After choosing a photo from your library you can adjust its size and location under the canvas using your fingers to pinch to zoom and one finger to drag it around, then you simply trace and shade whatever you wish using your finger. If you make a mistake simply choose the eraser tool and erase your mistake (also, you can use the eraser creatively to help add details in ways that are different from simply drawing), or if you want more accuracy than an eraser there is undo/redo support for up to 5 actions. For those hard to see details zoom or pan the canvas in for further detail by simply pinching the canvas or using two fingers and dragging to move! For those details where we want the colors to really pop there is now support for coloring and changing the pencil size to draw larger or smaller details as needed!
After you are done, wow the world and save your masterpiece to your Photo Library or share it via Email.
Tracing Paper features:
- Support for tracing any photo from your albums
- Gallery mode on iPad to browse, load and edit previous images as well as manage images (eg: deleting or sending)
- Shading support just like a real pencil, draw over the same area multiple times to shade it darker
- Changing brush size to help draw or shade larger areas
- Zooming and panning of the image to trace to focus on the details that matter (pinch to zoom, two fingers to pan)
- Color support
- Undo/redo up to five previous actions
- Saving your creations to your Photo library
- Sending your traces via email
I am definitely excited about this project and want to continue improving it as much as possible. I've already added many features based on feedback I've received and I'm always appreciative of new ideas that fit the vision and feel of this app. Please feel free to leave ratings and reviews however you feel and I will do my best to respond with updates!
Future updates in the works to add support for:
- Printing support
- Gallery mode for iPhone for feature-parity with the iPad version
- Camera support on devices that support it
- Direct sharing of images via MMS on iPhone (MMS not possible till 4.0 OS or later)
Thanks for all your comments. You can reach me anytime at the email below or via twitter at: @tracingpaperios. Please feel free to email me ANY questions, comments or crashes you have and I will do my best to fix them. I will continue working to add new features.
iPad Screenshots:
iPhone Screenshots:
Version 4.0:
Critical fix:
- Save when multi-tasking out to prevent losing image
- Memory leaks and data loss plugged!
Big new features:
- Landscape image and interface support!!!!
- Image titles
- Larger max brush size
- Brush transparency slider
- Labels on sliders to find and reuse old values
- Anti-aliasing for drawing as well as saving
- Color Palette (saved with image)
- Disable grid lines support
- Dropshadow on traces in gallery
- Gallery browsing performance enhancements
- Image exporting performance enhancements
- Disable gridlines
- Multitasking save on exit support
- Retina saving iPhone fix
- Fullscreen
Version 3.0:
- Rotate and crop trace image, easier to work with landscapes now
- Placement of trace image anywhere instead of just top left
- Print support
- Grid settings: change size, transparency or turn it off!
- Raise undo limit to 8 actions
- Support for drawing points
- Pinch to zoom and two fingers to pan, much faster than using the magnifying glass (user-requested)
- Crop picture to trace on selecting it, no need for a confusing crop button anymore
- Fix selecting colors so doesn't default to black on first color one picks
Version 2.1.0:
- drawing of dots by tapping on a spot
- pinch to zoom and use two fingers to scroll at any time, no more zoom button
- crop pictures on selecting them, got rid of crop button
- [fix] on choosing a color for drawing set brightness higher first time so doesn't always appear black
Version 2.0:
- support for different brush sizes (user-requested)
- support for color (user-requested)
Version 1.5.1:
- fix crashes on iOS 3.x devices
Version 1.5:
- iOS 4 fast-task switching support
- iPhone 4 double-resolution display support with newer icon and higher resolution drawing-canvas