What If

Share this +Google+ Mockups if you agree. Period.

Tips for Getting Organized with Gmail

Staying on top of your email can be a hassle. Especially so, now that you've got all these G+ notifications popping outta your ears! So here are some ready-mades that don't take too much time to do (because I've already done them) to help you organize. You don't have to use all of these tricks, but they work for me.

1) Go to your settings and change your theme to black or a darker color. It's much easier on the eyes.

2) Go to Settings / Labs and enable at least these four Lab functions:
Multiple Inboxes
Additional Stars
Quick Links
Canned Responses

3) To the left, below the standard categories Gmail provides (and the labels I have made) are my Quick Links. Quick Links are saved searches in my Gmail.

Info: has:blue-info
Queries: has:purple-question
Pending: has:orange-guillemet
Economy: has:green-star
Unread: l:^u
PDF: filename:pdf
Word: filename:(.doc OR .docx)
Power Point: filename:ppt OR pptx
Attachments: has:attachment
Photos: filename:(jpg OR jpeg OR png)

These are similar to saved searches in G+. Some of these above are standard, such as the search filename:pdf which gives me all emails with pdf files attached. Some others require a little fixing. Note the quick link called Unread The search criteria is the following: l:^u

Other of my quick links use extra stars (enabled in labs, and their order of preference chosen in the main settings page). Why use stars over labels? Well, labels apply to a whole conversation. Stars on the other hand can apply to specific emails within a conversation.

Any particular post with an important piece of info, such as a name or thing to remember, gets a blue info star. The quick link (has:blue-info) makes for easy access to these. The term has:blue-info actually comes up in the search box, so that I can add additional search info to it, such as "from:bob" to get those emails marked with that star from that person.

4) Multiple Inboxes are much better for me than Google's arbitrary determination of what is important for me. The image shows five (5) separate inboxes to the right of my main inbox. They are three posts wide a piece, so that I see the top emails in each category. This allows me to get to them fast. Multiple inboxes use filters to determine what falls into those boxes. You can make then go to both your main inbox and to a secondary inbox. Here I have four (4) inboxes that have specifically labeled posts. Some emails within them are stared, some not. The last inbox is a pending inbox. It is also a quick link called "pending" and has has:orange-guillemet as a search criteria. When I am done taking care of these, I remove the star, and it ceases to appear in that inbox and in quick link search.

5) Canned Responses allow you to write an email, and then save it as a standardized response. This is a great time saver. Do you get a lot of email that needs standardized responses? Send the typical canned response. Do you need to have more than one standardized signature? Make a canned response for each signature, and click on the one needed at the end of your emails!

6) Other recommended time saver Labs:
Send in Background
Message Translation
Quote selected text
Undo Send

#Gmail #Tips

Sideways Circles

Why on earth didn't +Google+ make the Circles page parallel, given that 99.99999% of all computer screens are made wider than they are tall? This is how it should be done!

This, and my other G+ suggestions are all hashtagged #JacobsIdeas

Share it to promote it.

#googleplusmockups

Since it's #StarWarsDay I'll share an old grammar lesson with you...

Mobile Photographers Circle

Mobile Photographers need to get organized. Are you a #Mobilographer ? #iPhoneographer or #Droidographer ?

If you would like to be included in this circle:

1) Plus this post.

2) Leave a comment with a link to some of your recent mobile photography work.

3) Share the circle, so that other mobilographers have a chance to see this and join.

Know someone who is a mobileographer? Mention them in the comments below.

I'm notifying those that are in this circle. Please share it. Let's get organized, yeah? +abhishek chamaria How is your circle coming along? Care to share it soon?

#MobileOnly #Mobileography #Mobilography #MobileArtPhotography #MobilePhotography

Mobilographers

This is my updated circle of #Mobilographers which began with a core of mobile artists known to me, followed by controlled crowd-sourcing to discover others. All profiles have been checked, so that everyone in this circle regularly posts, has a gallery or album of #MobileOnly images, or posts such regularly. The original post if here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100152754393360938972/posts/A9gNfpZY8xz

I encourage all within this circle to share it. I recommend this circle to others for the beautiful, creative and artistic content its members produce and share.

I am going to crowd source one more time, because I know there are more #MobilePhotographers out there. If you would like to be included in this circle:

1) Plus this post.

2) Leave a comment with a link to some of your recent mobile photography work.

3) Share the circle, so that other mobilographers have a chance to see this and join.

4) Know someone who is a mobileographer? Mention them in the comments below.

Numbers 1-3 must be done to be included. Let's get organized!

Mobilographers and Mobilography Pages

This is a combined circle containing 88 mobile photographers, with 18 pages dedicated to mobilography, both for the iPhone and Android. It constitutes the beginning core of Mobilography on Google+. Get used to us :) We are a strong, close, and tight knit community that posts our Mobilography regularly. Of all circles I have created and am a part of, this one creates the most amazing content and also interaction. So it comes highly recommended.

Since it is over 100, I am only notifying the photographers, and some of the pages. For those who have already added this circle previously, there are a few great additions, both personality and page wise. Please do reshare it.

#Mobilography
#Mobilographers

Mobilographers Circle - Final

I put out a call twice for crowd-sourced #Mobilographers , to get us organized. Thanks to everyone's feedback, I put together this circle together. The former post is here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100152754393360938972/posts/h4xPXnUjCf4

This circle is 81 people round (including myself). There are advanced mobile photographers here, as well as some who are new to the art but show promising photography. This is my final share of this circle. No more crowd-sourcing will be done, though you are of course free to share or add to it as you like in the future. I do recommend that those who are in it share it out of fairness to those who came in on this last round.

As an added bonus to get it organized, I put together this saved search of all the hashtags used by mobile photographers that I know of. Search it, and save it!

#mobilographers OR #Mobilography or #mobilonly OR #iphoneonly OR #androidonly OR #iphonography OR #androidography OR # droidography OR #Mobileography OR #mobilographer

I'd suggest everyone in this circle use at least one of these hashtags for their work. I want to keep my notifications to this circle to a minimum. I try not to abuse the feature, but I have a couple more organizational plans in mind, and in those cases I will notify everyone in the circle as they develop.

This circle has fast become my favorite, as the amazing talent and creativity of the individuals in it enters my stream! Thanks all for your participation.

EDIT: +Manuel Votta was meant to be included in the circle, but I missed him. Please add him as well.

Creative 366 Project is finished

It's done. I finally got my 366 album finished. There are 364 images, as I haven't shared all images public, and in a couple cases the image was only connected in some way to a short story or so.

I have decided after a lot of consideration to not continue with another project 365 or daily photo project. What was a real challenge in the beginning, became fun and enjoyable in the middle. I got better, I grew in skill and speed. Daily creating something really improved my understanding of light. Near the end though I began to realize that I was just cranking out an image just to get something posted. I knew I could do better if I took my time. I knew I could rise higher. My creativity near the end felt stiffled, and I want to focus more on raising the bar of what I produce and what I share. I am going to be more careful about what goes out to the public. At the same time, I no longer have the time to daily shoot, prepare, and post an image, no matter how quick I am. It takes THOUGHT, and that means taking thought away from other priorities. 

I entered +Creative 366 Project curated by +Takahiro Yamamoto and +Jeff Matsuya with the promise that "my photography would improve". There was interaction and inspiration enough from others to keep me going. I knew NOTHING of photography, but wanted to. I had my art and my short stories as my only forms of creativity as of January 1, 2012. I couldn't actively maintain these daily. I tried DSLR (my wife's Nikon D50) early on in the project. That too I couldn't keep up, as it required so much work to upload photos, edit them, etc. That did two things though. I learned quickly how to use Photoshop, and it sponsored another project of mine simply called sky. That project was an experiment in light, and can be viewed here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/100152754393360938972/albums/5725812363376567185

It was "creative" rather than photographic, so I had some enjoyable leeway as to my daily project. That's where a couple stories came in (both sci-fi in fact), and can be read here (https://plus.google.com/u/0/100152754393360938972/posts/cuaV9awxrsm), and here (https://plus.google.com/u/0/100152754393360938972/posts/YjRJakzKttr).

I'd say from about May. onwards, the gallery is 99% Mobile Photography. It was fast, it was neat, it was social, and I could take it everywhere. This developed into something else I never thought would happen. I ended up challenged by some other mobile photographers (mobile photography dawning on me then as an actual term). That pushed me, it inspired me. I looked for more mobile photographers on G+ and found, to my surprise, that they were largely disorganized excepting for a few pages here and there.

So I did my part in organizing us, sharing circles, pages, introducing everyone around. I wasn't the only one doing it, so I won't claim originality. This assemblage of mobile photographers, as well as my abilities and knowledge with the G+ platform caught the attention of +AMPt. I was brought onto the AMP team sometime in July. I joined instagram because of them, and discovered a LOT of mobile photography, good stuff, not pictures of food. It challenged me further. My gallery acquires a few square images at this point.

