By: Aseem Gaurav, April 24, 2011 (New Delhi)
Imagine you are sitting in a coffee shop or somewhere down the beach or in a museum and there’s your shiny iPad in front of you. After having a good look at the environment you want to sketch out some of your thoughts or ideas. That’s where Adobe’s free app Adobe Ideas comes in.
This is a fun, free and useful app, which has got one of the best UI available in the market. It allows you to sketch out ideas, write notes on photographs and extract color schemes from photographs, and share (via e-mailed PDF) the drawings. It has got pretty amazing color scheming tool that you can use on photos taken from the iPhone’s camera or any images in your library as its source.
Just a reminder that it is the same app that US President Barack Obama autographed during his campaigning in Seattle, Washington at the University of Washington. “He looked slightly surprised, but proceeded to use his finger to scribble on the iPad using the Adobe Ideas app,” said Sylvester Caan, who forwarded his iPad for the US President to sign.
When creating ideas, the app gives you very simple tools: a brush, eraser, hand tool (for panning), and settings to change the size, color, and opacity of the brush. The photo import option is also availale, which can give you an easy way to trace a photo or mark up a picture or document.
The app has been recently updated to give users VGA out capability to display sketches in real-time on an external display or projector using Apple’s VGA adapter for the iPad. Moreover, you can purchase a $4.99 Layers in-app optional purchase to create up to 10 drawing layers. Each layar can be manipulated in the sketch space using the Layers Move tool.
Features and Specs:
• Simple vector-based drawing tools
• Zoom control without jaggies or big pixels
• Variable-size brushes using multitouch control
• Vector eraser
• Huge virtual canvas
• Automatic creation of harmonized color themes from your photos or images
• Ability to email ideas as PDF files for editing in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop or for viewing with any PDF viewer
• Gallery-style organizer to quickly scroll through your ideas and color themes
• Separate drawing and photo layers
• Easy creation of multiple versions of design concepts
• 50-level undo
Overall, it is a marvelous app for those who want to design something urgently and want to use an existing color scheme. I must say that the app is so simple that anyone can use it and create an album of his/her own ideas.
Imagine you are sitting in a coffee shop or somewhere down the beach or in a museum and there’s your shiny iPad in front of you. After having a good look at the environment you want to sketch out some of your thoughts or ideas. That’s where Adobe’s free app Adobe Ideas comes in.
This is a fun, free and useful app, which has got one of the best UI available in the market. It allows you to sketch out ideas, write notes on photographs and extract color schemes from photographs, and share (via e-mailed PDF) the drawings. It has got pretty amazing color scheming tool that you can use on photos taken from the iPhone’s camera or any images in your library as its source.
Just a reminder that it is the same app that US President Barack Obama autographed during his campaigning in Seattle, Washington at the University of Washington. “He looked slightly surprised, but proceeded to use his finger to scribble on the iPad using the Adobe Ideas app,” said Sylvester Caan, who forwarded his iPad for the US President to sign.
When creating ideas, the app gives you very simple tools: a brush, eraser, hand tool (for panning), and settings to change the size, color, and opacity of the brush. The photo import option is also availale, which can give you an easy way to trace a photo or mark up a picture or document.
The app has been recently updated to give users VGA out capability to display sketches in real-time on an external display or projector using Apple’s VGA adapter for the iPad. Moreover, you can purchase a $4.99 Layers in-app optional purchase to create up to 10 drawing layers. Each layar can be manipulated in the sketch space using the Layers Move tool.
Features and Specs:
• Simple vector-based drawing tools
• Zoom control without jaggies or big pixels
• Variable-size brushes using multitouch control
• Vector eraser
• Huge virtual canvas
• Automatic creation of harmonized color themes from your photos or images
• Ability to email ideas as PDF files for editing in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop or for viewing with any PDF viewer
• Gallery-style organizer to quickly scroll through your ideas and color themes
• Separate drawing and photo layers
• Easy creation of multiple versions of design concepts
• 50-level undo
Overall, it is a marvelous app for those who want to design something urgently and want to use an existing color scheme. I must say that the app is so simple that anyone can use it and create an album of his/her own ideas.
