Tapping the white ring brings the sidebar which has some useful options. You can put the sidebar on the left or right or hide it again.Ĭommand/Option/Control/Shift Virtual buttons There is also the option to select the visible screen area directly on Astropad on your Mac as shown below. You can also put this ring anywhere on the iPad. Tapping the MOVE & ZOOM mode will give you the same options but because you are probably going to be moving and zooming often, holding the white ring is the fastest option. Zooming in/out or moving the visible screen area is as simple as pinching or tapping respectively, while you tap and hold the white ring. In the DRAW mode you are controlling the mouse of your Mac with your iPad independently from the programme you are using…nothing new here, this is what Astropad is made for! Obviously it’s called ‘draw’ because Astropad is intended to be used as an artist’s graphics tablet, but Astropad will work when using any other program, like Safari for example. Basically, Astropad means your iPad works as a magnifying glass for your Mac display. Astropad is designed so you can zoom in or out and move through the display of your Mac on your iPad in just a tic, which makes editing much easier. You can view 100% of the screen, or a tiny part of it, you decide what the visible screen area displayed will be. Once Astropad is connected to your Mac (more about this later) you will be able to see any part of the screen of your Mac on your iPad in real time. Some people even say they have put away their Wacom tablet after trying Atropad. I’ve been using Astropad over the last 12 months either with Lightroom, Photoshop or Affinity Photo and I can’t tell you how good this app is. In fact, Astropad does lots of the things a professional graphics tablet is able to do, and it’s much cheaper. Not “ like a graphics tablet”, it actually IS. Fair enough.Īstropad is an iPad app specifically designed to make your iOS device work as a graphics tablet. But you don’t have one because they are expensive and you prefer to spend the money on lenses or holidays. So, what you do is use the trackpad to paint over that part, but as good as the trackpad is, sometimes the area is so complex that you wish you had a Wacom graphics tablet to get the job done well and accurately. I’m sure you have been in this situation before: you are editing a photo and you want to apply a certain adjustment only to a specific part of it. Now I’m glad he felt sorry for me because Astropad is one of the best apps I’ve used combined with my Mac when retouching in Lightroom, Photoshop or Affinity Photo. I guess he had read my blog post about Duet Display and rolled his eyes when he saw the things I had to do in order to use the app the way I wanted to in Lightroom. Back in September last year I got an email from one of the founders of Astropad, suggesting I try their app.
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