In the process, I developed a tag (without an E in the middle): #Mobilography  

Joining AMPt led to a new development. I tried organizing or introducing android photographers to one another through my instagram profile. It was pretty unsuccessful. I didn't know that platform. A fellow android user +Atle Rønningen would constantly point me in the direction of android users around IG. At one point, he and I had a conversation about the lack of any Android related groups out there. So he went on to form +Android Editors in September, and he went straight to me to bring me onboard. Cool.

That's where things are at this point. Did Creative 366 Project improve my photography? Well, I claim that I am a Mobile Photographer, which is telling of the skill I've gained, the culture I've found, and the real change in the entire perspective I have around my hobbies and personal creativity. So yes, it did. Immensely.

I won't do another creative 365/6 project, but I am grateful for this one that I did, and for the friends I've made in the process.

Thanks Takahiro and Jeff.
Thanks to everyone who participated in this with me.

+Jacob Dix 

Mobilographers

Everybody needs one, and this is it! Share it, add it, plus it, and if you know of a good mobile photographer that isn't in it but is on G+, mention them in the comments. Those mentioned in the comments, give me a link to a mobile photography album of yours and I'll add you.

I am attempting to notify most of the new additions to the circle, and also many of those already in the circle. But I can't notify beyond 100, plus I'm not even sure notifications work any longer!

#Mobilography   #MobilPhotography  

Save post to Gmail Inbox/Drafts & Docs

+Google+

Care to help me promote this idea by sharing it?

#JacobsIdeas
#googleplusmockups

Link to original post: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100152754393360938972/posts/PnvpG83chbd

Foothills

A series in mobile photography.

This is the complete series of 15 images I've posted over the last two weeks. Nice to see them all in one place. The images were taken while on a trip to Munich in April. I had the chance to visit Neuschwanstein Castle, at the foothills of the Bavarian Alps of Germany. As the train and then bus approached the mountains, the fog and low clouds rolled in to give the scenery a lovely atmosphere. The cloudy conditions created a bit of underexposure. Though I took numerous photos that compensated for this, I felt the underexposed images were more to my liking. All images are shot and edited on my S3, and excepting the image watermark, were edited exclusively with +Snapseed.

Notification - If you have been notified, it is because I have made a notification circle of people whom I have interacted with either on your own profiles, or on my own and that you have expressed interest in my work. I will be using this notification circle at the most no more than once a week, and especially for those major works or series of works I do. I am specifically making it to rekindle interaction, as this is really why I am here. I hope to hear from you! The notification circle will also become my main go to circle for commenting on others' works. If you do not wish to be in this circle, I will not feel the slightest bit of disappointment in your saying so.

As always, I tag my posts #Mobilography .

+Landscape Photography  #LandscapePhotography  
+HQSP Landscape #HQSPLandscape

Mobile Photographers on G+

This is my main circle of mobile photographers on G+. If you are receiving a notification about this post, you are in the circle. Please feel free to share this with others if you feel so inclined (whether limited or public).

Some of these people are long time photographers and artists, some are just starting out. Some are amateur and some are professionals. Some post strictly mobile content, some a mix of everything. Some post daily, some sporadicly.

What you will get with this circle is variety and to a large extent quality content in your stream. If a mobile photographer yourself, you'll find a great bunch of people to share common interests with.

If you are not in the circle
If  you are not in the circle (meaning you have NOT received a notification of  the post), and you feel you should be in it for future circle shares (I'm careful about circle shares, so they don't come often), then you must do a couple things:

1. Include a link in the comments below to a gallery of your work. This is required. I will not add just anyone.

2. Plus 1 this post. Required.

3. Share this so that other mobile photographers might see this. This is OPTIONAL. I make no one share my posts or circles to get in to them, and in fact think such a requirement is a ridiculous practice.

4. If you wish to mention a mobile photographer other than yourself in the comments, please make sure that you view the circle and make sure they are NOT  already included. It is up to them to share a link to their work with me. This is also of course optional.

Enjoy!

Google Calendar / Google+ Integration Mockup

Archiving your posts? Sure!
Allow others (your circles or public) to view your past posts? Sure!
Schedule Hangouts? Sure!
Notify your circles of upcoming events? Sure!
Add someone else’s Hangout Event? Sure!
Add someone else to your event? Sure!

+Natalie Villalobos +Vic Gundotra I know you get a lot of notifications, but I am notifying you directly because I think this +Google+ Mockups is worthy of your attention. It is streamlined, looks like G+, and would add so much usability to the UI.

#GooglePlusMockup
#GoogleCalendar
#JacobsIdeas

Share it if you like it.

Realm

This image, entitled Realm is one of numerous images I took while visiting Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, Germany. From the train on the way there, the landscape was covered with fog, and I was hoping it would hold. It did, and the results, taken from the ice covered bridge overlooking the scene were magical. Breathtaking. It is taken with my Samsung Galaxy S3. It is a composite of two images to create a panorama using PS Touch (also on my S3). I altered the highlights and shadows in PS Touch, as well as ambiance, brightness and contrast in Snapseed.

#Mobilography   #DroidEdit   #Monochrome  
#MobileOnly   #AMPtCommunity   #BNW  
#S3   #PSTouch   #Snapseed  

#landscapephotography +Landscape Photography 
Curated by: 
+Ben T +David Heath Williams
+jeff beddow +jeff beddow
+Bill Wood
+Jim Warthman +Vishal Kumar
+Carra Riley +paul t beard
+Tom Hierl

#paintitclub : +PaintIt Club
Curated by:
+Milena Ilieva +Celso Carvalho
+Carol Small +k phelps
+Astrid Bartels +Stefan Kierek
+Elin Vaeth +Clare Bambers
+Richard Mabb +Rick Leaf

#pixelworld : +PixelWorld
Curated by +Alberto Carreras

#europeanphotography : +European Photo
Curated by:
+Ela Kupiec +Susanne Ramharter
+Michael Muraz +Janusz Brakoniecki
+Jean-Louis LAURENCE +Ugo Cei

So I passed 15,000 people who've circled me today. Yet I get on average about 15 pluses, 2 comments and 1 share. It's a strange universe, this G+.

I'll keep posting, and I'll keep plussing and commenting away on others' posts. Anyway...

;P

Moon Base

The image is again done purely on my S3 (excepting the starlight, which was from an old Galaxy W shot). This was a fun image. Borrowed a shot of a Firework from the first day of 2012, and my project 366. Junk images are becoming valuable in new ways :)

The moon base itself was created using +Ben Guerrette's app #DecoSketch .

#Mobilography  

My previous images in the series:

https://plus.google.com/u/1/100152754393360938972/posts/XSceCMaGbNr

https://plus.google.com/u/1/100152754393360938972/posts/DTvPqwwkVXL

https://plus.google.com/u/1/100152754393360938972/posts/NijKTKNvjv4

Stardust and Formation

Two works I did on my Galaxy S3. #Mobilography   #SciFi   #ScienceSunday  

There are four other images in the series, here:
Moon Base https://plus.google.com/u/0/100152754393360938972/posts/J4N4SmzcfBf
There Are Other Places https://plus.google.com/u/1/100152754393360938972/posts/XSceCMaGbNr
Arrival https://plus.google.com/u/1/100152754393360938972/posts/DTvPqwwkVXL
Signus https://plus.google.com/u/1/100152754393360938972/posts/NijKTKNvjv4

Underground

I'm getting bored with this G+ thing.

#Mobilography

Confirming A Suspicion

+Victor Bezrukov recently mentioned posting to proxy servers so that his posts appear to come out of the US. Apparently there is an algorithm that shows me more people in my stream from my own region, meaning the reverse is true that I am being shown less to the US and more to those in Sweden.

Can anyone confirm this and do you have suggestions about bypassing this in my opinion lame algorithm... if it be true.

The evidence I have is that of the several thousand I have circled, I see Swedes quite often in my stream. I also notice that with 20,000 followers I get near no interaction unless I notify a specific circle of those I follow.

Any confirmation/suggestions?
Oh and the image is #Mobilography
;)

The Fast Lane

In less than three seconds, this man will be hit by a car. That's not true. Not for him anyway. But it could be. The point is, in that moment that you read those words, you stopped. Right now it is happening. So often I think we busy our lives with trifles and unnecessaries. We only seem to take interest in things of value when it's too late. Too busy getting where we are going to see where we are. And when that person or that moment is gone, it, he, she is gone. No second chances.

I think on the whole the standardization of time and the world's working hours did and does the world a whole lot of good. But the downside is the rush. I think some ethical sensitivity was lost between those gears of ticking clocks. Nobody sees anybody. "How's it going?" is a cliché. The answer is worse! And I got plenty of examples from others and myself to be sure of it. I suppose I could be cynical about it all and say that we didn't need the standardization of time for people to be too busy for one another. Either way, it's disturbing.

So I had this run in with fate. I won't go into details cause I do have privacy, integrity, but when those cars come they don't slow down. I nearly missed an opportunity; made a few wrong choices that I couldn't repair. Thankful I didn't, and that's where this image comes from and why I'm taking a moment to stop and say what is important. The image was inspired by that split second of decision. It tells a story for me. The fast lane and the red light at the crossing. Some mistakes are fatal. Some you get a second chance. 

