Tracecolor

Name: Tracecolor
Rating: 3 (1 reviews)
Author: Franklin Chang

Productivity

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

1 Rating
Age Rating

4+
Years
Category

Productivity
Developer

Franklin Chang
Language

EN
English
Size

4.9
MB

Tracecolor is a coloring program. You can take a picture and convert it into its outline traces and then you can color it as you like. It is designed to be simple to use for kids or older adults who enjoy drawing. There are small set of controls for pen size, opacity, and color selection. There is a zoom page to enlarge a section of the picture in order to focus on the detail in that section. Pictures can come from your camera, library, or our materials page. On the photo edit page, you can color over the original picture, invert the colors, or create an outline (there are various sliders for changing your outline). The program is free, except if you want to save your picture to your photo library, then you need to unlock the app on the materials page. Art therapy can be useful for keeping the mind active. Coloring books are typically either simple books for children and quite complex books for adults. But it is harder to find books in middle which have simple images that are interesting for adults. With this program, you can take photos and create your own materials. It might also be more meaningful and fun to have images that come from their own life (e.g., a favorite place or pet).

Ratings & Reviews

3.0

out of 5

1 Ratings

Hard to use, not sure what the settings do
08/07/2020
evv11
To test this app, I drew the outline of a lemon and took a picture of it, hoping to color it in. The app is a good idea, but there is only an interface showing the bars to change settings of the picture but nothing is labeled. What am I changing? How do I get a clear outline of the image? Unfortunately there is no option to simply outline, and the image is covered in speckles even if there are hardly any values present. This app can also only be used horizontally, which is annoying if you’re using your phone. If everything in the app was labeled and better suited to trace outlines without speckles, or at least if there was an option to remove the speckles, this could be an amazing app for quickly adding color to line art!

Developer Response
Thanks for the comment. The landscape format is for the button layout, but I might try to create a portrait layout later. The interface bars change parameters within builtin-apple filters for photo manipulation, but honestly, I have no idea what they do (the documentation is not very detailed). So that is one reason why there are no labels. Getting a clear outline is very hard in general, which is why apple does not provide an outline filter. What is probably happening is that there are small variations in yellow in your picture and the filters treats them as different colors. So one thing to try it is to change your photo in another program so that there are fewer colors or reduce the overall resolution. Finally, it is possible to change the paint color to white and paint over the speckles before saving. There are certain kinds of images that tend to work well with the program and finding them is not so easy. Good luck!
Hard to use, not sure what the settings do
08/07/2020
evv11

To test this app, I drew the outline of a lemon and took a picture of it, hoping to color it in. The app is a good idea, but there is only an interface showing the bars to change settings of the picture but nothing is labeled. What am I changing? How do I get a clear outline of the image? Unfortunately there is no option to simply outline, and the image is covered in speckles even if there are hardly any values present. This app can also only be used horizontally, which is annoying if you’re using your phone. If everything in the app was labeled and better suited to trace outlines without speckles, or at least if there was an option to remove the speckles, this could be an amazing app for quickly adding color to line art!
Developer Response 09/25/2020
Thanks for the comment. The landscape format is for the button layout, but I might try to create a portrait layout later. The interface bars change parameters within builtin-apple filters for photo manipulation, but honestly, I have no idea what they do (the documentation is not very detailed). So that is one reason why there are no labels. Getting a clear outline is very hard in general, which is why apple does not provide an outline filter. What is probably happening is that there are small variations in yellow in your picture and the filters treats them as different colors. So one thing to try it is to change your photo in another program so that there are fewer colors or reduce the overall resolution. Finally, it is possible to change the paint color to white and paint over the speckles before saving. There are certain kinds of images that tend to work well with the program and finding them is not so easy. Good luck!

Block swipe left on color page Launchscreen updated. New pictures added.

Version 1.1 Jun 12

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Seller: Franklin Chang
Size: 4.9 MB
Category: Productivity
Compatibility: Requires iOS 15.6 or later.

iPhone
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.

iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later.

iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.

Mac
Requires macOS 12.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.

Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages: English
Age Rating: 4+

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