Encaustic Arts Magazine Spring 2014 | Page 38

Tristina Dietz Elmes at a workshop. Close up detail of an encaustic painting in process. Some additional considerations are that the smart device app PicFrame easily allows us to put multiple parts of photos into one image, then save it to the smart device. While most internet media outlets allow pictures of any dimension orientation, the social media company Instagram posts their pictures square, so consider the most important part of a photo that will appear in a square when intending to post pictures there. PicFrame composite + square picture SHARING BETWEEN DEVICES It can be very helpful to use a photo sharing program, such as Dropbox or SugarSync, to make photographs available in minutes across an entire group of computer and smart devices. This eliminates the need to email pictures to get them from a smartphone or tablet to a computer for editing or when downloading pictures onto a computer from a camera that need to be transferred to a smartphone or tablet device. These free sharing programs are a real life saver, offering ultimate flexibility in accessing our ever important photographs across all our devices simultaneously. I use Dropbox; it’s so simple for me to put photographs into a Dropbox file on my computer that then becomes available to view and use on my smartphone and tablet, and vice versa, in minutes.