There are 18 blending modes, the same number as in the desktop version.īrush and color puck adjustments on the Android appĪ full set of selection tools have been added to the artists’ workflow, including Rectangle, Oval, Lasso and Magic Wand, as well as a Magic Wand tolerance slider and toggle.

New brushes - including synthetic and smudge brushes and dynamic flood fill tools with solid, linear and radial gradients - are now available. New layer blending modes now include Glow and Soft Glow settings, while new selection tools now let you draw and transform within specific parts of an image. There’s a redesigned and customizable interface featuring combined brush and color puck improvements for adjusting brush sizes and color density. The new version introduces additional features. You can make the canvas like a piece of paper.”

“You could blend and mix colors on the desktop version, and now you can do the same on the mobile version. “The mobile versions are moving more toward a desktop application,” Toby-Lei Wang, SketchBook’s product manager, told TNW. This alignment for both desktop and mobile anchors the company’s emphasis on a unified user experience and drives most of the new features. Moreover, all the free and paid versions that have cropped up on mobile app stores over time will be replaced with this single app on Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store.Īutodesk is working to transform SketchBook into a consolidated drawing and painting platform as opposed to a loose coalition of related software products targeted to different skill levels. SketchBook’s interface will automatically resize as it detects and adapts to multiple screen sizes. With this release, there are no longer specific tablet and phone versions of the app, but rather a single mobile version for each platform. Now, seeking to simplify its burgeoning slate of offerings, the company has announced a new version of its SketchBook app, Autodesk SketchBook for iOS and Android, that unifies the app’s interface and functionality across phone and tablet versions. Since its debut in the mobile space five years ago, SketchBook for iOS and Android has been a go-to app for artists on-the-go.

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