APPS & GAMES

Our top picks of the month for Mac and iOS

Apple has only recently released iOS 11, but the popular art app Procreate is looking to take advantage of its new features. Procreate 4 is the app’s ‘biggest update ever’, and is powered by an all-new painting engine that makes use of iOS 11’s Metal 2 and Swift 4 to make painting smooth and fast.

You can now mix and blend wet paints on the canvas to create interesting new effects, and make use of any brush to shape the paint’s textures however you like. Brush blend modes have been improved and expanded, and layer masks have been introduced to your workflow.

The colour interface has been redesigned, the wide P3 colour gamut is now supported, and sketching with the Apple Pencil has seen improvements. In fact, Procreate 4 introduces hundreds of refinements, making it a must for any artist who works on iOS.