Image Manipulation Apps

I guess this site is being repurposed because my health is better and I'm working more on my various blogs, there's a bunch of them, and I've recently done a bunch of cleanup of a high percentage of my blogs. That's involved writing HTML and editing colors in existing CSS snippets, some of which have recently been posted on Doreen Learns to Code.

It's also involved design work, like choosing custom colors to tweak the blogspot templates, and I've created a bunch of new favicons and uploaded them. Because I'm mostly going in alphabetical order to help me keep track of things, one of the last sites I tweaked slightly was Walking While American.

I basically changed the gold tone links to pink based on this icon from my Reddit r/walkable.

I couldn't figure out a means to incorporate that drawing into the website in a way that I liked. I like my existing favicon and don't really want to change it out.

I've been screenshotting stuff to edit or get colors from. That used to require a special app you had to download. That's now standard function on cheap phones.

I've been using a color picker app to identify hex codes for colors from my blogspot templates. That's not different from when I had Color Cop on my desktop.

I ran out of free slots for a 24 hour period for my image cropping tool, so I downloaded two more to try to crop a square from a screenshot to use as a favicon. They all suck and I gave up and found a different process to do this.

Blogspot requires a perfectly square image. So if it's 250 pixels in one direction, it must be 250 pixels in the other or it rejects it. No, you aren't likely to get that from eyeballing it. At best, it will be 250 by 251 or something silly like that.

One of my biggest complaints about working with images on my phone is ALL the image manipulation apps are extremely frustrating to work with in that regard. Trying to crop or resize an image is crazy making.

I was a Paint wizard. I was taking college classes online before that was cool and had to do topo maps for a class in hydrology and needed to have them in a digital format I could submit online with my assignment and after some brainstorming and research and so forth, Paint turned out to be the viable solution.

That's a map with contour lines to show elevation. My husband who was pursuing a Computer Science degree was blown away. "You did THIS in PAINT???" 

So the little foot drawing above from my Reddit r/walkable favicon was done in Paint. And I couldn't possibly replicate that in a drawing app on my phone.

I'm looking for a drawing app with the functionality of old school Paint before Microsoft updated it and broke the damn thing. And you would think that would be easy to find. Paint is from back when PCs were about as useful as phones are today, or LESS useful. 

But, no, I'm apparently still asking for the moon. I still want what I asked for on Metafilter years ago in that Ask: A drawing program with the text capability of Paint.

If I had that, I COULD do a webcomic. I might still never get my act together because I am handicapped and my life is a struggle to just get through the day, but as best I can tell, it's currently not feasible to do on my phone.