Grid Painter User Reviews

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Best app for artists

This is the best app for getting an accurate drawing and so helpful for seeing values

Quite good

Now I am getting the hang of it I am managing to get useful grids - It wont let me upload the photos I want to use from my desktop, but I am working round that by putting them into my photos library and then it lets me take them from there.

Response from developer

I’m sorry you are having trouble with that. In the info button is a link to email support and we can help you figure it out

Daily composition helper

This program helps with my daily painting, and make sure the composition is sound

Grid too thick

Grid width, even at the lowest setting, is too thick.

So helpful for drawing!

This is a wonderful tool to save time when drawing buildings or birds! I don’t have to keep redrawing or erasing lines since the proportions are always correct with the grids. You can customize the size of the canvas which is also very helpful. Love this app!

Useful tool

Easy to use what is available.

Does Notan, value and grid

You don’t need to pay for the painters bundle. This does both effectively.

Great Artist Tool

Use this all the time to grid and print to size my designs

Excellent App

I use grid painter almost everyday. It always works perfectly. I love the options to customize the size of the canvas and grid too. The ability to go from color, to notanize, to gray scale is very convenient too. This app is very worth buying and I am glad I found it.

Everyday

As an artist, I find myself using this app everyday. Thank you! It has helped me understand perspective a little more. - Su

Everything you need to paint reference

This is the perfect tool, everything is useful to paint from reference. Grid to draw. Then can check values with the levels. Crop, canvas size. Everything is easy to use. A cool feature would be to approximate a color in the levels section so you can get a sense of what palette of colors would look like. We usually use the levels to determine values and then pick colors based on those limited values, so taking the levels a step further would be really cool. Thanks for making this otherwise amazing app.
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Useful and Simple

Just a few minutes learning the options is all that are needed to use the app.

Cannot get it to work

I bought this app as a package with Notanizer. However, I have yet to be able to get it to work with my IMac. Every time I try to upload photos, I get the message “To view and select photos, update your photo library”. But there is no update!

Grid painter

This app is fantastic. The only thing I would like it to do is to enable me to lock in a canvas size and then adapt my photo to fit that size. Maybe that’s possible and I just haven’t discovered it yet.

Response from developer

Yes you can! Just hit the lock button on the top left of the side bar. It unlocks the image from the canvas. Scale and move it around and when you are satisfied just tap the lock again to lock it down.

Useful Art Tool

Very helpful for gridding out complicated subjects like trees on the the go

Great painting aid

I use this app almost every time I started painting. Even outdoors, using my iPad sometimes. It helps me get my drawing down right before I start painting and allows me to see values if I switch to grayscale.

Grid

Would not reset! Very annoying.
When I first started using it, it worked fine. Now it will not reset back to original.

So helpful!

Easy to navigate and “figure out” as you go. I dabbled in painting here and there (for many years) and decided it was time to take a lesson. My lessons require to paint in a very different way, i.e. note values, draw with brush, paint in darks first, etc. this app helps me see values and simplify shapes. A great tool in my painting journey!
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My painter starter

I use this app to crop my photos and convert them to greyscale and notan to analyze the composition. I then apply a grid and work from the image to draw on watercolor paper. I use this process both en Plein air and studio. It saves a lot of time I used to spend on multiple preliminary sketches.

Gridpainter

I do most of the drawing in my life from photographs occasionally from live sources. In either context, this is an invaluable tool for getting the image from my camera onto my paper! Takes a little practice at first, but then it becomes second nature. I love this and couldn’t do art without it.

Response from developer

We are flattered. Thank you.