I've been shooting now for nearly a year and have gone through ups and downs with it to the point of addiction. If photography taught me to see, it also made me blind. Sometimes it's just damn nice to put the camera down and snap some memories without the camera as a filter between me and my world.

I will repreat my mantra. When you really wish to see the world, Jacob, remove your glasses.

Best to say important stuff. While the light is red. Thanks everyone for all the interest and interaction you've given me and my work.

This has been a brief moment of verbosity, waxing philosophical and false profundity when all I'm really doing is practicing mindfulness. If you've read to the end here, stop and say what's important to you. Alternatively, what does the image say for you?

As always, the hashtag and image is #Mobilography.

Mobilography means nothing but my phone.

This man did cross safely in the red light.

Winter Impressions

This is a portion of the work I've done this winter, in interpreting it, its coldness, dryness, dampness, and sometimes its warmth. You are free to reshare this if you wish. Some few of the images are repeats from my recently completed +Creative 366 Project.

All work was done using my Galaxy S3, using +Snapseed and, on a few occasions, where a telephone line in the distance annoyed me, Touch Retouch.

If you have received a notification, it is because I assume you will not mind, and maybe can enjoy this. Please let me know if you don't want these notifications. 

#Mobilography  

December 18, 2012

The Ambassador

His ship was heavily damaged; his pride intact. He had but little time before his air ran out. There was a gamble with life that the signal everyone thought was static, was in fact a signal. He was certain like everyone else it was static. And because he was certain it was static, like everyone else, he stated emphatically that it was to the contrary a signal! He got the job. And so, here he was, floating helpless in space toward a system he could only see when his spinning wreckage angled itself flush. He doubted, but here he was. Chances were it was static. A glitch. He knew it was static. If it was static, then all others (and secretly he too) were right. He could rest as his air faded. But if it was a signal, he was right (outwardly, at least), and all others false. And that would change everything. He did wonder though that they even funded him in their disbelief.

He smiled with pride in his crushed capsule as it drifted closer. The leaks were all repaired. The light of the three suns shone brightly through the shields. He waited. He sweat. He dreamed. And in his dream he fell asleep and peered through the window, as the light changed from blinding yellow to azure blue. As his eyes opened, the secret became a rumor in his heart, and the rumor became truth. And for his heart the universe beat. 

..........

This story was inspired by a discussion I had with +Charles Strebor +Micha Fire and +Lacerant Plainer about chance and life and the choices we make. The image is of a metal rocket ship hanging from the ceiling at the kids play center Junibacken in Stockholm, where my family and I went recently for a good trip out. I placed my feet so that the lights of the ceiling aligned with the ship.

This is mobile only. Apps used were Snapseed, Pixlr Express, Touch Retouch, and Photo Editor.

Feel free to share

+Creative 366 Project  #Mobilography  

Writers Circle

Have you noticed how popular photographers are on G+? Well, here's a circle of WRITERS. Flash fiction, poetry pages, authors, short story writers & Pages exclusively for books and discussion of the written word.

Pass this circle on to help promote the unsung writers of G+ (especially if you are in the circle). The content these individuals provide is fantastic.

Mobilography Posts - All in One Place

I put together three posts, to further organize and spread #Mobilography on Google+.

1. Mobilographers Circle - ► http://goo.gl/Ftp96
2. Mobile Photography Pages - ► http://goo.gl/qtE2y
3. Review of Mobilography Apps - ► http://goo.gl/eZTFH

I will re-post this again, after I complete a Saved Search of all known Mobilography hashtags in use. Spread the word.

December 19, 2012

Forgot the 19th!

+Creative 366 Project #Mobilography

Review of Mobilography Apps

For Android

If you are looking to get into #Mobilography (and you are on an Android phone - #Droidography #Androidography ), there are a few apps you might want to look at. I'm no expert in Mobilography, but after practicing my hand at the art for a while now, here are some of my suggested (and preferred) apps for enhancing the photos I take with my phone. I do know that some of these apps are available for iPhone. Other's will have to instruct in that regard.

Some basic rules I go by as a preliminary to using all of these apps are 1) Don't over-process or damage your images. 2) Try to get shots that could stand alone. 3) Use the rule of thirds. 4) Simple is better. 5) Don't lean on your apps!

These rules are the basis for my pallet of apps, and mean that, while I can make extremely abstract and colorful photos (which I sometimes do) , and which are heavily influenced by the apps themselves, I like to use app effects (in best case scenarios) only to bring out those subtle aspects of an image that are already there to begin with. I don't intend to rely on apps to make for enjoyable imagery. This is an art, and it takes practice.

So the apps:

PicsArt - Photo Studio (http://goo.gl/TBCeU) would have to be first on my list. It is free, and has tons of features. It has its own camera, can make collages, allows you to draw, and has a whole slew of effects. Going to the gallery, one finds even more options. You can select images from anywhere, and save them anywhere. You can Rotate, Crop, Free Crop, Shape Crop, Flip and Resize the image. Effects include Filters, categorized variously, and numbered upwards of 100+. The benefits of these are that you can add as many of these as you like. There is a suite of masking effects which (unlike most other apps) allows you to rotate the mask over the image. Another great feature is the ability to add another photo as a mask over an image. You can enlarge, rotate and choose the opacity of the image over the base original. You can even apply all of the app's effects to that image before adding it over the start image. All around, a great app.

PicShop - Photo Editor is next on my list (http://goo.gl/Abmxr). Though the free version is almost as good as the paid version, the paid has some advantages, such as saving at a higher resolution. The added frames and extras that the paid version gives are negligible. This app is one of the few I've found with a crop tool that has an aspect ratio to determine a fixed shape for the crop. The focal point tool is excellent in that it allows you to select where the focus on an image is, the size of the focus, the strength of the blur, and well as the color shift that the blur creates. No other app I know of provides that versatility. The tilt shift feature is also exceptional, having both a blur strength and color shift feature. With 18 filters (and some options within each), this app is a good one, worth the cheep price. It has been known to crash a couple times!

Pix: Pixel Mixer (http://goo.gl/zy2fD) is an app with your standard effects, filters, and frames. The frames are limited to white and black borders (which I try to avoid), and the filters and effects are not that many. However, you can choose up to three filters (some of which have about three degrees of strength apiece. The combinations are a good addition to any pallet. A nice, free app.

Photo Art - Color Effects (http://goo.gl/IGBT4) is a great app. It is free, and it gives you the ability to apply various effects to specific regions of your photos. The photo you select starts in black and white, and you can paint (with your finger) the whole image into color again. You can erase, and zoom for better detail. You can change the brush size and shape, as well as the opacity of the brush. These, combined with numerous effects, allow you to blur specific areas of an image, in different blur strengths, allow you to alter specific spots for brightness, exposure, tint, saturation, and many other features. You can also apply effects to the full image, but other apps do this better in my view.

After Focus (http://goo.gl/Mik3K) is a must have app. Select with your finger what you want in focus, what you want to be mildly blurred, and what you want to be background. The app automatically selects between these lines you draw to determine where the blurring occurs. You can zoom and erase. Aside from focus, the app does nothing. Photo Art, mentioned above, can do what this app does, so it is a question of preference. It is also free. I have not used the paid version.

Adobe Photoshop Express (http://goo.gl/WWS1L) is a fairly good app. I can't say I use its effects that often. What I do like about this app is the ratio cropping (which PicShop can also do), detailed straightening of an image, and its small but detailed set of algorithms for Exposure, Saturation, Tint, Black & White, Contrast, and Brightness. Unlike other apps that give you four degrees of variation in saturation, this app gives you 100. Exposure goes from -64 to +64. Contrast from 0 to 400, and brightness from 0 to 100. The algorithms all modify slightly different aspects of the image. I do feel even slight modifications damage an image, and the save resolution isn't always exemplary, but using these features wisely, you can produce images like this: http://goo.gl/Yg9oz

Photo Editor (http://goo.gl/UxRGf) is a nice app, free, and easy to use. It has a good set of effects. You can change the Hue, saturation, contrast, and brightness manually (though not as detailed as Photoshop Express), or you can change the color of an image using a decent image curves tool. The filter effects aren't many, but like PicShop, you can vary the degree of strength within almost all of them. Frames are extremely limited. Cropping also has ratios as well as a manual and unlocked crop. This app has the great feature of resizing the pixels of an image. I wouldn't say it is a stand alone app, but combined with others, it's a great tool.

Pixlr-o-matic is a great app (http://goo.gl/qnMJz). It is both a starter app for people new to mobilography (because easy to use), and also a great tool for those that know what they are doing. This was a first app for me, and with all the filters, masks, and frames it provides (all easy to use), I found it simple enough to modify my images to get the feel I wanted. It is easy to rely upon too much however. These days, I know what it can do, and use it only after processing my images elsewhere, if at all. The app filters are constantly being added to (and there are 100s!) so that it makes for a versatile pallet. It cannot crop, reshape, distort or modify images, nor can the filters be rotated. In that regard it is limited. Still, a good addition for any artist.

There are other apps that I have used, but not often. Among them are:

PicsPlay - FX Photo Editor (free version: http://goo.gl/r4evU) for all around post processing.

