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Suggestions, Ideas, Bugs / Re: Feature Request: Lock Secondary Color + Use Secondary Color as Aux
on: August 01, 2025, 03:01:23 AM
Awesome! Looking forward to it.
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Suggestions, Ideas, Bugs / Feature Request: Lock Secondary Color + Use Secondary Color as Aux
on: July 17, 2025, 12:00:28 AM
Hello, I would love an optional "Lock Secondary Color" toggle, which would stop it from auto-changing. This would allow you to get rid of the "third" aux color, having it be the secondary color instead. If not, maybe you could add a brush setting to use the secondary color instead of a third "aux color"?
Right now the secondary color updates to the color you were using whenever you paint with a new color, which may be handy for some workflows, but it makes it difficult to keep a consistent "standby" color while experimenting with new colors. I think an option to lock the secondary color so it stops auto-changing, making it only changeable manually or through switching, would make it more reliable. This would also work neatly with Switch Old/New Color shortcut (which may need to be renamed), as you would have a reliable, consistent color on standby, and could quickly change the secondary color by setting it to the primary one, even when it's locked.
I think this change would also fix the "Aux Color" problem I have, which is that it is tedious to dynamically change the aux color of a brush, as it is a bit of a hidden third color, which you have to manually set each time you want it changed. I understand the reason this was done was that due to the current secondary color implementation being color history, it would make it difficult and frustrating to maintain a consistent aux color for a brush, but this would be remedied by the option to lock the secondary color. For me, globalizing the aux color as the secondary color seems more intuitive, as I think people would intuitively expect the "other" (aux) color to be the secondary one. If you want to maintain the implementation of a fixed aux color while having an unlocked secondary color (personally I find not much benefit for the secondary color being previous color, there is always the recent tab), the option to "use secondary color as aux" in the settings of a brush would also work.
For the UI, maybe Lock Secondary Color would fit neatly under "Add swatch"? Maybe a padlock on the secondary color square instead of it being a color swap? To switch colors you would just tap the primary color rectangle, instead of either one. Though I can see how this might be confusing, as the padlock is used as a luminosity lock for the color circle. Maybe there are better arrangements I'm not thinking of.
Thank you!
Right now the secondary color updates to the color you were using whenever you paint with a new color, which may be handy for some workflows, but it makes it difficult to keep a consistent "standby" color while experimenting with new colors. I think an option to lock the secondary color so it stops auto-changing, making it only changeable manually or through switching, would make it more reliable. This would also work neatly with Switch Old/New Color shortcut (which may need to be renamed), as you would have a reliable, consistent color on standby, and could quickly change the secondary color by setting it to the primary one, even when it's locked.
I think this change would also fix the "Aux Color" problem I have, which is that it is tedious to dynamically change the aux color of a brush, as it is a bit of a hidden third color, which you have to manually set each time you want it changed. I understand the reason this was done was that due to the current secondary color implementation being color history, it would make it difficult and frustrating to maintain a consistent aux color for a brush, but this would be remedied by the option to lock the secondary color. For me, globalizing the aux color as the secondary color seems more intuitive, as I think people would intuitively expect the "other" (aux) color to be the secondary one. If you want to maintain the implementation of a fixed aux color while having an unlocked secondary color (personally I find not much benefit for the secondary color being previous color, there is always the recent tab), the option to "use secondary color as aux" in the settings of a brush would also work.
For the UI, maybe Lock Secondary Color would fit neatly under "Add swatch"? Maybe a padlock on the secondary color square instead of it being a color swap? To switch colors you would just tap the primary color rectangle, instead of either one. Though I can see how this might be confusing, as the padlock is used as a luminosity lock for the color circle. Maybe there are better arrangements I'm not thinking of.
Thank you!
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Suggestions, Ideas, Bugs / Suggestion: Perspective Grid Consistency
on: March 07, 2025, 10:46:38 PM
Hello, perspective grids are often useful for measuring distance and depth. If the squares maintain a consistent size with the perspective, you can see exactly how an object would measure at a certain distance.
However, Artstudio's perspective grid is inconsistent, and the squares stretch and squish with the perspective.
Here is what a normal perspective grid looks like.
However, Artstudio's perspective grid is inconsistent, and the squares stretch and squish with the perspective.
Here is what a normal perspective grid looks like.
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Suggestions, Ideas, Bugs / Re: No smoothing on Lasso when autoclose is turned off
on: February 25, 2025, 07:28:30 PM
Oh, you're right, my fault. I think I didn't see it due to the different types of smoothing.
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Suggestions, Ideas, Bugs / No smoothing on Lasso when autoclose is turned off
on: February 20, 2025, 08:43:00 PM
Hello, is it meant to be that there is only smoothing on the lasso tool when auto close is turned on? If I want to be able to lift my pencil then I can't take advantage of the smoothing feature. (which is really great that you added to the lasso tool by the way!)
