I love my paper napkins (and food!).
I’ve found more inspiration while I’m eating for many of my projects and a paper napkin has saved me countless times when I’ve needed to diagram or sketch something out.
Perhaps I should upgrade to the iPad now that I own one?
I wasn’t sure which one to get until I saw Jared rock this design literally right in front of me:
Sweet!
A little while later Jared did one for the 8BIT Network‘s logo:
Jared was using SketchBook Pro by Autodesk and was handling it like a champ. It’s a few bucks, sure, but you can obviously do some pretty fantastic things with it – Jared’s designs above didn’t even scratch the surface (but still looked awesome)!
Here are some of the specs:
- Full Screen work space with support for any device orientation
- Canvas size: 1024 x 768
Multi-touch Interface:
- Two finger pan & zoom navigation with 2500% zoom
- Three finger tap for controls
- Three finger swipe gestures for quick access
High quality brushes and tools:
- Professional grade paint engine delivers smooth and precise brush strokes
- 75 preset brushes, including pencils, pens, markers, natural media and photo brushes
- New Nature & Stamp brushes
- Flood fill and smear tool
- Completely customizable brush settings for each brush
- Draw styles for creating straight lines, rectangles, and circles
- Synthetic pressure sensitivity (brush fade-off)
- 10 levels of undo and redo (Quick Access: three finger swipe left and right)
- Dynamic symmetric drawing
- Quick Access: Three finger swipe down on canvas
Layers:
- 6 Layers allowing ease of editing and control
- Import layers from Photo Library
- Duplicate, Merge and Reorder Layers
- Move, scale, and rotate layers interactively using Multi-Touch
- Toggle visibility and adjust Layer Opacity
- Quick Access: Three finger swipe up on canvas
Gallery:
- Store and view work-in-progress
- Export to Photo Library
- E-mail images
- Export as a layered PSD file
- Browse images in full screen mode
Colors:
- Color Wheel with HSB and RBG color space
- Customizable Color Swatches
- Eye-dropper color selection
- Erase color chip to convert any brush into custom eraser
Stay Connected:
- Built in SketchBook News panel for live info about Sketching events and announcements
- Visual help pages
I especially like the ability to export as a layered PSD file!
This is for iPad? Holy crap I want to have this!
nice work! i love it. have sketchbook on my iphone, and will load in on my ipad when i get it (it’s in the mail). did you do all that with your finger or do you use a stylus (like a Pogo).
thanks!
I did it all with my finger.. it’s pretty easy to get “sucked” into it.. its like adult fingerpainting.. only drawbacks.. even with a stylus like the pogo.. no pressure control.. and tilt control. like you would see using a Wacom tablet. it’s still pretty killer and easy to use.. and the ability to export to a native photoshop .psd is really nice!
That’s pretty sweet! May have to test it out when I get back to the U.S.
Thanks for the great review. You can check out some of my drawings and doodles done with SketchBook Pro uploaded to iPad Doodler: http://www.ipaddoodler.com/
I’ve tried most of the sketching/drawing/painting applications currently availabe for the iPad myself and found Sketch Book Pro to be by far the most competent and professional (the closest thing to a mobile version of a desktop Photoshop). Back in early 2010 I would never have believed that the iPad would become a part of my everyday graphic design work.