Procreate Pocket 2 This iOS painting app aims to help with everything

Procreate Pocket 2 This iOS painting app aims to help with everything

Procreate Pocket 2

This iOS painting app aims to assist with everything from sketches to full renders.

Does it succeed?

Savage Interactive released Procreate Pocket at the top of 2014. The iPhone version of Procreate was well received, with users making the foremost of the app’s 12 default brushes to color on the go.

In the years since artists have come to expect more from their creative apps, and so the developers have stepped up to the plate with Procreate Pocket 2, which, with its freshly written underlying code, may as well be a brand new paint app.

user-friendly and Clean interface

When it’s launched, you’re presented with a screen asking if you want to select a canvas from displayed examples, use a user-created one, import an existing image, open a photo, or create a new canvas. New canvases can be created in various sizes up to a whopping 8K resolution.

Basic tools are located at the highest of the screen including a drop-down Modify menu. Two small tabs on the left control of your brush’s size and opacity level.

The Modify menu items enable you to make changes to either the app or your image.

Here, art tweaks are often applied to layers or complete images. The 'S' icon brings up the Selection menu, and the Arrow icon accesses transforming tools.

 tools for multiple painting and drawing 

To start painting, select the comb on the highest menu. You’re presented with multiple drawing and painting tools that are arranged in 17 individual sets. Each set comprises multiple brushes – there are now 136 to choose from in the app – and brushes can be customized and saved. With a brush chosen, select a color using the far right circle icon.

There are four ways of choosing colors, and color palettes can be imported, too. Click the Layers icon to see all the image’s layers. You can add or turn on and off a layer’s visibility, create new layers, group layers, and change blending modes.

A very Advanced features

Ready to start painting? With so many options the number of choices can seem overwhelming but really, you can start by picking a brush, a color, and then just start getting creative.

The app contains many more advanced features, such as 64-bit color, continuous auto-save, 250 undo levels, and recording your work in 30-second bursts for sharing online. Overall, a product of this maturity and quality is a rare thing. The Artists who own an iPhone or an iPad should make Procreate Pocket 2 Their favorite app, and this app also works on iPad and iPod touch.