Value Study vs Real Paint mixing tools PRO

In art, value (or tone) refers to how light or dark a colour is. If you're learning to paint or draw, doing value studies is one of the best ways to improve. These small, loose sketches in greyscale help you understand where shadows fall and highlights appear—essential for capturing depth and form. Value Study is a simple, focused tool designed to help you see values more clearly in your reference images. Instead of just converting a photo to black and white, this app lets you break down tones step by step. Start with just black and white to map out the biggest shapes, then gradually add more values to refine your understanding. You can also highlight all areas of an image that share the same value, making it easier to see subtle shifts in tone. This is especially useful in complex references, like portraits, where different parts of the image might have the same level of shadow but look completely different in colour. Value Study isn’t here to replace traditional studies—it’s here to enhance them. Whether you're sketching, painting, or working digitally, this tool makes it easier to focus on the fundamentals of light, shadow, and form. Try it for free with all features enabled on sample images from Unsplash before deciding to unlock the full app with a low-cost yearly or lifetime purchase. All Value Study Pro upgrades count as lifetime purchase. Either option will unlock Value Study across iPhone, iPad and Mac. Annual: Auto-renews yearly. Lifetime: One-time payment, no fees. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Painters can pick colors from their own images and have the OPAQUE paint mixing recipe computed for many commercial brands! Great for art students, painters with color vision difficulties or for those working in the painting conservation and restoration fields. Paint, time and money waste can be greatly reduced! Color Spaces included: sRGB, Display P3, CMYK, HSL, HSV/B, Lab, Lch-ab, Luv, Lch-uv, XYZ, xyY and Munsell coordinates. The Munsell coordinates are computed from the original/extrapolated Renotation Data with great precision even around the neutral axis. Included one Ideal Paint set (8 colors) and 25 commercial Paint Sets: 1 Chartpak Grumbacher MAX Water Mixable Oils (45 colors) 2 Chartpak Grumbacher Pre-tested Professional Oils (44 colors) 3 Createx Illustration Opaques (11 colors) 4 Daler-Rowney Georgian Oil Colours (22 colors) 5 Daler-Rowney System3 Original Acrylics (29+3 colors) 6 Ferrario 1919 Oil Colors (30 colors) 7 Ferrario Pen Colors (26 colors) 8 Gamblin Artist Oil Colors (46 colors) 9 Gamblin Conservation Colors (42 colors) 10 Golden Heavy Body Acrylic Colors (35 colors) 11 Golden Matte Fluid Acrylic Colors (27 colors) 12 Liquitex Heavy Body Artist Colors (22+15 colors) 13 Maimeri Polycolor (33 colors) 14 Royal Talens Rembrandt Extra-Fine Artists’ Oil Colors (40 colors) 15 Royal Talens Van Gogh Oil colors (25 colors) 16 Schmincke Norma Professional finest artist’s oil colors (21 colors) 17 Schmincke Mussini Artists' Resin Oil Colours (35 colors) 18 Schmincke Primacryl (32 colors) 19 Sennelier Extra Fine Oils (46 colors) 20 Vallejo Acrylic Studio Colours (27 colors) 21 Winsor&Newton Artisan Water Soluble Oils (32 colors) 22 Winsor&Newton Artists' Oil Colors (62+4 colors) 23 Winsor&Newton Designers Gouache Colours (48 colors) 24 Winsor&Newton Galeria Acrylic Colors (30 colors) 25 Winsor&Newton Professional Acrylic Colours (60 colors) You can select up to 15 colors (white + up to 14 colors) of each Paint Set. Without a subscription you can use the app only with the Ideal Paint Set. RPaintPro use measured paint spectral information of painted samples. Big part of the RGB/P3 space can be mixed, but not all RGB/P3 colors. This is not a limitation of the apps, just physics. There are also many colors which can be mixed even if they don't belong to the RGB/P3 color space (you can find these by varying manually the paint amount on the "mixing" page). Paint recipes can use several Mixing Strategies: - “B and W + 2 Colors”: a gray is mixed using Black and White first, then 2 colored bases set Hue and Saturation. - “B or W + 3 Colors”: 3 colored bases are used to set Hue and Saturation and Black OR White set the Value - “at least one opaque”: all possible opaque mixing combinations are shown - “no Black used”: opaque mixing combinations without Black Each recipe can be Exact or Rounded: - “Exact recipe” means that each base has an amount with a precision of 0.01 units. If you need % values of each paint base amount, just enter 100 as amount. Exact setting is helpful for weight based measurements using a scale. - “Rounded recipe” means that each base has an integer number as amount. The recipe will have the minimum possible overall amount computed adding all paint base amounts. The rounded recipes are useful for volume based measurements, like drops, using spoons or squared paper with paint squeezed directly from tubes. Please note that color of paint coming from various parts of a tube/jar or from different batches of the manufacturer can vary, so mix always small amounts first to be sure that computed recipes meet your needs! Please check the video tutorials on youtube by searching for "Real Paint mixing tools" to see how to use the app in your paintings. Optishade images can also be imported directly from the Optishade by StyleItaliano app. These images can be used to create gum or dental colors for the mockups used by technicians. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.ai4res.com/tos.html