Muddy Waters

v1.6.8 brings a few features that will really help pro painters or those heading to the art store. The new Palette Advisor feature analyses your paints, suggests colours to fill gaps and cen even suggest a travel palette from your existing paints for when you paint on the road. It also allows you to upload an image and it will suggest a palette to use for that individual painting. The Library now shows you when you own a colour in another brand with a green circle. And finally, after you have put in all your work setting up your palette, the app now has a backup feature for Premium users, both to a local file or to the cloud which allows you to share your setup to another device or even a friend. New Pro feature to filter your paints by Lightfastness and special family. We will be adding more of these paints in the future, like duochrome, iridescent, interference, etc. Note, not all manufacturers supply lightfastness data but for those of you wanting your paintings to last 20, 50 or 100+ years, selecting the right paints really matters. Finally, the brush strokes now all have the realistic rendering, revealing proper transparency according to the individual paint specifications. Not only will this give you a better feel for how colours will mix in the real world (especially when mixing transparent with opaque) but it just makes the app look beautful if I may say so myself. Various bug fixes and optimisation of some calculations. Happy Painting!

v1.7.0 brings a few features that will really help pro painters or those heading to the art store. The new Palette Advisor feature analyses your paints, suggests colors to fill gaps and cen even suggest a travel palette from your existing paints for when you paint on the road. It also allows you to upload an image and it will suggest a palette to use for that individual painting. The Library now shows you when you own a color in another brand with a green circle. And finally, after you have put in all your work setting up your palette, the app now has a backup feature for Premium users, both to a local file or to the cloud which allows you to share your setup to another device or even a friend. New Pro feature to filter your paints by Lightfastness and special family. We will be adding more of these paints in the future, like duochrome, iridescent, interference, etc. Note, not all manufacturers supply lightfastness data but for those of you wanting your paintings to last 20, 50 or 100+ years, selecting the right paints really matters. Finally, the brush strokes now all have the realistic rendering, revealing proper transparency according to the individual paint specifications. Not only will this give you a better feel for how colors will mix in the real world (especially when mixing transparent with opaque) but it just makes the app look beautful if I may say so myself. Various bug fixes including the target reticule not following your finger and optimisation of some calculations. Happy Painting!

v1.7.1 brings a new Image Capture targeting system plus features that will really help pro painters or those heading to the art store. The new Palette Advisor feature analyses your paints, suggests colours to fill gaps and cen even suggest a travel palette from your existing paints for when you paint on the road. It also allows you to upload an image and it will suggest a palette to use for that individual painting. The Library now shows you when you own a colour in another brand with a green circle. And finally, after you have put in all your work setting up your palette, the app now has a backup feature for Premium users, both to a local file or to the cloud which allows you to share your setup to another device or even a friend. New Pro feature to filter your paints by Lightfastness and special family. We will be adding more of these paints in the future, like duochrome, iridescent, interference, etc. Note, not all manufacturers supply lightfastness data but for those of you wanting your paintings to last 20, 50 or 100+ years, selecting the right paints really matters. Finally, the brush strokes now all have the realistic rendering, revealing proper transparency according to the individual paint specifications. Not only will this give you a better feel for how colours will mix in the real world (especially when mixing transparent with opaque) but it just makes the app look beautful if I may say so myself. Happy Painting!

v1.8.1 focused almost entirely on making colour mixing and capture more accurate, plus a few important fixes. New Live magnifier when picking a colour from a photo, so you can place the dropper precisely on the exact spot you want. Improved the accuracy of colours picked from images. Fixes include: Refined the underlying spectral data for many pigments, and improved how mixes of three or more pigments are calculated. Dark, complementary mixes (e.g. Phthalo Blue + Cadmium Red) that came out too light and too teal in the middle now settle into the deep, muted darks artists expect. Orange pigments like Holbein Daybreak Orange now render their proper rust colour. Thanks to our testers for their excellent feedback and ideas. Happy Painting!

v1.8.3 focused on expanding the Sennelier and A. Gallo ranges, with many new watercolours added to the library. New colours across the range, including: Greys and neutrals — Chinese White, Ivory Black, Sennelier Grey, Warm Grey. Earths and browns — Van Dyck Brown, Gold Ochre, Burnt Umber. Reds — Rose Madder, Cadmium Red Purple, Sennelier Red. Blues — Prussian Blue, Indigo, Cerulean Blue, Cinereous Blue, Lapis Lazuli. Greens — Turquoise Green, Green Earth, Olive Green, Bright Yellow Green. Each new colour comes with its own reflectance spectrum, so it mixes and matches at full accuracy rather than from an approximation. Lightfastness is included wherever the manufacturer publishes a proper rating, and left blank rather than guessed when it isn't. We have included a few bug fixes and it is now way easier to copy or move paints between palettes. Happy Painting!