Fantastic app!
So easy to use and so helpful. This is a real gem for aspiring artists. 10 stars!
Description
In art, value (or tone) refers to how light or dark a colour is. If you're learning to paint or draw, doing value studies is one of the best ways to improve. These small, loose sketches in greyscale help you understand where shadows fall and highlights appear—essential for capturing depth and form.
Value Study is a simple, focused tool designed to help you see values more clearly in your reference images. Instead of just converting a photo to black and white, this app lets you break down tones step by step. Start with just black and white to map out the biggest shapes, then gradually add more values to refine your understanding.
You can also highlight all areas of an image that share the same value, making it easier to see subtle shifts in tone. This is especially useful in complex references, like portraits, where different parts of the image might have the same level of shadow but look completely different in colour.
Value Study isn’t here to replace traditional studies—it’s here to enhance them. Whether you're sketching, painting, or working digitally, this tool makes it easier to focus on the fundamentals of light, shadow, and form.
Try it for free with sample images from Unsplash before deciding to unlock the full app with a low-cost yearly or lifetime purchase.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Value Study is a simple, focused tool designed to help you see values more clearly in your reference images. Instead of just converting a photo to black and white, this app lets you break down tones step by step. Start with just black and white to map out the biggest shapes, then gradually add more values to refine your understanding.
You can also highlight all areas of an image that share the same value, making it easier to see subtle shifts in tone. This is especially useful in complex references, like portraits, where different parts of the image might have the same level of shadow but look completely different in colour.
Value Study isn’t here to replace traditional studies—it’s here to enhance them. Whether you're sketching, painting, or working digitally, this tool makes it easier to focus on the fundamentals of light, shadow, and form.
Try it for free with sample images from Unsplash before deciding to unlock the full app with a low-cost yearly or lifetime purchase.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
In-Apps
- Value Study Pro
- $1.99
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Value Study Reviews
Brilliant hack to test your tonal values
This app helps me to check the balance in tonal values in my work, love the graphic quality it brings to my sketches too
I love this app. I use it all the time
I love all the little extra features that make this more than just a simple notan converter. An essential app for artists! An improvement suggestion: It’d be perfect if it had the option to add a simple 3x3 grid overlay (maybe even a customisable grid?). I currently switch between this app and another that adds the grid but I’d love to have this feature included here!
An extra eye
Quicker than doing a value sketch yourself. A great tool.
Love this app!
It makes reference photos so much simpler to recreate. Definitely an app in every artists tool kit
Excellent tool for artists
The ability to vary number of values displayed and toggle between photo and notan are most useful.
Excellent
I sometimes use this for watercolours instead of doing a value study. It works great the only improvement I would like to see is some type of slider to shift the mid point when I have the image broken down to 3 values which is how I usually use it.
Excellent
Looks like it will be a great help for my pencil drawing efforts.
Does exactly what it claims to do.
Superb, simple and free. What more could you wish for?
Diem Ltd = Committed and Perseveres. Try it, Buy it.
I may be like you, I am a very discriminating app downloader. Initially, I used this app to - try, and moved forward through iOS devices only, to purchasing lifetime, to sharing it as my drawing friends must try, and through multiple quick helpful chats with the creator, to use now - on my OS mac desktop. Shane is the best and each version is a blessing. My favorite new feature is Simplify Shapes. Try it. Preview before purchase. Mac, iPhone, and iPad apps
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App Info
- Category
- Graphics Design
- Publisher
- Diem
- Languages
- English, Spanish, Italian, French, German
- Recent release
- 3.6.2 (1 day ago )
- Released on
- Jan 13, 2021 (4 years ago )
- Also available in
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, China, South Africa, Spain, India, New Zealand, Ireland, Egypt, Belgium, Norway, Taiwan, Switzerland, Mexico, Denmark, Türkiye, Japan, Vietnam, Finland, Singapore, Italy, Brazil, Philippines, Greece, Hong Kong SAR China, Saudi Arabia, Poland, Portugal, Czechia, United Arab Emirates, Hungary, Chile, Romania, Argentina, Nepal, Russia, Thailand, Ukraine, Croatia, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Bulgaria, Indonesia, Israel, South Korea, Kuwait, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Peru, Nigeria, Azerbaijan, Lebanon, Slovenia, Brunei, Ecuador, Algeria, Latvia, Austria, Belarus, Malaysia
- Last Updated
- 6 days ago
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