– Procreate 4.3.3
Unleash your inner artist
$9.99 From Savage Interactive, procreate.art Made for iPad Needs iOS 12 or later
Procreate for iPad has won an Apple Design Award, and it’s easy to see why. Slick and powerful, the art that users create with it is stunning.
You are presented with a simple and well-designed interface, with a range of professional tools. The Gallery section is where you manage your library of images and projects, the rest of the uppermost toolbar concerns itself with the tools you need to create and edit your art.
You get 136 brushes, with over 50 customizable settings per brush, as well as the ability not only to create your own brushes and sets, but also import and export custom brushes. Colors, brush behavior and parameters are all easy to set. There’s also a clever layering system which is beautifully implemented with masks available for nondestructive editing. The app constantly auto saves your work, and provides 250 levels of undo and redo. Layers can be grouped, multiple selected, and there’s 17 layer blend modes for greater creativity. The most recent update introduced advanced text features, which add a whole new dimension to what you can do with the app.
In addition to drawing guides and “drawing assist”, which can help to smooth out less–than–perfect strokes, the app gives you a bunch of great effects including Perspective and other blur tools, sharpening, a range of color tools, and Liquify. These are all quick and responsive, and required no rendering time on our iPad Pro 11–inch. Technologically, Procreate is designed to harness the power of the latest iPad models, with GPU acceleration, support for up to 16k canvases, and multithreading to take advantage of their many processing cores.
An interesting feature is video recording, so you can record time–lapse video and broadcast online to show how your artwork has been created. Finally, professional export formats are supported, including PSD, PDF, layers, and Procreate format files.
the bottom line. A slick and powerful tool for creating high quality original artwork on your iPad.