ibisPaint Review – One interesting entry in the iPad drawing world
App Type: Uncategorized
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By: ibispaint
Version #: 1.2
Date Released: 2011-07-26
Developer: ibispaint
Price: 0.00
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There are zillions of drawing apps in the App Store, and I’ve tried most of them as soon as they appeared, if they looked good. This is one of them: one of the good ones. With a nice twist: it can generate videos of your drawings!
ibisPaint is a very neat drawing application. It greets you with a 3-option menu (with two smaller icons for help and settings), with the user gallery, local gallery and online gallery. The user gallery is clear: this is where you add your drawings and edit (or watch) old ones. The local gallery is where samples are stored, it starts with two drawings, and you can get more online to watch. The online gallery is where you can watch what some amazing finger-artists are creating out there, with videos to show how it’s done.
The interface is one of the best I’ve seen: clean simple and quick to use. It takes quite a lot to get used to it, since it is very minimalistic: only icons to make out what the buttons do! Don’t despair, in the welcome screen you have a 9-page tutorial under the help menu, covering all the tools clearly enough. There are also up to 6 layers available for drawing as an in-app purchase of 0.99$.
Exporting or sharing your drawings is standard: under the settings menu you can choose to connect with either Twitter and/or Facebook to sign in to ibispaint.com, where you can upload your videos. You can add your own youtube account to store these videos after uploading your submission to ibispaint.com
All in all a very interesting and economic (and now more, it is currently on sale) drawing application, holding its ground against the giants that battle the finger-painting iPad battle. Very recommended for beginner iPad drawers for its price
You can watch one impressive example below, with video:
Quick Take
Value:High
Would I Buy Again:Yes
Learning Curve:Intermediate-High
Who Is It For:Finger-painters with an iPad
What I Like:Minimalistic interface and many options
What I Don't Like:Slight imprecision with my drawing stylus
Final Statement:A strong entry into the iPad drawing world
You can encode and upload the movies to YouTube by one tap.
Share the movies and share the joy of painting!
*Base concept / Features
- Enjoy painting with best usability.
- Smooth painting, high performance.
- Uploading painting movies to YouTube.
- Sharing the art work URLs on the Twitter or the Facebook.
- Downloading others' art works.
*Functions
Of course, ibisPaint has adequate functions for paintng.
[Paint brush functions]
- Smooth painting up to 60fps.
- 19 kinds of paint brushes - dip pens, felt tip pens, digital pens, air brushes, fan brushes and flat brushes.
- Brush parameters - thickness of starting/ending, opacity of starting/ending, initial angle of brush and brush angle following/not following to motion.
- Real time brush preview.
[Area selection functions]
- 256 grades selection for each pixels using the selection layer.
- Inversion(horizontal/vertical), moving, rotation and zooming in/out of selection areas.
- With selection area painting, filling, layer cloning, layer merging down, layer moving, layer rotation and layer zooming in/out.
- Magic Wand function (Selection by color)
- Lasso function (Selection by free line)
[Layer functions] (Optional)
- Layers available up to 6.
- Layer opacity.
- Layer modes(alpha blending, adding, subtracting)
- Cloning layers, import from the photo library, layer inversion(horizontal/vertical), layer moving, layer rotation and zooming in/out.
[Color functions]
- 30 saved colors.
- Color selection using a color circle, HSB sliders and RGB sliders.
- Drug and drop color saving.
- Tap and hold color picker.
[Painting functions]
- Over 100 steps undo/redo at max. (Depends on storage space.)
- Tools - Paint brush, eraser, filling and color picker.
- Smooth zooming in/out (from 70% to 3000%)
[Functions to enjoy works]
- "My Gallery" shows your art works.
- Play painting movies. (The playing speed can be modified.)
- Export to the photo library as a picture(png) or a movie(mov).
- Encode painting movies and upload it to the Youtube.
- Share the art work URL on the Twitter or the Facebook.
- Push notification when a comment is posted on your art work.
- Download others' art works (we call it "vector files").
- "Local Gallery" shows downloaded art works of others.
- Import/Export vector files via iTunes.
*Lastly
We want you to enjoy painting on iPad with ibisPaint! Have fun!
ibisPaint web site: https://ibispaint.com
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Article By ruben
Ruben Berenguel is finishing his PhD in Mathematics while writing in mostlymaths.net about being a 'geek of all trades'. He also happens to be the senior editor in the What's on iPhone network: any complaints go to him!
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