PicFrame (paid: http://goo.gl/jKf35) which is a nice and easy way to make frames collages of multiple images. It isn't something I do often, but when I want to it's handy.

Stack Collage (http://goo.gl/UQzWQ) which allows you to resize, overlap, and rotate as many images as you like. It is limited otherwise, but sometimes useful.

~ ~ ~

Then there are cameras.....

We'll leave things here for now. In any case, these are the tools I use for my Mobilography. They are a wide enough selection that I can create what I like without relying too heavily on the apps themselves, while also not feeling limited in what I can do with any one app.

Some of these apps do not allow you to save a new image directly into the phone gallery, but into a folder for that app alone. To combine apps means then manually moving the files from one place to another. It also means moving them to the phone's gallery for instant upload.

If you'd like to see some of my Mobilography work, you can find it here: http://goo.gl/pPOfC

Please feel free to share this for sake of those new to the art of Mobilography.

Arrival

I really enjoyed making my last image, so went ahead and did another. Again, it was done entirely on my S3.

#Mobilography  

The previous image is here: https://plus.google.com/u/1/100152754393360938972/posts/NijKTKNvjv4

June 24, 2012

#Mobilography #MobileOnly for +Creative 366 Project curated by +Jeff Matsuya & +Takahiro Yamamoto . My native Galaxy W camera and PicSay Pro were used.

June 17, 2012

#MobileOnly   #Mobilography  for +Creative 366 Project curated by +Jeff Matsuya & +Takahiro Yamamoto.
#Creative366Project

May 07, 2012

Today's +Creative 366 Project is a #MobileOnly image of Ranunculus which my wife planted in a pot outside our door.

EDIT: I just made a short tutorial of the Post Processing for this image, here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100152754393360938972/posts/iKkBp1Jsac1

#Creative366Project curated by +Jeff Matsuya & +Takahiro Yamamoto.
#JacobDix366

I am submitting this to #mofomo +mofomo curated by +Alexander Kesselaar & +Michael N Sutton,

and also to +Mobilart Club and +PaintIt Club curated by +Alexius Jørgensen +abhishek chamaria & +Skip per

+MyMobileMonday Photography

+Mobile Art Photography
#MobilePhotography
#Mobilography
#MobileArtPhotography
#MobileArtClub
#PaintItClub

Mobile Photography Pages

This is an updated circle, removing some inactive pages, and adding a couple pages since the last update. These constitute the core of pages on Google+ dedicated to Mobile Photography. Some of them are curated pages for tagging your mobile (and in some cases mixed media) work, some of them are counterparts to blogs, newsletters and organizations. All are great pages. Please pass this circle around!

For Mobile Photographers, see the latest updated circle: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100152754393360938972/posts/MDNU234zCh9

As an added bonus, here is a saved search of all things Mobile Photography! Click on it, save the search, visit it regularly for some amazingly talented individuals and their work. Be sure if you are a mobile photographer to hashtag your relevant posts with at least one of the search terms below:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/%23MobilePhotography%20OR%20%23MobilePhotographer%20OR%20%23MobilePhotographers%20OR%20%23Mobileography%20OR%20%23Mobileographer%20OR%20%23Mobileographers%20OR%20%23Mobilography%20OR%20%23Mobilographer%20OR%20%23Mobilographers%20OR%20%23iPhoneography%20OR%20%23iPhonography%20OR%20%23iPhoneographer%20OR%20%23iPhoneographers%20OR%20%23iPhonographer%20OR%20%23iPhonographers%20OR%20%23Droidography%20OR%20%23Droidographer%20OR%20%23Droidographers%20OR%20%23Androidography%20OR%20%23Androidographer%20OR%20%23Androidographers%20OR%20%23MobileOnly%20OR%20%23iPhonePhotography%20OR%20%23iPhonePhotographer%20OR%20%23iPhonePhotographers%20OR%20%23DroidPhotography%20OR%20%23DroidPhotographer%20OR%20%23DroidPhotographers%20OR%20%23AndroidPhotography%20OR%20%23AndroidPhotographer%20OR%20%23AndroidPhotographers%20OR%20%23iPhoneOnly%20OR%20%23DroidOnly%20OR%20%23AndroidOnly%20OR%20%23Phoneography%20OR%20%23Phoneographer%20OR%20%23Phoneographers%20OR%20%23Phonography%20OR%20%23Phonographer%20OR%20%23Phonographers%20OR%20%23Juxt%20OR%20%23WeAreJuxt%20OR%20%23CellphonePhotography%20OR%20CellphonePhotographer%20OR%20%23CellphonePhotographers%20OR%20%23MobileArt%20OR%20%23iPhoneArt%20OR%20%23iPhoneArtist%20OR%20%23AndroidArt%20OR%20%23AndroidArtist%20OR%20%23MobilePhotog%20OR%20%23MoFoCommunity%20OR%20%23AMPt%20OR%20%23AMPt_Community%20OR%20%23AMPtCommunity

May 08, 2012

Metro Hustle

I finished creating something this morning for +Creative 366 Project curated by +Jeff Matsuya & +Takahiro Yamamoto , but had to do an inpromptu of the busy hustle and bustle of the Metro in Stockholm this morning. The image is #MobileOnly and is a composite of three separate images of the same spot.

[Edit] You can view the three original images here: https://plus.google.com/100152754393360938972/posts/SNzdbXKr1WV

+Mobilart Club curated by +Alexius Jørgensen +abhishek chamaria & +Skip per

#Creative366Project
#JacobDix366
#Mobilography
#MobileArtClub

Algorithmic Circle

This circle contains those people whom Google+ deems are most vital to me. Whatever Google's algorithm is that determines this (they are those who end up at the top of my default circles window), it is fairly accurate to my interactions with these individuals, both on G+ and in Gmail. These are a GREAT bunch of people, and so I thought to say hi and thanks for all the interaction we've all had.

If you have been notified, you are in the circle.

Cheers

Removing the E

I am notifying a circle of individuals for this post because I think you will be good participants in any discussion and at forwarding the aim of this post.

What do we call ourselves? How do we describe our work? How do we ensure that we can be found if others come looking? There's been some talk among #Mobilographers lately about which hashtags to use in our posts, if at all. It's a complicated issue. Some users tag #iphoneography , others tag #androidography , and still others #phoneography  or #MobilePhotography . Now I am after a community. ONE community. If we want that community, hashtags are necessary, however ugly some may think they are. In using them though, some measure of organization and coordination is in order if we are going to succeed in building a community, because there are as many hashtags for #Mobilography  as there are individuals using them.

I've seen the term MobilEography (with an E) used. Early on I began using this hashtag because of it's neutrality concerning whether one was an "iPhoneographer" or an "Androidographer". But I did something to the term. I removed the E (I've seen some others have too). I did so to make it into its own word, a coined word, rather than a hyphened word: Mobile-ography. It is symbolic for me of a real and legitimate artform, yet ironic, as it gets underlined in red by spell check every time I write it, as it isn't yet a word. That seems to be where we are at the moment, so again, symbolic.

So I am going to make a suggestion, based on all that I've read and all that's been discussed so far. Let's remove the E. This post is an effort to get everyone who is a practitioner in the art of Mobile Photography to hashtag the posts that contain such photos with the hashtag #Mobilography . Without the E. I have no wish to debate the pros and cons of various terms. I don't want to put anything to a vote. Too many indians and not enough chiefs ends in the same result as the reverse. So I am going to go ahead and just suggesting this one term, a coined word. Join in. Simple as that. Assembling everyone under one term will benefit us all, as a community and as individuals, in the long run. However nuanced we wish to be otherwise.

I do not think we should stop tagging our posts as we have before. We ought to tag our posts based on the themes we are doing, the phone, or camera and apps we use, as we wish. The genre or style of the photo, etc. These are all necessary for people of various communities to find you. To find this multiplicity of Mobilographers, I have included a very long link at the end of this post. It is a saved search of singular, plural, and every variation I can think of. Click on it, save the search yourself, and watch the beauty enter your stream. Mobilography and Mobilographer variations are in the search, so you will see us too. I promise you won't be disappointed.

