Inspire - Paint, Draw & Sketch
By KiwiPixel
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Description
Try Inspire and you will quickly see that it is a painting app like no other! The key feature is the simulation of wet oil paint on canvas, allowing amazing blending effects with five real kinds of brushes. You will be stunned by what you can do with a dry brush!
Inspire is not a Photoshop clone. It does NOT have layers or a large number of brushes. It does, however, have the BEST color blending capability on the App Store. Whether you're a beginner, expert, or somewhere in between, you will enjoy the simplicity and power of Inspire.
★ REVIEWS ★
"...it’s like the other painting apps are kids crayons and this is a proper set of Artists oils. You can almost smell the linseed oil."
- Andy Cook (allaboutiphone.net)
"Hands-down, Inspire is the most addictive and fun painting app available for the iPhone..."
- Michael Essany (theiphoneappreview.com)
"Very enjoyable painting app. The blending feature is awesome... To anyone looking for a similar to Painter painting experience on the iPhone, I strongly recommend Inspire."
- Thierry Schiel (fingerpainted.it)
"One of the greatest features of this app is just how much control you have over what your brush strokes look like and what they actually do to the painting."
- David Hayward (appshouter.com)
"Inspire was one of my favorites out of all the iPhone painting apps I've reviewed so far."
- Sue Chastain (about.com)
✔ FEATURES ✔
Full Retina display support with laser-sharp graphics.
Brushes
- Five realistic paint brushes to choose from: a flat brush, round brush, fan brush, palette knife and clumped brush.
- Each brush comes in many different sizes and can be rotated a full 360 degrees.
- Brushes can be loaded with different amounts of paint, including no paint at all for a dry brush.
- Varying amounts of pressure can be used with a dry brush to achieve many different kinds of blending effects.
- Paint actually "breaks" as it depletes off the palette knife, allowing techniques such as layering and the creation of textures.
- A stippling effect can be produced on the canvas by painting stab strokes with repeated taps on the screen.
- All brushes can be used as an eraser, controlled by the pressure.
- The bristles of each brush act independently of each other and are completely randomized in every way, producing natural brush strokes that never look exactly the same.
Painting
- Two different canvas sizes to choose from: (640 x 960) and (960 x 960).
- The intuitive painting menu completely disappears when dismissed and rotates to accommodate the current orientation of the device.
- There are 8 hotspots around the edge of the screen that can be tapped to perform commonly used actions quickly and easily.
- 1000 levels of undo and redo are available.
- A non-realistic paint mode adds versatility to the brushes, allowing you to draw and sketch as well as paint.
- Choose any paint color you can dream of right away with the natural color picker.
- You can save your favorite colors while painting with drag and drop.
- The eye dropper tool can be used to select paint colors that are already on the canvas and can be invoked using a tap and hold gesture.
- The canvas can be moved around and zoomed in and out up to 3200%.
Saving, Importing and Exporting
- Paintings are automatically saved in your gallery and easily exported to your Photos.
- Images can be imported from your Photos and positioned, rotated and scaled onto a new canvas.
- Paintings can be sent via email from within the app, attached as uncompressed PNG image files.
- Paintings can be uploaded directly to Facebook, Twitter and Flickr.
- Paintings can be exported at resolutions of up to 6 times the original in both PNG and JPEG formats using the free Inspire Exporter app available for both Windows and Mac OS.
Visit KiwiPixel.com for more screenshots, videos and paintings in the gallery.
What's New in Version 3.1
EXPORT
- Paintings can now be uploaded directly to Facebook and Twitter from within the app.
- Uploads to all social networks are now fully asynchronous so that they can be completed in the background or even all at the same time.
- A new Export menu consolidates all of the options for exporting a painting and conveniently shows the upload progress for each social network.
- Increased reliability of existing Flickr upload functionality.
- Paintings can now be copied onto the iOS clipboard so that they can be pasted into emails or other apps.
PAINTING
- Stab strokes can now be painted by tapping on the canvas. Try them repeatedly with a dry brush for a whole new kind of blending effect.
- The painting engine is now fully optimized for the iPhone 4S and its dual-core processor. Brush strokes now render faster and have smoother paths.
- The Paint Color, Brush and Paint menus now each have two buttons at the top-left that can be used to quickly cycle through the other menus.
MISCELLANEOUS
- Many performance enhancements throughout the entire user interface.
- Several subtle functional and cosmetic improvements to the user interface.
- Increased reliability, frequency and robustness of automatic background saves so that you will never lose your progress on a painting.
- Several bug fixes.
- Fixed a few compatibility issues with iOS 5.
- Improved memory usage.
iPhone Screenshots
Customer Reviews
Wow!
This is a lot better than I expected for the price and super easy to use. Don't pass it up!
Awesome!!!
This app has Awesome affects! Well worth it especially compared to some of those other lame drawing apps! This has soooo many options too.
Simply amazing
If you want a paintbox and sketch pad always with you buy this app!
- $4.99
- Category: Entertainment
- Updated: Nov 22, 2011
- Version: 3.1
- Size: 11.4 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: KiwiPixel
- © 2009 KiwiPixel
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad.Requires iOS 3.0 or later
