An hour playing with Procreate 1.8.

Categories: artwork

Tags: Digital Art, Tablet art, Procreate 1.8

Date: 02 July 2013 07:43:12

Like it loads. As smooth as it ever was (that smooth 60 fps really shows) with a fabulous brush editing engine that is best in class and then some (better than Photoshops and as good as Pixelmator on desktop/laptop computer for a start and, on a tablet, that's fabulous, powerful and freeing).

The only negative? Well, I've only played with it for a couple of hours while talking to friends on Skype but they STILL haven't fixed the slider issue. Slider issue? When offered the range of colours you have to click on the dot and slide it, not click on the colour you want and move from there. It's a silly, niggling issue, but irritates me a little every time I use it. Imagine wanting a dog to fetch a stick. Instead of throwing the stick you have to drop the stick, walk over to where the dog is, then lead the dog back to the stick.

Over and over.

Sigh.

But apart from that one small issue (and the fact there's no animation or remembering of process - which I can see it would be hard to do with such a powerful underlying engine - I do ask for the moon on a stick sometimes) it's a fab app, well worth downloading and playing with...  And of course it was the THOROUGHLY deserved winner of an Apple Design Award for its "technical, aesthetic, and creative excellence".