

But when doing art with a lot of detail, it really helps to see it on a big screen. I’m not crazy about two screens, and frankly I prefer to just draw on one. You might zoom in on the iPad Pro to work, then zoom out to see the result. But there are ways of setting the amount of screen to use.
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Pressing and holding it only brought up the choice of full screen or 100%. You can move the ring around, press on or hold. Using a Magic Gesture while taking a photo of using it (awkward!) One nice thing is that you can use the iPad Pro’s USB to connect it to the Mac, instead of Wi-fi, if you’re having Wi-fi issues like I have been lately and can’t get them on the same network. All you have to do get both the Mac and iPad Pro app–the Mac app from the Astropad site, and the iPad Pro app from the App Store. Installing both applications is simple, as is the setup. If you don’t want to customize, you can use the built-in ones, such as calling up the eraser tool with your finger and the control ring. You can customize program shortcuts in the supported programs, as well as customizing Magic Gestures, which are Pencil/finger combos. Together with GPU acceleration and velocity control, there’s excellent image quality and responsiveness.

Studio has “Liquid Extreme,” which offers a much faster bitrate of 60 frames per second, so less lag. Whereas Standard is a onetime purchase, Studio is a yearly or monthly fee, and has monthly updates. Astropad Studio is only for iPad Pro with Apple Pencil, whereas Standard is for iPad2 and up. It’s subscription-based, unlike Astropad Standard, which is still available. Update, July 2017: Astropad Standard and Studio both work with the new 10.5″ iPad.Īstropad has just released a new product specifically for use with the iPad Pro and Apple Pencil.
