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FocalPaint

brien dieterle
Free
4.5 out of 5

About FocalPaint

FocalPaint's unique brush engine simulates thick paint and real pigment mixing with realistic physics models. Create unique pigments with the spectral paint editor, and even add your own GPU Shader code and Javascript for nearly limitless custom brush possibilities.

Features:

- Realistic 3D paint thickness and opacity
- 16 channel color model (256 bits per pixel)
- Spectral reflectance editor to create unique pigments
- Realistic Pigment mixing (based on weighted geometric mean)
- Blue and Yellow make Green instead of Grey (like most apps)
- Advanced brush designer with GPU Shader and Javascript code editors
- Wide color gamut (P3)
- Undo/Redo gestures (2/3 finger tap)
- Apple Pencil support
- MetalFX Spatial Upsampling (on supported Apple Silicon devices)
- Import multiple reference images with tracing options
- Brush Controls for size, strength, or custom settings.
- Four customizable "joystick" controllers to quickly change brush behavior on-the-fly
- Pressure-sensitive color picking with 3 modes (active layer, merged layers, and merged layers + background)
- Dozens of Brush Settings and Inputs
- Dynamic Textured Canvas simulates "tooth" and bumpiness
- Contextual color wheel mixer with additive (light), pigment, and subtractive modes
- 10 Standard Tube Paints: 5Y, 5GY, 5G, 5BG, 5B, 5PB, 5P, 5RP, 5R, 5YR
- Hue, Chroma/Saturation, Value sliders
- Color Mixing Palette
- Automatic autosaves
- Share/Export as JPG
- Additional Canvas backgrounds, or import new.
- Canvas Texture Properties Editor
- Import Images as Layers
- Import Images as Canvas Backgrounds
- Basic Layes with Opacity and Thickness controls
- Layers: Add, Move, Merge, Remove
- Greyscale mode
- Flip horizontal mode
- Finger-painting mode with force-sensitive pressure
- Color and Brush history panels

Please note: Apple A12 GPU or newer is required

Terms of Use:
https://www.focalpaint.com/p/terms-of-use.html

Privacy Policy:
https://www.focalpaint.com/p/privacy.html

Special Thanks to:

Scott Allen Burns
Troy James Sobotka & Friends
colour-science.org python library
MyPaint painting software team
Anna Timm (@anti-art)

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