CopyIt The Grid Drawing Method

Name: CopyIt The Grid Drawing Method
Price: 9.99 USD
Rating: 4.7 (297 reviews)
Author: Nigel Green

An ancient tool made digital.

$9.99 · Designed for iPad

297 Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Productivity
Developer

Nigel Green
Language

EN
English
Size

12.3
MB

First released in June 2010, CopyIt is the original and most feature rich grid drawing app available anywhere! See why so many artists, teachers and students are using CopyIt as an essential tool in their workflows. NEW USERS - PLEASE NOTE: Due to the large number of features in CopyIt, the toolbars are scrollable. Try scrolling each toolbar to access all of the available buttons. Used by artists such as Vincent Van Gogh and Leonardo da Vinci, the grid drawing method has been brought to digital life with CopyIt. CopyIt assists you in copying, enlarging or reducing your chosen reference image using the grid drawing method. You do not even need to be artistic. The grid drawing method has been used for centuries. It breaks images down into smaller work areas allowing you to focus on the actual lines and shapes within each square, rather than trying to draw the whole picture at once. You can't help but achieve with this method. Using CopyIt as your reference object, it saves you from having to print your photos and ruin them by drawing grids over them, but unlike a real photo, it gives you the ability to zoom into the fine details. With a pencil, you then draw up a grid with the same number of squares using a separate medium, such as paper or canvas. Working square by square, you CopyIt! If you want to draw an image larger or smaller than the original, the pencil-drawn grid should be drawn larger or smaller than the original grid on the device with the same amount of squares. All that matters is that the contents of each square are drawn to scale. FEATURES: - Comprehensive Help - Portrait or Landscape orientation - Universal App, compatible with iPad, iPhone and iPod touch - Fullscreen mode (hides toolbars) - Built-in Music player - Audible feedback (can be turned off) - Extra options in the Settings App - Set your Maximum Zoom level from x1 to x20 - CopyIt can resist entering standby while in use - TubeMatch™ for approximating paint and pencil colours - Mosaic to average surrounding colours into coloured squares - Tonal Strip to help identify values - Media types (Imperial and Metric) Grid Options: - 6 Grid Types - Preset or custom Columns, Rows and Points grid sizing options - To maintain the grid visibility regardless of your photo, choose from 9 grid colors, Black (default), Gray, White, Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, Orange and Magenta - Grid transparency is adjustable in 5% increments - 5 different Grid Line thicknesses - Grid letters and numbers (now 8 different formats) - A center point in each grid square - Guidelines: 1/4 and 1/16 to help you copy your subject - Solid or Dashed Guidelines - Guideline colour can be set independently to Grid colour - SmartMove: Just touch a square once to zoom to that square - SmartMove: takes advantage of your maximum zoom setting, never zooming in more than that amount - Target mode highlights the current square and dims the rest, helping you to focus your attention Filters and Effects: - 12 Primary Filters - 6 Secondary Filters - Onion Skin Feature: Overlay your reference image above your work to quickly assess your accuracy - 12 different image aspects - Rotate the image in 90 degree increments - Vertical and Horizontal Flip image Import Options: - Cameras are supported - both front and back - Load Project - Load From Photo Album Export Options: - Save Project - Export Photo (AirDrop, email, message, print, export to Facebook, Twitter etc) For detailed instructions on how to use CopyIt, a user guide is available within the App and on the Support website. You can contact the developer on Facebook or Twitter. www.facebook.com/CopyItTheGridDrawingMethod or @copyitforios Thank you to all our users for their feedback and feature suggestions which have helped make CopyIt what it is today.

