Another Few Suggestions Topic

[astromedia]

Hi, i have bought it today on sale for future use on tablet (I have "only" Galaxy Note 2 at the moment) .. it was still lil pricy for "casual" graphic as i am but (i hope) if it have listening and active devs it would be worth it. Firstly i have to say its best looking app of this kind and im happy you have done Android version because it was my favourite drawing app on PC long before despite fact mouse was not so practical as pen (but i had some time to try it with wacom tablet screen at school and that was great).

Anyway i would like to ask for few things. Would be great if you could implement somehow Samsung SPen SDK (im not sure if its even necessary, it could be implemented as classic mouse maybe) and show brush size circle while hovering with spen over screen - it would be great especialy with eraser to see where it will be erasing . Second thing - would be nice if position in layer menu would not be reseted after action like show/hide layer or change of opacity - when i do one of these layers will scroll to top and on smaller devices it could be anoying if somebody have to work a lot with layers. Another great thing would be implementation of Folders or atleast Tags in galery for better sorting/categorizing of drawings.

PS: finding rename option wasnt much intuitive either (would be nice if it could be in menu also) but i could live without it

I hope this help improve your app somehow, thx for reading and sorry for my english - im not from english speaking country.

[HannahRage]

Thank you for the suggestions! Those are all useful, but involve lots of technical things that will decide whether we can add them.

[astromedia]

Thx for reply, its really nice to see so active Admin/Moderator ... I see, im partialy developer too so i see few problems that would be needed to solve probably but technicaly it should all be possible and not as much problematic. Anyway keep me informed here what was rejected/accepted (so i could know what i can look forward to see ) if i may ask

[astromedia]

Ok, after some time of using i have few more ideas:

Export/Import to/from psd or atleast what gimp uses.
Moving layers in drawing space (weird i was not able to find this, it seems like basic tool).

And about S-Pen - button settings (maybe to switch before last used tool and eraser?)

I will probably add to this post eventualy another ideas

[HannahRage]

Moving layers in drawing space (weird i was not able to find this, it seems like basic tool).

Transforming layer contents? We're actually working on this (and have been for a year). It's got some really complicated math, so we're still fine tuning it.

We probably won't be changing the export options any time soon, but we are looking at what else we can do.

[astromedia]

Transforming layer contents?

I used "in drawing space" to exclude meaning "Move layer in list". Pardon my poor vocabulary, i will demonstrate it on example. Let say i will draw house in one layer and tree in second layer and now i would like to be able to move that tree to be at different position to house (or duplicate and move to create "forest" around my house). So just simple movement of layer content would be enough. But moving and resizing should not be so complicated too if you dont mean transforming on curve level (i dont know how exactly are drawing paths of all tools handled = if its possible), there i would see that complicated math but that basic movement would be enough

About exporting would be nice to have some commonly used format with layer support to export to.

PS: About moving layers in list - while i have more layers and using smaller screen that movement (up/down) in list becoming fast/chaotic. On bigger screen there would be nice to have some line separator/cursor to see where that draged layer goes after droped but on smaller screens would be nice to rework that movement algorythm completely to be more slow/fluent or add buttons to move up/down by 1. Main problem i see there is there is no safe/stop zone while draging that layer ... would be nice to be able to stop that moving on spot where i want layer to go and not just drop at random and hope it will go right where i want it to be I hope you understand

[hamer1952]

I just downloaded Artrage 1.2.0.1 for Android, I like it very much but there needs to be some improvements like rotating the canvas clockwise or counterclockwise would be real nice, when your tracing something that little tracing window that pops up it would be nice if it stayed up and then you can tap it to close it and then when I'm tracing something and I'm using the default tracing pencil when I draw a curved line shortly after that it kind of straightens out a little bit that needs to be fixed then when I choose not to use the default pencil and then it's fine. By the way what is the current version.

[HannahRage]

You do have the latest version available online. Canvas rotation is something we are working on for a future update.

The pencil that is correcting after you draw a line can be adjusted. Tap the 'settings' icon in the top left and adjust the Smoothing down lower to a level you find comfortable (or turn it off entirely by setting it to 0%).

For the pop up tracing window, do you mean the menu where you add and edit the tracing image? If you are on a larger tablet (instead of a small phone) then you can pin a menu open on the screen (look for the small circle in the top of the open menu). Small phone screens don't support this though.

[hamer1952]

What is the latest version, the version I have is 1.2.0.1. I download the app from Google Play Store. If there is a newer version where can I download it at.

[HannahRage]

You have the latest version.