Art Reference vs PaintMuse

Artists Reference is made for painters, illustrators, and traditional artists who work with real materials, not pixels. It gives you the digital reference tools you need while you're creating physical art. Key Features - Gallery: Take a photo of your finished work, add a frame, and view them all together in your personal gallery. - Value Study Mode: Instantly view your reference in 7-value scale to see shadows and highlights or greyscale to see tone and contrast clearly. - Gridlines: Helps get your under-sketch down accurately. - Side-by-Side View: Compare your reference and your canvas at the same time, optimized for tablets and stands. - Crop and Frame Tools: Adjust composition and aspect ratio of your reference to match your canvas before you begin. - Collections: Curated starter projects to help you practice and improve, including Animals, Architecture, Botanical, Figure, Landscape, Master Study, Portrait, and Still Life. - Color harmonies: Experiment with color harmonies to define the feeling if your piece and save swatches - Offline Friendly: Works anywhere, even in the studio or outdoors. - Clean, Focused Design: No ads. No clutter. Just the reference tools you need. - All of your artwork is private and only saved in your personal icloud. No artwork is visble to the internet or AI models Made for Traditional Artists Whether you're painting with oils, gouache, watercolor, or charcoal, Artists Reference helps you translate what you see into confident compositions and balanced values. Start with curated Collections to build your skills, or bring your own references for any project. No AI art is used for any of the starter project references in this app. All photos are attributed to the original artists with links to their portfolio.

PaintMuse is a private AI oil painting planner for artists and visual creators. Organize painting projects, add a source photo, sketch, or written subject, choose planning tools for composition, value, color, or painting reference, then generate visual directions you can compare, save, vary, and export. Use PaintMuse to: - Keep painting projects, references, studies, and exports together - Turn a subject, photo, sketch, or idea into clearer composition options - Explore value plans, color directions, and painting reference candidates - Compare candidates before committing to a final painting direction - Export references for use in your own painting workflow PaintMuse is designed as a planning workspace, not a legal rights clearance service or copyright guarantee. You are responsible for the materials you upload and how you use any outputs. Credits are used for generation and premium exports. Standard export is free. Subscriptions can unlock additional workflow controls and higher usage limits. EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://pt.mindsle.com/legal/privacy/ Terms of Service: https://pt.mindsle.com/legal/terms/