If I understand what you are describing correctly, this feature exists in Art Studio Pro. There is an option in the tool settings for the Bucket Fill Tool (and Pattern Bucket Fill Tool) called Lasso. It’s right at the top of the options. It’s been referred to as “Lasso Fill” on these forums. You can set the blending mode to erase in the tool options to make it act like an eraser. It’s handy to set one of the buckets to erase, so you can quickly fill and erase by switching between those tools.


Unfortunately there isn’t much documentation about this feature out there, it’s pretty tricky to find. but it works really well.

Thank you so much for this detailed explanation. I now know how this works! It does work but there’s a problem…it only works in the current session when using this. There is no way I know of to make this a permanent tool to use whenever I need to. I would have to select the bucket fill tool. Open the options in the 3 dot color bar to get to the settings of the current tool and change the blend mode to erase. But this only works on the current session. The minute you CLOSE the options for that bucket fill tool…it reverts back to normal. Is there any way to keep this tool with the setting I choose it like that so it’s always set to “erase” in the blend mode?

Edit: Very important detail. You have to change the BLENDING mode to OVERLAY…not ERASE. Because erase will literally only erase the underlying layer. Another detail…you can save this bucket fill tool setting only in the Favorites toolbar. So set your Bucket Fill tool to lasso, change the blending mode to OVERLAY and then hit save on the Favorites toolbar. Now you have the bucket fill tool that remembers your setting. Procreate is probably going to get something like this pretty soon. They mentioned something about “favorites”…so being able to save tool settings in a favorites toolbar makes sense.

Lucky Clan, please tell me there’s a way to save the Favorites because it’d be hell to lose all those toolbar settings if something goes wrong and I have to reinstall the app. Resetting all those brushes would take forever. Not to mention I won’t be able to remember all the exact settings I set up after fiddling for all the sliders and buttons to get them where I want them. If there isn’t a way to save those settings in the Favorites…please make this an update soon. Because we would definitely appreciate having the ability to save Favorites in a folder online like in Dropbox or whatever and being able to restore directly from Dropbox and such.

Coming to ASP from Procreate I’m finding it hard to understand why Lucky Clan is not allowing percentage measurements to control settings in Dynamics especially for color pressure. You get the visual graph setting pressure, tilt and velocity but no precise way of controlling the amount per setting. In Procreate you go to color pressure settings and you’re able to precisely set the percentages on each category. Why is this missing in ASP? I think this section needs to be revamped to allow percentage measurements.

Sorry for breaking my promise not to post anything else after my last post saying I’d stop after saying all I had about issues with ASP…but I had to make an exception here because this dynamics section is very important.

Fine…then make it optional. Nobody is forcing you to see it if you don’t want it. I happen to appreciate that Procreate background grid and hope Lucky Clan implements it.

If it helps…I’ve said all I need for requests for ASP from this point on. My last request was for the background grid…which I hope can be implemented soon. This is a useful feature. The Clip Studio Paint feature requests are my favorites I’d love to see brought into ASP…but since I’m sure they have a lot on their plate as it is…I’m not going to complain.

Anyone here who has Clip Studio Paint? Because I think it has the best blending tool of all the painting apps on iOS. I’m wondering if anybody knows of any settings to make to the ASP blending brush to give it the closest approximation to Clip Studio Paint’s settings? Thanks.

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?