But why would anybody want to work in photoshop if you are using Artstudio pro? Seems like a bad idea to be like yeah here take this and leave the app so you can use the competition?

In my case mostly for being able to share/sell brushes with other artists who don't use Artstudio Pro. Also I believe a number of artists work with multiple different apps depending on the project and .abr is unfortunately the only one usable in many different drawing/animation programs

If you go to Preferences > General > Video Recording, you can change the video recording quality to 4K and then your timelapse exports shouldn’t be blurry anymore. c: Though if I remember correctly, it only works for newly created documents after you change it.

it was gone for a bit, but i suddenly started getting the "Document was not saved! Please close and reopen the document" popup every autosave or if i manually save

Since I tested the fix, I only got this same error message once, while saving with iCloud (it only happened after ~20h, of now 70 + hours of working), however, it did actually still continue saving normally after that (despite the error message) and no progress was lost.

So it's important to understand what exactly was happening to you? Did you actually lose any progress of your art, or did you just get the error message? And are you saving your documents on iCloud or local storage?

Hey there!

I'm wondering if recently something was changed regarding the saving bug?

Yesterday I was working on a painting, when I left my iPad for 10 mins. And when I came back, I was shocked to see that none of my progress was saved. I've lost around 2+ hours of work... this is the first time that this has happened to me while NOT using iCloud as storage location... and I also got no notification for a saving issue or anything.. needless to say, that this was really infuriating.

And I really don't believe that Apple will address this issue anytime soon. It's been happening since over half a year already! So, at this point, it's really up to you (Lucky Clan) to fix this somehow. Even if it means going back to a custom gallery (since you mentioned this is likely the root cause for it, that somethings wrong with Apples gallery view, which also explains why the same thing happens in Pages and Numbers). Or even if it means changing something bigger inside the app, so it's not so reliant on bugs from Apples side like this...

This is just such a gigantic setback in the overall app reliability and functionality it's actually driving me nuts at this point... none other drawing app has this issue. And it's a huge one, since you literally cannot rely on ASP saving the work you do, and it's been going on for months and now only seems to get even worse... I was able to circumvent this bug mostly by not using iCloud (I would still get saving issues, but could just restart/reopen the document and wouldn't lose hours of work) which was already inconvenient enough. But now loosing hours of work again, even though I'm NOT using iCloud, is just bad.

Idk how to say this more nicely at this point, since it's really just so freaking annoying, and I just cannot grasp how finding a way to fix such a HUGE bug, isn't the number 1 priority for you right now...

And I'm curious to know how many other people dealing with this bug? Which is why I'm posting it on the forum too, instead of via email only. I saw it mentioned a few separate times on here, but it always gets buried/forgotten again, as the forum isn't that active lately.

Please just make this a priority...

Off-topic:

There is another unrelated bug that reappeared, idk when. But exporting animations as HEVC doesn't work properly (colors are wrong and frames are not playing correctly). I think it's only when exporting with transparency. Also, when using "undo" after playing an animation, it undos every single playback, instead of undoing the strokes/adjustment/etc. made.

Also, somewhat recently, I experienced some seemingly random crashes of the app, something that hasn't really happened before like this. Just thought I should mention, even if I don't know the cause yet.

Thanks!

This is actually a system error on Apples side that was introduced with the 16.4 iPadOS update.

I've been trying for the past month to solve this issue together with the developer via hundreds of emails and differnt approaches, but unfortunately there is just no way to fix this. It happens only on bigger documents.

In the recent Beta (that propably will soon be on AppStore) there will be error messages that pop up whenever this occurs, so you now at least to immediately copy layers to a different document and to restart the app, to avoid losing progress. Also changing the default saving location from "iCloud Drive" to "On my iPad" in ipad Settings > Artstudio Pro and to save new Files in Files > On my iPad > Artstudio Pro , can minimize how often it happens, and how much work you lose. It will also get rid of lags, incase you experience those as well (But only new files will be saved there, for existing files you need to move them manually). You can still upload the files to iCloud manually after you finished painting. Saving manually instead of autosave won't make a difference unfortunately.

The same kind of issue is also occurring in the Pages and Numbers app from apple. The only thing we can do is trying to make Apple aware of this bug... The ASP developer has opened a thread on Apple discussion, you can reply to and you could use the Apple feedback assistant to report this. https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254870123

I know this is very annoying, I've also lost hours of work due to this becaue my documents are alway pretty big. But for now all we can do is to hope for Apple to fix it soon...

Now I wouldn't stop them, but looking at the results in CSP I am totally underwhelmed by their feature. The inferred geometry and thus shading just doesn't look good to me. Maybe it's the particular example of the girl's head. But the last image (interior) looks even worse, or rather wrong, with gradients all over the place that just don't belong there. I guess to make this work better the app could make use of ai models that better predict the actual geometry, and so can apply shading that is ... realistic, or rather convincing. This would, of course, defy the purpose of a drawing app and take away the fun of painting, illustrating and creating stylized images 

Having exactly the same thoughts about this 😅

Please test new beta, it is now possible to just pick "Pigment" blending mode in Layers panel or in Tool panel.
But the most simple way is still just tapping "Pigment" button in Layers panel which turns on Pigment blending mode for both tool and layer.

Yes, thank you! It’s great now, for all different situations! 😊

Wait, I just realized that with the update, the option to add pigment blending to specific brushes was removed entirely?

That means now with the way it is set up, it’s not even possible to use the pigment option together with other layer blending modes, like color dodge/multiply/etc. and you have to turn it on for each layer individually… that makes no sense imo.

I agree that having just one button to turn it on is a good idea, but it should still be possible to then use other layer blending modes, multiple layers etc., together with the pigment option. Is there no way to make it globally that colors just behave like this, while keeping all other functionalities the same? Like Bob said, that it just “does it” when turning it on. I think a “global button” should then also be within the settings and not inside the layers panel.

Having to turn it on it for each individual layer, and not being able to use other layer blending modes with it, is very restrictive now