Ratings & Reviews

4.7

out of 5

297 Ratings

Fantastic product for oil painting
Jul 16

Moorlucky
There’s a learning period when you start using this app. I still don’t understand everything this app can do. I use it with most of my oil paintings that are done inside my studio. I use this app with a smaller iPad, with Velcro attached to the back of the iPad . I can place the iPad on top of the easel with the other side of velcro. I can move to different sections of the photo to see details. I think it’s one of the best apps for artists! Update: I’ve been using this app for several years ago! I get my perspective, color values, etc. I share this app to my artist friends. It doesn’t matter where your skill level is, this app can help you. I tell them to play with the app and get familiar with the different ways you can use for your art. Buy it, work with it until you comprehend the tools available for you!
Fantastic product for oil painting
Jul 16

Moorlucky

There’s a learning period when you start using this app. I still don’t understand everything this app can do. I use it with most of my oil paintings that are done inside my studio. I use this app with a smaller iPad, with Velcro attached to the back of the iPad . I can place the iPad on top of the easel with the other side of velcro. I can move to different sections of the photo to see details. I think it’s one of the best apps for artists! Update: I’ve been using this app for several years ago! I get my perspective, color values, etc. I share this app to my artist friends. It doesn’t matter where your skill level is, this app can help you. I tell them to play with the app and get familiar with the different ways you can use for your art. Buy it, work with it until you comprehend the tools available for you!
This guy knows what he’s doing
08/19/2018

Owensv
The developer has to be an artist, or else he has consulted extensively with a few. This app combines several tools any artist would find useful, with all the features one could ask. And for less than the cost of a single tube of paint, in many cases. Besides being a wonderful drawing aid, this app has some fantastic tools for analyzing a potential photo reference, such as examining a subject’s value range via a black and white posterization filter and a handy gray scale strip chart you can use to overlay your photo. This is incredibly useful. The features are too many to list, and I continue to find nice little touches that just show off the thought that has gone into this. Well done!
This guy knows what he’s doing
08/19/2018

Owensv

The developer has to be an artist, or else he has consulted extensively with a few. This app combines several tools any artist would find useful, with all the features one could ask. And for less than the cost of a single tube of paint, in many cases. Besides being a wonderful drawing aid, this app has some fantastic tools for analyzing a potential photo reference, such as examining a subject’s value range via a black and white posterization filter and a handy gray scale strip chart you can use to overlay your photo. This is incredibly useful. The features are too many to list, and I continue to find nice little touches that just show off the thought that has gone into this. Well done!
Broken app is a project wrecking waste of time and money
04/15/2018

Captainfunpants
Everything works great at first when you load it and start working, but once you take a break after several hours of meticulous, careful work and close the app, you’re doomed. When you reopen the app, the view either sticks in vertical and refuses to flip to horizontal, or if it does flip to vertical, it completely resizes the grid and shifts the alignment, and nothing you can do can get it to go back like it was. It’s a scrambled, glitchy mess. That means that your work is ruined, because you can’t reestablish your reference points, and you have to throw out your freaking canvas and start the ^>¥{¥,!~*] over. I feel like I’m going to vomit. This company has wasted my time, materials and money, and if they know that their junk app is broken and they continue to charge $10, then they’re running a scam, plain and simple. Do not buy this app until the people behind it acknowledge and fix their seriously flawed (read: utterly defective) product.

Developer Response
Hi, thanks for your feedback, but to be fair, I replied to your email within an hour. As discussed in reply to your support email, please try loading your project in the same orientation that it was created in for it to display as expected. There are many reasons as to why the display does not rotate as explained in the CopyIt User Reference Guide within the app and on the support website. When you are zoomed in or the Lock button is enabled, CopyIt will not rotate when you rotate your device. This is by design, so you can move your device around while working without the display accidentally rotating on you. To have CopyIt rotate once again, you must be zoomed out at x1 and make sure the toolbars are Unlocked. I am sorry you experienced such frustration and that you felt you needed to start over, but I would have been happy to help you and get this sorted for you if you had of given me a chance to. I want my customers to be happy with my products, so please feel free to contact me if you require any further assistance. Kind Regards, Nigel Green.
Broken app is a project wrecking waste of time and money
04/15/2018

