me to get Mixerpiece and actually edit on my iPad! It was fun, but a bit buggy?? (Maybe because my iPad is 6 years old?)

In your pieces did you add elements that weren’t found in the app? (‘50s woman for example)... because I don’t have those.

• I wish you could flatten bits or connect them.
• Making things small is a bit tricky... many times I had to make the object super big and then pinch it down quickly.
• My iPad was merely laying on my bed and I was doing something else, and when I looked again a bunch of my elements had been switched out - different eyes, torso, misc elements. I felt like I was going crazy.... luckily I had saved mine otherwise I might have thrown my iPad.
• Holy moly the quality is horrible! For $1.99 it should be hi-res. I had to run it through Big Photo just to get it to a decent size.

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Catbird unicorn

 

[RoseCat]

Catbird unicorn

 

[RoseCat]

I can’t seem to find how to bring in your own background, though. Can you point me in the right direction?

I know! That’s a bit annoying.

 

[juryjone]

You inspired me to get Mixerpiece and actually edit on my iPad! It was fun, but a bit buggy?? (Maybe because my iPad is 6 years old?)

In your pieces did you add elements that weren’t found in the app? (‘50s woman for example)... because I don’t have those. And how can you bring in photos from the camera roll?

As I said, I put figures onto the plainest background then make them reusable. Then I put the figures together with some I’ve saved already using iColorama. The background can be much larger that way and I can resize the elements however I like.

 

[sinnerjohn]

You inspired me to get Mixerpiece and actually edit on my iPad! It was fun, but a bit buggy?? (Maybe because my iPad is 6 years old?)

In your pieces did you add elements that weren’t found in the app? (‘50s woman for example)... because I don’t have those. And how can you bring in photos from the camera roll?

• I wish you could flatten bits or connect them.
• Making things small is a bit tricky... many times I had to make the object super big and then pinch it down quickly.
• My iPad was merely laying on my bed and I was doing something else, and when I looked again a bunch of my elements had been switched out - different eyes, torso, misc elements. I felt like I was going crazy.... luckily I had saved mine otherwise I might have thrown my iPad.
• Holy moly the quality is horrible! For $1.99 it should be hi-res. I had to run it through Big Photo just to get it to a decent size.

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I absolutely love this (although its not photography )

 

[RoseCat]

I absolutely love this (although its not photography )

Thanks John!!! And I’d probably have to agree with you on this one...

 

[RoseCat]

As I said, I put figures onto the plainest background then make them reusable. Then I put the figures together with some I’ve saved already using iColorama. The background can be much larger that way and I can resize the elements however I like.

But how do you combine, say, a face that you photographed with elements from the app, like eyes or hats etc, if you can’t insert your photo from the camera roll? I wanted to add a “face” to a faceless mannequin I photographed but I don’t see any way to do that.

 

[juryjone]

But how do you combine, say, a face that you photographed with elements from the app, like eyes or hats etc, if you can’t insert your photo from the camera roll? I wanted to add a “face” to a faceless mannequin I photographed but I don’t see any way to do that.

If you look at “A Pair and a Pear”, you’ll see I saved off the buildings, the pear and the eyes separately. I created the background and text in iColorama, and cut out the ladies a;so using iColorama. Then I put them all together in iColorama.

Here’s a screenshot of my taking some eyes on the light background from Mixerpiece and creating a Chroma key version with a green background using iColorama. This also gives me the advantage of being able to save at the resolution of my background.

 

[RoseCat]

If you look at “A Pair and a Pear”, you’ll see I saved off the buildings, the pear and the eyes separately. I created the background and text in iColorama, and cut out the ladies a;so using iColorama. Then I put them all together in iColorama.

Here’s a screenshot of my taking some eyes on the light background from Mixerpiece and creating a Chroma key version with a green background using iColorama. This also gives me the advantage of being able to save at the resolution of my background.

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AHA!!!! You just save the bits separately... then remix in another app. Brilliant!! And that helps with the whole low res thing too.

 

[zenjenny]

Wow. A real collage-y app. I’m in heaven.