Viridian vs PressInk

Viridian turns any photo into a paint-mixing plan you can follow at the easel. Touch a color in your reference and Viridian names the pigments to reach it, in mixing order, from the paints on your shelf: start with Yellow Ochre, add Ultramarine Blue, mute it with a touch of Burnt Umber. You get the recipe, not a hex code. Paint in oil, acrylic, gouache, or watercolor. Switch your medium and every recipe shifts to match how that paint handles. SAMPLE ANY IMAGE - Load a photo, capture a scene, or paste an image link - Pinch to zoom, drag to sample, with a loupe for pixel-level precision - Flip any reference to black and white to read its values before you commit to a color MIX WITH REAL PAINT - Recipes drawn from 24 studio pigments, from Titanium White to Burnt Umber - Tell Viridian what you own; it mixes from your shelf and substitutes when a tube is missing - Honest confidence and adjustment notes instead of false precision SEE THE MASSES WITH BLOCK-IN MAP - Turn a reference into flat shapes of value, the way you block in a painting - Six levels, from a 2-value notan to a 12-value study - Hold the map to compare it against the photo - Every shape carries the mix that fills it BUILD PALETTES WITH INTENT - Generate palettes of 3 to 10 colors from any color you save - Seven schemes: complementary, analogous, triadic, split complementary, tonal, muted earth, high contrast - Each swatch labeled by its job: shadow, midtone, highlight, accent, background - Lock the colors you love and regenerate the rest LEARN THE CRAFT - Twelve painting techniques, from glazing to sgraffito, each cited to a standard reference - Filtered to the medium you paint in KEEP IT ALL TOGETHER - Save colors with their recipe, notes, and the image they came from - Sample straight from your saved inspiration screenshots - Search and filter your library by color family or source Everything runs on your device. No account, no tracking, no network. Paint behaves differently by brand, opacity, medium, surface, and light. Treat every recipe as a starting point for your palette knife, not a promise.

PressInk turns your photos into prints that could really be made with ink on paper. Not a filter: plates, ink, paper and the marks of a real press, rendered on your iPhone or iPad. PHOTO PRINT Overprint one to three inks with halftone or grain screens on papers from cream to kraft. Start from 14 presets or pick from 259 inks, including 250 traditional Japanese colours. Frame it, then export a print-ready PNG. ZINE Lay out a poster or a two-page spread from 11 templates: your photo, a headline, colour blocks and a print feel such as Riso, Xerox or letterpress. IMPRINT One image, one method, one ink. Rebuild your photo as grainprint, stipple, linepress, glyphs, cyanotype and seven more. RUBBING AND WOODBLOCK 19 printing traditions from 8 countries, each laid out as a full sheet with its inscription, seal and mount: • Rubbing: black-gold and cicada-wing rubbings, cinnabar rubbing, gyotaku, Korean takbon, English brass rubbing • Woodblock: Yangliuqing and Zhuxianzhen New Year prints, ukiyo-e, senjafuda, Đông Hồ, lubok, Épinal, cordel woodcut, wood engraving and more POSTAGE Design a stamp from your photo with eight templates, perforated edges, frames, lettering and postmarks. Choose a separate postmark colour and export a transparent PNG without extra outer padding. Classic issue is free; the other seven templates need PressInk Pro. Open Postage from the bottom menu. TRAVEL PLATES (BETA) Set a travel photo beside the plate it was printed from: hand-coloured print, cyanotype, postage stamp, ticket and more. In Settings. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Every photo is processed on your device. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no account. PRESSINK PRO Every studio has free options. In Postage, Classic issue is free; selecting and exporting the other seven templates requires PressInk Pro. Pro also unlocks the exports, inks and print-size options marked PRO in the other studios. One optional purchase, no subscription; Family Sharing supported. Languages: English, 简体中文, 日本語, 한국어. PressInk is a creative print simulation. It is not a calibrated separation tool for a specific commercial press.