#ASTROPAD SETUP PRO#
#ASTROPAD SETUP MAC#

Annoyed that you can’t flip the Apple Pencil over and erase? (Even years out of school where I rarely touch a real pencil, that’s a behavior that will probably never go away.) Activate a tool’s erase function by holding one finger on the screen and drawing with the Pencil. Set up sidebar shortcuts to common application tasks.įurther customization is possible through Magic Gestures, actions that involve both finger touches and Pencil drawing. Those are the defaults you can set up any menu item in that space. However, you can also control everything from the iPad using an onscreen keyboard, shortcut keys (Command, Option, Shift, Control) that are easily displayed, and quick access to basic commands such as Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, and Paste.

#ASTROPAD SETUP PRO#

If you’re using Astropad Studio and the iPad Pro as a digitizer, you’ll probably have one hand poised over your keyboard and the other using the iPad. The Pencil becomes your mouse pointer, with the ability to pass along Pencil-specific gesture data as needed. It’s important to note that Astropad Studio isn’t limited to specific applications, nor does it require plug-ins or other hooks. Instead of shrinking the application window, you could focus Astropad Studio on areas and move the view as needed. Jeff CarlsonĪstropad Studio on the iPad Pro and a resized Lightroom Classic to fit Astropad’s visible area at 100 percent. Switching between views and repositioning the active area is simple and quick, however.

#ASTROPAD SETUP MAC#

You can also view the entire Mac screen on the iPad by holding Astropad’s main button and tapping the Fullscreen button, but that means you’re not working 1:1 with the app you’re controlling, which may not be as accurate when drawing.

When set to 100 percent view, the iOS app reveals only a section, necessitating some window resizing. How much you see depends on your screen resolution. When connected-via a Lightning-to-USB cable or with both devices on the same Wi-Fi network-the iPad Pro displays a portion of the Mac’s screen, which you can control using your fingers or an Apple Pencil. Toss in Pogo Connect 2, and it's a dream come true.The Astropad Studio app runs on the iPad Pro and communicates with a sister application on the Mac. AstroPad turns your iPad into the graphics tablet you've always wanted.

Once setup, AstroPad comes alive under the fingertips with wicked fast drawing and a preview line that shows you live on the iPad where your stroke will land. We love that setup that is nearly impossible to get wrong and the connection is reliable, even over wifi. From the first launch, It’s clear that this app was built by a team that knows their stuff. Amazing digital art popped up overnight-although-even this great achievement left us saying, 'if only.' Finally having pressure sensitivity and palm rejection features stirred up the creativity that is inside all of us. Then, in 2012, a glimmer of hope came with the introduction of the active stylus category and the launch of our Pogo Connect line. The next few months saw many brave attempts to utilize iPad as a graphics tablet that were somewhat foiled by Apple's imposed limitations. In particular, we hoped to use it as a more affordable, new kind of graphics tablet. Along with millions of other people, we instantly starting dreaming of all the ways this device could change the way we do things.

Astropad setup