But color picking only works if I have the eyedropper tool selected right? I never use this tool, as I always use the long press. As I hardly ever use the keyboard, changing tools to the eyedropper does not make much sense for me. CSP just has a simple button to pick a color automatically when tapping on it.

Its great to see the improvements in the Beta. Being able to add tools to the Painting mode is very useful. Also the reference image is a great addition.
Some improvements in this respect I would like to see:

- Color pick from the reference image: this is a thing that can be toggled in Clip Studio and is super useful.
- Load a couple of images at a time, between which I can switch.
- Toggle hide/view reference image in painting mode.

As for the painting mode it would be useful to somehow bring up the main menu with a button, like is possible in CSP.

As in painting mode the brushes menu moves to the top, I always confuse it with the button for stylus/finger. I don't use this button and don't know why a menu option for this would not suffice. Now it takes a too prominent place which is annoying to me.
I would also rather have a befault "brush" button than the stamp preview, as it is sometimes hard to see with small brushes. I also don't find it very useful to have the preview.

I hope you can use this feedback for improvements to the app, thanks.

I hope you can put some resources in fixing the Mac app, as it seems rather broken in many things:


- The brush sorting is very wonky, it probably should look like the iPad version, but it is all jumbled.
- The Gradient map UI is broken, see screenshot
- Having the color picker window open slows down the app, especially on tool switching, see the screen recording I made
- The text in the brushes overview is quite blurry

Please give it some love, as it is not really useable for me now. I know iPad is your main focus, but I believe the Mac app has a lot of potential that is wasted. Improving the things mentioned, plus a full screen mode and customizable shortcuts would make it a very good app indeed.

(I am using an iMac 2011 with el Capitan)

When I try to use the text tool in the beta, I get a normal text window in the selected font, but when I type something, there are only the two text tool handles, but no text. I have tried several fonts, but no cigar. 

I tried switching to the basic palette with fewer color, though it might be slightly better, it is still much worse than it was before. In fact it never used to be a problem, so something must have changed, or some kind of bug crept in. I checked the activity monitor, and it seems that ASP almost used the double amount of CPU when I have the color editor open. This seems abnormal to me.

I hope a quicker fix can be made than to wait for the next big update, which might take months.

Full docking system is a lot of work. In a near future we will add only option to hide panels (Tab shortcut), full docking system must wait for its turn...

Hint - you can use Brush/Color Editor window, and move it anywhere.

I can see the problem you describe, and find it logical you prefer to improve on other things and focus on the iOS app. However I do not have a huge monitor, and though I can drag the panels anywhere on the screen, they are too big and distracting, and cannot be placed above each other as they are too big for that. If docking is too much work, perhaps a pop-up window which closes automatically would be possible. Or have a panel that is smaller or can somehow be minimized/rescaled?

Your post title is quite offensive to the developer. I don't know why you can not ask a friendly question. If this is an app you consider using, why would you call it a toy??

Anyway, ASP certainly is not a toy, it is a professional art app, especially for drawing and painting, with very good editing functions. I don't believe it is a full replacement for photoshop, but why would/should it be? It is dead cheap in comparison but offers a lot of bang for the buck if you love drawing and painting in photoshop, but don't need all the photo-editing functions, 3d, plugins, CMYK, RAW editing etc...
ASP has build an amazing iOS app, and the small development team are very responsive and bring new features often. Branching out to another platform requires a LOT of work and resources being devoted to this. Rather than being a Jack of all trades and trying to please everyone, I think it would be better to improve the App for current platforms.

If you need a cheaper alternative to this for PC, you could look at affinity photo or designer. If you need drawing and traditional animation, clip studio paint would be another choice.