iPastels Pro simulates soft (chalk) pastels, oil pastels, and color blending as realistically as possible.
The pastel medium has been around for several centuries, with roots as old as mankind. An ever-increasing number of artists have since discovered the rich colors and expressiveness of pastel painting.
This app will let you create beautiful digital works of art, especially if you're a talented artist. If you're not, iPastels will keep you entertained until you become one through practice and experience! Simulating soft (chalk) pastels, oil pastels and color blending, the iPastels app tries to be as realistic as possible.
Version 2.1.1:
- Improved trackpad support, to avoid accidental zooming/panning while painting.
- Added support for Mac OS X El Capitan's Split View mode.
- Lots of optimizations, with assembler code and improved use of multiple CPU cores.
- The stored paintings (Work in Progress) now take up significantly less storage space, (they will not be re-saved until you select them, so it might be a good idea to cycle through them).
- Added a new Eyedropper tool (Pro feature, found in the menu that appears when you click a 2nd time on the selected color).
- Brush strokes initiated immediately after one another will now share the same Undo step.
- When the toolbar automatically hides (by painting near it) it is now gone for a slightly longer time, to facilitate painting with quickly repeated brush strokes.
- New animated "Please Wait" messages.
- After clearing the painting or one of its layers, the app now automatically switches to the last used pastel tool (if needed), since there's absolutely no use for e.g. an Eraser on a blank painting.
- (Pro) You can now Swap the selected layer with any other layer, instead of just the layer directly above/below.
- Added new 'Move Layer in Stack' (Pro) feature.
- Fixed some minor memory leaks.
- Fixed a bug that could make the 'Change Layer' button temporarily show the wrong icon if pressed repeatedly.
- Some additional improvements, optimizations and bug fixes.
- OS X 10.8.2 or later
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