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ArtStudio for iPad – Updated

Lucky Clan today is pleased to announce the release and immediate availability of ArtStudio for iPad 4.0, an update to their versatile drawing/painting/photo editing app. ArtStudio is the most comprehensive, sketching, painting and photo editing tool in the App Store. Completely re-designed from the ground up the new ArtStudio features a beautiful new user interface and a powerful new graphics engine to make creating works of art faster, easier, and more fun! Using advanced drawing algorithms this is the fastest and most precise version of ArtStudio to date.

This app has just received a major update, you can read about that in What’s New below. This is a free update, if you have previously downloaded this app. If not, you can download it here. It retails for $4.99/£2.99/download.

 

What’s New?

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* New UX
* Incredible performance boost
* Bigger max canvas sizes: 2048×1536(iPad 1), 2592×1936 (iPad 2), 2448×3264 (the new iPad)
* Use as many layers as memory allows
* 300 High Quality Brushes (150 free, 150 paid) 20 groups in total
* Improved brush quality
* New text tool with text layers, use external TTF fonts (uploaded in iTunes)
* Many more brush settings: blur, flip, size, opacity, spacing, fadeout, squeeze, wetness, angle, speed-size, speed-opacity, random flip, scatter, jitter-spacing, jitter-angle, jitter-size, jitter-squeeze, jitter-opacity, jitter-hue, jitter-saturation, jitter-lightness
* Curves adjustment
* Layer names
* Auto contrast/colors/white balance
* New filters: radial blur, motion blur, render clouds

Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.

One Comment

  • Bill LaRocque

    Bravo on the new release. New interface = different. Where is documentation or information on how to use. It’s good but not completely intuitive. I’m giving a presentation on this app on Saturday. Help!