Autodesk SketchBook® Pro for iPad is a professional-grade paint and drawing application. Using the same paint engine as its desktop counterpart, SketchBook Pro delivers a complete set of sketching & painting tools through a streamlined and intuitive user interface designed exclusively for the iPad experience.
Whether you are an occasional doodler or a professional illustrator, SketchBook Pro transforms your iPad into the ultimate digital SketchBook.
“If you weren’t planning to buy an iPad, this app alone could very well change your mind.” – Chris Pirillo, Tech Expert for CNN.com
“We think designers are going to adore this. Talk about a great idea to take advantage of all that screen.” – Brian X. Chen, Wired Magazine
8/10 – “iMockups does one thing and does it fairly well: it lets you produce rough wire-frames for web sites.” – AppCraver.com
“iMockups looks like a good tool for those of you who are tired of carrying around that sketchbook, pencil, and eraser for capturing your app ideas.” – Steven Sande, The Unofficial Apple Weblog
This app was made to help out all graphics designers with calculations and print sizes.
When on the go you have this tool with you.
Say you have to visit a client but he/she has to see what dimensions he/she wants to know, no internet Maybe you want to seem more professional? Don’t worry this app has you covered. Also Comes with print chart for print designers.
“Font Book for iPad is a nice and simple way to preview fonts on your new toy” — @viticci (Editor of MacStories.net)
With Font Book, you can:
– Install fonts in app (NOT SYSTEM) via iTunes File Sharing
– Preview all system fonts and installed fonts on your iPad
– Adjust font size to preview
– Custom your sample text / preview text
- View font information
Want to doodle, draw on photos, or paint a masterpiece on your new iPad? Look no further! Layers packs in everything you need to be creative on the go. The pro edition of Layers provides more brushes, more layers, and more advanced layer operations than the standard edition. Enjoy more control over your brush tip using the brush offset option, and email your paintings as layered PSD files to transfer your work to the desktop!
If you’re looking to try out Layers before purchasing the pro version, download the standard edition! You can upgrade at any time via in-app purchase.
Need to create a quick diagram, process chart, page layout, website wireframe, or graphic design? With OmniGraffle, your iPad touch screen is your canvas (or graph paper, or whiteboard, or cocktail napkin . . .).
OmniGraffle knows what makes a diagram different from a drawing, so it knows how to help you make superior documents quickly: it keeps lines connected to shapes even when they’re moved, it provides stencils full of objects for you to drag and drop, and it can magically organize diagrams so your ideas come to life.
Using simple multitouch gestures, draw shapes, drag in objects, and style everything until it’s just right. Smart guides help you organize your document in a flash, and automatic layout gives you a powerful shortcut to the perfect diagram layout. When you’re done, share your creations via PDF export, or open them in OmniGraffle for Mac.
Photogene is about improving your digital photos and having fun while at it.
This intuitive, easy to use application offers a comprehensive set of professional editing tools:
Crop and straighten.
Sharpen.
Full set of color adjustments (including levels and curves). Correct underexposed photos and add a spark to washed-out ones.
Apply one of our artistic filters such as sepia or edge blur.
Add text bubbles of different styles, colors and fonts.
Add frames in various shapes and colors, including shadows and glows.
Add special effects such as reflection or vignette.
Apply one of our supplied macros to instantly transform your photo, or create and save your own custom macros.
Multiple undo and redo.
Resize your photo to any resolution.
Upload your edited photo directly to Facebook or Twitter, mail it, or simply save it to your iPad’s photo gallery.
This version of Photogene was tailored specifically for the iPad. Photogene for iPhone has been one of the top selling photography apps for more than 18 months. Now, we bring you a completely new version, redesigned to take advantage of the large screen and processing power of the iPad.
The most comprehensive collection of design classics available at a special introductory price for a limited period only.
This authoritative and meticulously researched collection charts the story of product design over the past 200 years. It was years in the making and was compiled via rigorous selection process by an international panel of design-world insiders, including architects, critics, curators, product designers, auctioneers, and historians.
The application offers, at the touch of a finger, access to an encyclopedic, illustrated history of 1,000 timeless design classics by not only renowned designers, such as Marcel Breuer, Achille Castiglioni, Le Corbusier, Jasper Morrison, Dieter Rams, Eero Saarinen, and Philippe Starck but also anonymously designed pieces, such as the clothes peg, the corkscrew, and the chopstick, that have stood the test of time.
For the Creative Minds, but also for Developers (jQuery)
It’s here, not only can you luckly people get Web Designer on the iPhone, but it is now available for the iPad.
Released only days ago, iPad owners can now download the Web Designer app direct from the App Store. A bigger and better on-screen experience makes the transition from print to screen almost seamless. It’s almost as if Web Designer and the iPad were made for each other.
Today I want to share 10 iPad apps that are particularly geared towards web developers.
Because, with a product as aesthetically pleasing as the iPad, you just know it’s something that developers will be naturally drawn to- especially with apps like these to help us do better work.
