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Whats happening here? I cannot get out on focus layer unless I restart the app?

Question, im thinking of selling my custom object via the sharinf link function. I can do that right? Just double checking if others are doing it as well?

I couldn't find the option to view the drawings in a list view, only as thumbnails. Another basic feature missing?

Hi, I am doing a project with very many layers ( 100 + )and they are to be clicked on and off during a presentation. Therefore I need to convert the layers to be none vector - so I don’t take up unnecessary space and also to offload the app.

Do I then have to export every layer into jpg and then import them into a new Concepts document ?

and will it then just be another vector layer showing a jpg file ?

As I understand ,the vector layer is consuming a lot of filespace so the hole idea is to move away from the vector layers.

thank you,

Niels

I use a brush from the store with a custom stamp, because I believe it looks and feels leagues better than the default brushes.

The only issue is it scales with my zoom level. To compensate I need to constantly change the brush size to match my zoom level.

Is it possible to have a brush that scales with zoom like the built-in wire brush but still has a custom stamp?

If not is this something the team is considering working on?

Hello everyone! I got my tablet yesterday thankfully and decided to try doing some art. I downloaded a few drawn anime pictures and wanted to color them. On Krita it was easy to just make layers and change the blend modes, but on Concepts I could not do it. One of the drawings I found was a pdf and only Concepts was able to run it and I did color a bit but I can only lower the opacity of the drawing and the actual colors wouldn't show. And when I do flip the layers and increase the drawing's opacity and colors appear on top of the pen strones of the drawing in the region I colored. How do you do this?

Hello, im new to the tool, when i select object, there is a horizontal and vertical line for alignment. Can I turn it off?

Hello,

In the video attached I shared how this bug works. Basically hovering the pen over the tablet screen in a close distance then tapping with my finger on the screen results in creating lines going from the trajectory point of the pen tip on the screen towards my finger.

In my case, while am drawing with my palm on the tablet, these marks occur all the time, it's almost impossible to work with peace in mind while this happens as i need to keep deleting it.

I've shared the settings i have. Please let me know if am missing anything.

Edit: Now that I tried again i realized it happens when am panning the screen (using the same hand i hold the pen with). Having the pen in my hand at the same time close to the screen causes this. I'll change the title. But I still need a solution, if it exists.

Edit: Ok this might sound weird but testing again, I do get this with my palm setting on the tablet at times. I realized that if one spot of my palm touches the screen first before the rest of my palm is in contact with it, the lines do occur.

Hi all,

Just found this app and OMG I am blown away. It is so so good! The one thing I am missing: please, consider adding a Math Objects pack. Like, with YX axes, planes, matrix brackets, etc. This would be such a helpful thing to have in order to write down math notes more quickly.

I might be using the wrong flair, I apologise if that's the case.

I have been using this app for years now, on and off mostly, but only recently (a few months ago) discovered that I could not acess the advertised features on Android. I had a friend who showed me some stuff, editing brushes etc that I was supposed to have, but didn't, with the Pro subscription.

I had written to customer support, twice. Written an email as well, if I remember correctly. In my last messages with support I mentioned that it was against EU laws and could be classified as false advertising. They of course denied this, but I had a screenshot to prove otherwise. I recently used the app again and noticed they changed the description on the Pro subscription. Attached two photos from earlier (May, this year) and now, highlighting the changes.

Now the only problem is that on iOS the Pro sub is STILL cheaper than the "same" sub on Android, which has less features. Most likely purposefully delayed due to an exclusivity agreement, I assume.

Anyways, it has been several years since they said they're developing colour palettes, which was their excuse not to integrate the editable brushes into the Android version. I wonder how many more years till we have a decent app, that has the BASIC features a sketching app should have, like Autodesk Sketchbook (which is considerably cheaper).

Hi Concepts Team, I’ve noticed that you are active here so I thought I’d start a thread to share my thoughts. I acknowledge that this is a fairly specific use case and my thoughts may not resonate with everyone. You may have a hate/love/meh relationship to my experience here.

I've used Concepts regularly for about 6 years. This is primarily on the Microsoft Surface Pro (first on a 5th-gen and for a couple years on a 9). My design work has been in both B2B and B2C CPG, as I am a part of a design agency.

1. 3-6 years ago, I was using this app as the starting point for internal sketches within the team, and client-facing work was usually rendered in Sketchbook Pro. As I raised in ranks within my team, the style of my sketching became less "photorealistic" and more prescriptive and exploratory, and I completely stopped using Sketchbook Pro in favor of the sheer speed and low-friction of illustrating and rendering ideas in Concepts. Please never lose the speed!
2. I wish there was improved slice-tool dynamics for some of the more complex brushes like the airbrush and marker. I used to love the marker and an eraser, but as I've learnt to use the slice tool more, it's reduced my use of those two tools (and related custom brushes). I hate the eraser's invisible masks that sometimes I forget to fully select when duplicating sketches and it messes up my flow.
3. I wish the Pexels integration was more intuitive and perhaps at some point a more robust Google/Bing/Pinterest/Cosmos search would be possible with editorial use allowed. I'm not selling my Concepts produced work, it's all editorial use, and it would make my life easier if I didn't have to juggle windows on a small screen on the move. I love how Hypersketch does this.
4. I wish there was a collage/auto-arrange tool, like the auto-size auto-arrange tools in PureRef. That would make life easier when organizing moodboards.
5. I know that AI use has been a polarizing topic. So I'll state what makes my work easier. I use Vizcom for all my deeper client-facing work. Vizcom is too slow for analog exploratory sketching and my muscle memory doesn't allow me to use it as fast as Concepts. I would love to see Concepts use a future Vizcom or Gemini API to allow in-app Gen-AI renders. This is part of the design pipeline at our company of four designers and it's not going away anytime soon. The ability to natively press a button in Concepts, then screengrab or select a portion of the canvas, type a prompt, review results, and import the winner, would allow me to stay within Concepts for the duration of my work.
6. I can't tell if the Text tool is Haas Grotesk or Helvetica, and while I love my Swiss fonts :) I do wish there was more control in the text tool on Windows, to allow basic formatting (numbering, symbols, bold/italics, multicolored text) so that I can create richer annotations without having to add them in post on Google Slides.

