About iPastels
A painting app for all artists, whether you’re experienced or just starting out. Perfect for creating beautiful works of art or a quick sketch whenever you have a burst of inspiration. You can also try out ideas and...
A painting app for all artists, whether you’re experienced or just starting out.
Perfect for creating beautiful works of art or a quick sketch whenever you have a burst of inspiration.
You can also try out ideas and compositions before starting on a new painting in real life, or practise and refine your skills, all without the added cost of art supplies.
• LIFELIKE PASTEL SIMULATION •
The app features live-calculated brushes and strokes, making a realistic pastel simulation possible.
Painting tools include soft pastels, oil pastels, pastel pencils, smudge tool, and more.
• REALISTIC PAPER/CANVAS TEXTURES •
When creating a new picture, a unique, non-repeating paper texture is generated that will interact in real-time with the live-calculated strokes you paint.
You can change the default-generated texture to, for example, canvas, which goes great with oil pastels!
• PRECISE COLOR BLENDING •
When painting, especially with soft pastels, use Smudge or the Cotton Swab to blend and smoothen the colors right on the paper, as you would in real life.
With oil pastels, in addition to smudging, the blending is often done by the pastel sticks themselves (for best results, reduce the force or use a similar or lighter color).
• APPLE SILICON •
Native support for Apple Silicon.
• UNIVERSAL PURCHASE •
If you choose to buy the Pro upgrade, this one-time in-app purchase will unlock all Pro features in the app on all available platforms (Mac-iPad-iPhone)!
• METAL •
The engine is based on Metal, with 128-bit color and floating-point arithmetic.
• SWIFT •
The app was developed entirely using Swift (earlier versions used C++).
• FULL SCREEN PAINTING • SEAMLESS PATTERN EDITING MODE •
• DARK MODE • TOUCH BAR SUPPORT • WIDE COLOR •
• MULTIPLE LAYERS • PHOTO TRACING MODE (Pro feature) •
Dec 21, 2023
Version 5.6.3
[NEW] Added “Reset to Default” button to the Scrollable Palette Area menu (to open that menu, scroll the palette to its beginning and click the largest of the three buttons that appear).
[FIXED] A couple of rare user interface layout glitches.
[FIXED] In Work in Progress (Gallery), in some cases, buttons would erroneously be disabled after importing a picture.
[FIXED] Dropping multiple files on the app icon did not always place the imported pics grouped together.
[IMPROVED] Some optimizations.
[IMPROVED] A few minor things.
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of iPastels since it was posted on our website on 2016-09-25 14:03:01.
The latest version is 5.6.3 and it was updated on 2024-04-22 09:06:53. See below the changes in each version.
iPastels version 5.6.3
Updated At: 2023-12-21
Changes: Dec 21, 2023
Version 5.6.3
[NEW] Added “Reset to Default” button to the Scrollable Palette Area menu (to open that menu, scroll the palette to its beginning and click the largest of the three buttons that appear).
[FIXED] A couple of rare user interface layout glitches.
[FIXED] In Work in Progress (Gallery), in some cases, buttons would erroneously be disabled after importing a picture.
[FIXED] Dropping multiple files on the app icon did not always place the imported pics grouped together.
[IMPROVED] Some optimizations.
[IMPROVED] A few minor things.
iPastels version 5.6.2
Updated At: 2023-12-02
Changes: Dec 2, 2023
Version 5.6.2
[NEW] Added some selection options (like “Select All”) in Work in Progress (Gallery). Click “Selected…” next to the buttons or click Edit-> Selection in the menu bar.
[IMPROVED] Adjusted the spacing between the thumbnails in Work in Progress (Gallery).
[IMPROVED] Minor changes/additions in the Work in Progress (Gallery) menu bar.
[IMPROVED] The keyboard shortcuts for Copy, Paste, Duplicate now work with layers if the Layers stack is open.
[FIXED] Some minor multi-select issues in Work in Progress (Gallery).
[FIXED] A couple of drag & drop issues.
[IMPROVED] Clicking a dial could result in an unintentional adjustment.
[FIXED] A very improbable crash bug.
[IMPROVED] A few minor things.
iPastels version 5.6
Updated At: 2023-11-06
Changes: Nov 6, 2023
Version 5.6
[NEW] Color Modulators that can add a subtle (or not so subtle!), dynamic color variation to the painting tool you’re using.
[NEW] Use Command-click (or click between the pictures and drag a selection box) to select multiple pictures in “Work in Progress” (Gallery), for batch operations (e.g. delete) or drag and drop.
[IMPROVED] Added stabilizer for trackpad release coordinates, when using Geometry/Shapes, Eyedropper, or Layer Mover, for better precision.
[NEW] A spinning wheel is now shown for some tasks, to indicate that the app is busy.
[IMPROVED] You can now use arrow keys to select a picture, and Esc or Space to exit “Work in Progress” (Gallery).
[IMPROVED] Press Return to rename the selected picture in “Work in Progress” (Gallery), or use the Tab key to cycle through several pics.
[IMPROVED] In Layers, you can now use arrow keys to select a layer.
[IMPROVED] In Layers, in addition to pressing Return to rename, you can now cycle through the layers with the Tab key.
[IMPROVED] You are now allowed to delete the last picture in “Work in Progress” (Gallery).
[FIXED] Some scrollable menus would in some cases stop scrolling.
[FIXED] Ending a painting stroke outside the picture could cause a crash if the selected layer was in Move Mode.
[FIXED] Scrolling wasn’t working properly for some types of computer mice.
[FIXED] Some minor issues with sliders in menus.
[FIXED] Copy/paste hex colors wasn’t always working.
[FIXED] A minor menu issue.
[IMPROVED] Some changes to the manual/help, to reflect recent improvements.
[IMPROVED] Misc. other minor things.
[FIXED] Some other issues.
iPastels version 5.5.1
Updated At: 2023-05-13
Changes: May 13, 2023
Version 5.5.1
[FIXED] Tracing was sometimes not working.
[FIXED] A minor, barely noticeable graphics glitch.
[FIXED] A few additional issues.
iPastels version 2.5.1
Updated At: 2011-12-17
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