A few discussions (in chronological order) that have taken place on this subject within the #Mobilography  community (more food for thought) are here:

Benjamin Kappel Schmidt: https://plus.google.com/u/0/103712669925810336471/posts/TdNrwwNpnAV
Myself: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100152754393360938972/posts/i3V2VLPgW8Y
Star Rush: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100994114474811451452/posts/1ZEnLew6jQ8

And now for the saved search:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/%23MobilePhotography%20OR%20%23MobilePhotographer%20OR%20%23MobilePhotographers%20OR%20%23Mobileography%20OR%20%23Mobileographer%20OR%20%23Mobileographers%20OR%20%23Mobilography%20OR%20%23Mobilographer%20OR%20%23Mobilographers%20OR%20%23iPhoneography%20OR%20%23iPhonography%20OR%20%23iPhoneographer%20OR%20%23iPhoneographers%20OR%20%23iPhonographer%20OR%20%23iPhonographers%20OR%20%23Droidography%20OR%20%23Droidographer%20OR%20%23Droidographers%20OR%20%23Androidography%20OR%20%23Androidographer%20OR%20%23Androidographers%20OR%20%23MobileOnly%20OR%20%23iPhonePhotography%20OR%20%23iPhonePhotographer%20OR%20%23iPhonePhotographers%20OR%20%23DroidPhotography%20OR%20%23DroidPhotographer%20OR%20%23DroidPhotographers%20OR%20%23AndroidPhotography%20OR%20%23AndroidPhotographer%20OR%20%23AndroidPhotographers%20OR%20%23iPhoneOnly%20OR%20%23DroidOnly%20OR%20%23AndroidOnly%20OR%20%23Phoneography%20OR%20%23Phoneographer%20OR%20%23Phoneographers%20OR%20%23Phonography%20OR%20%23Phonographer%20OR%20%23Phonographers%20OR%20%23Juxt%20OR%20%23WeAreJuxt%20OR%20%23CellphonePhotography%20OR%20CellphonePhotographer%20OR%20%23CellphonePhotographers%20OR%20%23MobileArt%20OR%20%23iPhoneArt%20OR%20%23iPhoneArtist%20OR%20%23AndroidArt%20OR%20%23AndroidArtist%20OR%20%23MobilePhotog%20OR%20%23MoFoCommunity

RESHARE:
If you receive a notification for this reshare, it is because you are in my mobile photographer circle, and I want you to know about Android Editors and its expansion of features onto several networks. Some of you are iPhoners, some Droids. In either case, please pass this along to inform others (especially android photographers and artists) you might think will enjoy the ability to join in the community using the tag #DroidEdit  

Thanks!
Jacob

Reshared text:
Android Editors is pleased to announce that we will now be considering photos tagged #DroidEdit on Google+, EyeEm, and Twitter for our features! We will continue to scout on Instagram as we always have. To participate, all you need to do is include the tag/hashtag or topic (EyeEm) “DroidEdit” on your Android mobile shots. Our schedule of features is posted on our website AndroidEditors.com and gives a description of what we are looking for. Thanks for your support. We are looking forward to showing off your great Android images!

Twitter :@AndroidEditors :  Tag   #DroidEdit
EyeEm :@AndroidEditors :  Topic  DroidEdit
Google+ :  +Android Editors  :  Tag  #DroidEdit
Instagram :@DroidEdit :  Tag  #DroidEdit

July 30, 2012

String Quartet, 1 of 4

Recently, while thinking over my editing options for a photo on my phone, I ran across a blind man at the train station. Mobile photography - all imagery for that matter - didn't exist in his world. I began thinking of music and the world of senses and sensations that exist. Scriabin and Hélène Grimaud came to mind, classical and modern composers (respectively) both of whom have synesthesia, a condition in which the mind can somehow transform one form of sensory input into another. Sound creates visual impressions. All of these thoughts, as the blind man went on his well paced way, inspired this series. It is of course still a work of visual art and is of little use to the blind. But it is an attempt at visualizing sound, via string instruments.

This first image of the series is (originally) of the strings of my son's bright yellow Sponge Bob guitar. Android apps used in this image are PicsArt & Pixlr-o-matic.

+Creative 366 Project  #Mobilography   #MobileOnly  

Image 2 is here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100152754393360938972/posts/gNEuhCg5vyB
Image 3 is here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100152754393360938972/posts/KX1QEKKDoGH
Image 4 is here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100152754393360938972/posts/HvCGxperCxD

Killing Creativity

This image is the light reflecting through a glass jar with a little bit of water in it, on the dining room table, and with my fingers on either side of the camera lens. I wanted a doorway silhouette, so I made one. I wanted a shadow, so I made that too.

#Mobilography   

December 27, 2012

1 of 4

+Creative 366 Project #Mobilography

Mobile Photography Pages

An update of Mobile Photography pages on Google+. Things haven't changed much since the last circle, but I have encountered a number of new Mobile Photographers whom I wish to inform of these great pages. These pages are not owned by individuals, but are dedicated to the community as a whole. They are a good starter nucleus for interacting with the rich mobile photography community on G+.

I did not put myself in the circle. Please share it.

#Mobilography  

November 18, 2012

Allhegonekyrkan, Södermalm, Stockholm.

The image had a complicated origin. The main image was enhanced and cropped in PicsPlay pro. A second image of a metal surface reflecting some lamp light was taken at a recent station I visited by mistake. I added the circles to it in Infinite Design, exported to PicsPlay pro and turned it B&W.

In Photo Editor, I turned the church image negative, added the texture, used autotone, and auto-contrast. The "auto" algorithms have a different result in negative than positive. I turned the image positive again.

To subdue the results, I combined the negative with the original PicsPlay pro enhanced positive image, using PicSay, at 50% opacity.

Ended with an Alex filter at 30% and a slight offset vignette at 30%, using Pixlr Express. Finished.

+Creative 366 Project #Mobilography

+European Photo #EuropeanPhotography

RESHARE:
Sharing this as promised.

Reshared text:
Top 10 Professional Image Editing Apps for Android
 
If you’ve looked for a list of the top image editing apps for Android lately you’ve probably been disappointed. Fact is, most of these lists are outdated (literally years old) or crowd sourced and feature mediocre apps at best. Well today’s Darkroom Tutorial aims to change that.

DroidEdit member/writer +Jacob Dix has compiled a comprehensive list of 10 “must have” Android editing apps as well as 10 “worthy mentions”.

So how is this list different than the rest? Jacob is an active Mobile Photographer who has selected these apps with a focus on their professional editing tools, output resolution and overall quality. This list is compiled from the perspective of a mobile artist…not a blogger.
 
Read the FULL TUTORIAL (here: http://goo.gl/dkQqH) where Jacob shares his top 10 MUST HAVE image editing apps for Android.
 
AMPt and DroidEdit (http://instagram.com/droidedit) will be collaborating on Darkroom Tutorials the entire month of December so check back for both Android and iPhone related articles every Monday & Tuesday @ ampteam.org/darkroom.

October 27, 2012

Meditations

A morning meditation in the park. I enhanced the image in PicsPlay pro, removed a guy in an orange suit picking up trash using TouchRetouch, brought the image into pixlr-o-magic and added a filter or two. Superimposed the unfiltered with the pixlr filtered and altered opacity by 50% to reduce the strength of the filter.

+Creative 366 Project #Mobilography

More Tips for Gmail

Yesterday I posted about how you can make Gmail more effective and time saving. You can read the post here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100152754393360938972/posts/BMSzhotjZsu

Before G+, the Google Blog would always tell us when the latest Gmail Lab came around. But Gmail has sort of lost the limelight these days. It is still a good product. In fact very good. So I've put together a couple more tips from yesterday's conversations. I am notifying some of you, who either responded or shared the post.

I'll include four images here. Some of these are a little more advanced, but may be useful especially for those with more than one account.

Image 1) Under Settings / Accounts and Imports you'll find two goodies:

Send Email As: is a wonderful feature for those with multiple email accounts.

Grant Access to Your Account: is also handy if you have a work account and want to share it Alternatively, you can grant yourself access to that account. This is not the same as just signing in to that account. It means you can use Multiple Sign-In which allows you to sign in to your own or main account, and also simultaneously sign in to "delegated" accounts. (Note that signing out of one, signs you out of both. Just close the window to the extra account that's open.)

Image 2 is what that looks like from the sign in/sign out button at the upper right. I have circled the four additional accounts I own and which I have (from there ) granted access to this account.

Theoretically, with send email as , I never have to be signed in to those other accounts to send email as them. But do I need to sign in to those accounts to read email? The answer is also no!

Image 3 is from Settings / Forwarding and POP/IMAP.

Add a Forwarding Address means that from those additional email accounts, I can send all my email to this one. And like I just said, I can also answer email from this one AS that email address.

If I don't want everything to get forwarded from that account to me, I can create a filter.

Image 4 is from Multiple Inboxes. Once you enable the Lab, you will find it in your settings. Multi-inboxes are based on filters. If you want labeled posts to end up in these inboxes, type in is:Work (if "work" is the name of your label, of course). If it's a star you want, type in has:Star-type

Note: In conversations from the former Gmail Tips post, it came to my attention that you can have multiple options! In pane three in the image, I have is:School AND l:^u . This means that only those emails and conversations that get the label School (via myself or a filter) AND are also unread, go in this box. If both of those criteria are not met, nothing with show up there. It will say empty.

Pass it along. Happy Organizing.

Boats

#Mobilography  

White Noise Mockup

So you don't like all that space? Here's what it can eventually do. Pass it along.

