Best Ever Drawing App for all levels
This is the best app ever, and the support that the developer gives is fantastic. Pete is always looking for ways to improve and pass it on.
Camera Lucida
Masterful drawing in minutes!
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Yes, this app will help you draw like a pro!
Still no subscriptions! Purchase it once and everyone in your family can run it on every device they own!
Whether you're drawing on paper with a pencil, or cookies with royal icing, Camera Lucida will help you become a better artist.
Be sure to read the reviews and the functionality you get with Camera Lucida! There are lots of competitors, but no other app comes anywhere close to matching the functionality you get with 12 years of software development and refinement!
Unlike hundreds of apps that enable you to create digital art, Camera Lucida instead enables you to create amazing physical art! Our app works by having your iPhone or iPad's camera pointed at your drawing surface. By watching your screen as you draw, you will be able to to see your reference image superimposed with your drawing - guiding your hand as little or as much as you want while you create your art. Better than a projector, easier to use than an expensive camera lucida, and more versatile than a light table, Camera Lucida has been fine-tuned for over a decade to provide artists with the features they need to be accurate and creative.
With our Camera Lucida iPhone/iPad application, artists and non-artists alike can now draw anything they have a photo of. When looking at your screen, you'll be able to simultaneously see the image you want to draw as well as your drawing surface as you create your work of art. Camera Lucida isn’t a projector, instead the app shows you a virtual image and you draw by watching your paper and hand on the screen as you draw! It’s really clever and cool!
With over 12 years of continuous development, Camera Lucida's functionality eclipses the competition. Check out these features:
- Advanced image filters to help you see with an artist's eye.
- Support for saving and restoring sessions, including automatically realigning your camera, sketch and reference image.
- Full color palette control, including using your own paints, markers, etc.
- Use any camera on your device and adjust for tilted and mirrored setups manually, or use an in-app purchase do do it automatically.
- Time-lapsed recordings of you creating your drawing you can share on social media.
- Support for external bluetooth keyboards to aid in creating large art through mirroring your display.
- Advanced tools such as vertical split screen sliders, timed image fading in and out, etc.
- A projector mode that can be used when you’re using the app with a projector.
- Video tutorials you can watch from within the app or from YouTube.
- A full user manual available from within the app.
- Customer support that you can count on and an active user community for inspiration.
- And now full support for external USB cameras when using a USB-C equipped iPad running iOS 17!
To use our application, you just place your iPhone or iPad between your drawing surface and your eyes and trace what you see on the screen!
IMPORTANT: To use Camera Lucida, you need to fix your iPhone or iPad in place above your drawing. We use a stack of books or a flower vase to do this. Tutorials are included in the app to help you get started.
Contact: [email protected]
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Still no subscriptions! Purchase it once and everyone in your family can run it on every device they own!
Whether you're drawing on paper with a pencil, or cookies with royal icing, Camera Lucida will help you become a better artist.
Be sure to read the reviews and the functionality you get with Camera Lucida! There are lots of competitors, but no other app comes anywhere close to matching the functionality you get with 12 years of software development and refinement!
Unlike hundreds of apps that enable you to create digital art, Camera Lucida instead enables you to create amazing physical art! Our app works by having your iPhone or iPad's camera pointed at your drawing surface. By watching your screen as you draw, you will be able to to see your reference image superimposed with your drawing - guiding your hand as little or as much as you want while you create your art. Better than a projector, easier to use than an expensive camera lucida, and more versatile than a light table, Camera Lucida has been fine-tuned for over a decade to provide artists with the features they need to be accurate and creative.
With our Camera Lucida iPhone/iPad application, artists and non-artists alike can now draw anything they have a photo of. When looking at your screen, you'll be able to simultaneously see the image you want to draw as well as your drawing surface as you create your work of art. Camera Lucida isn’t a projector, instead the app shows you a virtual image and you draw by watching your paper and hand on the screen as you draw! It’s really clever and cool!
With over 12 years of continuous development, Camera Lucida's functionality eclipses the competition. Check out these features:
- Advanced image filters to help you see with an artist's eye.
- Support for saving and restoring sessions, including automatically realigning your camera, sketch and reference image.
- Full color palette control, including using your own paints, markers, etc.
- Use any camera on your device and adjust for tilted and mirrored setups manually, or use an in-app purchase do do it automatically.
- Time-lapsed recordings of you creating your drawing you can share on social media.
- Support for external bluetooth keyboards to aid in creating large art through mirroring your display.
- Advanced tools such as vertical split screen sliders, timed image fading in and out, etc.
- A projector mode that can be used when you’re using the app with a projector.
- Video tutorials you can watch from within the app or from YouTube.
- A full user manual available from within the app.
- Customer support that you can count on and an active user community for inspiration.
- And now full support for external USB cameras when using a USB-C equipped iPad running iOS 17!
To use our application, you just place your iPhone or iPad between your drawing surface and your eyes and trace what you see on the screen!
IMPORTANT: To use Camera Lucida, you need to fix your iPhone or iPad in place above your drawing. We use a stack of books or a flower vase to do this. Tutorials are included in the app to help you get started.
Contact: [email protected]
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- Auto-Correct For Perspective
- $6.99
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User Rating
4.85 out of 5
237 ratings in Canada
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Best app - and support EVER!
Had a technical problem. Pete solved it in minutes. Great app for anyone at any skill level. Highly recommend it.
Best app for artists of all levels!
Camera Lucida is a great app. I use it all the time especially when I want my sketches to be spot on. It has brought my artistic skills to a much higher level. Using the app has made sketching and painting enjoyable again! Thanks
I love this program!
I love to draw and sketch and paint and this program is a great tool that allows me to create better and more accurate sketches, and painting outlines. Get it , you will love it. 📣Important note! 📣 Take the time to learn how to use it by reading the documentation as it has a lot of functionality and if you read the documentation you can master it way faster and get up to speed immediatly - I don’t recommend that you fumble around without reading the help first as it’s a very elaborate tool and like any tool you should understand how it works before starting to work with it.
Versatile and useful
No matter what kind of art you do or would like to do, this help can benefit you in so many ways. From getting proportions right to assisting with colour application, this wonderful app does it all!
Excellent
Excellent app. User friendly. No need to buy tracing paper. With this app I get the drawing and composition done faster.
Camera lucida
Best app ever. ❤️
Love this app
The support from Peter Moeykens is outstanding. Best art app on the market.
So helpful, the best.
This app’s been so helpful in so many ways. I use it not only to ‘trace’ an image, but also use it on location to help me see the scene, colours and shapes better.
Love it
Easy to use
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App Info
- Category
- Graphics Design
- Publisher
- Big Idea Design LLC
- Languages
- English
- Recent version
- 17.0 (3 months ago )
- Released on
- Mar 20, 2010 (14 years ago )
- Also available in
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Italy, Germany, Netherlands, Brazil, Mexico, France, Spain, Belgium, Sweden, Ireland, Switzerland, New Zealand, South Africa, Russia, Denmark, Poland, Norway, Austria, Colombia, Portugal, Turkey, Taiwan, Israel, India, China, Chile, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Hungary, United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Greece, Argentina, Singapore, Egypt, Finland, South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Czechia, Romania, Ecuador, Algeria, Dominican Republic, Pakistan, Philippines, Lebanon, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Peru, Belarus, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Vietnam, Nigeria
- Last updated
- 2 weeks ago