Procreate for iPadPro has some awesome features that I'd love to see implemented by the Adobe/Photoshop team. I know Photoshop is marketed as a photo-editing software, as it should be; but it is no secret that the vast majority of digital artists also use Photoshop. I'm a long-time adobe user, and love the products. Recently I've been using Procreate on the iPadPro, and it has some features that just has Photoshop beat, and I'd love to see these things in Photoshop, particularly for desktop application. The first is a Perspective Tool. Many other programs have this, and it is one of the few tools Photoshop lacks compared to competitors. I think Procreate has implemented this in a smart way. Sketchbook Pro has a Perspective tool, and you must be on that perspective tool in order to draw perspective lines. Procreate, on the other hand, allows you to set up the perspective in the tool, and then apply a setting to any layer to either user the perspective on that layer or not. This allows you to sketch in perspective while using the Brush tool, no need to switch between tools. The next BIG one in my opinion is what I call Smart Lines. In Procreate, you can draw any line you'd like, and if you hold your position for a moment, the line becomes straight from the origin point to where you're holding it. I know you can shift+click for a straight line already in Photoshop, but here's where Procreate's version excels: In Photoshop, if you shift+click when using a brush with pressure sensitivity, you get a less-than-consistent accelerated line. Procreate's tool not only makes the pressure/width more consistent, it actually keeps the pressure sensitivity information. For example, if you draw softly for the first third of your line, and then thick for the second 2/3, hold, the line will straighten, and the first third will still be narrow, second 2/3 thick. No dot-to-accelerated line that looks like an exclamation mark that Photoshop currently has. The other great thing about the smart line is the speed of using the same tool. Sketchbook Pro, another competitor, also has a perspective tool and a straight line tool that works a little like a ruler (sort of like Adobe Sketch), but when sketching measurement lines between perspective lines (often used for product sketches), you need to switch between tools, which slows down the process. In Procreate, if you're on a layer that uses perspective, the hold-to-activate-straight-line still functions, allowing you to temporarily break the perspective rule and draw any straight line you'd like, without having to ever swap out of the brush tool. Procreate also has smart shapes, which work the same as the smart line, but will detect things like rectangles and ellipses and correct for those. Overall, Photoshop still cannot be touched; however, these few little tools in Procreate are so useful that I honestly feel their absence when using Photoshop. I think they would be great in Photoshop. Thanks, Tyler
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