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Suggestions, Ideas, Bugs / Re: Bug: Artstudio crashes whenever cmd held + scroll brushes
on: February 14, 2025, 10:45:45 PM
It's still there!
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Suggestions, Ideas, Bugs / Re: Notestudio - BETA
on: December 27, 2024, 11:09:38 PM
I tried it out, here is some feedback
-After undoing with two finger tap there is a pretty annoyingly large window where you can't draw immediately after. This doesn't happen if you use the buttons on the bottom left
-the manual brush adjustment option is pretty buggy, sometimes trying to draw after adjusting the brush size moves the page, sometimes it draws, and if it draws then sometimes undoing afterwards crashes the app
-After undoing with two finger tap there is a pretty annoyingly large window where you can't draw immediately after. This doesn't happen if you use the buttons on the bottom left
-the manual brush adjustment option is pretty buggy, sometimes trying to draw after adjusting the brush size moves the page, sometimes it draws, and if it draws then sometimes undoing afterwards crashes the app
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Suggestions, Ideas, Bugs / Bug: Artstudio crashes whenever cmd held + scroll brushes
on: December 23, 2024, 11:04:58 PM
I use a keyboard for shortcuts, and use command in some of my shortcuts: ⌘
Holding the command key, and then scrolling through brushes while it's held will crash the app every single time without fail.
Holding the command key, and then scrolling through brushes while it's held will crash the app every single time without fail.
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Suggestions, Ideas, Bugs / Re: Notestudio - BETA
on: December 22, 2024, 07:53:48 PM
Wow, a new engine is exciting to hear.
Currently I believe Artstudio has the best brush engine out of any program in the app store by a mile, especially when it comes to importing and displaying photoshop brushes. So I hope the new engine doesn't mean the dynamics and current feel will change too much.
Currently I believe Artstudio has the best brush engine out of any program in the app store by a mile, especially when it comes to importing and displaying photoshop brushes. So I hope the new engine doesn't mean the dynamics and current feel will change too much.
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Suggestions, Ideas, Bugs / Re: Bug - Pigment layer mode breaks clipping masks on groups?
on: June 10, 2024, 03:49:04 AM
never mind, if you set the layer mode of the group to pigment it fixes it, hopefully that helps anyone else that might stumble upon this!
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Suggestions, Ideas, Bugs / Bug - Pigment layer mode breaks clipping masks on groups?
on: June 10, 2024, 02:53:31 AM
If a group has a pigment layer in it, a clipping mask layer on the group does not do anything. Is this a bug, or a byproduct of the pigment layer mode?
A workaround is simply to select the group and mask the clipping layer, just reporting a potential bug.
A workaround is simply to select the group and mask the clipping layer, just reporting a potential bug.
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Suggestions, Ideas, Bugs / Re: PLEASE fix the saving bug!
on: December 17, 2023, 03:49:13 AMCould you check if it happens on iCloud / local disk (On My iPad) / both?it was gone for a bit, but i suddenly started getting the "Document was not saved! Please close and reopen the document" popup every autosave or if i manually save
it seems to have fixed itself, but i don't use icloud, so it was on local disk
scratch that, it only occurs within a certain document. the reason it was gone was that i had made a new one. it could be the size of the document, which is over 300mb.
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Suggestions, Ideas, Bugs / Re: PLEASE fix the saving bug!
on: December 15, 2023, 02:37:56 AM
it was gone for a bit, but i suddenly started getting the "Document was not saved! Please close and reopen the document" popup every autosave or if i manually save
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Suggestions, Ideas, Bugs / Vertical horizon assist without horizontal?
on: November 30, 2023, 09:54:02 PM
Hello, not sure if this was always a thing but now when horizon assist is turned on along with snap to perspective grid, your lines also snap in the horizontal direction, so if the horizon line is flat lines will snap to an invisible 180 degree line.
I can see why this would be useful, but when the perspective grid is in two point and one of the vanishing points is very far away, it can be frustrating because I keep accidentally drawing on to the 180 degree line. However, I still would like to be able to snap to the vertical horizon. I understand that one solution could be to use a 3rd vanishing point without horizon assist, but often I would like perfectly vertical lines instead of ones going to a 3rd vanishing point.
It would be nice if it was possible to turn of the horizontal horizon assist, thank you.
I can see why this would be useful, but when the perspective grid is in two point and one of the vanishing points is very far away, it can be frustrating because I keep accidentally drawing on to the 180 degree line. However, I still would like to be able to snap to the vertical horizon. I understand that one solution could be to use a 3rd vanishing point without horizon assist, but often I would like perfectly vertical lines instead of ones going to a 3rd vanishing point.
It would be nice if it was possible to turn of the horizontal horizon assist, thank you.
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Suggestions, Ideas, Bugs / Colors with 100 brightness not affected by saturation adjustments
on: August 09, 2023, 09:39:18 PM
The title is pretty self explanatory, though it is only when you raise the saturation, lowering it works fine. here's a video of how the bug looks like.