Amazing Paint Blending
Try Inspire and you will quickly see that it is a painting app like no other! The key feature is the simulation of wet oil paint on canvas, allowing amazing blending effects with five real kinds of brushes. You will be stunned by what you can do with a dry brush!
Painting Menu
The intuitive painting menu completely disappears when dismissed and rotates to accommodate the current orientation of the device.
Hotspots
There are 8 hotspots around the edge of the screen that can be tapped to perform commonly used actions quickly and easily.
Options
There are many different options available that allow you to customize the user interface to fit your painting style.
Color Blending
No need to tediously apply several coats of paint with different colors to achieve a smooth transition from one color to another. With Inspire, you can use a dry brush to blend colors together with a few strokes in no time!
Different Types of Paint
Brushes can apply different types of paint on the canvas, allowing a variety of different painting styles and techniques.
Brushes
There are five different kinds of paint brushes to choose from: a flat brush, round brush, fan brush, palette knife and clumped brush. Each brush comes in many different sizes and can be rotated a full 360 degrees.
Importing Photos
Images can be imported from your Photos and positioned, rotated and scaled onto a new canvas. There are two different canvas sizes to choose from, rectangle and square.
Paint
Brushes can be loaded with different amounts of paint, including no paint at all for a dry brush. The spacing between each application of paint within a brush stroke can also be changed to produce a stippling effect.
Clumped Brush
The clumped brush is a variation of the round brush with some of its bristles stuck together in "clumps". Try using a clumped brush dry to produce strong and uneven brush strokes that can beautifully blend paint colors together.
Flat Brush
The flat brush has an elliptical shape that can produce a variety of different brush strokes using the same rotation. Its shape also allows different amounts of blending with the same amount of pressure, depending on the direction of the brush stroke.
Color Picker
Choose any paint color you can dream of quickly and easily with the natural color picker. You can also readily compare the currently selected color to the new one, side-by-side.
Tips and Tricks
Aside from the 10 helpful tips and tricks you can refer to right from within the app, Inspire has tons of in-app help throughout all of the menus, just in case you need it!
Color Palettes
Your latest colors are saved automatically as you paint and you can also save your favorite colors while painting with drag and drop.
Palette Knife
The palette knife is unlike any of the other brushes and can add a whole new dimension to any painting. Paint actually "breaks" as it depletes off the knife, allowing techniques such as layering and the creation of textures. Using it dry produces a very uniform and smooth type of blending.
Fan Brush
The fan brush is a very thin and curved brush that is great for adding fine details to a painting. Its shape can also be leveraged to produce a wide variety of different strokes, especially with different rotations.
Transparent Colors
Transparent paint colors can be chosen from the color picker to simulate a glazing effect. This can be very useful for adding subtle details, textures and layers to a painting.
Eye Dropper
The eye dropper is useful for selecting a new paint color from the canvas, especially for colors that have been created by blending. It can be invoked from the painting menu or using a tap and hold gesture.
Dry Brush Pressure
Varying amounts of pressure can be used with a dry brush to achieve many different kinds of blending effects. A small amount of pressure can be used to create a subtle blur, while a large amount can actually mix paint colors on the canvas together.
Feature List
Brushes
- Five realistic paint brushes to choose from: a flat brush, round brush, fan brush, palette knife and clumped brush.
- Each brush comes in many different sizes and can be rotated a full 360 degrees.
- Brushes can be loaded with different amounts of paint, including no paint at all for a dry brush.
- Varying amounts of pressure can be used with a dry brush to achieve many different kinds of blending effects.
- Paint actually "breaks" as it depletes off the palette knife, allowing techniques such as layering and the creation of textures.
- A stippling effect can be produced on the canvas by painting stab strokes with repeated taps on the screen.
- The spacing between each application of paint within a brush stroke can be changed.
- All brushes can be used as an eraser, controlled by the pressure.
- The bristles of each brush act independently of each other and are completely randomized in every way, producing natural brush strokes that never look exactly the same.
- Two different canvas sizes to choose from: (640 x 960) and (960 x 960).
- The intuitive painting menu completely disappears when dismissed and rotates to accommodate the current orientation of the device.
- There are 8 hotspots around the edge of the screen that can be tapped to perform commonly used actions quickly and easily.
- 1000 levels of undo and redo are available.
- A non-realistic paint mode adds versatility to the brushes, allowing you to draw and sketch as well as paint.
- Choose any paint color you can dream of right away with the natural color picker.
- Transparent paint colors can be chosen to simulate a glazing effect.
- Your latest colors are saved automatically as you paint and can be selected from a palette.
- You can save your favorite colors while painting with drag and drop.
- The eye dropper tool can be used to select paint colors that are already on the canvas and can be invoked using a tap and hold gesture.
- The canvas can be moved around and zoomed in and out up to 3200%.
- Canvas locations can be conveniently zoomed in on using a double-tap gesture.
- Brush strokes can be painted on the canvas at a fully customizable offset location relative to where the screen is actually touched.
- Paintings are automatically saved in your gallery and easily exported to your Photos.
- Images can be imported from your Photos and positioned, rotated and scaled onto a new canvas.
- Paintings can be sent via email from within the app, attached as uncompressed PNG image files.
- Paintings can be uploaded directly to Facebook, Twitter and Flickr.
- Paintings can be exported at resolutions of up to 6 times the original in both PNG and JPEG formats using the free Inspire Exporter app available for both Windows and Mac OS.
