Long press undo-Redo/history slider

[Ben]

I miss a fast undo/redo option in Artstudio. Tapping dozens of times with 2 fingers is very inconvenient and slow.

Procreate has a nice two/three finger HOLD gesture that is quickly going backwards/forwards and repeats undo/redo commands automatically while holding down.

Infinite Painter goes even further and adds a history slider to slide through the history of all recorded steps, which is great! If you can add something similar, it would make working with Artstudio much more convenient.

Additionally I would like to request a Snapshot feature, that adds the current image to a dedicated snapshot section in the layer panel so we can compare and easily try different versions of our image, kind of like in photoshop.   

[IvanJankov]

Totally agree with UNDO/REDO.

But I didn't understand Snapshot feature

[Ben]

A snapshot saves the current state of the file and saves a „screenshot“ in a separate panel that looks like a layer panel (instead of us users having to save multiple files manually). This is useful for situations where you want to try different versions of your work. You can then click on each of the screenshots to easily compare them with each other, and completely restore one of these saved states if you like one of the snapshots more than the current version, without overwriting/losing anything.

It’s a simple but extremely useful feature that for some reason nobody implemented yet. Photoshop only uses layer states, which is a „lite version“ of my suggestion.

[lastaccess]

I don’t think this snapshot is that simple to implement as you describe. First of all it uses lots of storage, especially if you draw with video process recording. When my files are bigger then 1 gb, Artstudio is already not that fluent and file loading is pretty long (around 10 sec or smth).

I use copy merged -> paste on different stages of painting. Of course whole image is on one layer but it still can help.

[Ben]

The files would be separate for each snapshot, so you are only working on one file at a time, performance will be the same as it is now. Video recording is not really a problem either, it will not record a video for each file separately, only one for the „master file“, which includes all your work for each versions, which is exactly the same as trying multiple versions of your work without my suggested snapshot feature.

That is basically the same function that you described with the layer, except that this layer would show up in a dedicated panel (or actually it can stay in the layer panel but look different, like a different color or an additional icon that shows it is a snapshot and not a normal layer) and that you can „reactivate“ because a full Artstudio pro file is backed up together with that snapshot layer.

[Oni_ni_kanabo]

+1 to this

Holding undo/redo to rapidly move through history is much needed. Having to spam the gestures to move any substantial distance in history gets incredibly tedious.

Having an actual history window like in Photoshop, Clip Studio Paint, etc. would also be very useful.

IDK much about snapshots personally, but it sounds like it would also be a great addition!

[Lucky Clan]

You can tap-and-hold undo/redo icon to quickly undo/redo multiple steps.

2-finger tap-and-hold will be added in version 3.1