Breaking News: Inkpad by Steve Sprang now in App Store
The long awaited iPad vector app from Steve Sprang debuted at the last MobileArtCon has been released today in the App Store.
Steve Sprang’s first app Brushes became an immediate sensation in 2008 triggering a fingerpainting revolution. Inkpad is a full feature vector software.
Here is the description from the app store:
Description
From the creators of Brushes! Inkpad is a professional vector illustration app designed from scratch for the iPad. It supports paths, compound paths, text, images, groups, masks, gradient fills, and an unlimited number of layers. Inkpad was designed with performance in mind – it can easily handle drawings with hundreds to thousands of shapes without bogging down.
To celebrate the launch, Inkpad will be available for $1.99 for a limited time. Get it now before the price goes up!
Features:
• Very high performance. Select, scale and rotate hundreds of objects with zero lag.
• Create arbitrary bezier paths with the Pen tool.
• Create compound paths, masks and groups.
• Create text objects.
• Place photos from your albums.
• Powerful scale and rotate tools.
• Gradient fills with interactive editing on canvas.
• Swatch library.
• Unlimited layers per drawing.
• Rename, rearrange, delete, hide and lock layers.
• Snap to grid, points, and path edges.
• Isolate the active layer for easy editing.
• Email drawings as SVG, PDF, PNG and JPEG.
• Send SVG, PDF, PNG, and JPEG directly to your Dropbox.
March 1st, 2011 at 09:42
I have a free trial code for the first comment on this thread.
March 1st, 2011 at 09:48
I’m looking forward to try it.
March 1st, 2011 at 09:58
Hi Gianluca, I just sent you a trial code.
March 1st, 2011 at 10:26
Very nice! I just downloaded it. Thanks for the heads up.
March 1st, 2011 at 12:22
I’ve just downloaded it and had a little play in the office. Looks very intuitive, can’t wait to see what people manage to create on it.
Now… must get back to work
March 1st, 2011 at 13:12
Great. I’m curious. Hope to Download it sooooooon!
March 1st, 2011 at 13:51
I’m soooooo excited, that I just can’t hide it!!!
March 1st, 2011 at 14:44
So glad we now have the UNITED fingerpainters flickr group to post in too. Yay Steve Yay fingerpainters.
http://www.flickr.com/groups/1611090@N20/
March 1st, 2011 at 15:15
I downloaded it last night and played with it a bit. It’s really easy to grasp, and powerful. I’ve tried most of the vector apps out there, and none compare to Inkpad for intuitive use. Having a good, portable vector illustration app in my toolkit is fantastic. Steve Sprang has done himself proud, and given us all a fantastic gift! (Again!)
March 1st, 2011 at 16:18
Just downloaded it and did some initial playing around. I second what Dex said above — I’ve tried out most of the vector apps and certainly in combining the most important features with ease of use and performance, inkpad comes out in top. The pen (bezier) tool, in particular, is one that seems to be a pain point in a lot of other apps, but works great in inkpad. Intaglio Sketchpad is also quite good, and a little more feature rich — for example, you can auto-generate uniform polygons (e.g. a hexagon), stars and even complex spirograph-like patterns. I think at least simple uniform polygons might be a good future addition for inkpad, but the other stuff is very specialized and not a must for most users. Sketchpad is also relatively pricy — 14.99. Not sure what inkpad’s price will ultimately be, but at the intro price of $1.99 it is definitely an incredible steal!
March 1st, 2011 at 16:23
I’m kind of wondering if the release of Inkpad the day before the iPad 2 announcement is more than just a coincidence? Maybe there are some additional iPad2-only features in the app?
March 1st, 2011 at 17:30
good thinking, or at least IOS4.3 related stuff. i kinda miss more gesture based actions (cloning, copy&paste, etc.)
March 1st, 2011 at 17:59
all im missing on my ipad is a vector app, i hope this is the one.:)
March 1st, 2011 at 20:52
Is there a freestyle pen, like Adobe Ideas? Is there an eraser?
March 1st, 2011 at 22:21
Also, I must say the narwhal is brilliant!
March 1st, 2011 at 23:28
Check back here tomorrow. More Inkpad codes to give away!
March 2nd, 2011 at 11:22
Very nice app, going to go and have a play now. Thanks for the heads up.
March 2nd, 2011 at 16:28
Free inkpad code for the next person to write INKPAD in one of the comments below!!!
March 3rd, 2011 at 16:02
INKPAD need to try this out!
March 3rd, 2011 at 17:55
Hi ufogeek, just sent it off to you!
Let us know here at fingerpainted.it what you think.
Matthew
March 13th, 2011 at 15:52
Just downloaded ink pad app at the same time as brushes app. Is there a support document available for ink pad as there is for brushes?
May 25th, 2011 at 16:30
Hi, Can I get an inkpad code please? thanks
May 25th, 2011 at 16:45
No sorry, not from us. that offer expired. I can only say that the cost of the app is extremely reasonable and well worth the price.