Grid Painter App Reviews

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4 Artists who need grids laid on source images. I haven’t used any other apps for this so it’s not a comparison but it’s nice to have an app where I can lay a custom grid on an image. The performance or interface of touch and adjustments between screen isn’t user friendly but eventually you figure it out. Using over life drawing figure study reference photos to help as training wheels with learning artist’s figure drawing anatomy.

Not ideal. I was hoping that the custom grid feature would allow for truly customizable grids but it does not. It would be great if the user could combine multiple grids without taking a screenshot in app and applying a second grid over the screenshot image. It would also be nice if it had a feature where the user could select the number of rows and columns instead of merely adjusting the size of the grid squares. It would also be nice if the user could add movable lines to customize it further. The art school I graduated from taught the method of drawing an x through the canvas from opposing corners and then a cross through the center and further refinement by doing the same within the smaller shapes generated which end in rectangles of the same ratio as the canvas. Geometrically this makes more sense than breaking the grid out into squares, especially if using a non standard ratio canvas. It is also easier than carrying around a ruler to measure out squares on the canvas. Overall it was a bit disappointing and I would have been willing to pay more if it were compatible with the way i use grids.

Needed this app for a long time. It is quick and easy to use. I especially need the correct proportion grids to my canvas size super helpful. I wish I had this for my computer!

What happened. Used to work great. Now when resizing won’t allow maintaining aspect ratio and image just disappears

Does not work. The crop feature does not work. The page freezes and does not let you crop OR cancel out of it. I have to shut the app down, reopen it and start over. I can use the grid, but I need the cropping feature I paid for. Also, when sending an email to the developers from the app regarding this issue I discovered that the contact page with my composed email also just stayed open after I hit Send. There is no way to know if the email was sent or not. The only choices on the page are to hit Send or Cancel. Hit Send and you get nothing, hit Cancel and it asks if you want to delete your draft - implying that the email did not send. (However I had cc myself and found I had an email in my inbox for every time I had hit send!) Again, the only way to leave this page is to close the app, then open again to get to the main page. Totally frustrating. This app does not do what it claims it can and has been a waste of my time and money.

Great Help for a busy portrait painter. I paint a lot of portraits! This really helped my productivity.

Portraits. Finally getting to portraits at age 73 because with grid painter, my efforts actually look just like my subjects.

Good stuff. Built-in Notan is good

Great product. I use it to compare values and levels of greyscale. It is a great help

Perfect. Ever since Value Viewer went away years ago I’ve been looking for an app for making grids, notan, and value plans of photo references for painting. I’ve downloaded and paid for so many that ended up unusable for various reasons. This works perfectly, is elegantly simple to use and does everything I need it to do. It allows you to adjust value levels, number of values, overlay a grid, etc., and the functions are brilliantly easy to figure out. Thank you so much.

Great App. Love the grid feature which is very helpful for plein air painting!

Not Perfect. The description makes it sound like you can choose different grid styles. I was needing isometric or diagonal which they do not have. Misleading description and I feel like I wasted my money.

Great app for value study and sizing (cropping).. I took a David Boyd, Jr class at The Booth Museum in Cartersville,GA and David recommended this app.

Great for working in Plein Air.. I am able to better grasp the scene so I can paint more accurately. Love it

Review. The apparent inability to print the image with the grid is a severe limitation.

Handy Tool. I found this to be a handy tool to guide my oil paintng. The grid helps be draw an image on my canvas. The gray scale helps me chose the correct value for my colors.

Makes it easy to draw and paint!. I love how easy it has been for me to learn to use this app! Using this helps me make drawing that are accurate and in proportion.

Simple and Good. Just what I needed. Always prefer paying for an app instead of seeing ads all the time. Also the Painters Pack was a good deal. Happy!

Very helpful!. I use this app to place a grid over photos I paint from my iPhone or iPad. It's very easy and intuitive to use! Makes my life much easier! Haven't found anything else in the App Store that works like this one.

Love this thing!. I wOuld not be without it!

Perfect Grid Tool. Ideal for making a drawing grid of any size to adapt to your format. Also has nice options for grid appearance and even has a useful notan feature. Highly recommended app.

Truly an excellent artist’s tool. Plainly said, this app works great for both cropping and placing grids on photos. And then, there’s much more! It’s incredible at creating notan, and various multiple level grayscale versions of my images. Thanks guys for creating your remarkable artist’s tool. It has worked seamlessly for the six months or so since purchase.

Has annoying bug; disappointing cropping feature. I decided to purchase this app primarily for the notan and grayscale features (there are free grid apps available) as well as its apparent ability to crop an image to custom sizes. Unfortunately, I quickly discovered a really annoying issue that makes the notan and grayscale feature pretty much worthless to me (and thus the app): for no reason whatsoever, it always rotates any square format photo when either of these filters is applied. Since I work in square format a lot, this is clearly a significant issue. There is no button or anything that I could see that would allow for me to un-rotate the image. The crop feature is also next to useless in that it only allows for absolute values - in inches - instead of ratios, like 1:2 or 3:4, etc. You plug in the size in inches and the crop borders remain fixed; there is no way I can figure out to expand or contract either the image or the crop grid to actually resize the picture. It is not a vector scaled cropping feature, in other words. Which is inexcusable: why would it be necessary to define an image on an iPad with actual inches vs. simple customizable and standard ratios? Answer: it isn’t. I wrote to the developers, waited a week, and heard nothing. Maybe seeing a poor public review will prompt a response and maybe some action to fix the rotation issue and poor cropping feature. At this point, I’d say if you are looking for an app with good functionality in terms of cropping, and especially if you’re ever trying to apply the non-grid features to your square format images, definitely skip this one 🙄.

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It works. It’s well thought out. It doesn’t break down thanks

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Unreliable. I want to like this app however when I save an image I never seem to be able to get it back. It tells me to make sure it still exists in my library, which it does. It’s very frustrating as I take the time to set an image the way I want and unless I finish it all in one shot I have to spend so much time trying to get it the way I had originally set it.

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