Description
From the creators of Brushes! Inkpad is a professional vector illustration app designed from scratch for the iPad. It supports paths, compound paths, text, images, groups, masks, gradient fills, and an unlimited number of layers.
Inkpad was designed with performance in mind – it can easily handle drawings with hundreds to thousands of shapes without bogging down. Export your finished illustrations directly to your Dropbox as SVG or PDF.
Features:
• Very high performance. Select, scale and rotate hundreds of objects with zero lag.
• Create arbitrary bezier paths with the Pen tool.
• Create compound paths, masks and groups.
• Create text objects.
• Place photos from your albums.
• Boolean operators on paths (Unite, Intersect, Exclude, Subtract Front)
• Powerful scale and rotate tools.
• Gradient fills with interactive editing on canvas.
• Arbitrary stroke dash patterns.
• Swatch library.
• Unlimited layers per drawing.
• Rename, rearrange, delete, hide and lock layers.
• Adjust layer transparency.
• Snap to grid, points, and path edges.
• Isolate the active layer for easy editing.
• Email drawings as SVG, PDF, PNG and JPEG.
• Send SVG, PDF, PNG, and JPEG directly to your Dropbox.
Check out user art on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/inkpad
Facebook: http://facebook.com/inkpad
What's New in Version 1.4
• Import SVG, SVGZ, images, fonts and Inkpad files via Dropbox
• Object blending modes (Multiply, Overlay, Screen, etc.)
• Distribute objects horizontally and vertically
• Color Balance panel
• Hue and Saturation panel
• Desaturate colors
• Invert colors
• Blend fill colors between shapes
• Spiral Tool
• Email SVG and PDF directly from the editing view
• Start a drawing with a photo from the built-in cameras [iPad 2 only]
• New sample artwork
• Many performance improvements
• Bug fixes
iPad Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Great Improvements
Firstly--To anyone viewing this review that hasn't bought this app, I can say that if you are interested in vector drawing at all, buy this app and don't waste your time with the other ones. It will save you time and money searching for other apps because this has it all in one.
I've loved this app since I first downloaded it a few months ago. It is, without a doubt, the best $5 I've spent on any app of hundreds I have on my iPhone and iPad. And, with each update, it gets even better. This update I had been waiting a little while for, just because it was so unusual not to have an update every few weeks for this app, but I understand the effort required to make changes as large as the ones that came with this update. The added abilities to make changes to colors are nice to have when I can't nail that exact shade when trying make a drawing. Another addition that might be worth creating in the future is a tool much like the gradient mesh tool Adobe has incorporated into Photoshop. That would allow me to reach the exact colors I could ever want. The sample pieces found in the menu are astoundingly detailed, far more so than I have made. (Whoever made them, whether they be the developer of the app or others that use the app, you have firmly impressed me with your skills.) As far as the highlights that are shown in the samples (e.g. A shadow in front of the toucan on one of the samples) I am not fully sure how to use the shadow and overlay feature. I'm sure it's probably somewhere obvious, but some things I just don't notice. As far as the import tools for fonts, etc. from dropbox, it is a great addition and one that I will probably use frequently, as I thoroughly enjoy using different fonts. These import functions are great and make things a lot easier. The next import function I would like to see added is the ability to bring in pieces I've designed in computer apps like Illustrator or others, layers and all. I'm not sure if this might be possible with the limits of tablet apps, since tablet apps are far less powerful than computer apps, such as Illustrator, but I figured it might be worth requesting. If you could find a way to work with Illustrator files in this app or even export the files from here to Illustrator files, this app would be so much more convenient. I could use it to take home pieces I've designed on a school computer with Illustrator, making it more than an app I use for casual drawing. However, if this is not possible, I completely understand. This app is still amazing anyways. Overall, I know this review sounds more like a list of things I want, but I really don't want it to be. This is an outstanding app, as I said before, and I just see endless potential in it with more and more updates. You prove the extent of what can be put into this app with every new update and then expand the boundaries even more with the next one. Inkpad, I believe, proves the power of tablet apps and has become more and more impressive with each new update.
Finally - custom fonts of MY own choosing on iPad
Yes! Import custom fonts ACTUALLY works - though I don't understand the lack of documentation. I prefer another vector app, but I am not a pro illustrator, so I generally use what I can understand...but Inkpad is a necessity if you work with clients who use proprietary fonts not found on the iPad.
Here is what they don't tell you unless you search it out: the latest Inkpad update allows you to import stuff like svg files through it's native integration of Dropbox - you can get an free account with two gigs. Regardless, you can drop OTF and TTF font files in your Dropbox on your laptop or whatever, and then import them into Inkpad, install them, and then use them like any other font. Does not support those idiotic svg fonts as far as I know, just good old fashioned OTF and TTF fonts (incuding your Adob fonts!)...I tested it out, every thing from the Google Font collection to freebies to commercial fonts.
You do have to select each font to import it - no folders - but you can open nested folders inside Inkpad to install the fonts. Relatively quick, unless the font files are large or many. One weird thing I noticed - you can only import from one folder at a time. If you have a folder full of font folders, you will have to select & import each folder's fonts separately.
Also, your new font collection, as far as I can tell, only works in Inkpad, the fonts will not be available in other apps. I now have over 75 new fonts of my own choice available, and can add more anytime.
The new update also allows import/export of image files through the integrated Dropbox account, including stuff like PNG and SVG files.
I have zero affiliation with Inkpad, am totally independent. I created the audiosaudio site to write about ios audio apps, this is just info I think other iPad creative user's would be interested in knowing about.
Lacks some basic edit functions
This is a wonderful app, however, I purchased this app thinking that I could make simple edits such as making a background transparent, like in a PNG file where the background becomes checkered. Well, I have come to find out that this app does not have an editable background function. When the developer advertises that you can adjust "transparency", that is in regards to colors and NOT backgrounds. If this app had that function I would give it four to five stars but because it does not have normal basic edit functions that one needs in a vector art program I am currently giving it only 2 stars. Perhaps this can be considered in a future update.
- $7.99
- Category: Productivity
- Updated: Sep 02, 2011
- Version: 1.4
- Size: 2.6 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Taptrix, Inc.
- © 2011 Taptrix, Inc.
Requirements: Compatible with iPad.Requires iOS 4.2 or later.
