Lightbox Trace User Reviews

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The only problem I have is now I need a 24 inch iPad Pro.

Works great as a Traditional Lightbox. I sometimes need to trace a drawing from one piece of paper to another. This app does it, and it locks the screen down so I don’t accidentally wipe the app away when drawing.

Always sideways, but good locking function

Unless it's a screenshot or an image I saved in the net....

All photos I've taken myself are always sideways. Not even because I took the picture with my device sideways or anything. It just always puts it sideways and stretches the image to fit the screen. Making the "turn 90 degrees" and "scale" functions absolutely useless, because it's already distorted the image to fit the screen. All my upright photos are being turned sideways and stretched upwards.

If you want a Lightbox for images you download, I think it'll be worth it for the locking screen function. Otherwise, if you ever hope to use your own photos, you're better off finding something else.
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Turns screen upside down

As title, after use every thing is upside down

Perfect

Just what I wanted simple and effective thanks

Not really fit for purpose

It keeps flipping my iPad screen upside down even though it's on a flat surface, and despite me pressing the padlock to lock the screen the brightness keeps going up and down and random apps popping open. It's such a shame because if it actually locked the screen, it'd be perfect.

Mr

Just what I was looking for! I wanted to use my iPad as a lightbox to physically trace (using pen and paper) some illustrations I had made without the screen moving and doing all kinda of crazy stuff. This app solves that problem and works brilliantly as a lightbox and has some other great features. You can open images from your gallery and lock the screen to trace. Really useful for hand rendering typography and referencing stuff u wouldn't b able to draw by yourself. The filter features is such a bonus for the small donation, allowing u to edit saturation brightness etc to make your life a lot easier. Highly recommend this app. A lot simpler and more effective than any other tracing app I've looked at. Great problem solving by the developer. Thankyou :)
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Not good

I tried to use it on my iPad Pro and it doesn't freeze the frame properly, as soon as I start to trace an image it moves around, then it zooms and makes my whole iPad zoomed in. Only way to fix it is to restart my iPad, can't use this app! Bummer!

Works but has issues...

If you're looking for an app that will supply you with a light to trace with, this is great. Otherwise it could do with some help. Every time I import an image to trace, it flips it sideways and distorts it. I've tried a number of things to fix it but I ended up deleting the app. I'd return if it got fixed but otherwise not really worth it.
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Perfect for tattooers

This app is perfect for tattooing. I can use it either as a light table for hard copy tracing or to make liners from images that's customers email or the text me right on the iPad! No more having to print stuff out to make liners, thanks!!!!!!!!!!

Requires Purchase to Draw

Looked promising, but it evidently requires an in-app purchase to enable drawing on photo. Needs more work for it to be useable for me.

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