Tracer! Lightbox tracing app

Angel Koh

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About this app

Tracer! Lightbox tracing app is an integrated tracing app for drawing and illustrating. This app is meant to be used with a physical paper for stencilling and drawing. you just need to select a template picture, then place a tracing paper over it and begin tracing.

The default app is a white screen with a brightness control setting. Place your reference picture over the device and begin tracing. Great for tracing drawings and fonts, making stencils, colouring sheets, connect-the-dot's puzzles, etc.

You use the app to search for image references from the internet (using keywords or URL links), or an image from the device storage, or take a photo from the camera. Then place a tracing paper over the image and begin copying.

There is a lock button which will maximize the drawing space, and prevent the device from sleeping.

It's really great for making stencils and to practice drawing with.

Features include: -

- a handy color adjust to change the gray-scale of the picture for better tracing contrasts.
- pan, rotate, zoom the drawing references.
- button to toggle rotate on and off
- buttons to save and share the drawing references for the future.

The app is suitable for artists, students as well as casual users including retirees to do art and craft.

There is a wide range of uses for Tracer! app including: -
- traditional cell art animation and tracing
- calligraphy and font tracing (e.g. to transfer calligraphic fonts and swirl patterns onto posters and paintings)
- making stencils (e.g. for Halloween pumpkin carving; graffiti and spray painting art; Christmas snow stencils; cake decorating stencils)
- tracing tattoo designs and patterns
- base template (e.g. underlay basic perspectives for drawing architectural structures like buildings;
underlay simple shapes to draw more complicated art pieces)

Ratings and reviews

What a fabulous idea! I think I'll be installing this on every device from now on. I have been trying to trace without something like this for a while! BTW, to anyone who is having struggles with this - it seems to be easier to use if I also lock the screen rotation. Otherwise if you twist wrong, it will reset the image. It would be nice if my zoom/tilt had a number I could replicate if I do lose it, I suppose, or saving the settings themselves. But mostly locking rotation is all that's needed.

While I haven't spent a great deal of time with this app, I did load an image and spent some time checking it out. I think this would be an extremely useful app for it's intended purpose. For instance, no more xeroxing an image and fiddling with contrast settings, trying to get an image that is traceable through regular paper. A lot of thoughtful and practical control to be found within this app. If you have need of a lightbox to trace something, try it. Kudos to the developers. Good Job! 🙂👍

I love being able to use this app to find ideas from! The only thing i wish it offered was a search history list of descriptions that a person searches for. Sometimes a person does not remember the exact wording they used to find a specific picture with, and a similar phrase does not always generate the exact same findings. Overall, though, i really enjoy this app!!

What's new

removed interstitial ads after the welcome screen.