#JacobsIdeas
#GooglePlusMockups

Link to the original post: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100152754393360938972/posts/eeaVMz7U5yB

...just a very bad Wizard

#Mobilography #S3 #MobilePhotography #DroidEdit

#paintitclub || +PaintIt Club
Curated by: +Milena Ilieva +Celso Carvalho +Carol Small +k phelps +Astrid Bartels +Stefan Kierek +Elin Vaeth +Clare Bambers +Richard Mabb +Rick Leaf 

#pixelworld || +PixelWorld
Curated by: +Alberto Carreras 

#europeanphotography || +European Photo
Curated by: +Ela Kupiec +Susanne Ramharter +Michael Muraz +Janusz Brakoniecki +Jean-Louis LAURENCE +Ugo Cei 

#landscapephotography || +Landscape Photography 
Curated by: +Ben T +David Heath Williams +jeff beddow +jeff beddow +Bill Wood +Jim Warthman +Vishal Kumar +Carra Riley +paul t beard 

May 25, 2012

Today's #MobileOnly went abstract on me. The original image is a big metal tube slide that the kids play on in the park.

I'm submitting it to several pages: +Creative 366 Project +Abstract Xpression +PaintIt Club +Arty Dropout +Mobilart Club +Paintography
Curators include +Alexius Jørgensen +abhishek chamaria +Skip per +Jeff Matsuya & +Takahiro Yamamoto
#Creative366Project #JacobDix366 #Abstract #PaintItClub #Paintography #MobileArtClub #Mobilography

For an outtake and one of the beginning images for this photo, go here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100152754393360938972/posts/DA4AFtEE52h

August 22, 2012

Just curious what others think makes a good frame? What is its purpose? When do you avoid it?

+Creative 366 Project #Mobilography #MobileOnly

September 30, 2012

This is a #macro  shot #SOOC  from my Galaxy W.

+Creative 366 Project  #Mobilography  

A Comment From Another Conversation

Hi all #Mobilographers . I wanted to just share a comment I made over on another post, just to get the juices flowing behind those eyes of yours.

Part of the reason iPhones have more apps is because they have had a historical headstart in time. iPhones and Instagram both had their height at the same time, while Android phones were barely getting started. This combined with no homegrown social network for android, meant stagnation. Now, with G+, and Google doing its own phones, it's going to happen. Soon I'm going to make some concerted effort to get the Mobilography community on G+ behind pushing for more android apps. Even Google will benefit from this, as they make both phones, and know the power of the image on G+. So far they've promoted only DSLR photographers (by verifying their accounts). It will be in their interest to look again at mobilographers.

What are your thoughts?

My apologies in advance if you do not want to be notified of this post. I will use notifications sparingly.

December 26, 2012

Control

Snow on metal. Reminded me of a onetime Joy Division album.

+Creative 366 Project #Mobilography

December 21, 2012

Thankfully I've not been invited to any end of the world events! This was the last one I know of, at least for a 1000 years, so we should be able to get on with our lives and spiritual and physical selves now.

+Creative 366 Project #Mobilography

Mobilography Pages

I'm sharing this circle again as I've added a couple new pages and removed some old and out of date ones. Please share these around.

As an added bonus, here is a saved search of all things #Mobilography  related. Please be sure to use one of the hashtags within the search, so that you can be found!

https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/%23MobilePhotography%20OR%20%23MobilePhotographer%20OR%20%23Mobileography%20OR%20%23Mobileographer%20OR%20%23Mobilography%20OR%20%23Mobilographer%20OR%20%23iPhoneography%20OR%20%23iPhonography%20OR%20%23iPhoneographer%20OR%20%23iPhonographer%20OR%20%23Droidography%20OR%20%23Droidographer%20OR%20%23Androidography%20OR%20%23Androidographer%20OR%20%23MobileOnly%20OR%20%23iPhonePhotography%20OR%20%23iPhonePhotographer%20OR%20%23DroidPhotography%20OR%20%23DroidPhotographer%20OR%20%23AndroidPhotography%20OR%20%23AndroidPhotographer%20OR%20%23iPhoneOnly%20OR%20%23DroidOnly%20OR%20%23AndroidOnly

December 30, 2012

4 of 4

+Creative 366 Project #Mobilography

Fog

A collection of fog images and a question to answer: What is it about fog that is so irresistibly beautiful?

All images taken and edited on my S3.

#Mobilography  

#PlusBombed  

So I coined this G+ term for when people run through your albums plussing everything in sight. And you're not sure they are stopping to look at them.

What's your record #PlusBomb ? I think the highest for me was somebody who hit me for 30 something pluses.

Fiction writers need a home. I'm setting up camp right here. Who's with me?

Photo Albums as Circles

Photos, like people, should go in circles, not albums. They should be treated that way. Time and again I post a photo, then I tag someone in it. How many separate photos do I have as a result? Three! At least. Depending on which order I do the procedure, and whether a phone or PC is involved. Here are the basic 3, in separate galleries. My photo ends up in:
- Photos from posts
- Photos in Gallery X
- Photos you were tagged in.

The "photo from posts" version is not tagged.
The "Photos in Gallery X" version is or is not tagged, depending on which order I post and tag in. Normally I post an uploaded photo, go back into the gallery, and tag it. This has, on rare occasions, created two separate tagged photos (plus the photo from posts). But today, I skipped posting, went in and tagged a photo, and then "shared" it. While writing the post, I discovered the photo was already getting pluses, before I even posted about it. I had uploaded it to a public album, and tagging it to a photo page pushed it into the stream without any commentary.

So I posted anyway. Now I had three separate versions of the same photo. One is tagged. If I delete any of them, they all get deleted, yet they all still have a life of their own.

I may even have that photo in a forth album (photos from phone). But I won't go into that further complication, because everything from the phone is just messy.

So here is a symbolic Mockup image to argue a point

I am not proposing here that albums be renamed into photo circles, just to confuse new users. I am talking about Google functionally treating photos in a similar way to how it treats people. Or, for that matter, how it treats emails. One email gets a bunch of different labels, but it still remains just one email.

Google should make albums functionally like circles. One photo, in three "circles", and, like people, I can share a circle of photos. There is still only one photo. It is just shared in this or that particular circle to the public. If, for whatever reason Google needs to keep the "photos from posts" default album, at least make the photos in it the exact same copy that is in the gallery it was uploaded in. This would mean that it is tagged in all albums (unless you upload a separate copy yourself), and that all comments on one show in in the other. I just got six pluses, half on one version, half on another. Suppose those people should want to meet around the common interest in my photo. They can't because they are interacting on two separate versions.

This solution, making the same photo collectively shared into various albums, with comments, shares and pluses cumulative, would also solve the other problem that can only be done in picasa web albums or photos from your phone of "copying to another album". Instead, you would CIRCLE your photo into another album.

+Natalie Villalobos 

Google+ & Calendar Integration

I recently gave a simple mockup of what the settings might look like on ones profile if it had a calendar button. Well, here are some additions to make the idea a bit more clear.

1) The first image is just to catch your eye!

2) The second image shows two ways in which to reach your Google+ Calendar. The left margin bar would have calendar access, while going to your profile, you would also have the calendar bar. Two access points to the same place. I've circled them in red.

At the top you see the share button, for sharing a selected event, as well as an add event button, and also more options. I have kept these similar to those buttons found elsewhere in the Google+ UI.

The left side of the calendar shows posts (in orange) and Events (in green). These are just color codes. Both are visible in the mini-month calendar at the top. This portion of the image acts as an archive of all past G+ posts! That means I can view February's posting for me, or if shared with me, other's posts via their profiles!

Remember, only posts shared with you will be visible in another person's profile calendar. Keep in mind, all past public posts are still accessible now, and even now have a date signature. It makes sense to add the time dimension to Google+.

3) The third image is the settings page on your profile, where you edit it. I have looked at the calendar similar to the photos button. I can make my photos viewable on my profile, but the photos themselves are still only visible to those I've shared them with. In the same way, I can show the calendar public (or limited) on my profile, but events will only be visible to those I've shared them with. There is a link to select which of my Google Calendars I wish to have on my profile. So in Calendars, I may want to make a special one just for G+, or just share the one I already have. My work schedule won't appear for anyone, because I haven't shared it. I might want to share it with coworkers however! I've also included a button for notifications if someone (within my allowed circles) sends me an event invitation.

For how sharing events might look, +David Prieto made a great mockup here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/106594741903694904203/posts/ChkdNdD7pi5

His suggestion leads to the idea that events themselves would have a stream, in a similar way to how search criteria using hashtags do now. People who are part of an event could tag that event (similar to photos), and their posts would thus end up in that events stream. They could even tag photos with the event tag.

My originial post that got this conversation going is here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100152754393360938972/posts/jHqtwKMmc14

+Natalie Villalobos +Katherine Gramann +Vic Gundotra

#GooglePlusMockups
#GoogleCalendar
#JacobsIdeas

iDroid Successes

There’s something powerful -- inspiring -- about collaboration. There’s nothing in life more important than teamwork. Two people joining forces to reach a goal, to create for whatever reason. The final result is more than the sum of the parts. Last month I managed to organize, among all the craziness that was going on in life and in the mobile photography community, the beginnings of a project on Instagram that was called iDroid. We have +Josh St. Germain to thank for the name itself. +AMPt, +Android Editors and +BP Juxt were suddenly all talking in the same chat around the idea and the posting and features. I gave an original sketch of the rules and so forth. At that point my original idea was gone, and something new, something collaborative developed.

