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FocalPaint

FocalPaint

digital painting reimagined

⭐️4.7 / 5
Rating
🙌6
Ratings
📼1 sc
Content
📦~ in 3 weeks
Updates frequency
🗣❌ unsupported
Your locale
🧾$0.99 - $9.99
In-App Purchase

All Versions of FocalPaint

2.7.0

May 12, 2024

New Brush Input! Barrel Rotation (Roll Angle), for Apple Pencil Pro on iOS 17.5 or newer!
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2.6.6

April 14, 2024

- Fixes an issue drawing near edges of the canvas - Make sliders easier to use - Fix a background texture/canvas loading issue - Import Photo as Layer now scales and rotates the image to fit the canvas
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2.6.3

March 3, 2024

- Maintenance updates for supporting new iOS versions - Fixed default brush eraser
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2.6.2

February 18, 2024

Update smudge paint algorithm for thickness Update brushes Add optional tip / contribution links to in-app purchases, so you can support FocalPaint if you enjoy it
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2.4.0

January 29, 2024

- fixes an issue where smudge erases at the beginning of strokes - new color picker UI based on color history - brush editor fix for special characters in brush name - brush updates, new custom brush to shift color/value
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2.3.4

December 16, 2023

- fix an incorrect calculation for Direction Changed brush input - updated brushes
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2.3.0

December 15, 2023

- New color picker square model (similar to HSV Square) - Adjust colors mid-stroke for smooth gradients and faster workflow - Revamped canvas rendering for larger canvas support and better performance - Updated brushes
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2.2.1

September 24, 2023

Fixes an issue with iOS 17 and non-m1/m2 iPads. MetalFX is not supported on these devices but was enabled automatically. Alternatively to updating, one can disable MetalFX in FocalPaint preferences
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2.2.0

August 27, 2023

- Background improvement, don't apply bump map to background image, which makes it look strange and lumpy - Reduce specular highlights more, avoid more halo artifacts
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2.1.2

August 23, 2023

Small fix to avoid halo artifact

FocalPaint In-App Purchases History

$0.99

Generous Tip

Optional Tip / Gratuity for Developers

$4.99

Big Tip

Optional Tip / Gratuity for Developers

$9.99

Huge Tip

Optional Tip / Gratuity for Developers

Price History of FocalPaint

Description of FocalPaint

FocalPaint's unique brush engine simulates thick paint and real pigment mixing with accurate physics models. Create unique pigments with the spectral paint editor, and even add your own GPU Shader code and Javascript for nearly limitless custom brush possibilities. Features: - Realistic 3D paint thickness and opacity - 16 channel color model (256 bits per pixel) - Spectral reflectance editor to create unique pigments - Realistic Pigment mixing (based on weighted geometric mean) - Blue and Yellow make Green instead of Grey (like most apps) - Advanced brush designer with GPU Shader and Javascript code editors - Wide color gamut (P3) - Undo/Redo gestures (2/3 finger tap) - Apple Pencil support - MetalFX Spatial Upsampling (on supported Apple Silicon devices) - Import multiple reference images with tracing options - Brush Controls for size, strength, or custom settings. - Four customizable "joystick" controllers to quickly change brush behavior on-the-fly - Pressure-sensitive color picking with 3 modes (active layer, merged layers, and merged layers + background) - Dozens of Brush Settings and Inputs - Dynamic Textured Canvas simulates "tooth" and bumpiness - Contextual color wheel mixer with additive (light), pigment, and subtractive modes - 10 Standard Tube Paints: 5Y, 5GY, 5G, 5BG, 5B, 5PB, 5P, 5RP, 5R, 5YR - Hue, Chroma/Saturation, Value sliders - Color Mixing Palette - Automatic autosaves - Share/Export as JPG - Additional Canvas backgrounds, or import new. - Canvas Texture Properties Editor - Import Images as Layers - Import Images as Canvas Backgrounds - Basic Layes with Opacity and Thickness controls - Layers: Add, Move, Merge, Remove - Greyscale mode - Flip horizontal mode - Finger-painting mode with force-sensitive pressure - Color and Brush history panels Please note: Apple A12 GPU or newer is required Terms of Use: https://www.focalpaint.com/p/terms-of-use.html Privacy Policy: https://www.focalpaint.com/p/privacy.html Special Thanks to: Scott Allen Burns Troy James Sobotka & Friends colour-science.org python library MyPaint painting software team Anna Timm (@anti-art)
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FocalPaint: FAQ

