Value Study vs Mitre

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/

Mitre is the framing counter, reinvented for iPhone, iPad and Mac. It is built for custom frame shops, galleries, photographers and artists who sell framed work — and it turns a tape measure and a price list into a fast, beautiful, profitable quote. Fully offline. No subscription. No account. Pick the artwork size, the matting, the glass and the moulding, and Mitre instantly draws a to-scale preview of the finished piece — real moulding profiles, mat reveals, glazing sheen and your customer's own photo dropped inside. At the same moment it prices the job from YOUR catalog: moulding footage, united-inch matting, glass area, backing and labour, every line itemised. When the customer says yes, one tap produces a branded quote PDF with the proof, plus a shop cut-sheet carrying every measurement your bench needs: glass size, mat openings, frame outer size and moulding chop length with corner allowance. WHAT YOU GET • Live, true-to-life frame proof — moulding, single or double mats, reveals, glazing and the customer's artwork • Instant pricing from YOUR own catalog — set your mouldings, mat boards, glazing and shop rates • Pro measurements — united inches, glass and backing size, frame outer size, moulding chop length • Branded client quote PDF and shop cut-sheet, generated on device • Save every job with customer, status (Quote, Approved, In Production, Ready, Picked Up) and a live thumbnail • Conservation and museum / anti-reflective glazing tiers, double-mat reveals, floater frames and canvas options • Inches or centimetres, any currency, light or dark atelier theme WHY FRAMERS CHOOSE MITRE • No subscription, no account, no cloud — your prices and customers never leave your device • Works with zero signal — perfect for the shop floor, an art fair, or a client's home • A one-time purchase, priced well below the expensive desktop framing POS systems • Consistent margins — your markup is applied to every estimate automatically • Designed to look as good as the frames you sell Stop quoting from a spreadsheet or an old Windows POS. Mitre gives you instant, consistent, profitable pricing and a proof that closes the sale. Measurements and prices are estimates from your own catalog; always confirm before production. Privacy: No data collected. No accounts. No network access. All quotes, customers and catalog data stay on your device.