Captainfunpants

Everything works great at first when you load it and start working, but once you take a break after several hours of meticulous, careful work and close the app, you’re doomed. When you reopen the app, the view either sticks in vertical and refuses to flip to horizontal, or if it does flip to vertical, it completely resizes the grid and shifts the alignment, and nothing you can do can get it to go back like it was. It’s a scrambled, glitchy mess. That means that your work is ruined, because you can’t reestablish your reference points, and you have to throw out your freaking canvas and start the ^>¥{¥,!~*] over. I feel like I’m going to vomit. This company has wasted my time, materials and money, and if they know that their junk app is broken and they continue to charge $10, then they’re running a scam, plain and simple. Do not buy this app until the people behind it acknowledge and fix their seriously flawed (read: utterly defective) product.
Developer Response 04/21/2018
Hi, thanks for your feedback, but to be fair, I replied to your email within an hour. As discussed in reply to your support email, please try loading your project in the same orientation that it was created in for it to display as expected. There are many reasons as to why the display does not rotate as explained in the CopyIt User Reference Guide within the app and on the support website. When you are zoomed in or the Lock button is enabled, CopyIt will not rotate when you rotate your device. This is by design, so you can move your device around while working without the display accidentally rotating on you. To have CopyIt rotate once again, you must be zoomed out at x1 and make sure the toolbars are Unlocked. I am sorry you experienced such frustration and that you felt you needed to start over, but I would have been happy to help you and get this sorted for you if you had of given me a chance to. I want my customers to be happy with my products, so please feel free to contact me if you require any further assistance. Kind Regards, Nigel Green.
CopyIt
Oct 4

Anszule Designs
I'm a professional painter and work mostly from my own photos. I have found this app great so far and think it is well worth the investment. My recommendations would be for different ratios to be made available or a grid option of standard canvas sizes to use in cropping and then creating a grid for an image. Being able to enlarge each section of an image is great! Also, more detailed instructions would be helpful. So far I have not figured out how to choose a specific number of columns that vary from the standard settings. ??
CopyIt
Oct 4

Anszule Designs

I'm a professional painter and work mostly from my own photos. I have found this app great so far and think it is well worth the investment. My recommendations would be for different ratios to be made available or a grid option of standard canvas sizes to use in cropping and then creating a grid for an image. Being able to enlarge each section of an image is great! Also, more detailed instructions would be helpful. So far I have not figured out how to choose a specific number of columns that vary from the standard settings. ??

- All preferences are now accessible directly within CopyIt via the new Settings button on the left Toolbar. This eliminates the need to leave the app for system settings. - Customisable Toolbars with a live preview are now available. You can change the Toolbar, Button and Font colours within the new Settings button. All colours support transparency, allowing you to see your work through the toolbars and buttons if desired. You can also reset the appearance to the default colours. - A new true-scale Ruler feature is now available. It’s calibrated to your selected Media Size and is disabled for ‘Device Screen’ and ‘Custom’ Media Sizes. You can drag, rotate or reset its position. The ruler automatically scales while zooming and is available as a toggle on the right Toolbar. The Ruler Colour, INCH Colour and MM Colour labels can also be customised within the Settings button. Transparency is also available for the Ruler colours. You can reset the Ruler appearance to revert to the default colours. - A new Crop Image feature allows you to crop your reference image directly within CopyIt. A Ratio button provides preset crop areas that can also be rotated for quick Portrait or Landscape adjustments (presets use Media Sizes). If you change your mind, you can revert your cropped image to the original reference image. - A new Pencil Sketch toggle effect is now available. You can long-press on the Pencil Sketch button to access its controls and fine-tune the effects. - A new Rotate All button rotates both the reference image and grid together. The Rotate Image button remains available. - Project Naming: When you save a project, CopyIt now automatically suggests an available project name and checks for duplicates as you type. - Bug fixes and stability improvements have been made.