RefCanvas: Organize Your Creative Vision
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App summary
RefCanvas is an intuitive tool for artists and designers who need a comprehensive reference app to bring their creative vision to life.
Key Features:
- Import images and gifs.
- Notes - Add text notes.
- Move, scale and rotate references to create the perfect layout.
- Multi selection - edit multiple references at one.
- Nodes - Useful for grouping references.
- Drag and drop - Drag and drop files from others apps like the gallery.
- Paste files from the clipboard.
- Supports split screen and pop-up view: Use it as a companion app with your favorite drawing app like Ibis Paint or Infinite Painter.
- Save your progress as boards for future use.
- Auto set thumbnails for boards after saving.
- Eye dropper - Tap and hold to pick a color from your references as a hex code.
Animated GIF support:
- Reference your favorite animated gifs.
- Pause animation and play frame by frame to better understand referenced animations.
- Animation timeline gives you an interactive visual breakdown of all the frames.
Easy to use reference tools:
- Grayscale toggle.
- Flip horizontally and vertically.
- Add link - allows you to visit the source of your reference.
Using RefCanvas to make reference boards & mood boards is easy, simply import your images or gifs, and move them around the canvas to arrange them in the layout that works best for your project. You can adjust their size, rotation and position to your liking, giving you maximum control over your creative process.
User reviews
- Great reference app for artists
- Regular updates and improvement potential
- No ads in the app
- User-friendly interface
- Useful for organizing reference photos
- Lacks certain features like image cropping and auto-arrange
- Some features still in development
- Glitchy with large files or many images
- Limited export options
- Cannot select multiple images for rearrangement
- Needs more features and improvements
- Crashes when importing GIFs
- Missing image cropping option
- No multiple boards in the free version
- Desire for undo/redo functionality
User reviews
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