This idea comes from Zoomnotes a digital writing program that I use occasionally. What this feature does it allows the user to drag and drop pieces of text off the page and puts it on the blank space out off the margins of the page. The benefit here is you can drag and drop that text back onto the writing page when you need it.

This idea would work nicely in ASP. What this does is it allows the user to transfer the artwork by selecting everything on the page and dragging it onto the blank backspace out of the canvas ready to be dragged back onto the canvas when needed. Why would this be needed? Think of the benefits.

1. You won't have to delete the artwork right away to start from scratch. The art now becomes a impromptu repository of ideas you can "put aside" like a grab bag.

2. Then blank space surrounding the canvas becomes your stylesheet allowing you to reuse the same artwork when needed. For example, let's say you need to add some sky elements to the page. Instead of painting over an area with blue skies...you can "reuse" the sky you painted a while back since it's sitting off on the blank space. This saves time.

3. It would be the one area that ASP could get ahead of Procreate.  Win win.

I’d really appreciate it if the color bar that’s attached to either the left side or the right side of the screen could be draggable. This would be a really good feature to implement because right now you either have to reach to the left side of the screen to tap a color hue or drag the slider to adjust the opacity or size of the brush. Yes, you can do these things with shortcut keys...but the added ability to drag the color bar to just where you want it on the screen would be a great way of allowing a user to put it where she/he wants. For example...why not allow the user to drag the color bar and put it on the bottom of the screen? Or anywhere. Please consider this.

There seems to be an inconsistent issue using the Apple Pencil and my fingers in ASP when trying to delete or rearrange color swatches.. When selecting color swatches for either deletion or rearranging I get this inconsistent popup to delete or rearrange them when using either the Apple Pencil or my fingers. It’s a case of “ASP loves me. ASP loves me not” issue. Sometimes you hit the color swatch with the Apple Pencil or your finger and you get the popup saying you can delete or rearrange the groups. But then when I go back to the same color swatch by clicking on the group icon the message doesn’t appear anymore. What’s with that behavior? Then I go to another color swatch and I get the message again. I go to another one and the message doesn’t appear. What’s going on here? I’m sorry but I think this is an issue that needs fixing.

Edit: I want to be clear on this. This is NOT an iPad issue at all. I’m able to select any of the other panels in ASP and I don’t get this inconsistent behavior anywhere else. I can tap any of the other panels and everything responds quickly as I’d expect them to. I’m not getting any inconsistent behavior when using the Apple Pencil when using it to select any of the toolbars or using brushes on artwork. I’m getting this issue only with the color swatch popups for rearranging groups and deleting.

Edit: I think this issue has been addressed? Apparently one has to “select” the color swatch to see the orange highlight on the group name before choosing the swatch to get the option to rename, rearrange and delete? I’m still watching this one. There might still be an issue with this here.

Right now the only way the color picker works is if the image is inside ASP for it to pick up color. It would be really handy if when using ASP in side by side mode or slide over mode to sample colors OUTSIDE the ASP environment. This would be super cool. Hey Lucky Clan...how about this one?

I’m surprised this isn’t in ASP...the ability to open a toolbar with a list of all the actions made during a project. An snapshot action toolbar would allow you to click on the history to go to an earlier stage in a project to test different ideas. This would be a really great thing to have. I’ll give you a hint...Procreate doesn’t have this. But Photoshop does. Any takers?

I’m noticing that ASP doesn’t remember your chosen brush when setting them on the toolbar on the menubar. If I select a favorite brush and set it to open up when I choose that brush it should remember only that brush set up for use. But when I go elsewhere on the toolbar and return back to the same brush choice it fails to register. This happens after a few canvases are used. I’m wondering if this is a memory cache issue. Because I’m only noticing this issue now when I opened up a fresh new canvas to create artwork and choosing the top icon for the brush I’ve set up did I notice it not recalling the brush I set it up for. This issue has caused me to “remember” what my brush setting was for and that’s troubling. I shouldn’t need to remember the brush I set. I’m curious if the new toolbar favorites presets is what’s causing the issue. Because now that I have the favorite preset toolbar..I can simply click on that instead. But this defeats the purpose of having the brushes separate on the toolbar on the top left side.

Coming in from Procreate I'm finding the color wheel in ASP very small. I'd like to have the freedom to see the colors more easily if the color wheel could be resizable. Can this be done in a future release please? Thanks.

I’m referring to the new Artstudio 3.1 released yesterday. The new Favorites Presets Toobar is great. Now if only it could be detachable. This way it can be open at all times. Would help a great deal.