ArtAlign Mojestic

ArtAlign helps you paint from a reference photo with real precision — and quietly documents the whole journey from blank canvas to finished piece. Start from any photo in your library — or take your reference right in the app with the built-in camera: a still life, the view from your easel, a model. Study references for details like hands or a colour sketch sit alongside the main one. Snap a photo of your work in progress, and ArtAlign automatically warps and aligns it to your reference — correcting the angle, distance, and perspective of a handheld shot so the two line up pixel-for-pixel. From there, every comparison tool works on both images at once, in the exact same coordinate space. SEE WHAT'S ACTUALLY WRONG • Fade between your reference and your canvas to catch proportion and drawing errors instantly • Split-screen wipe, or a rapid blink comparison, for a second way to spot what the fade blend can miss • Synchronized zoom — pinch into a detail on one image and the other follows, perfectly registered PAINT WITH A TRAINED EYE • Grid overlay (3×3, with diagonals, or fine 6×6) for classic grid-method transfer and composition checks • Value study modes — grayscale, 4-value posterize, and 2-value notan — to judge light and shadow without color getting in the way • Mirror flip, the classic fresh-eyes trick for catching drawing errors • Paint Match: tap any spot to see your reference color and your canvas color side by side, with a plain-language read on the difference ("your canvas reads warmer here") — and save the mixes you want to remember to a running palette board MOUNT IT AND PAINT Set the phone on a tripod facing your easel and start a Live Session. ArtAlign watches your canvas, automatically discarding the frames where you're standing in the way, and keeps only the moments where something actually changed — so a four-hour painting session becomes a few dozen meaningful frames, not thousands of near-duplicates. Reference and grid stay visible the whole time, right on the capture screen. Working on an iPad? Pair it with your capture phone and study your reference — and your latest progress — right at the easel, hands free. WATCH IT COME TOGETHER Every session lands on one timeline, grouped by month for paintings that take weeks or months. Play back the whole evolution inside the app, or export a time-lapse video — with a title-safe aspect ratio for Reels and TikTok, a reveal finale that wipes your reference across the finished piece, and optional date stamps and a signature watermark. Your projects sync across your own devices through your private iCloud — nothing is uploaded anywhere else. ArtAlign is built for painters working from photos: portrait and landscape painters, plein air artists finishing indoors, students doing master copies, and anyone who wants an honest, side-by-side record of how a painting actually got made.