Value Study 4+

I wrote a review last year but I wanted to write another quick one. Once again I’ve used this app for art projects and it has saved my life. Completely!! I don’t have to go through in PS and manually add in the pixelations. Also thank you for confusing to improve every month! Thank you as well for updating the pixelation feature! This will further help a lot for me in my art journey and especially value studying, defining value edges is still very difficult.

Abt the app: Sometimes when I would go in to edit some of my high detailed images it would definitely work, but it wouldn’t be as crisp when the separation was added as I imagined it might be. So want I to thank you for improving that! Once again love this app and I’ll continue to be using it!!! ❤️😉

Thank you so much! This is the first review and I’m so grateful that you liked it enough to write it. I was in the same position as you, finding techniques useful but a hassle... I’m really glad the app worked in a way that helped you.

I think you’re right that it would be really useful on iPad as it could work well alongside the drawing apps that people already use. So thanks for the request, will definitely look into it for a future update.

Update: Value Study is now supported on iPad 😀

Update 5th Feb 2022: Thank you so much for your updated review… it means the world to me that you’re still using it and appreciating the updates I’ve made!

In the new settings menu there is a link to send an email, free feel to email with any problems or improvement ideas you have 🙂

The app allows artists to see the many values in a photo, whether they’re source photos or photos of their own work. You can also reduce images to shapes, which is very useful for seeing the bigger picture without getting bogged down mentally by the details of the image. Portrait and figurative painters will benefit from the ability to isolate the figure from the background while retaining the figure’s values. There are lots of features to explore. Two things I’d love to see added are a detailed set of instructions (I keep Googling to figure out how to use the app, and I can’t find any explanation of the auto dim lighting feature); and the ability to highlight different values with different colors while using the combine values feature. Excellent work by this developer!

Thank you so much!

Instructions/tutorials are definitely the most highly requested thing these days so I need to get on that. Generally it’s a set of tools for people to use however they wish, so no one way to do anything. But understand some need some explanation! Cheers ☺️

I was so glad to see the ability to set the value scale numbers to what makes most logical sense to me.

I now have set:
“Color direction” set to “White to Black”
“Show value numbers” set to “on”
“Start at 0” is checked.

For anyone reading this review: heads up!
The developer has graciously given us advance notice of going to a subscription model but allowing us and anyone who buys Pro before June to be grandfathered in. Buy the Pro upgrade ASAP!

—-PREVIOUS REVIEW—-
Could you please consider either reversing the value numbers or offering an option to do so? As it stands now, it’s slightly confusing especially when using copic markers which are numbered from lightest to darkest. It should be the higher the number, the darker it gets. That’s the way it is in the 2 other apps Lucida and DaVinchi. But I like to use this app for the overall simplicity & quickness of it. Currently: 1 Black 2 Dark Gray 3 Gray 4 White. It should be: 0 White 1 Gray 2 Dark Gray 3 Black. What do you think dev?

Hi, thanks for your review! I agree there needs some changes to the numbering.

For now you can turn them off completely in the settings. But yes I will look into either changing them or adding the option to 👍

Update: Hi again, just to let you know I’ve added some customisation options for the value scale in the settings. You can now set the starting number and the direction of the values.