Lucidapp vs Art Reference

Lucidapp turns your iPhone into a tracing aid for drawing and painting. Pick any reference image, point your camera at your paper or canvas, and the image stays locked in place in augmented reality so you can trace it by hand — no light box, no grid, no printing. DRAW FROM ANY REFERENCE • Place a photo or artwork onto real paper in AR • Swipe up or down anywhere to fade the overlay in and out • A dedicated Move tab to scale and rotate it to fit your surface • Near‑focus tuned so close‑up tracing stays sharp SEE YOUR REFERENCE LIKE AN ARTIST • Trace — the original image • Values — an instant value study to read your lights and darks • Temp — a warm/cool thermal view to plan color temperature, with a blue↔red bias • Simplify — flattens detail into clean, painterly shapes MIX THE EXACT COLOR • Open Mix and drag across the reference with a magnifier loupe to sample any color • Get a recipe of YOUR paints — "52% Cadmium Red, 30% Cadmium Yellow…" — using a realistic pigment‑mixing model • Build and save your own palette of the paints you actually own PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No account, no sign‑up, no ads • Your images never leave your device — nothing is uploaded or collected Made for sketchers, painters, muralists, and anyone who wants to get the drawing right before committing paint.

Art Reference: Value Study helps painters, illustrators, and traditional artists see any reference more clearly. Study values, simplify light and shadow, overlay grids, and paint side-by-side with your canvas. A value (or tone) is how light or dark a color is. Learning to see values is one of the fastest ways to improve your drawing and painting. But it's hard to read shadows and highlights through all the color. This app makes it effortless. SEE YOUR REFERENCE IN VALUES Instantly convert any photo to grayscale, or a 7-value posterized scale. Flick between levels of detail, start in simple black and white, then build up value by value to train your eye. CROP & FRAME TO YOUR CANVAS Match your reference's composition and aspect ratio to your canvas before your first stroke. GRIDLINES Overlay grids to lay in your under-sketch with correct proportions. CURATED COLLECTIONS Don't have a reference ready? Start with dozens of hand-picked photos across Animals, Architecture, Botanical, Figure, Landscape, Portrait, Still Life, Skulls, and Master Studies from the great painters. NO AI ART Every starter reference is a real photograph or artwork, attributed to the original artist with a link to their portfolio. No AI-generated images. And your own artwork stays private in your personal iCloud, never shared online, never used to train AI models. WORKS OFFLINE No connection needed. Perfect for the studio, plein air, or anywhere you paint. CLEAN, FOCUSED, NO ADS Just the reference tools you need.