All image rights: Savage Interactive.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 andProcreate 4.3.3
Unleash your inner artist
$9.99 From Savage Interactive, procreate.art
Made for iPad Needs iOS 12 or laterProcreate’s new titling tools bring
a whole added dimension to creating
original artwork.PROCREATE 4.3.3
Extremely powerful
New titling tools are excellent
Seriously pro feature set
You’ll want the biggest iPad for it
AWESOMEprojects, 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 non-
destructive 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 wholenew 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
eļects 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 Ľles.
THE BOTTOM LINE. A slick
and powerful tool for creating
high quality original artwork
on your iPad. HOLLIN JONESExport in a
variety of formats,
including layered
and PSD files.62 AUG 2019 maclife.com