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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4.61 out of 5

23 ratings in France

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christian-camille on

Excellent. Un outil formidable mais qui demande un temps d’adaptation et un peu de patience pour en tirer le meilleur. Personnellement je me demande comment j’ai pu m’en passer.

Water colour

Volvov70d5 on

Quite often I’ll start drawing outside, take a picture and finish my water colour at home. I do technical drawings and details are really important for my work. This app is just amazing. Thankyou

Not for old iPad.

Studio Buffet Froid on

Multi-device don’t work on old iPad and iOS 9.3. Contrary to store description.

Épatant

Dom Bla on

Admiratif de l’esquisse ou de l’extrême précision des dessins et des peintures de l’art flamand, je suis un fervent adepte de cette lucida camera . Je compose ma photo comme de nombreux peintres l’ont très probablement fait en utilisant la caméra obscura , prototype de l’appareil photo, et cette application ici me permet ensuite d’exprimer ma créativité ( dessin au fusain, à ma plume, rehaussés ou non de couleurs) Merci aux anciens , merci Pete ! Dominique B.

Very very Good application

LRakot on

Your application is very good. I try others and I found that your’s is the best one. I use it since 3 or 4 years. I use to draw traditionally since many years but to have an accurate portrait without taking proportions this Camera Lucida is useful and more quickest than the traditional method.

Excellente Application !

Michel Fly on

Si vous savez bien paramétrer votre application (et c’est franchement pas compliqué), vous allez avoir entre les mains un outil extraordinaire (regardez bien les tutos sur YouTube, liens dans l’’application). Pour la personne qui a eu un écran noir (j’ai eu la même chose au début), c’est que tout simplement il faut enlever la coque de l’IPad (bon sang mais c’est biensur lol). Fabriquer un bon support (pour faire pro), et vous allez vraiment vous faire plaisir. Ça marche super bien. Les fonctions zoom (en plein travail), et FIT son génialissimes. Je n’ai pas testé la concurrence (vu les avis négatifs), et je n’ai pas hésité à mettre le prix. Je ne suis vraiment pas déçu de mon achat ! Merci Pete 👍😉

Ne fonctionne pas

Plumram on

Et c’est bien dommage car le concept est intéressant ! Les photos se téléchargent mais impossible de travailler dessus Les vidéos sont noires, rien n’est filmé Serait-il possible d’obtenir de l’aide ou une mise à jour s’il vous plaît ? Car payer pour rien est frustrant !

Lesley Loveridge-Bufton

Poly B on

What’s not to say! I am so enjoying this app. It opens up so many possibilities. I have just saved some of my favourite paintings by, for example, Winslow Homer, Newlyn Impressionists,Hopper and others to work on with this app. It’s a “must have” for anyone who is creative.

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App Info

Languages
English
Recent version
17.0 (3 months ago )
Released on
Mar 20, 2010 (14 years ago )
Last updated
2 weeks ago