Camera Lucida™: AR Drawing

July 6, 2024

The professional choice for assisted drawing! Version 17.1 has been recompiled to take advantage of the newest iOS 17 features, and some minor graphic designs have been updated including a new app icon.

March 28, 2024

The professional choice for assisted drawing! Version 17.0 has been recompiled to take advantage of the newest iOS 17 features. To ensure operational interoperability of functionality dual-device support and "levelize" filtering has been removed from this version.

December 9, 2023

The professional choice for assisted drawing! Still no subscriptions! Purchase it once and everyone in your family can run it on every device they own! Camera Lucida 16.x brings support for all USB enabled web cams and document scanners. By using an external camera, you can place your camera and you iPad where it's the most convenient for you! What a great way to create large art! This *does* require a USB-C iPad running iOS 17.0 or higher. This version also adds a host of undo and redo features including a complete history. Plus, you can create your own custom image filters for use later! There's also simplifications to the user interface, a new guided tour feature and lots of little improvements requested by the users such as the ability to tap on the user manual table of contents and jump to that section. (The user manual is now over 50 pages long and filled with graphics, tips, etc.)

November 1, 2023

The professional choice for assisted drawing! Still no subscriptions! Purchase it once and everyone in your family can run it on every device you own! Camera Lucida 16.x brings support for all USB enabled web cams and document scanners. By using an external camera, you can place your camera and you iPad where it's the most convenient for you! What a great way to create large art! This *does* require a USB-C iPad running iOS 17.0 or higher. This version also adds a host of undo and redo features including a complete history. Plus, you can create your own custom image filters for use later! There's also simplifications to the user interface, a new guided tour feature and lots of little improvements requested by the users such as the ability to tap on the user manual table of contents and jump to that section. (The user manual is now over 50 pages long and filled with graphics, tips, etc.)

January 23, 2023

Wow! Wow! Wow! It keeps getting better! Version 15.3 brings support for iOS 16.x and Apple's new front center landscape camera found on the new iPad 10! With version 15.3 you can now use multiple iOS devices at the same time and stream the video from one device to another! (Requires iOS 10.3 or higher to receive video.) With this capability you can easily create enormous art, even murals. Or perhaps you just want to draw more comfortably with your large iPad screen in front of you and your iPhone's camera poised about your drawing surface. It's up to you! If you are on the fence about which drawing app to get, be sure to read the functionality list and the reviews! No other app comes close! Version 15.3 also contains many changes to take advantage of iOS 16 features.

December 28, 2022

Wow! Wow! Wow! It keeps getting better! Version 15.2 brings support for iOS 16.x and Apple's new front center landscape camera found on the new iPad 10! With version 15.2 you can now use multiple iOS devices at the same time and stream the video from one device to another! (Requires iOS 10.3 or higher to receive video.) With this capability you can easily create enormous art, even murals. Or perhaps you just want to draw more comfortably with your large iPad screen in front of you and your iPhone's camera poised about your drawing surface. It's up to you! If you are on the fence about which drawing app to get, be sure to read the functionality list and the reviews! No other app comes close! Version 15.2 also contains many changes to take advantage of iOS 16 features.

December 2, 2022

Wow! Wow! Wow! It keeps getting better! Version 15.1 brings support for iOS 16.x and Apple's new front center landscape camera found on the new iPad 10! With version 15.1 you can now use multiple iOS devices at the same time and stream the video from one device to another! (Requires iOS 10.3 or higher to receive video.) With this capability you can easily create enormous art, even murals. Or perhaps you just want to draw more comfortably with your large iPad screen in front of you and your iPhone's camera poised about your drawing surface. It's up to you! If you are on the fence about which drawing app to get, be sure to read the functionality list and the reviews! No other app comes close! Version 15.1 also contains many changes to take advantage of iOS 16 features.

November 24, 2022

Wow! Wow! Wow! It keeps getting better! Version 15.0 brings support for iOS 16.x and Apple's new front center landscape camera found on the new iPad 10! With version 15.0 you can now use multiple iOS devices at the same time and stream the video from one device to another! (Requires iOS 10.3 or higher to receive video.) With this capability you can easily create enormous art, even murals. Or perhaps you just want to draw more comfortably with your large iPad screen in front of you and your iPhone's camera poised about your drawing surface. It's up to you! If you are on the fence about which drawing app to get, be sure to read the functionality list and the reviews! No other app comes close! Version 15.0 also contains many changes to take advantage of iOS 16 features.

February 6, 2022

Wow! Wow! Wow! It keeps getting better! With version 14.0 you can now use multiple iOS devices at the same time and stream the video from one device to another! With this capability you can easily create enormous art, even murals. Or perhaps you just want to draw more comfortably with your large iPad screen in front of you and your iPhone's camera poised about your drawing surface. It's up to you! This new version also brings another long-hoped for functionality: The ability to save your drawing session part way through and then restore the drawing session at a later time. And the icing on the cake is the ability to *automatically* realign your drawing, camera and reference image. Additionally, users who have noticed the time-lapse videos can be "grainy" will be happy to hear that the default recordings are much cleaner and the app has a new user interface for letting you pick the format and quality of the output video.

May 24, 2021

The highest rated app for drawing on real world media just keeps getting better! Camera Lucida version 13.0 puts powerful new color palette tools at your fingertips. Now with just the press of a button, Camera Lucida will analyze the image you want to draw and show you the best colors to use to draw the image. You still can control all the details - how many colors you want to use, the fine tuning of the colors, and even setting the colors from a photograph of your own paints, markers or colored pencils. Camera Lucida will then enable you to work on the colors layer by layer, giving you complete control over what color layers are displayed over your drawing surface. With version 13.0, you can also make use of Apple's newest ultra-wide angle cameras to create very large art without having to place your iPad or iPhone far from your drawing surface! With sophisticated corrections for barrel distortion, you can do this without creating any fisheye or other unwanted effects. To use this feature, you'll need one of the awesome new iPhones or iPad Pros with these lenses. Also included are many updates that come directly from the suggestions of Camera Lucida users. A new slider, for example, enables you to control the transparency of your overlay while you're composing your image. This is super helpful when you are compositing multiple photographs into a single drawing. These days there are lots of apps that try to copy Camera Lucida, but even the best of them only have half the functionality of Camera Lucida. Our pledge to you is to continue our 11-year commitment to create the richest drawing app with the best technical support possible. We do it while continuing to support iOS versions all the way back to 9.3, which means our app even runs on an iPad 2!

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