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By Laura . April 5, 2012 . 12:31pm
Colors! 3D is a painting appliance for the Nintendo 3DS, arise as a download app via the Nintendo eShop in North America today. European and Australian releases are pending.
The moment I angry on Colors! 3D, it confused me off into a quick tutorial on all the basal functions of the appliance and it addled me what I was using. What I begin was, in my hands, I basically had a miniature Photoshop program.
Colors! 3D is a automated painting appliance that specializes in creating layers. This may complete acclimatized to Photoshop users, but what’s appropriate about these layers is that they additionally action as the app’s appellation suggests—you can articulation your art into altered layers and appearance the paintings in 3D.
The capital action Colors! 3D provides is, of course, drawing. The appliance provides you with the basal accoutrement you charge to actualize best art—the besom with a admeasurement and caliginosity adjuster, 3 altered besom types, zoom, band control, scrolling, eye dropper, and a blush palette like the one from Corel’s Painter. These are handled mostly by the D-pad and the amphitheater pad (for example, acute the amphitheater pad larboard or appropriate adapted the layers, and up and bottomward adapted the zoom), and while the controls booty a bit of accepting acclimated to, consistently appliance the acclimatized me to them appropriate away. The buttons aren’t acclimated at all because your appropriate duke will be captivation the stylus to draw.
Don’t anguish if you’re left-handed, though. You’ll still be appliance the amphitheater pad, but the buttons for the besom pressure, scroll, and eye dropper are confused to the buttons on the right. That actuality said, while the app does board altered handedness, if you’re not adequate with these controls, you’re out of luck.
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The aboriginal footfall to creating a new painting is allotment your canvas size. Colors! 3D provides three altered options—portrait, mural (with the 4:3 basal awning ratio), or widescreen (with the 5:3 top awning ratio). The widescreen one is recommended back that’s area you’ll be examination the angel on the 3DS, but if you’re exporting the angel to an SD agenda and examination it on a computer later, afresh you may appetite to use the added options too. Added on that later.
Once you’ve called a size, the appliance anon brings you to a bare canvas. The absence bureaucracy is for a solid accomplishments and 4 altered layers. You can’t annul layers, but you can calmly about-face amid them, archetype them, or bright them absolute easily.
If you adopt not to use a solid background, you can upload any angel you accept on your SD agenda to use as a advertence or a accomplishments instead. Colors! 3D can’t admission your arrangement data, though, so to use your 3DS’s camera photos, you’ll accept to upload them to the SD agenda first. Already you’ve called a photo, you can accept to use it as an overlay, which alone shows up in the basal awning (meaning that it won’t arise in your absolute drawing); as a background, which you can draw on; as a amplitude accompaniment for the high awning (which serves I-don’t-know-what purpose); or you can adumbrate it entirely.
Pressing the L button brings up the capital menu. I like how Colors! 3D accommodates whether you columnist or tap the button because it will acknowledge accordingly. The blush palette comes up with the sliders on the appropriate and altered besom types on the left. The besom admeasurement and caliginosity gauges are self-explanatory. The altered besom types accessible are a solid one, a bendable brush, and textured brush.
With all of this, you’re set to acrylic about annihilation you want. However, as I got to work, I accomplished that there were several functions that I missed. For example, I apperceive I would accept admired to accept a apprehend tool, but that’s lacking. Band administration is additionally a bit awkward. It’s accessible to archetype layers and absorb them, but it should alone be done already you’re abiding you appetite to do so back it’s absurd to abstracted them again. Luckily, mistakes are calmly handled with the columnist of an R button.
Also, because layers action both as layers (in the clear architecture sense) and as 3D layers, I begin myself adulatory for added than aloof 5 layers. It’s accessible to change the appearance of the affairs such that you can see what’s on anniversary band in one of the menus, and you can additionally accept to “always appearance all layers,” “hide obstructing layers,” and “only appearance accepted layer,” but you can’t adumbrate aloof one distinct band while befitting the others open. Colors! 3D isn’t that adjustable in this aspect.
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Still, though, the affairs provides abundant accoutrement to accord you a absolute solid cartoon tool, and because that it’s portable, it’s like accepting a agenda sketchbook. Already you’re done with your cartoon or you appetite a break, acute either Alpha or Select automatically saves the painting. It takes a while, so I don’t anticipate accomplishing so back the 3DS array indicator is aflame red is a acceptable idea.
The best allotment about Colors! 3D, hoever, is its association and its added functions.
For example, Colors! 3D provides you with “inspiration,” in case you’re bottomward with an aesthetic adaptation of a writer’s block. It provides you with over 20 altered paintings and assets by 3 altered artists from the absolute Colors! association that you can view. And akin admitting the appliance aloof came out, there’s already affluence of assets on the Arcade because Colors! was additionally accessible for the iPod Touch, iPhone, and Nintendo DS.
One of them is a alternation of lineart, which you can use as a appearance book. This lineart is additionally absolutely accessible in that you can’t blush alfresco the lines. The besom artlessly won’t register. (For already in my life, I can blush aural the lines!)
The added paintings appear in two types. One is 3D, and these absolutely are absolute beautiful, and you can use it to see one way to accomplish use of the 3D layers. The added type, simpler but admirable in its own way, is acceptable ol’ 2D paintings.
You can additionally affix online and appointment the online gallery, area bodies upload their drawings, 3D and 2D alike. If you acquisition one you like, you can download it to your affairs for after viewing. You can additionally leave comments and ‘Like’ a cartoon or amount it.
The best allotment of all of these, though, is the playback function. Colors! 3D allows you to appearance a video of the aesthetic conception abaft these paintings from alpha to finish. It’s like downloading a tutorial on painting, and you can use it to booty tips or aloof watch a new painting be created. I absolutely admired watching the cartoon for the 3D afflatus paintings that appear with the application.
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Playback works with your own art as well, and you can additionally abeyance the playback at any time. Back you do so, you accept the advantage of artful the cartoon and accompanying it at that point in time. For a cartoon apparatus with bound layering controls, I anticipate this would be article absolute handy.
Finally, already you’re done, you can upload your assets to an SD card. You can additionally upload annihilation you’ve downloaded, too. This way, you can appearance the assets on a computer or allotment them with accompany who don’t accept Colors! 3D.
If they do accept Colors! 3D, you can accept a collective cartoon affair with your accompany appliance bounded wireless connectivity, although I didn’t get to try this affection out myself. Overall, though, I absolutely adulation accepting Colors! 3D as a doodling pad wherever I go. Although there were some functions and controls I had to get acclimated to, it’s aloof a amount of adapting to the accoutrement handed to you. I admired the playback advantage and I feel there’s a lot I can apprentice aloof from watching added people’s art actuality painted.
Food for thought:
1. Already downloaded, the pictures may adapt a little. For one of my downloaded paintings, the accomplishments was removed and replaced by the aboriginal lineart. I’m not absolute abiding what determines what gets removed or not, but blow assured the absolute cartoon was still intact. I anticipate the accomplishments was a photograph, but I can’t bethink for sure…
2. You can consign your paintings to the SD agenda in either accustomed resolution at 800×480 or HQ resolution at 1600×960 for widescreen paintings. The resolutions for mural and account paintings are comparable.
3. Back you export, you accept to set your adapted 3D akin by aboriginal ambience your slider until you’re annoyed with your painting works. 3D affairs a lot in this program, back too abundant 3D moves aggregate out of place. If you appetite 2D, aloof accumulate your 3D slider off.
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