Showing posts with label Painting Aps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Painting Aps. Show all posts
Monday, May 25, 2009
No. 2 for the iPhone/iPod Touch : Added to Big Chart
I haven't written up my review of No.2 in text form yet, but it has been added to the Big Comparison Chart. I've also updated the entry for Sketches on the chart.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Sketches for the iPhone/iPod Touch : Feature Report
Sketches : $4.99
Line Types (ie softness of edge, transparency): One hard-edged line, 3 levels of opacity.
Line Sizes: Slider
Drawing Method: Draw with finger, no offset, no tilt effects.
Drawing Colors: 24 presets, no color picker.
Backgrounds: 24 preset background colors (no color picker) plus can use camera, maps, your photo library, website screen shots, and included library of overlays such as graph or note paper. You can change the background at any time without affecting your drawing, which is an overlay. This means, for instance, that you can work off a photo, and then eliminate the photo from the final drawing.
Shapes and Clip Art: Included library of re-sizable geometric and clip-art shapes including speech bubbles.
Paper Size & Adjustability: One paper size, size of screen. Paper cannot be moved away from iPod Touch/iPhone edge or tilted.
Zoom: Have to use unintuitive zoom icon; pinching gets you last chosen shape, clipart, or text.
Undo/Redo: Apparently unlimited undo-s, no re-do-s.
Eraser: Yes. Correctly erases down to selected background image/color, which remains unchanged.
Clear Screen: By shaking (a la etch-a-sketch of old). No option to turn this off or have a dialog box. Cannot undo. Do not move the device quickly when putting it down or you may unintentionally clear your drawing!
Text: 3 fonts, 24 preset colors (choose color before going into font menu), can't move text after initial placement.
Hide Menus/Full Screen: Double-tap.
Save Options: Can keep 30 images in program library, save .jpg to photo library, send directly to twitter, email picture or share on web. Approximately 4" X 5.5" 72 dpi when saved to Photo Library.
Appropriate for: Everyone, from kids to experienced artists.
Here's the beginning of the Big Chart comparing all the art programs I've reviewed so far.
Line Types (ie softness of edge, transparency): One hard-edged line, 3 levels of opacity.
Line Sizes: Slider
Drawing Method: Draw with finger, no offset, no tilt effects.
Drawing Colors: 24 presets, no color picker.
Backgrounds: 24 preset background colors (no color picker) plus can use camera, maps, your photo library, website screen shots, and included library of overlays such as graph or note paper. You can change the background at any time without affecting your drawing, which is an overlay. This means, for instance, that you can work off a photo, and then eliminate the photo from the final drawing.
Shapes and Clip Art: Included library of re-sizable geometric and clip-art shapes including speech bubbles.
Paper Size & Adjustability: One paper size, size of screen. Paper cannot be moved away from iPod Touch/iPhone edge or tilted.
Zoom: Have to use unintuitive zoom icon; pinching gets you last chosen shape, clipart, or text.
Undo/Redo: Apparently unlimited undo-s, no re-do-s.
Eraser: Yes. Correctly erases down to selected background image/color, which remains unchanged.
Clear Screen: By shaking (a la etch-a-sketch of old). No option to turn this off or have a dialog box. Cannot undo. Do not move the device quickly when putting it down or you may unintentionally clear your drawing!
Text: 3 fonts, 24 preset colors (choose color before going into font menu), can't move text after initial placement.
Hide Menus/Full Screen: Double-tap.
Save Options: Can keep 30 images in program library, save .jpg to photo library, send directly to twitter, email picture or share on web. Approximately 4" X 5.5" 72 dpi when saved to Photo Library.
Appropriate for: Everyone, from kids to experienced artists.
Here's the beginning of the Big Chart comparing all the art programs I've reviewed so far.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Overview
I'm a professional artist and a professional geek and I love drawing on my iPod Touch, a technique I call 'iDrawing'. On and off I've been working on the grand overview/review of all the drawing/painting/sketching programs for the iPod Touch/iPhone but I haven't had time to complete it. Plus, fortunately, updates keep being published, so I need to update what I have so far. So before I complete the big chart (possibly never), I'm going to do stand-alone reviews, one at a time, of each of the drawing, painting and sketching programs I've used. These include programs intended for serious artists, programs intended for kids and completely non-traditional programs. I'll included a summary of features, pros, cons and links to some images I've made using each one.
Please use comments to correct anything that needs correcting, and also to add your reviews or opinion. Please be as specific and detailed about the pros/cons of features or interface as possible - all "this s$cks I can't believe I paid two dollars" comments will be deleted.
Some of the prograns I've used and intend to review are: Brushes, Colors, No.2, iDoodle2, Scribble Lite, Squiggles, Sketches, ColorTilt, ScratchAway, Doodle Kids, Kids Paint, Sketchinz, Whiteboard, Wooly Willy, Paintbook and Light Show. Plus one where you draw with flames, and another one where you can allow accelerometer physics to affect part of your drawing, and others I've since taken off my device and will need to re-download in order to properly review. If you've published an Ap intended for drawing/painting/sketching on the iPhone/iPod Touch, and it's free, it's likely to get reviewed here eventually. If it costs $5 or less and has at least one feature not available in the free programs, it's also very likely to get reviewed. If you've developed a drawing/painting/sketching AP and would like to bring it to my attention to use and review sooner, please send me an email or add a comment to any posting.
Here's the beginning of the Big Chart comparing all the art programs I've reviewed so far.
Well, that's the plan... let's see how I do!
Please use comments to correct anything that needs correcting, and also to add your reviews or opinion. Please be as specific and detailed about the pros/cons of features or interface as possible - all "this s$cks I can't believe I paid two dollars" comments will be deleted.
Some of the prograns I've used and intend to review are: Brushes, Colors, No.2, iDoodle2, Scribble Lite, Squiggles, Sketches, ColorTilt, ScratchAway, Doodle Kids, Kids Paint, Sketchinz, Whiteboard, Wooly Willy, Paintbook and Light Show. Plus one where you draw with flames, and another one where you can allow accelerometer physics to affect part of your drawing, and others I've since taken off my device and will need to re-download in order to properly review. If you've published an Ap intended for drawing/painting/sketching on the iPhone/iPod Touch, and it's free, it's likely to get reviewed here eventually. If it costs $5 or less and has at least one feature not available in the free programs, it's also very likely to get reviewed. If you've developed a drawing/painting/sketching AP and would like to bring it to my attention to use and review sooner, please send me an email or add a comment to any posting.
Here's the beginning of the Big Chart comparing all the art programs I've reviewed so far.
Well, that's the plan... let's see how I do!
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