Great Painting Application for pros and beginners
This is my favorite painting/imaging tool on the iPhone. It is currently being marketed to beginners, but folks with artistic training will find this app especially useful for sketching, exploring color ideas or creating quick artful portraits with very little effort. For beginners, good things happen just by following the tutorial movie (basic "big brush to small brush" idea most painters follow); for traditional painters these "sketches" can point the way to starting a canvas in a fresh way; especially to simplify detail, color and textures. I wish I had a tool like this as an art student 20 years ago. Art teachers and students will find new ways to design and break down images and test multiple ideas quickly (I have started photographing and reworking some of my old paintings to take some of them in new directions). It is even starting to replace my little travel sketch books. Photoshop and Painter are great apps, but this little tool is just so much more direct and to the point for many styles of painting. Its an interesting application that can span such a wide range of aspirations in such a simple, powerful way. I love this app! Would pay 50x or more for it (and would have to on a PC or Mac :-).
P.S. I see from the reviews that early adoptors with older iPhones and OS versions had trouble with crashes, but Ive had no problems with version 1.3 on my 3GS (32G) with OS 3.0 and 3.1 for whatever thats worth.
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Artist's Touch for iPhone