The Friend Collage App

Muzy’s Friend Collage app is similar to the Collage app, but it allows you access to your friends’ photos on Facebook. Creating collages with your friends’ pictures is a social activity, something you’ll want to share. It’s easy to start. If you’re not connected to Facebook, it’ll ask you to connect so that you can get and use your friends’ photos.

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What to Do When You Have a Problem on Muzy

Hey, problems happen, even on Muzy. So, what do you do when you’re having trouble? Muzy gives you a few options to get help. If you click on “Account” on the Muzy menu, you’ll see a Help option and a Tutorials option.

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Frames in Muzy Effects

When you use the Muzy Effects app, you have a choice of frames to add to your image. Let’s take a look at the frame options and what they add to your pic. The frame option is separate from the other effects. You can only add one frame to your picture. If you change the frame, it takes off the old frame. The frame you’ve chosen appears at the bottom of the list of effects, and the other effects don’t change the frame. The first frame is the Instant frame, and it makes your pic look like an instant photo.

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Video Upload

Muzy has rolled out its Video app. It’s time to find all those funny videos you’ve seen recently on YouTube, or make some of your own, and post them to your Muzy. It’s simple. Just click on the Video app, and type or paste in the URL of a video on YouTube. As soon as you put in the URL, it will show you a preview of the movie. You can add a title, note, and tags if you wish.

Just click post, and you can see the video on Muzy. Look for more video options and features coming in the future!

The Muzy Comic App

You may have seen the Muzy Comic app… it’s a step-up from the old captioning app and gives you more flexibility in adding words to your pictures. Your first step is to choose an image, from nearly anywhere: the Internet, your computer, your webcam, or Muzy. Here’s a good old-fashioned Muzy image, Muzy Pool Party for @steve’s Birthday by Mike.

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Muzy’s Posting Options

Ah, one does not simply publish their items anymore! There are so many options to customize and save your work before it gets released into the wild Savannah of Muzy to fend for itself. Observe the image above.

To the left is a field to type in the title of your work. From there you have the option to post it immediately as it is as well as a second option to post to Facebook, or you may save a draft if you are not quite done. Saving drafts is great for those who’s computers frequently crash, and you can always find them to the right of the Muzy homepage feed. Read the rest of this entry »

Drawing the Human Face (with Continuity)

What is continuity in art? It’s the method of drawing the same subject more than once from several angles while retaining it’s recognizable features. In this case, we’re talking about drawing a recognizable human face from several angles, whether it it’s cartoonish or realistic.

One of the most difficult things for me to accept when I became interested in how to improve my drawings of people  was drawing according to a technical method. I used to draw all faces freehand with no guides, no measurements, just guesswork and memory. This is not a bad way, some use it exclusively, but it will certainly not help with consistency (or continuity) if you ever want to draw a person twice and keep them looking like themselves. I adopted a new method when I began to learn more about animation.

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Artistic Effects with Stretch

may be by 1918underwood

Muzy’s Stretch app is fun for making distorted pictures of your friends and enemies, but that’s hardly its only use. The Stretch app can create fascinating artistic effects as well and can be used with drawings and collage with equal success as photos.

The image to the left is one I drew on Muzy when I was apparently feeling like some bright and cheery colors. One of the things that makes this image a good one for Stretch is the high contrast. It has distinct areas of color, and so the shape of those areas can be easily manipulated with the stretch tool. I’ve stretched out the figure into a larger head and heart-shaped body, and stretched the dots into elongated shapes.

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The Blurry Effect

Let’s take a close-up look at one of the photo effects in Muzy’s Effects app… “Blurry.” Blurry applies a directional blur moving outward from the center of the image. Here’s a picture of my cat, Chaplin, that I brought into Effects. I chose this picture because Chaplin is pretty much in the center of the photo.

I chose this picture for the Blurry effect because Chaplin is pretty much in the center of the photo.

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24 Hours of Color Shifts

Images of sunrises are often mistaken for sunsets.

Every few hours, your outdoor surroundings will turn slightly different colors. You can thank the sun for the light that make color possible in our world in the first place the Earth’s turning for making it change with time. Bit by bit, your pink and purple sunrise will turn into a light blue morning, brightening as the day goes on, casting shadows until the sun can only peek at you over some mountains… Then it will melt into the ground like butter, leaving a couple clouds to remember  where it was and give way to the moon, dousing it’s fiery colors with soft purple and deep blue. Read the rest of this entry »