Does FocalPaint support iPad devices?

Yes, the FocalPaint software is iPad-compatible.
brien dieterle launched the FocalPaint app.
The minimum required iOS version for the app to work is 16.2 or higher.
FocalPaint has a user rating of 4.7.
Graphics & Design Is The Primary Genre Of The Focalpaint App.
2.7.0 is the current version of FocalPaint.
The date of the last FocalPaint update is July 6, 2024.
The FocalPaint app was initially released on February 7, 2023.
The FocalPaint app is rated brien dieterle: Contains no objectionable material.
FocalPaint currently features the following languages: English.
No, FocalPaint is not on Apple Arcade.
Yes, FocalPaint seamlessly integrates in-app purchases for users.
Unfortunately, FocalPaint is not tailored for compatibility with Apple Vision Pro.

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Reviews of FocalPaint

  • Fantastic- but,,

    /why/ does it interrupt one’s drawing every time the canvas is flipped - that unskippable pause and full screen grey out - :( - no option to turn it off.
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    Other: not able to set eraser to a different brush then what is selected for drawing & painting - wanting charcoal texture eraser for oil and vice versa
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    Accessibility: high contrast mode - it’s hard to tell sometimes what’s being clicked out the change in hues is so fine
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    Good work with this - your brush engine is chef kiss - some tweaks with flow improvement could make this a main drawing app for us
  • Love the originality and uniqueness of this app!

    I am just playing around with it and I’m not even sure how I stumbled upon it but since it was free to download and I thought why not? And I’m super impressed! It is not your average drawing/painting app. It’s very minimalistic but the tools are impressive. There are multiple color picker options meaning multiple ways to choose whatever color which I found was super unique and I played around with that alone for a good 5 minutes. I love that you can save in very high quality. The background/textures that you choose from are fine and I like that you can customize how your strokes interact with the canvas texture you have set as the background. I do wish I could save without a background/paper texture. For nearly all the digital art I do, I always save in full transparency PNG format and I can’t seem to do that here so that’s really the main qualm I have and it’s a big one, for me at least. I couldn’t even get a perfect white paper background no matter how hard I tried. They were all off white and so I uploaded a picture of my own to use but still not great as I had to crop and edit it down just for it to be able to load into the program but anyways, now I’m just rambling. I will continue to play with it. I hope they don’t let it go to waste although I know developing and maintaining an app can be costly. All in all, I would definitely recommend giving this a try, especially if you’re a traditional artist and want more of a ‘realistic’ look or feel. I hope they can keep up with this app, the developers have done great 👍 😊
  • App tech issues

    Hi I was just trying out this new app I discovered on my iPad when I downloaded and went into the app the screens were blank therefore I can’t see the canvas or anything paint settings to show on the screen I also did a few strokes with my apple pencil and it ended up glitch me back to the Home Screen, so I tried it on my iPhone and it did really well as it was supposed to be shown when I download but I was hoping if The app can be fixed for iPads Because this app seems interesting to test out as an Artist and looking forward to what it can do, thank you for your time 👋🙂

    Developer Response

    Do you know if your iPad has an A12X or newer processor (iPad 8th gen or iPad Pro 2018 or newer)? I am trying to add a warning pop up but I can't seem to prevent downloads from incompatible devices. In any case, I'm sorry you're having trouble!