Value Study vs Color Signs

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/

Colors sell the sign. Color Signs puts 944 time-tested color combinations right in your pocket — plus the tools to mix your own. Every combination is real working knowledge from the brush era: which heading reads on which background, which shade carries it, which border ties it together. Browse them by background color, spin up new ones with the generator, or build your own from scratch. BROWSE 944 PROVEN COMBOS • 50+ background colors, organized by hue family • Every combo shows its heading, shade, sub-heading, body, and border roles with names and hex values • Riffle through variations that share a heading color GENERATE NEW COMBOS • Eight fresh combinations at a time, built from the apps own rules • Swipe through full sign previews, tap chips to compare • Contrast logic keeps every combo readable CUSTOMIZE YOUR BACKGROUND • Start from any color: RGB, CMYK, hex, or sample it from a photo • Heading, shade, sub, body, and border follow with color-theory harmonies • Camera eyedropper matches real-world paint and stock MAKE IT YOURS • Block shade ( even with a gap ), outline, and center-line letter treatments • Rule lines, wavy borders, full frames, magic dots — recolor any of them • One-tap reset back to the default colors SAVE AND SHARE • Bookmark keepers to your Saved Combos • Export any combo to your camera roll as a spec card with every color's name and hex — a mixing reference for the paint desk Made by Tynes Signs, a working sign shop in Coker, Alabama. No accounts, no ads, no nonsense — just the colors.