Well, ASP has a nice one! I think the key to a UI is it needs to be customizable. Most people have their own way of working. Also, people have most likely been using another app at this point and are used to using it. Most basically copy Photoshop. In fact, I purchased Artrage, which has a unique UI and I proceeded to make it look as much like Photoshop as possible!

Rebelle has a nice interface. I like that you can make any brush the way you want on the fly. For instance, in Photoshop, if I want to blend or mix colors, I have to pick the Mixing Brush. I'd rather just change that kind of option on the fly with the brush I'm using.

I like the idea of a paint mixing palette (once color mixing is implemented). Photoshop had a plugin called Mixoos, but I couldn't really get it to work correctly. I think Painter has a separate painting palette.

Well, that's my 2 cents for now!

Bob

I know your main competition is probably Procreate, but apparently they have no plans on making a desktop model, and you already have one that I believe, is a lot better than most people think if they haven't tried it.

You could promote it more, maybe.

I, too, mainly use Photoshop and am dabbling in Krita, but would love to work more in ASP if I knew it was going to be developed into the future.

Bob

Hi...

Are you still developing the Mac desktop version? Is there a v5 for desktop?

I've been playing with ArtRage and Krita (Photoshop is my main painting app) and the brushes in ArtStudioPro are much better, in my opinion, than either of those apps. I'd hate to put time in the desktop version of ASP if it's not going to be developed any longer.

Thanks!
Bob

OK I sort of solved this problem by using an app called PurRef: https://www.pureref.com/

I can have my reference image over the ASP window, even on a Mac. I just can't color pick from it.

Still would be nice to have a reference image in ASP and the ability to have to documents side by side.

Bob

It probably needs to be changed to a mixer brush. You can play with the settings in the brush editor.

Hi...
I'm on the desktop version of ASP.

I've tried several times to record myself painting and the results are not what I expected. I would scroll to Canvas Recording>Recording, start painting, select Recording again. Sometimes nothing happens, sometimes I just get the stroke on the canvas but not the process of me painting it. Not sure what the finished recording is supposed to look like,. either.

Thanks!

Bob

Hi...

I'm sure this has been mentioned before, but it would be nice to show two open documents side by side as well as being able to open a reference image to view within the interface, rather than doing that split view which really isn't the same thing.

Bob