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Re: Paper

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Post by cormullion »

intended wrote: post #42
epaga wrote: post #29

Just downloaded it and gave it a spin with my Bamboo stylus. Here are my impressions, FWIW: * First impression: Nice tutorial, nice animations when picking a notebook. Great idea to do your app planning sketches as its own notebook. * First impression while writing: Nice inky strokes, I like the colors. * Second impression: Hmmm...this seems a bit laggy compared to Noteshelf or Penultimate. Yup, definitely laggier (I…

How does this compare to say, procreate or sketchbook pro?

There are many products in this space on the app store, and probably one to suit every taste. Procreate is more capable - layer blending, design your own brushes. Then there's Brushes, beloved of David Hockney. Plenty of notebook apps too: Notability is particularly versatile, Autodesk has SketchbookX, SketchClub and SketchPad are fun, SketchShare is multiuser via wifi, ArtRage is .... OK better stop.

Paper has a pleasing feel but the minimalism won't suit everyone.

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Post by sycren »

It looks really nice and well designed.

I really want to see a MacOSX version of this, there are not really any good minimalistic drawing programs on the Mac app store yet..

Re: Paper

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Post by covalence »

ghshephard wrote: post #51
melvinng wrote: post #35

So if Wacom starts supporting iPad with styluses, will you guys repurchase another iPad if you already had one?

In a heartbeat. A decent pressure sensitive iPad/droid/windows tablet for <$1000 would get my business tomorrow.

Isn't the Samsung Slate 7 around 1k and uses a Wacom digitizer?

Re: Paper

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Post by omaranto »

nullflux wrote: post #8

I really want to love this. iPad hardware just doesn't deliver. The problem isn't that nice drawing software like this doesn't exist, it's that styli on iPad still suck . The capacitive screen (even on "new" iPad) only has about a 6mm capacitive resolution, so you're stuck fudging the fck along with a sausage for a stylus. Ars had a good review[1] on the current state of styli, and they said much the same. I've perso…

Some people have accepted the situation and literally use a sausage as stylus: http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/11/south-korean-iphone-users...

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Post by brohee »

nikcub wrote: post #27
nullflux wrote: post #8

I really want to love this. iPad hardware just doesn't deliver. The problem isn't that nice drawing software like this doesn't exist, it's that styli on iPad still suck . The capacitive screen (even on "new" iPad) only has about a 6mm capacitive resolution, so you're stuck fudging the fck along with a sausage for a stylus. Ars had a good review[1] on the current state of styli, and they said much the same. I've perso…

Yep - there is a reason Wacom tablets are still so expansive. You wouldn't be able to get that resolution at an iPad size for cheap enough - but it is only a matter of time (now that there is a higher scale of demand from Apple and other tablets)

My Asus Eee Note disagrees, and is seen as a Wacom tablet when USB connected to my comp as an added bonus.

Re: Paper

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Post by jcromartie »

philwelch wrote: post #14

I couldn't tell at first if this was an app or just a sarcastic advertisement for actual paper as an alternative to tablets. Maybe that doesn't say much for my powers of observation, but it's also a testament to the product. At first glance, a white iPad running this app is not unlike a pad of drawing paper. Good job.

Imagine the amount of work involved in making something look like paper. It really seems to border on a big waste of time. Computers can do lots of things paper can't, and paper can do lots of things computers can't. So why spend countless man- and machine-hours emulating minor details (grain, texture, absorption) of one in the other?

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Post by robgough »

rdw wrote: post #58
julianwa wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It sounds as if you're rotating one finger around the other? The idea is to use two fingers together (like one big finger) to do a pan in a circular motion.

In all my messing around it did not occur to me to try that. Thanks! Solution blinders in action! I suppose a little animation would have gone a long way towards clearing that up initially. Even doing it correctly, I still feel it's a little too slow, and still relatively easy to flub it into closing the book. I applaud the idea, though.

I had exactly the same problem - I agree that a little animation would go a long way here.

Re: Paper

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Post by mathnode »

mmm looks delicious. I have been an avid user of the Sketchbook Pro way-of-things since Studio Paint. I have ordered a stylus to try this on my girlfriends iPad.

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Post by seltzered_ »

melvinng wrote: post #35

So if Wacom starts supporting iPad with styluses, will you guys repurchase another iPad if you already had one?

yes. I bought a thinkpad tablet specifically for pen input. It's not bad but you need a wacom stylus, as it allows for a feature I call "pre-write cueing" that simulates a shadow/cursor of where you're about to write.

You also need a retina display. You stare much closer at the screen when writing and notice the pixelation much more closely.

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