Read the FULL ARTICLE here: http://amptcommunity.com/profiles/blogs/idroid-successes

[The Dragons Fly image is a result of iDroid and is a collaboration between myself (on an S3) and +Adam Conner (on an iPhone 5) . His beautiful image, my minimal edit and typography.] 

#Mobilography   #DroidEdit   #Collaboration  #iDroid

July 31, 2012

String Quartet, 2 of 4

This second image of the series is an old and broken piano I found in the rain at a dump heap in the woods. The black keys were missing on this portion of the piano. This forest location inspired the contradictory matrix-like circuit board filter, perpendicular to the vertical flow of the keys and inner workings. Android apps used in this image are PicShop Pro, PicsArt & Pixlr-o-matic.

Motive for the series: Recently, while thinking over my editing options for a photo on my phone, I ran across a blind man at the train station. Mobile photography - all imagery for that matter - didn't exist in his world. I began thinking of music and the world of senses and sensations that exist. Scriabin and Hélène Grimaud came to mind, classical and modern composers (respectively) both of whom have synesthesia, a condition in which the mind can somehow transform one form of sensory input into another. Sound creates visual impressions. All of these thoughts, as the blind man went on his well paced way, inspired this series. It is of course still a work of visual art and is of little use to the blind. But it is an attempt at visualizing sound, via string instruments.

+Creative 366 Project  #Mobilography   #MobileOnly   

Image 1 is here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100152754393360938972/posts/gYrfTaA8vAo
Image 3 is here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100152754393360938972/posts/KX1QEKKDoGH
Image 4 is here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100152754393360938972/posts/HvCGxperCxD

November 10, 2012

This image is a shot of sunset from the staff room at work. Cropped to a square in PicsPlaypro. Used the app's art filters to turn the image negative. Flipped and rotated it 90º. Applied the grunge filter Scratching at 100%. Return to upright and positive. Save. Backed up previous to Scratching and added the Old Paper filter at 100%. Returned image upright and positive before saving.

I used rotation and negative for several reasons. Rotation gives at least a little variety to filters that are otherwise so familiar. Flipping and rotation gives 8 variations to a static filter. I used negative in this case because the scratch filter is a dark brown and neutralizes a nice blue sky. It's typical in pixlr-o-matic too. But in negative it enhances a blue sky.

The two filtered images were combined, the one over the other, at 50% opacity. Just a standard half and half.

Save.

+Creative 366 Project #Mobilography

June 20, 2012

The image is #MobileOnly   #Mobilography . I did this image for +Creative 366 Project (curated by +Jeff Matsuya & +Takahiro Yamamoto) using my Galaxy W native camera and using PicSay Pro's masking filter. We visited my in-laws yesterday, and I took the opportunity to shoot the many flowers they have at their home.

+Mobilart Club curated by +Alexius Jørgensen +Paul Brown and myself.
+Mobile Art Photography curated by +Jimmie Fisher.
+Monochrome Arty Club curated by +abhishek chamaria.
+mofomo

#MobilArtClub   #MobileArtPhotography   #MonochromeArtyClub   #MoFoMo   #Creative366Project  

CircleCount's Chrome Extension Gets A Big Feature Update

v1.5
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gfehmiknpngmjkhiieampgfppicbncid

Version 1.5:
(new) add favorite posts without leaving Google+.
(new) automatically add hashtags used in posts as tags in the favorite posts.
(new) set favorite posts by default to private.

Some weeks ago, +CircleCount released a "favorite posts" feature, giving you the ability to save your favorite G+ posts from yourself and others, right from the G+ stream. Clicking on CircleCount's "F Button" would open up circlecount.com in another window, so that you could manage the saved post directly.
- You can find my guide to that new feature here: http://goo.gl/G6jxM
- You can find +Heidi Anne Morris's post on the feature here: http://goo.gl/cGGJF
- I also gave 5 helpful suggestions as to how you can use this feature, here: http://goo.gl/aIwZ4

Now, with the new update (version 1.5), you can do several new things. In the updated extension, go to Options. In the extension's options, you will see the following:

Show the add-to-favorites link on each post?

This has three options:
No
Yes, simple (without tags)
Yes, normal (auto-add tags from hashtags of posts)

"Yes, simple" means that you will have to manually add tags yourself, if you want them. This last feature, "auto-add tags from hashtags" does this. When you now click on the F button, any hashtags in that post will automatically be added as tags on circlecount.com! This feature greatly extends the use of hashtags in G+ posts! It means that we can now hashtag our posts (both for ourselves and for others) to automatically add just those tags (for organization and labeling) in circlecount.com. Basically, Gmail Labels have come to G+, but via +CircleCount!

There are a couple more features to the extension. You can now decide (yes or no) whether to:

Open CircleCount page after adding a post to the favorites

If you don't want circlecount.com to open in a new window when you click the F Button, it won't! Instead, a nice little green checkmark appears over the F Button (Image 5), indicating that the post (yours or someone else's public post) is saved over on CircleCount.com! You can go there later and edit it if you like.

Now that brings up another issue. What if you don't want that post to be visible on your circlecount.com profile until after you've gone back to edit it? Well, the update to the extension now allows you to:

Set new favorite posts to private.

So start using hashtags like they were Gmail labels everyone, and with Circlecount's extension, make G+ much more organized and accessible!

Some links:
- Force the update: http://goo.gl/VCl9A
- Install the extension: http://goo.gl/pBgIe
- Rate/review the extension: http://goo.gl/XNAqQ

Share this post ;)

Here's a hashtag #CircleCount just in case you want to test the new feature.

With over 10,000 who've circled me, I wonder why on earth I only get 5 or 6 comments a post. It's strange, I wrote the word "test" one day, and the post got enough comments to end up on What's Hot. What do people have as their basis for interaction on here? What are the criteria? Just random curiosity for the day.

_Test_ 

The image by the way is just an attention getter. An experiment with testing an app. Never went anywhere.

August 13, 2012

Wire In The Sky

What makes you feel secure?

+Creative 366 Project #Mobilography #MobileOnly

+CircleCount's Favorite Posts Interface

A Guide

Going to CircleCount.com, or (if you have the CC extension updated) if clicking on the F underneath a post, you will find a new Favorite Posts page on the website.

The first image below shows my own favorites page. I have a few interesting books there, and some of my Google+ Mockups saved, in case I need to reference them for later. I also have a couple of my posts about Mr. Chuck Norris saved.

URL: By clicking on the F the URL field will automatically be filled in. Or, if you go to the website, you can manually add a favorite link if you wish.

Title: You can fill in the Title for your own convenience and memory. To the right, you will see these titles. In the image, you see my favorite links with the names I have given them.

Rating: If you are on CircleCount.com, you can not only view and manage your own favorite posts, but you can also look at the favorite posts of others. This is where ratings come in. The link (in the image) are viewable as posts on people's profiles! They are viewable in the order that you choose, based on the rating, or the posted date (see below). Go here to see some of my posts, which I saved during beta-testing: http://www.circlecount.com/userfavposts/100152754393360938972

Tags: You can tag your favorite posts with whatever words you wish. Circle Count automatically recognizes your previously used tags. These are not yet clickable, but hopefully soon they will be. This will make them much like Gmail's Labels are now!

Private: When managing a link, if you would like, you can click the "private" box. This will prevent the saved link from showing up in your profile for others to see. Basically, you can store links publically, or privately, for your own use later!

Update/Delete: When you are done with a post, you can update it. If you wish to delete or edit a link, you can go back and click on that link, edit it, or delete it.

..........

The second image is on the same page on CircleCount.com. That section is for sharing your favorite posts, both on CircleCount.com, and on G+. On CircleCount.com, you have the options to show your favorite posts on your profile:

Ordered by: Rating (highest or lowest first), Date (oldest or newest). With these features, you can determine an arbitrary order that your favorites will appear on your CircleCount profile (using your ratings), or display them chronologically.

Start/End Date: This is a range of dates that you can select for which posts you wish to share.

Tag: This allows you to share links to a specific tag!_ Let's say I have 100 posts saved. I select from the drop down list the tag "books" and get the 7 posts from that long list that have that specific tag.

Update: Click update to refresh the page with the option you wish.

Separators: To the right you can have separators between groups of posts for easier reading.

After clicking Update , CircleCount.com generates a list of those posts you have selected in text format. Simply copy and past this into your G+ stream and post!

Like I said in an earlier post, this is a BIG feature. What labels were for gmail, this is to Google+.

Happy circling and labeling!

Understanding How Ron Paul Is Going To Win

Below I paste Ron Paul's recent email, which is far far different than what you'll find in the media. Oh, this is gonna be a surprise. And better still, even if we lose, we still win. The politics have already changed. Many new Constitutionalists are running for election here and there. They are the future of the GOP.


Be sure to read the link, but this from Ron Paul:

Dear Jacob,

As I reflect on our 2012 Presidential campaign, I am humbled by the supporters who have worked so hard and sacrificed so much. And I am so proud of what we have accomplished. We will not stop until we have restored what once made America the greatest country in human history.

