Transform your smartphone into a drawing tool. Trace photos and illustrations onto paper with adjustable outline thickness and screen brightness. Perfect for aspiring artists of all skill levels.
2.1(73 ratings)
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Trace & Sketch - Easy Drawing by Shajir Kalady
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4.3😐(157 ratings)
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Transform photos into sketches by drawing over them with adjustable transparency. This app acts as digital tracing paper, perfect for beginners and artists practicing their skills. Save and export your creations in various formats.
What We Love
- 👍 Easy to use and simple
- ✨ Great for tracing photos
- 🎨 Wonderful app for drawing and sketching
- 💡 Unique and stands out
- 🚀 Efficient and works well
- 🤩 Amazing for practicing line work and shading
- 💯 Best app for tracing
- 🌟 Good for beginners
- 👍 Great for practice and learning techniques
- 🎉 Fun and enjoyable to use
- 🏆 Outperforms other tracing apps
- ✅ Does what it says it will
- 💯 Excellent responsiveness
- 🎨 Good for doodling over photos
Room to Improve
- 🐛 Cannot adjust brush size
- 🐛 Cannot access photo library
- 🐛 No templates offered
- 🐛 Eraser size too large
- 🐛 Zooming feature is janky
- 🐛 Undo button blurs lines
- 🐛 Delete button for saved sketches missing
- 🐛 Brush settings reset on exit
- 🐛 Color copy feature not on chosen image
- 🐛 Difficult to make certain colors (light brown, gray)
- 🐛 Cannot sketch or draw freely
- 🐛 App no longer importing chosen photo
- 🐛 Brush selection area is black
- 🐛 Delete option missing when deleting tracings
- 🐛 Lines become blurred and distorted
- 🐛 Lacks shading options
- 🐛 No landscape view
- 🐛 Color mixers are difficult
- 🐛 Strange pen and brush options
- 🐛 Advertisements interrupt workflow
- 🐛 No option to zoom in on photo for tracing
- 🐛 Brush strokes don't stay same when zooming
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Transform your phone into a tracing projector using augmented reality. Overlay any image onto a surface and draw it with ease. Perfect for artists and hobbyists looking to enhance their drawing skills.
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