I believe that wide possibilities of interface customization can be real competitive advantage of the app in compare with other art apps. All artists have there own preferences and work flows.
1. Reduce height of color panels:Users mostly use their favorites modes like hsv for example, others can be removed under option button. This will make whole interface cleaner and makes more space for canvas.
https://ibb.co/h286C062. Make left bars consistent with width:Atm, sliders are 64px, undo/redo are 46 px, selection bar is 100 px. Sliders are a bit narrow, bars a bit too wide. 80px for both would be ideal, look consistent in terms of design and wouldn’t move you color/layers panel if you dock them to sliders and then use selection (it goes right to 36px atm).
https://ibb.co/5WDFXbt3. All most used actions in one menuEverybody speaks about design of Procreate this day. I think it’s good, because mostly all most used actions are in one place. In Artstudio some elements are scattered in different menus. Less menus leads to easier and faster navigation.
https://ibb.co/8jWgNP3https://ibb.co/tQ7yjLz4. More space in layers panelhttps://ibb.co/THmSp6K5. Thumb size round buttonCan be turned on/off in settings and be placed in any area of screen. Can be used for different configurable actions:
1. Color picker button (hold button and tap pencil)
2. Eraser button (hold button to erase)
3. Switch brush and eraser by tap
4. Size changer (pull up/down to change brush size)
5. Opacity changer (pull up/down to change brush opacity)
6. Size/opacity changer (pull up/down and left/right to change brush size and opacity)
https://ibb.co/QCD1F236. Sliders are optionally on topThis will help a lot to people who doesn’t use their left hand to operate with size/opacity.
https://ibb.co/68syvnw7. Erase blendingI use it as a replacement for regular eraser. But it should be turn off automatically when you color pick.
8. Box and circle selectionsI use only pencil mode. Lasso tool works only with pencil which is should be. But box and circle selections work with fingers also which leads to many accidental touches. It should work only with pencil too.
Hope I spent my time with use. Thanks.