When building Value Study, I have to carefully choose where to put my effort. I have so many plans and ideas, but it usually comes down to what people are asking for.
Export tool
The old "Add to photos" tool has been replaced with the Export tool. While these are two names for the same thing, this one is far more advanced. It gives you the option to save straight to photo gallery (which is what "Add to photos" did too) as well as the ability to share the image to any app that accepts an image share, or sends it to a printer connected to your phone. The printer one was the most asked for. A lot of people were screenshotting the app and printing the screenshot.
Recent sessions
A common workflow is to work on an artwork across multiple sessions, therefore Value Study now has another highly requested feature to save the state of the app across sessions. These are saved on device locally. A future update will enable syncing across devices.
You can access recent sessions by clicking "Continue" for the most recent, or the history icon next to it to see the full list of saved sessions. Currently there are limits on how many are saved, these may be tweaked in the future as needed.
Highlight blink
The two features above were highly requested. This one I intended from day one of building Value Study then decided it was too hard and useless. Fast-forward five years and all the work I've done on performance has paid off as it was simple to add.
So, is it still useless? For many people, yes. But I received feedback which included some images and videos... in which I realised the artist was using a physical auto-clicker to press the value selection in app to make the selected value blink. This was then being projected onto the canvas, so they could see the area on the canvas they needed to paint a certain value.
I guess that means this one wasn't requested... but I saw someone add a feature of their own and I believe if one person finds something useful others will too. So now, in the settings, you can adjust the blink speed (0 to disable blinking).
Three new features, all because of people sending me messages of feedback and requests. I always appreciate how excited many of you are for Value Study and I continue to work hard to make it better. So please continue to write reviews and send emails to me at: [email protected]
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