This campaign fought hard and won electoral success that the talking heads and pundits never thought possible. But, this campaign is also about more than just the 2012 election. It has been part of a quest I began 40 years ago and that so many have joined. It is about the campaign for Liberty, which has taken a tremendous leap forward in this election and will continue to grow stronger in the future until we finally win.

Our campaign will continue to work in the state convention process. We will continue to take leadership positions, win delegates, and carry a strong message to the Republican National Convention that Liberty is the way of the future.

Moving forward, however, we will no longer spend resources campaigning in primaries in states that have not yet voted. Doing so with any hope of success would take many tens of millions of dollars we simply do not have. I encourage all supporters of Liberty to make sure you get to the polls and make your voices heard, particularly in the local, state, and Congressional elections, where so many defenders of Freedom are fighting and need your support.

I hope all supporters of Liberty will remain deeply involved - become delegates, win office, and take leadership positions. I will be right there with you. In the coming days, my campaign leadership will lay out to you our delegate strategy and what you can do to help, so please stay tuned.

For Liberty,

Ron Paul

Enter Sandman

This image is a combination of Snapseed to brighten the man, Frex fractal generator to create the doorways to another world, DecoSketch to add inner design to the "building" - perhaps it is the mind - as well as the horizon, and PS Touch to erase the DS pattern from the "pillars", add the sandman into the image and also colorize him slightly blue to match the color scheme.

#Mobilography

Second attempt

Sky

As usual, the context of this project / experiment / study / exploration is the limited field of view from my backyard and kitchen window.

A note to all who have request notifications for updates to this album. G+ has removed the notification ability (for me at least, and presumably for everyone). I can send an email to this circle, but it requires that you have your email settings on. This may be the last time you receive a notification of this album. From here on, the album's own weight will have to carry it. I appreciate all the feedback I have received for this project. Thanks!

Enjoy!

December 02, 2012

+Creative 366 Project #Mobilography

December 13, 2012

Had Christmas dinner with my coworkers at Vaxholm Castle. Here is the castle as it looked upon arrival by boat.

+Creative 366 Project #Mobilography

October 22, 2012

Train of Consequences

Having a conscience and teaching history can be a downer. Humanity on the rails.

+Creative 366 Project #Mobilography

Signus

As usual, my work is done on my Galaxy S3.

#Mobilography

Week 17 - Theme "The Kitchen"

A rare image of my wife, at the start of a little bread baking in this case.

+Project52-2012 curated by +Kate Church & +Giuseppe Basile.
#JacobDix52
#SOOC

Sunset On The Lake

(Without barbed wire)

#Mobilography

August 26, 2012

Today's +Creative 366 Project is also an image for +European Photo

The shot was taking in Gamla Stan (old town) in Stockholm, after a quick and heavy rain that temporarily washed away all the tourists. I took it with the native camera app on my Galaxy W. Post processed with PicSay Pro, Photo Editor and PicsPlay Pro. The location I added to this post is as close as I could get, which isn't bad, cause it's a small island.

#Mobilography #MobileOnly #EuropeanPhoto #EOGPhotography

1 minute walk from my home, though I took it a year or so ago. What a completely different winter it is this year!

#PlusPhotoExtract
#SOOC

No title, just #Mobilography

#europeanphotography || +European Photo
Curated by: +Ela Kupiec +Susanne Ramharter +Michael Muraz +Janusz Brakoniecki +Jean-Louis LAURENCE +Ugo Cei 

Tribute

If I had to pick one person out there who has consistently produced quality work, it would have to be Paul "Skip" Brown +Paul Brown (Instagram @phoneograph). This image was inspired by Paul's work. I don't dare compare mine or attempt to achieve the quality he does, but gave his still lifes a shot. Go check out his feed!

#Mobilography

December 14, 2012

Winter Impressions

Trying to make my ugly neighborhood beautiful. A night shot in the snow.

+Creative 366 Project  #Mobilography  

December 01, 2012

+Creative 366 Project #Mobilography

Forgotten

Image 4 of 5 in a series of boats left behind in a frozen river.

#Mobilography

August 24, 2012

Another wall

+Creative 366 Project #Mobilography #MobileOnly

Forgotten

Image 5 of 5 in a series of boats left behind in a frozen river.

#Mobilography

Two reasons why Google Drive doesn't

...drive.

;) Just for fun.

October 19, 2012

Behind the Looking Glass

Doing a brief eye series I guess. Happened that way. Here's number two.

+Creative 366 Project  #Mobilography  

G+ FAIL

Haha, 11 others added me, and +Christel Meckmann "did something".

BUG
#Fail

Mobile Photographers

I am resharing my circle of #Mobilographers  yet again. I am notifying a majority of those in the circle. Note that this is WITHOUT pages, which I will share again soon. Everyone in this circle dabbles in, or is completely dedicated to, mobile photography, mobile art, or something in between these two. There are new practitioners, and advanced artists within this circle. I am also including a Saved Search of all things Mobilography. Using that search link, you'll find a stream of beauty and creativity. Your notions of what constitutes "photography" may even be challenged.

For the latest Mobile Photography Pages, see this circle: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100152754393360938972/posts/3sgqUNDWS88

https://plus.google.com/u/0/s/%23MobilePhotography%20OR%20%23MobilePhotographer%20OR%20%23MobilePhotographers%20OR%20%23Mobileography%20OR%20%23Mobileographer%20OR%20%23Mobileographers%20OR%20%23Mobilography%20OR%20%23Mobilographer%20OR%20%23Mobilographers%20OR%20%23iPhoneography%20OR%20%23iPhonography%20OR%20%23iPhoneographer%20OR%20%23iPhoneographers%20OR%20%23iPhonographer%20OR%20%23iPhonographers%20OR%20%23Droidography%20OR%20%23Droidographer%20OR%20%23Droidographers%20OR%20%23Androidography%20OR%20%23Androidographer%20OR%20%23Androidographers%20OR%20%23MobileOnly%20OR%20%23iPhonePhotography%20OR%20%23iPhonePhotographer%20OR%20%23iPhonePhotographers%20OR%20%23DroidPhotography%20OR%20%23DroidPhotographer%20OR%20%23DroidPhotographers%20OR%20%23AndroidPhotography%20OR%20%23AndroidPhotographer%20OR%20%23AndroidPhotographers%20OR%20%23iPhoneOnly%20OR%20%23DroidOnly%20OR%20%23AndroidOnly%20OR%20%23Phoneography%20OR%20%23Phoneographer%20OR%20%23Phoneographers%20OR%20%23Phonography%20OR%20%23Phonographer%20OR%20%23Phonographers%20OR%20%23Juxt%20OR%20%23WeAreJuxt%20OR%20%23CellphonePhotography%20OR%20CellphonePhotographer%20OR%20%23CellphonePhotographers%20OR%20%23MobileArt%20OR%20%23iPhoneArt%20OR%20%23iPhoneArtist%20OR%20%23AndroidArt%20OR%20%23AndroidArtist%20OR%20%23MobilePhotog%20OR%20%23MoFoCommunity%20OR%20%23AMPt%20OR%20%23AMPt_Community%20OR%20%23AMPtCommunity

Sky

It's been some time since I posted images to my experiment in light - Sky. Here are three new ones. Enjoy. If you would like to be added to the sky notification list, please say so in the comments below.

The whole album can be viewed here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/100152754393360938972/albums/5725812363376567185

Enjoy!

#SkySunday  

August 2, 2012

String Quartet, 4 of 4

I have tried with these works to compose a piece of music. The first was introductory, themes of sound going this way and that, as the work is established. The guitar was my son's, and so this youth demanded it go first. The second was modification, wild accompaniment by a keyboard, and synthetic, as the piece encounters challenge and grows. This third is, like a good third movement, a calmer piece. The bass is the backbone of a quartet, and so, has a stable quality to it. Thus the entry of grey scale. It has matured.

This fourth and final movement of the work is of old age, a violin to compliment the young guitar at the outset, refined and summing up the work. This particular violin is a notably old and primitive one hanging in a museum, meant to show the life some olden farmers lived in southern Sweden. This historical element, this look back, was a motivation for it being the final. Android apps used in this image are Pixlr-o-matic and PicsArt.

Motive for the series: Recently, while thinking over my editing options for a photo on my phone, I ran across a blind man at the train station. Mobile photography - all imagery for that matter - didn't exist in his world. I began thinking of music and the world of senses and sensations that exist. Scriabin and Hélène Grimaud came to mind, classical and modern composers (respectively) both of whom have synesthesia, a condition in which the mind can somehow transform one form of sensory input into another. Sound creates visual impressions. All of these thoughts, as the blind man went on his well paced way, inspired this series. It is of course still a work of visual art and is of little use to the blind. But it is an attempt at visualizing sound, via string instruments.

I am very much appreciative of any feedback or critique of the series. Thank you for your interest.

+Creative 366 Project  #Mobilography   #MobileOnly       

Image 1 is here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100152754393360938972/posts/gYrfTaA8vAo
Image 2 is here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100152754393360938972/posts/gNEuhCg5vyB
Image 3 is here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/100152754393360938972/posts/KX1QEKKDoGH