1. For years I’ve dealt with this by taking pictures of my work in progress and then using photo editing software to superimpose that image over a source image to check my work.
2. Like the Camera Obscura of old, the obscur app allows you to instantly superimpose source images over your creative work.
3. Choose a photo or image from your device and then hold it up to your canvas or work surface.
4. As an amateur painter, I’m often frustrated by my drawings – somewhere between the model and canvas my brain gets involved and things move out of place or scale.
5. It allows me to instantly compare my work-in-progress with a source image and make adjustments on the fly.
6. Tapping the pause button will freeze the "live" image for closer inspection.
7. If you are drawing, painting or just curious about the world around, the obscur app is an amazing tool.
8. This process was effective but time-consuming and required sitting in front of a computer instead of my easel.
9. To solve those problems, I put together this app – obscur.
10. By dragging your finger up and down you can adjust the opacity.
11. I hope this app proves useful to you and would love to see what you create!
1. Help!Great training tool for learning proportion! Though it would be nice to be able to re position images after freezing the cam (difficult to do this accurately when taking the photo) and to have a flicker option.
2. This is a great service to many amateur artists who are struggling to get a precise drawing.I can't use the image in the size I want, have to adapt to the size given by app.
3. It's a fantastic training tool, & awesome for double checking your proportions.Thank you for making this app and making available for free with no ads.
4. The very brief instructions say "Crop, rotate and scale the image as you like." I do that but it snaps back to big again.
5. This is one of the few camera lucida apps that I could get to run on my tablet.
6. I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 4, 10" tablet.
7. It does what I need without a lot of other stuff.
8. The big problem with this app is that when I load a photo into it, it blows it up too big.
9. Takes a little getting use to (as with all of these types of apps).
10. Very irritatingamazing app, super easy to use and effective.
11. It's not usable until that issue is resolved.