With this AR drawing app, you can superimpose reference images over your surface to assist in creating artwork and utilize advanced image filters and zoom features. Includes image editing tools, session save and restore, and tutorial access for guided use.
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About Camera Lucida™: AR Drawing
One-Time Purchase: No subscriptions! Buy it once and use on your devices.
Enhance Your Art Skills: Whether you're sketching with a pencil or painting with a brush, Camera Lucida™ helps you become a better artist.
Unmatched Functionality: With 12+ years of development, Camera Lucida™ offers features that no competitor can match. Create stunning physical art using your iPhone or iPad's camera. Simply point your device at your drawing surface, and watch the screen to see your reference image superimposed over your work. It's more versatile than a light table, better than a projector, and easier to use than a traditional Camera Lucida™.
How It Works: Place your iPhone or iPad between your eyes and your drawing surface. The app shows a virtual image on your screen, guiding your hand as you draw. This clever method makes it easy and fun to create detailed art.
Top Features:
• Buy it once for lifetime use.
• Advanced Image Filters: See with an artist's eye.
• Zoom in Lock: For ultra detailed drawing.
• Session Save & Restore: Automatically realign your camera, sketch, and reference image.
• Full Color Palette Control: Use your own paints, markers, and more.
• Camera Adjustments: Use your device camera and adjust for different setups manually or with an in-app purchase to auto-adjust.
• Time-Lapsed Recordings: Share your drawing process on social media.
• Advanced Tools: Vertical split screen sliders, timed image fading, and more.
• Video Tutorials: Watch tutorials within the app or on YouTube.
• Comprehensive User Manual: Accessible from within the app.
• Reliable Customer Support: Plus, an active user community for inspiration.
• External USB Camera Support: For USB-C equipped iPads running iOS 17.
Easy Setup: Secure your iPhone or iPad above your drawing surface using common household items like a stack of books or a vase. Tutorials are included to help you get started.
Contact: For any questions or support, email cameralucida@bigidesign.com.
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Reviews for Camera Lucida™: AR Drawing
Cakelady1960
Great find!!
I am a watercolor/colored pencil artist who has always “eyeballed” my drawings for painting. I’m not too bad at it but had to spend long hours getting dimensions and perspectives right on buildings and other mechanical or architectural structures. Recently, I was commissioned for the first time to paint a house which took hours just to draw making my pay next to nothing for the work I put in. I was really pleased with the painting and did another as a gift for a friend. This time I purchased an art projector to make the drawing go faster but the projected image was terrible for detail and again I spent way too much time hand drawing the house. I searched for a faster way to draw these types of images to sell and to give more gifts like these and discovered Camera Lucida. Wow! After watching the training videos and purchasing a $17 iPad bed stand from Amazon to hold the iPad above the canvas, I had a great tool! I finished drawing the third house for painting with every small detail perfect in about an hour and a half instead of five or six hours going back and forth with a small ruler from a blown up photo to my canvas (on an 12x16” piece of watercolor paper). Now I feel like I can make money by spending much less time drawing these. Thank you, Camera Lucida, for such a great tool!
ker mudge un
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Either higher learning curve than expected or doesn’t work as advertised. Can’t get the mirror trick to work and flashlight doesn’t seem to work. Also so far haven’t gotten it to connect with my laptop.
