It would be great if in the gesture preferences under long press, there was an entry for “pick layer,” which would be functionally similar to the “long press to pick” option in the move tool. This would let you use long press to pick a layer without having to switch to the move tool first, allowing you to quickly paint in different layers. It would be similar to the other entries for eyedropper and autoshape, a simple numerical value that would set how long it takes to invoke.

Could we get an assignable hotkey that shows the quick menu? Right now you can only get it via gestures but when working with a Bluetooth keyboard it would be great to have a hotkey. (On iOS here, not sure how it works on Mac)

It looks like the layer thumbnails are rendering weird alphas on transparent layers. they look fuzzy and seem to have dark halos. This is the case in light and dark mode, and with the light or dark backgrounds options for them.

It would be great if you could view .artstudio files in the Reference Panel. This would allow you to look at other paintings you are making while working, saving you the step of having to export an image of your paintings first. Thanks for your consideration!

When you drag the brush size slider, the icon on the toolbar renders over itself as it animates, making it illegible. You can see the issue in the attached video captured on iPhone.


Also- the icon is of the brush stamp and scales down to nothing when the size goes to 1- I find this pretty impractical. I often work with small brushes and it effectively makes the brush icon invisible most of the time. There also is a bug that makes the little radius number below the icon not render sometimes which makes things worse.


I think a very simple improvement would be to just not animate the size of the brush stamp on the icon. Just leave it a constant scale that is large enough to see. Let the radius number inform you of the current size. The visual scale of the icon can’t be a great preview of the brush size anyway because it’s limited to the size of the toolbar height.


There are some brushes with very transparent stamps that are hard to see on the icon as well, even when they are larger… I’m not sure about what to do to improve this other than trying normalizing the opacity range of the stamp for the toolbar icon. But that may look strange in some cases.


Thanks for your consideration!

My pencil brushes act strangely in the beta now. It seems like something is wrong with the pressure sensitivity, maybe in regard to controlling jitter amount, possibly other aspects. I’ve attached a comparison image and the brush itself.


You can see that the expected result is that the brush creates a spray of tiny stamps, with the jitter distance controlled by pressure. Instead there appears to be strange semi circles cut out from the stroke, in the beta.


It’s the exact same brush in both. I’m sure that more brushes are affected by this, hope there’s a simple solution.

I use iCloud to store my .artstudio files, and I like to use the Windows iCloud integration to organize files in there en masse. However, .artstudio files do not have image previews on Windows, which makes it hard to do simple things like rename them, because you cant easily see what the image is of.

I assume Mac has .artstudio image previews since Art Studio Pro runs on Mac, but it would be very convenient if Windows could also be supported with this feature.


Thanks!

If you put a tool like the brush on the quick menu and use the single finger swipe gesture to activate it, the brush will actually make a mark as if that swipe gesture was a paint stroke. I also found that the lasso tool could register a tap when you swipe to select it the same way. This is enough to make it deselect an existing selection, or sometimes even start a new one. Seems like there's a bug to fix here to make it so that tools selected via the single finger swipe quick menu don't register that initial swipe as an actual stroke/tap for the tool.