Paintsight vs Undertone

Paint from photos with a painter's eye. Paintsight keeps your reference photos in one place and gives you the studio tools to read them: notan and value studies, grids, color palettes, design tools, and a way to check your painting against the reference. SEE THE VALUES • Notan and value study: simplify any photo into 2 to 7 values, then tap a value to highlight it • Notan options: several ways to design the lights and darks, side by side • Thumbnail: see the design at postage-stamp size, where only the big shapes count • Squint and grayscale views, to judge light and dark without detail or color in the way • Sample: tap any spot to read its value on a 0 to 10 scale, its color and whether it reads warm or cool READ THE COLOR • Palette: the main color masses with their share of the picture, value, hex and RGB. Tap one to see everywhere it appears • Color blocks: flat color masses for the block-in • Warm and cool map, and a chroma map of where the most intense color sits • Gamut wheel: the palette on a color wheel, with its color scheme named SEE THE DESIGN • Planes: the photo as flat facets, finer where the form turns • Silhouette: check that the subject reads as a single shape • Focal point, big lines and flow: where the eye goes first, the main directions, and the direction of form for planning brushstrokes • Hard and soft edges: see how sharply shapes meet • Contours: clean lines for drawing in or transferring DRAW IT IN PROPORTION • Drawing grid with numbered and lettered squares, sized to your canvas (such as 16x20 in) so you can scale up square by square • Rule of thirds, golden section, diagonals and harmonic armature guides • Measure angles and proportions, with a plumb line • Sketch over a reference with Apple Pencil. The sketch is saved with the photo • Mirror, rotate, and crop to your canvas shape or a standard ratio CHECK YOUR PAINTING • Photograph your painting, straighten it, and compare it with the reference: overlaid, flicking between the two, or side by side • Compare in any view, such as values or color blocks, to see where the painting has drifted KEEP YOUR REFERENCES ORGANIZED • Import from the camera or your photo library, one at a time or in bulk • Tag photos, such as hands, skies, fabric or portraits, and filter in a tap • Add notes to each reference: palette ideas, mixes, what to try next time • Syncs with iCloud, so the same library is on your iPhone and iPad BUILT FOR iPAD • Library sidebar, and tool options in a side panel so the photo stays full size • Open a reference in its own window beside your painting app in Split View or Stage Manager • Drag a reference straight into Procreate, Files or another app • Keyboard shortcuts for the main tools MADE FOR PAINTERS For oil, acrylic, watercolor, gouache and plein air painters, and for anyone drawing from reference. Plan a painting at the kitchen table, then prop your iPad or iPhone by the easel while you work. The screen stays awake while a reference is open. SIMPLE PRICING Try Paintsight free with up to 3 reference photos and every tool. One payment unlocks unlimited photos for life. No subscription, no account, no ads. Questions or ideas? Get in touch from Settings. Paintsight is made by an independent developer.

See any image the way a painter does. Bring in a reference photo, a master painting or a screenshot. In seconds, Undertone shows what sits underneath it: the values, the warm and cool, the composition and the real pigment colors. The things a painter checks before the first brushstroke, made visible. All processing happens on your device. Your images never leave it. Value study. The image stripped to grayscale and divided into clear tonal zones. Two values give you a notan, three give you light, middle and dark. Value does more work than color: a painting with strong values and wrong colors still reads. This automates the painter's squint. Composition. The structure under the image, from the rule of thirds and the golden ratio to triangles, leading lines, symmetry and framing. Ten types, and Undertone only shows the ones the image actually follows, each with how closely it matches. Premium. Warm and cool. A temperature map over the image. Muddy shadows? Probably warm paint leaking into your cools. Golden hour? Warm light forces cool shadows by contrast. Toggle the map on, and what you couldn't diagnose becomes obvious. Palette with real pigment names. Dominant colors shown by actual weight, each matched to the closest real pigment. Yellow Ochre, not "Autumn Sunset Dream." Undertone names the closest harmony and plots the colors on a wheel so you see the geometry. Saturation. Vivid areas glow, muted areas recede. See whether the intensity sits where you want the eye to go. Contrast. Where the eye lands first. Rings mark the strongest areas. Premium. Made for painters and artists: studying a master painting, planning a piece from a reference photo, or finding out why the shadows went muddy. Photographers use it to understand why a light works so they can find it again. Every analysis is saved, and over time your history becomes your own color reference. Free: 20 analyses at a time with the Original, Temperature, Values and Saturation modes, plus the palette and harmony for every image. Premium: Composition (10 guide types), Contrast, tinted value bands, the 2-value notan and 2 to 9 tonal steps, unlimited history, higher-resolution export. One-time purchase. No subscription. Stop guessing. Start seeing.