Gusto was created to embrace the workflow of web development on the iPad. Quickly identify your project with a beautifully generated thumbnail of your website. Open your project and download multiple files and folders at a time from your FTP server. Gusto allows you to open multiple documents in tabs for faster navigation. After editing, preview your document locally to quickly see your updates. When it’s time to make your changes live, transfer your documents via the built-in FTP client or the easy to use document publishing. And now you’re editing… with Gusto.
What makes Pocket Monkey special is the custom renderer specifically built to keep text file whitespace formatting intact. Pinch zooming and line numbers allow you to navigate large text files quickly. Pocket Monkey even adds a tab key to keep both Code and Web monkeys happy.
EditPad is an iPad HTML editor to go. With focus on organization and ease of use, EditPad is the best solution for Web Developers, Designers and Hobbyists.
This application is design to easily be able to develop web pages mobile, and be able to upload to your ftp server while you are on the go. It comes with some great features. You can open up to 10 pages off your server or on the IPad locally and be able to navigate through them easily. You also have Page Previewing that enables you to see your web page layout quick and easily. Their is also a syntax bar to make the code writing go faster and smoother.
Whether you are a web designer or just curious – this application is for you. Source Viewer shows the HTML, CSS and Javascript source code of any website.
Tags, keywords and CSS attributes are highlighted with a different color.
It extracts the links which are embedded into HTML and CSS so that they can be followed easily.
It collects all images from the HTML and CSS which can be viewed separately in a list and full screen.
This browser show you the source code of web pages. Links remain active and you move from page to page without ever displaying anything else than source text. A small pop window show you real site content for quick discover some link. Source code is reading in the background
For webmaster, very useful in the construction phase of a site, you have instant access to various components of a site in text only mode, images are also displayed in full text!
This iPad version is really a great one, large screen make clean and easy to read code source.
Notepod is a notepad shaped like an iPhone. Each notepod is 100 pages of 60 x 110mm double sided paper. The front has 52mm x 77mm blank space (the iPhone screen), the back is a 6mm grid.
The iPhone ui stencil kit is a stainless steel, laser cut stencil kit for drawing quick mock-ups and wireframes for iPhone apps. It also comes with a Zebra mechanical pencil.
The App Sketchbook has 50 Double-sided, perforated pages each with 3 actual sized iPhone templates. Each page also has has 20px ruler markings and a ruled section for notes.
Graffletopia’s stencil kit for Omnigraffle. It is for quick sketching of iPhone ideas. Use the outline for printouts so you can hand sketch as well. The symbols are meant as a check list for included features in your app development.
This is a plug-in to browser Mozilla FireFox for prototyping interface of iPhone applications for creating an iPhone mock-up. Currently Alpha – not compatible with FF 3.55.
Pencil is a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping. Pencil runs on the Mozilla Gecko engine, turning the Firefox browser into a sketching tool with just a 400-kilobyte installation package.
This plug-in combines Fireworks with some jQuery and PHP to give you a prototype you can not only view, but interact with, directly on your iPhone, just as if it’s a live app.
Liveview is an iPhone app that consists of two parts: the ScreenCaster and the Application itself. ScreenCaster launches a simple iPhone skin on your Mac. From the same network, launch the LiveView app in your iPhone. Whatever the ScreenCaster is highlighting is now seen in the LiveView App. It also interprets touches as mouse clicks, turning it into a two way interactive prototype.
Mockingbird is a web based mockup/wireframe tool built using the Cappucino framework, so there’s no flash to wrestle with. While you can’t actually design your mockups from an iPhone (who’d want to?), the tool does have some very handy features. You can drag elements onto the screen, create multiple pages, link to other pages and share directly from the web.
Pidoco is a web-based tool that lets you create clickable wireframes via drag & drop ui and then collaborate with remote users on each project. The tool also includes iPhone stencils.
iPhone mockup is a web based tool that is currently in Alpha release only. You can design your mockup as a hand sketch or illustration, and mockups can contain user-uploaded images and user-entered text. Your mockups will be accessible via url so they are unsecured.
The developer makes this perfectly clear and warns that he could discontinue hosting mockups at anytime, thereby deleting any work. That makes this a handy tool for quick and dirty mockups you want to print or share with someone on the fly, but not for much more.
Protoshare is a collaborative, web-based prototyping tool that helps teams visualize requirements for interactive projects and work together in real-time. It has an iPhone component that can be seen here.
With iPlotz you can create clickable, navigable wireframes to create the experience of a real website or software application. You can also invite others to comment on the designs, and once ready, you can then manage the tasks for developers and designers to build the project.
CogTool is a general purpose UI prototyping tool simply using a storyboard of your design idea with sketches, images or on a canvas. Demonstrate tasks on that storyboard, then press a button to produce a valid cognitive model predicting how long it will take a skilled user to complete those tasks.
Balsamiq mockups is desktop software that is designed to help teams or clients collaborate on wireframes and mockups. There are iPhone specific controls included.
OmniGraffle is award winning diagraming mockup or graphic design software. Combined with Graffletopia’s iPhone stencil kit, this software is a great addition to any app developers toolbox.
iRise for iPhones gives developers a way to quickly prototype the look, feel and behavior of Apple iPhone applications through pre-defined visualization widgets and templates that can be quickly assembled into a high definition mobile applications.
