There’s so much more a tablet can do than just watching videos or doing light surfing. It is a great device that can be used for so much more in today’s time, and it does come with quite a lot of applications. There are applications for practically everything to do with art, ranging from drawing to video editing.
If you’re looking for applications that are targeted toward artists and enhance their creativity, have a look at the list below.
Procreate
One of the more popular applications for drawing on the iPad, Procreate allows users to define numerous custom brushes and usable tools for their digital illustrations, sketches, and paintings. Furthermore, it has a straightforward interface with gesture controls, making it exceptionally easy to use, regardless of a user’s prior experience.
It has up to 16 by 8 k resolution for the iPad pro models and allows for gif creation, animations, and storyboards. It makes drawing much easier and straightforward with features such as QuickShape, StreamLine, Drawing Assist, and ColorDrop. Furthermore, Procreate gives customers the opportunity to post time lapse videos of their projects on social media, making sharing content much easier.
At a one-time purchase of only $12.99, Procreate is perfect for any digital artist that is looking to get a more unique variety of brushes.
LumaFusion
If you wish to go further than iMovie or wish to improve your editing’s effect, LumaFusion is an editing masterpiece. It targets aspiring filmmakers or videographers who are on a budget, and it also provides features such as multi-layer editing of 4K ProRes and HDR media.
For such a reasonably priced software, LumaFusion has capabilities for voiceovers, effects, transitions, multilayer titles and so much more. It has also addressed the audio aspect with tools such as graphic equalizer and voice isolation. It’s capable of creating project materials in various formats including landscape or various types of anamorhics.
LumaFusion comes with a price tag of $29.99 which is quite reasonable, but it charges a fee for payments inside the application for functionality features such as multicam editing and compatibility with Final Cut Pro.
Canva
Canva is a powerful app that allows the creation of easy content of high caliber to it’s users. Whether that be presentation videos, quick infographics, social media posts or even simple pieces of art, canva in the vast majority has templates for them with a huge pool of over 250k templates.
The application has all the photo editing tools you need, as well as cropping and changing the speed of the video, and even putting logos and pictures on the designs you make. Canva alters the way templates are created using AI technology as well through their “magic switch” tool or “magic media” For expanding images or creating an image depiction from an idea respectively.
Free basic features are present in the app, but you may wish to enhance your canva experience with in-app purchases of $12.99 a month for access to AI tools or other professional templates.
Affinity Designer 2
Affinity Designer 2 is a graphic design app which is basically a hybrid of any form of retouch of pictures, vector graphics, and multiple textures. It is best suited for gamers, illustrators, and UI/UX designers among others.
For people who want to draw precisely, the application has support for Apple Pencils and also comes with gesture control as well as keyboard shortcut features. Users can also zoom into their designs up to 1,000,000% which provides an excellent detail in the images access designing a font. Affinity Designer 2 also enables users to design a font.
The app can easily be purchased for 18.49$ with one-time payment.
Concepts
For people with the intention to brainstorm ideas and sketch, the concepts app is quite handy. It’s a perfect application for making note, planning, developing casts, mind maps, and visual editing. There are also tools like nudge which helps in inching the sketch(s) without needing to start all over again, slice, and select.
Such a dimension is equipped with pressure and tilt advanced realistic brushes, pencils, and pens as well as scale and measurement tools. The interface of the application is very flexible as it allows the user to customize the tool wheel or bar according to their needs and increase the efficiency of the application.
This app allows basic features for free while premium features like custom brushes and professional editing tools can be accessed after subscribing for 4.99$.
Be it a professional artist, emerging filmmaker or an occasional creator, these iPad apps offer a wide variety of options to turn your concepts into reality.
