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Made for the stylus.
StylusX 2.0 is the biggest update since the app was first released. The whole interface is new, built around the pen. It also brings new tools, a full animation timeline, Photoshop file import, and a faster engine underneath.
Highlights
- A completely new user experienceStylusX has been rethought from start to finish.
- A brand-new interfaceFloating windows, bars and a canvas pilot, all redesigned, all movable, all remembered.
- AnimationA full frame timeline with onion skin, playback modes, and GIF / MP4 export.
- New toolsLine Width, Clone Stamp, Healing, Gradient Fill, Close Gaps, Perfect Shape, Reshape Stroke and more.
- New effectsLens Blur, 3D Light, Film Grain, Halftone, Stroke Outline and more.
- Photoshop filesOpen Adobe® Photoshop® PSD and PSB files with their layers, groups, masks and colour adjustments.
- Pattern mode and a new SymmetryBoth in Drawing Assist.
New
Interface
- The new workspace: the Modes bar (Draw, Select, Transform, Liquify, Drawing Assist, Settings, Home), the Tools bar with every tool one tap away, and the Canvas pilot with zoom, rotate, size and opacity on two arc sliders, a brush preview and a face of shortcut buttons.
- Windows you arrange yourself: Layers and Brushes can each be a window or a tab. Move them by their handle, snap them to the screen edges with a magnet, fold them into an edge, stack them in a column, or put them away in the Hide the windows button. Every place is remembered.
- Bars on any edge: the tools and modes bars can sit at the top, at the bottom, or upright on the left or right edge, and they swap places when they meet.
- Corner buttons for undo, redo and hiding the interface.
- Light and dark themes, and Adaptive Glass, a frosted-glass look that adapts to the artwork behind it.
- A new Settings window, with a page for every area and a settings bar.
- Colour pilot: a round colour controller replaces the Colours window, with a hue arc, history beads, a luminosity lock on the hue knob and loupe knobs, a sliders face for HSB, RGB and CMYK, and a colour box with two colours, a hex code, 16 recent colours and palettes.
- Pinned palettes: Pin to Top and Unpin, with a pin by the palette name.
- Canvas Menu: a right click, the pen button or a finger double tap brings the circles to a ring at the pointer.
- Hide the windows: the corner button now holds the windows itself.
- Interface Layout: reset to default, and save and apply your own layouts.
- Frosted glass: a softer, milky frosted glass in both light and dark, including the pattern copies.
- Mode windows: fixed at the top right.
- Tool tips: no arrow, and beside the icon on upright bars.
- Bars: a side-middle magnet, and swapping from side edges.
Home & files
- A new Home gallery: groups, favourites, drag and drop, select mode and a preview of the open artwork, plus a new start screen and a welcome card.
- Open Adobe® Photoshop® PSD / PSB files: layers, groups, opacity, blend modes, masks, clipping, hidden layers and locked transparency come in as they are.
- Colour adjustment and fill layers are turned into StylusX adjustments (Curves, Levels, Hue / Saturation, Color Balance, Black & White, Exposure, Gradient Map, Invert and more).
- CMYK files keep their colour profile, and a progress bar shows while the file opens.
Tools
- Line Width: paint over a line to make it thicker or thinner, pixel by pixel.
- Clone Stamp: paint a copy of another part of the drawing.
- Healing: paint away spots and marks, blended with what is around them.
- Gradient Fill: fill with a gradient you edit right on the canvas.
- Close Gaps (Fill): the fill closes small gaps in your line art, so the colour doesn’t leak out.
- Perfect Shape: your next stroke is turned into a clean line, circle, rectangle or polygon.
- Reshape Stroke: after drawing, bend the stroke with points and handles. It stays pixels.
- Join Strokes: start a new stroke at the end of the last one and it carries on as one smooth stroke.
- Pick Layer: point at a drawing to light up its layer, tap it to go to that layer.
- Blur Tool: softens the drawing under your stroke, with its own Blur Strength.
- Stroke modes: they open under the tool on a second tap, and active ones stay there. Join Strokes is per tool.
- Move Shape: a new Perfect Shape button that moves the whole shape. Edit Points was removed.
- Fill and Color Select: a held finger picks a colour.
- Transform after Select: moves only the selection.
- Brush as eraser: erase with the same brush you paint with (Shift + B).
- Brush and colour per tool: brush, eraser, smudge and blur each keep their own brush, and the eraser, smudge and blur can follow the paint brush.
- Finger size and opacity: drag one finger right for size and up for opacity. This works in Draw mode only.
- Separate fill opacity for Fill and Color Select.
- Keyboard shortcuts for all the new tools.
Brushes
- A new Brushes window: categories, Recent, Favourites, drag-to-reorder, and import of brushes and brush groups (.sxbr, .sxgbr and .abr).
- A new Brush Settings window with eight clear tabs: Path, Shape, Texture, Visibility, Water Mix, Randomize, Sensitivity and Customize.
- Brush Groups: a container above the cards.
- Recent and Favourites: in the groups list, and Recent goes up to 12.
- Folded window: two columns.
- Brush Settings: type slider values, and a Brush Tip Preview Size row.
Layers
- Swipe: swipe left on an effect to delete it, and a layer swipe shows Clear and Delete only.
- Effects: Merge Effects with Layer in the effect pop-up.
Effects & adjustments
- Lens Blur: a depth-of-field blur. Tap the subject to keep it sharp; add points to exclude, grow or shrink the area, and snap its edge to your colours.
- 3D Light: light your flat drawing as if it had depth.
- Film Grain: film grain and old-film colours, with presets.
- Halftone: comic-style print dots.
- Stroke Outline: an outline around the layer’s shapes.
- Masks for effects and adjustments, and an eye to hide each mask.
- Settings open inside the same window, with a curve pad and a gradient map editor.
- Effects follow their layer when you transform it.
Modes
- Warp: a new Transform mode that bends the layer with a grid of 2 to 10 points per side.
- Pattern mode (Drawing Assist): draw a tile that repeats in rows, columns or both, seamlessly.
- Symmetry with 1 to 12 lines, set on a slider.
- Activate, Done and Turn Off for each Drawing Assist kind.
- One undo history across Liquify, Transform and drawing.
Animation
- Timeline: every layer or group is a frame. Hold each frame for 1 to 24 ticks, at a speed from 1 to 60 frames per second.
- Playback modes: Once, Loop, Ping-pong and Reverse.
- Onion skin: up to 6 earlier frames in a colour you choose, drawn under your stroke.
- In every frame: keep a background or an overlay on every frame.
- Frame tools: duplicate, rename, clear, delete and reorder frames.
- Export as GIF or MP4.
Recording
- Short video length: choose 20 to 60 seconds (25 by default), instead of a fixed 30 seconds.
- Recording controls are in the new Settings window.
Improvements
- Faster opening and saving of artworks.
- The canvas stays still while you work with the interface: no stray stamps when you drag from a window.
- Older effects got extra options, such as bokeh, radius, threshold, and glow colour and amount.
- Correct size on every screen, including 4K displays and pen displays.
- Many stability fixes, and a new error report window.
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