Just a quick note to Lucky Clan. Please allow us to save the Favorites Toolbar settings for backup. Thanks.

This needs to be considered for the very next update. ASP should follow Procreate and introduce a background grid for ASP. This simply makes it easier to “see” the document placed on the board. So when you change the orientation or the angle the background grid makes it easier to see the location of the document. The “black” background is not only too plain and boring…it doesn’t tell you the orientation of the document and its scale. The background grid, like Procreate has, would fix this.

I would like to introduce a couple of ideas from Clip Studio Paint that I think would be very good for ASP. CSP has this concept called Approximate Colors. It’s a dialog box that opens up to show you a grid of all possible shades of one color you choose to look at. Each tiny square shows you a slightly different tint of the overall color you’re looking at. This concept makes it super easy to tap and choose the exact shade of a color you want to use in a painting. You simply tap with your Apple Pencil and choose the shade to use. Very useful idea.

Borrowing off of that idea of approximate colors CSP also has something called intermediate colors. This is another dialog box but with an interesting twist off of the approximate colors idea. In this dialog box you have four corners with empty squares. The idea is to choose 4 colors of your choice and you click each empty square on the corners to place that color in. What happens is CSP populates a grid of tiny squares showing a gradient map of all possible shades of the 4 colors you choose to look at. In this way CSP generates a blend of these 4 colors making it easy for you to select the exact tint of the color you want to use. This would be a fantastic way of generating shades of chrome colors for artwork. The possibilities here are endless.

So with the Approximate Colors and Intermediate Colors ideas ASP should copy from CSP and use them. Procreate doesn’t have this…yet. So I think you should think about introducing these neat color concepts in ASP in a future update. So Lucky Clan, whaddya think?

I’m noticing that although ASP does offer CMYK preview mode…it doesn’t show an explicit CMYK color wheel. So we’re essentially making RGB color wheel selections when doing work in CMYK preview mode. This isn’t correct and it doesn’t allow for correct color selection in CMYK preview. Please add a CMYK color wheel for correct color selection in the CMYK preview mode. Using an RGB color wheel in CMYK preview mode is misleading. Just letting you know…Procreate DOES have a CMYK color wheel to select colors in a CMYK color space. I hope you see my point is valid.

Although you can now create instant color swatches from photos in ASP, I’m disappointed to see you’re only allowed up to 24 colors automatically generated…whereas Procreate generates 30. My question is why the smaller number of 24? It hasn’t escaped my notice to see ASP is limiting this number. Is this due to copyright infringement issues with Procreate over the number of color swatches that gets generated automatically? Or is there another concern…because I’m not understanding why 24 colors when you could have easily generated the same amount that Procreate generates…which is 30.

This is borrowed from Clip Studio Paint…so bear with me on this. In Clip Studio Paint when you use the eraser, you see a white circle showing you exactly what is being erased. The benefit is you can see the exact moment the eraser is removing the pixels on the canvas as you go back and forth. But the cool thing about the eraser in Clip Studio Paint is that while you’re erasing…the white circle eraser leaves behind a trail of all the areas you’re erasing in white..as if you’re erasing the actual canvas. But when you finish erasing…and lift your Apple Pencil off the canvas…the white eraser marks immediately disappears and the canvas returns to its pristine state after you finish erasing. This is extremely beneficial because you’re seeing the area that was being erased as you’re erasing. So when you finish…all the eraser marks disappears and you’re left showing the canvas in its wake.

ASP needs to implement this idea on the eraser tool as quickly as possible. Because the current version of the eraser only shows an invisible mark while erasing. That’s not precise enough especially if you’re doing detailed erasing. The white circle has the benefit of showing you the size of the eraser you’re using and also showing you where you’re erasing.