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Colors! app for iPhone and iPad


4.4 ( 8304 ratings )
Utilities Entertainment
Developer: Collecting Smiles AB
4.99 USD
Current version: 2.2, last update: 5 years ago
First release : 24 Sep 2008
App size: 46.48 Mb

Colors! provides a fun and simple painting experience and invites the user to browse and participate in an online gallery consisting of countless beautiful paintings.

SIMPLE BUT POWERFUL
Designed to have a quick and non-intrusive workflow, Colors! provides the tools you need, without any of the distractions.

INTEGRATED GALLERY
Half of the fun of painting is to show others the result. In Colors! you can easily upload your works to the vibrant Colors! community, or just share it on Facebook/Twitter. Get feedback, make friends and participate in our regular painting challenges.

PLAYBACK ANY PAINTING
Colors! always records the full painting process. View your own playback, and branch it off at any point to take it in a different direction. Or view the playback of any painting in the gallery to learn from other artists.

HIGH RESOLUTION
Taking full advantage of the Retina screens, you can paint in 2048x1536 resolution and export your finished painting in even higher!

Pros and cons of Colors! app for iPhone and iPad

Colors! app good for

this is the best painting app for the small apple devices. all functions are only one tap away. if you used the ds for painting with colors, you will love this.
Its reallyy good only if you could delete saved photos  It would be also great if you could write the date of every painting. Otherwise, this app is awesome
Okay, I absolutly love this app, I use it like 100 times a day! But, if Im working on a picture, and close the app and then come back, half of the picture is gone, half goes black. I really like this app but maybe an update is in order... But overall I love it! Thanks!
Ive been using this app for long enough to see the brilliant potential, but also the limitations. The best feature by far isnt even a drawing feature - its the gallery. Not only can you see (and rate) other artists work, you can actually run a playback and watch it being created stroke by stroke. This is pure genius!! It should be a standard feature of every art app out there! A true masterstroke! Its like having a hundred art lessons in your pocket! However, its also available on the website (through Java) and in the lite version for free, so its not really a selling feature for the full version. Still, Id gladly pay double for the full version just to show my appreciation for the sheer brilliance of this one feature alone. The next best thing is that its so simple and fun to use! Its got a lovingly shallow learning curve, yet its versatile enough to be taken seriously (youll be up to speed faster than it took you to read this sentence). Dont be fooled by the simplicity though, you really can create some beautiful art with this thing! The main limitation of the app is the infuriating inaccuracy, and lack of sensitivity of the thing. While thats true of all drawing apps on these devices, other apps seem to do a better job of "faking it" with liberal zoom etc. Colors! was initially designed for the Nintendo DS with its pressure sensitive screen and stylus input, and after seeing whats been created by others on the DS, I am completely convinced that its the perfect way to make art on the go. Unfortunately, this review is for the iPhone/iPod version, and its not nearly as brilliant on these units. To make up for the lack of a pressure sensitive screen, the designers have come up with a novel "tilt" feature: You mimic pressure sensitivity by tilting your device as you draw. Its really cool, fun to use, and its better than not addressing the issue at all, but its also quite difficult to get predictable results. Theyve tried to address the inherent inaccuracy of drawing with a finger, but the adjustable offset cursor and meager 3 levels of zoom do little to make up for it. If youre serious about using this thing to create art, you owe it to yourself to get a iPod stylus to go with it - its not perfect, but it will save you a lot of agravation! Having said that, if you dont do detailed drawings, this wont even be an issue for you. Another possible pitfall (depending how you like to work) is the lack of layers. You only get one layer per drawing (just like a real canvas/paper). If youre into pixel-perfect perfection, youll be doing a LOT of touch-ups that you wouldnt have to with multiple layers. On the other hand, if you happily leave your work "in the raw", you probably wont even notice. The only REAL blunder made by this app is the woefuly inadequate 19 save slot limit. Those 19 slots fill up REALLY quickly! If you like to do sketches to finish on a rainy day, or like to work on multiple drawings at once, youll really feel the pain here. You cant even export to the Camera Roll and import later, because there is no import! To put it bluntly, there is no work-around. When it comes time to save your 20th drawing, youll have to over-write one of your older ones. Given the amount of memory that even the cheapest of these devices has, this is an inexcusable limitation. The fact that the ONLY difference between the full and lite version is the ability to save/export just rubs salt into the wound. Sorry Colors! you just earned a lost star for that one. Overall, I really like this app. Its a simple, fun, and quite capable little drawing app. Try the lite version first, and if you like it (or to show your appreciation for the gallery/playback feature), buy the full version. Better yet, get a Nintendo DS and see what its really capable of!
K I love this app so much . One of my favorite . But there is one big problem !! . Every time I click playback to watch how it was made , it instead says " this was painted on a different version of Colors! and cannot be replayed at this time" , and my question is .. What other version is there !? Please help me !
Im so happy they finally updated this. The fact that my favorite app is now for ipad too makes me smile. This is really my favorite app, its been a part of my life for a long time and I dont know what it would be like without it... To be reunited with it... I just... Im getting a little teary here. I feel complete now that my ipad can use this app properly. Its perfect for any artist. Simple tools, yet great enough to create any masterpiece. Now with layers, too. I would highly recommend this app to anyone who draws... Maybe Im a little biased in saying its the best, but I truly love it. I feel like this app is a part of my soul and my life. Its really important to me. I hadnt used it in a while before this update... Now its back, and I know Ill be drawing on it again tomorrow morning! I missed you, Colors! Five stars, easily.

Some bad moments

You really need to fix your line quality when drawing quickly as the curves are faceted. Would be great if it would just draw a smooth curve. See how Paper by 53 works, that app has great line code.
最近また、使おうと思い、起動して、他の方々の描いた絵を再生しようとしたり、保存しようとすると、 「Error:303:This painting could not be loaded. The painting is of a newer format than this version of Colors! support.」と出てきて見ることも、再生することもできない。お金払って買ってるので、残念です。早急に解決してもらいたいです。
This is the same as the Lite version! I assumed "iPad compatible" meant iPad size, too. FAIL!
Love this app, but really needs updating, especially for the iPhone 5. It almost seems to be abandoned.
Updating will erase some of your paintings and the time lapses and such youve saved from the gallery!!!
I knew that I was supposed to be better than the last version but I just updated it and it was a mistake!!! I CANT OPEN IT, IT WONT LET ME, IM FURIOUS,PLEASE FIX THIS PROBLEM IMMEDIATELY I LOVE Colors!