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Inkist ios app Bluetooth#
Thankfully, several third party manufacturers have begun releasing styluses using bluetooth which can report pressure information.
With standard styluses and finger strokes, brush strokes will have a slight fading in and fading out, using the light and strong brush pressure parameters as guides. For the most part I’ve been successful in transitioning this to iPad. iPhone’s small screen necessitates hiding features behind taps and iPad apps seem to follow suit either without enough consideration as to how much can be displayed, or in attempt to create an uncluttered look without regard to functionality.Īs mentioned in my previous blog post, brush feel is of top priority for Inkist.
There is some tradeoff with drawing space, but it’s a tradeoff I wish more apps would make.
Rather than tapping a button to reach those controls, Inkist keeps them on screen making the process faster. As understandable as this is, switching brushes, colors, and layers while drawing is common and needs to be easily accessible. Drawing apps currently on the App Store try to minimize the screen real estate taken up by the tools in order to dedicate as much space as possible to the drawing itself. The toolbar is a bit unusual for an iPad app. The buttons are based off a larger 50 point grid rather than a 30 point grid due to the fact that fingers and iPad styluses aren’t as accurate devices as Wacom digitizes, but the overall organization is unchanged.
Inkist ios app mac#
Since the Mac app was meant for use with pen input, it was already well suited to an iPad stylus. Though it’s usually a terrible idea for a Mac and iPad app to share an interface, the iPad (right) tools are little changed from the original. iPads, however, are commonplace, general purpose devices that are ideal for both amateurs and travelling professionals. Of course, there are many people like me who enjoy drawing, but don’t have the money to buy an expensive specialized piece of equipment like that. In short, Inkist is how I envisioned drawing on a Cintiq (or other drawing tablet) should be. When Inkist was released last May, I wrote this blog post about its creation which may be worth revisiting. Posted by tai on 18:53:07.Inkist iPad Transitioning from Mac to iOS
Inkist ios app full version#
If I’ve played it right, hopefully I’ll see the word spread and sales of the full version will go up, too. I think there is a danger that I’ve made the limitations too loose and most people will be happy with Inkist Lite, but as Filterstorm is the vast majority of my income, this is a risk I can afford to take.
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This makes it a powerful enough app that people can get real use from it, and many may want to stick with the lite version, but limited enough that more serious users will all want to upgrade to the full version. Instead I simply set a limit of 3 layers available to the user. I thought about doing the same limitation as Sketchbook Express, but having a flattened image on save would hurt people who start working on an image in Inkist Lite and want to finish it when they upgrade to Inkist. That seems to me to be a good way to do things, give people a good taste of the abilities of the program but with enough limitation that people will want to upgrade.
Inkist ios app free#
Sketchbook Express is a free version of Sketchbook which flattens the images when they’re saved (there are probably other limitations, but that’s the only one I’m aware of). So I decided to go in a different route, by which I mean “shamelessly copy from Autodesk’s strategy with Sketchbook”. I like going through the app store, though, and demo versions don’t work for that. My first thought was a demo version, something that expired after 30 days you could get from the Inkist website. I did have a big banner feature which helped, but not enough. Of course, it turns out there are fewer mouths to spread the word when people have to pay $9.99 to get the app. I set the price where I wanted it to stay, and simply released it hoping again that word of mouth would spread it. Inkist’s launch was a very different story. The reason I launched it as a free app wasn’t business savvy (though in hindsight I’m glad I did), it was simply that I had developed Filterstorm without access to an iPad and I didn’t trust it to run properly — and at first it didn’t. It was a free app at the time of iPad launch, and thanks to an early staff favorites feature, it hit number 11 on the free apps sales chart.
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