Just to add one more argument for the addition of the toggle.

In some other recent thread someone else requested the addition to remove the RGBA “color info” pop up on the screen when color picking, for a more distraction free workflow, which has since been added as a toggle to the beta, which I really like. And this didn’t get any thought about it potentially cluttering the preference menu. But now for some reason that exact same argument is not valid here, even tough the brush size pop up is much bigger and more distracting in my eyes than the color info one ever was, yet this doesn’t get a toggle.

It feels like - here is the option to turn off this little color info pop up window, but now have this giant brush size pop up window in the middle of the screen instead, which doesn’t make sense at all. I literally can’t understand that decision, it’s just completely in the way of drawing, and I need it so often, that it’s actually the reason to turn me off using the app(beta) like this, it’s just not enjoyable and always annoyingly covering something on the canvas. Making maximum use of the already limited screen size on the iPad, showing as much of the canvas as possible, should be the goal here, and that’s just not it in this case. If anything, I’d prefer for the finger size/opacity slider to be shown on the side as well instead of in the middle. So that it’s just always on the side no matter what, while the toggle would be on.

And I’m sure some others who use their keyboard to change sizes will feel the same. It might work for some the way it is now, but it’s apparently just not a “one size fits all” in this case and, thus it shouldn’t be dealt with that way. And besides all of that, when recording speedpaints including the interface, the brush size pop up would also constantly cover the canvas during said speedpaint. So I seriously hope it will be made completely optional.

I hope that optional toggle will actually be added. I see it as a serious issue right now in the Beta, to the point where I don't want to use it like this.

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Yes I agree with what you said, I've also made many suggestions in the past that were  implemented. But I think it's important to word suggestions in a way, so that other workflows won't get destroyed and rather treat new implementations(especially those that change the UI or core functionality) as an addition/option,  more often than not.

So the other way around they should also listen to those who actually prefer it the way it was, and should at least for such core functions, if there is a reasonble reason like you said(which in this case there obviously is) make it optional, even if it adds one additional toggle in the settings.

I understand… but I don’t think there’s another solution in this case, in order to please both kinds of workflow. And the way it is currently in the beta, is really distracting from painting, and in most other apps, it is also always shown on the side, for good reason.

Can this please be an optional in settings? I also change brush sizes via bluetooth controller and personally prefer things to not cover the artwork in the middle. So I think its actually good its shown on the side.

Thanks!

I love it so far and agree with all the suggestions already made and also here are some of the things I noticed so far and also some more possible features:

Bugs:
-the onion skin/frames/opacity numbers doesn't get saved in the settings if you change it and then open the animation settings again, it goes back to 15 frames, 3 onion skins, 30%opacity, the values do get changed but it doesn’t show it correctly
-app crashes after merging down a layer and pressing play
-app crashes also when grouping layers and pressing play
-app crashes when using the undo gesture with 2 finger hold, after I've added several empty layers while animation panel is open
-sometimes the layer thumbnails in the layer panel change their ratio to square, or are not shown as empty with an "X" even though they are empty (and I have set preferences>Interface>layers>Clip thumbnails to image bounds) idk when it exactly happens, it seems to be kind of random when reopening documents or adding several layers, or generally playing around with layers, or even after crashes, all while animation panel is open
-exporting works for me, but after exporting the animation, a lot of things in the menu bar are greyed out, this only gets back to normal after restarting the app
-the resolution when exporting as mp4 or HEVC is really low, around like 1 K (same is true when exporting canvas recordings btw, wanted to report this since a while ago) even though I have set video recording preferences to 2k, the resolution is really low, definitely not Full HD, and now it's the same when exporting the animation as MP4 or HEVC, exporting GIF seems to have good resolution
-animation panel disappears when switching between documents
-panel also disappears sometimes when switching to different app and coming back to ASP, I think when it's kinda reloading in the background
-animation generally doesn't work when multiple documents are open, it goes trough the frames but doesn't hide the other frames, only gets fixed after restarting the app
-when opening a second document with animation, while the first animation is still running(not pressing pause), the animation panel disappears, but animation is still running and when reopening animation panel it's not possible to pause the animation
-layers>add>add layer via file is not working, it just shows grey window (it's the same in current offical version)

Suggestions:
-the background color for all the layers/frames in the animation panel is white, I think it would be better if the actual background color would be shown, or if it is transparent with a white border only, and the first (background layer) has the actual background color, like in the layers panel
-option to add the "animation panel" and "export animation" to the toolbar/quick menu/shortcuts for faster access
-add "simple" motion layers / paths like in Adobe fresco on iPad
-option to import videos/gifs and turn them into frames/layers
-option to import videos/gifs and keep them as a normal transformable Video/gif, maybe by adding a sepereate "video timeline" to play them
-option to export/import HEVC with transparency/alpha preserved so you can have transparent backgrounds

That's all so far, thank you!

Hi, right now when you try to mirror the view whether using touch gesture or quick panel, it takes the position of touch and use it as the anchor of the mirror.

Would it be possible to add option to always use the center of the screen as the anchor of the mirror regardless of the touch position?
That'd be lovely, thanks! ✨

It does always use the center, if you just double click (or whatever gesture you have set mirror to) outside the canvas instead of on the canvas. And the canvas gets centered quickly via quick pinch, if you have preferences > gestures > quick pinch to reset canvas enabled

When you’re zoomed in, it’s actually a good thing that it anchors where you touch the canvas, and when zoomed out you can use the option I said above. Also attached a screen recording to show what I mean.

So I think the way it works now is good as it is, to quickly access either option to mirror

Thanks for your suggestions. They are very interesting, i put them down in the very long list of ideas, however I'm afraid we don't have too many users using Perspective Grid feature, so improving it may be not the most important thing users need...

It's maybe not be the most important thing for people newly getting into art or drawing casually, but perspective is one of the art fundamentals after all. So I do think there are probably enough pro users that would welcome these features!

I've also seen many similar request in different forums from other apps, like procreate. And Fresco implementing the AI thing. That's prove enough that there clearly is an interest for more advanced perspective grid functions, but of course I also understand there are other things that have more priority right now!