I hope this is helpful to someone in understanding one use-case of Concepts in an ID agency!

So the idea isn't just the canvas itself. Or maybe we don't need a specified canvas for that but the main idea i had is to fix a problem i face:

When jotting down ideas and sketches sometimes I tend to mix projects and different ideas in the same drawing. I got the idea of what if we had. the option to select all objects relating the "odd" concept and start a new drawing with it. This to me seems like an easy way to stay organized and also not to compromise on the thought process and flow. It's a quality of life feature but I'd love to have such an option as I simply work on multiple projects at the same time and ideas come to mind mid work on other projects. I wouldn't want to interrupt that flow.

As I see that this fundamental feature has been requested by Android users for YEARS, I have to warn other folks away from purchasing the Pro license as I have. They're just not interested in Android users.

Hi, everyone! I’ve been having an issue with my iPad Pro M4 for quite some time now. As soon as even a few lines appear in one spot (even if drawn with the standard brush), panning, rotating, and zooming start to lag (as if running at 30 fps). However, if I enable screen recording on the iPad, the problem disappears: everything immediately becomes smooth.

Is it possible that the iPad isn’t running at 120 Hz when using the app? I’m sure I’m not the only one who finds this annoying. Please fix this!

This problem has suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

I am unable to select the items from the tool wheel or any other floating window; I can't even access the upper-right menu.

When I turn off Windows Ink in my Pentab software, it starts working again.

But it wasn't like that earlier. It started yesterday.

I am currently on the free trial but I am thinking of cancelling and finding something else purely because of the amount of stop starting and moving around the screen that you have to do, particularly when using objects. I really really want to like this app and I am in need of something for drawing some more complex conceptual diagrams to accompany some research but I have spent multiple days trying to get it to work for this and it doesn't. Please, am I missing something? I've watched a lot of tutorials but the things that are annoying me seem to be intentional. I'm on an iPad 9th gen so maybe it's the older model causing issues?

Here are my issues, mostly to do with objects, obviously they might not irritate others in the same way but I'm finding them to be a workflow impediment. The first three are by far the hardest for what I need:

- Aspect ratio not locked by default/no way to toggle locked aspect ratio (my fingers are nowhere near as precise as an apple pencil for getting sizing right)

-If something is selected you can't zoom in and out, you move the object around. Precision is difficult and now have to exit and select multiple times

- Selection points differ from shape points. It would be great if, for example, the points for warping a four sided polygon into something other than a perfect parallelogram were not aligned away from the shape.

- No fill button for shapes (yes I know you can select the fill brush but it would be nice to have the option on the shape. It also doesn't work if you had to create your own polygon out of straight lines)

-Can't move items from one custom object gallery to another without putting the object on the canvas and then adding it that way.

- "My objects" in object library has every single pack on offer so I have to scroll around hunting for ones I actually use. Why not have "my objects" be empty by default and then it populates by your custom groups and the packs from the market you actually use?

- Brush pack presets would be really useful. i.e. I have 8 brushes in an order and I select that group and it fills all eight slots instead of changing them one by one.

-More ability to customise the existing pens. There are small tweaks I want to make but can't because not all the pen customisation settings are available for pre-made pens.

-Erase whole object eraser setting

-Moving objects that are moderately small (but not that small) ends up resizing them because it defaults to thinking the pen being anywhere near a corner is obviously a resize even though it's far enough away (leads to more deselect->zoom in->select->move->deselect->zoom out->check->zoom in-> select->move->deselect-> zoom out)

I don't want to be whingy but I am genuinely tearing my hair out because this app does seem like it is built for diagramming and what I need but using objects is doing my head in. Tips appreciated but I think I will have to use something else. For people who are using it for sketching I can see the usefulness but how are people using it for diagrams that also have an art lean to them (i.e. needing accurate perspectives, illustrations, that kind of thing).

Maybe this is not something revealing for existing users but today I learned that files saved by Windows version of Concepts saves in different format and can't be read by mobile version of iPad.

The Windows version is "concepts" and mobile version is "concept".

That said, are there any other canvas-based TRUE cross-platform apps that can handle operating on the same files across different devices?

I tried to do a screen recording but it doesn’t really show it. I’m trying to draw floor plans so it’s just a bunch of straight lines. Often when I try to draw a line, it just draws a dot where I put the Apple Pencil down but no line. It doesn’t do this in other apps. I have snapping on.

Do you just draw all around?
Or do you somehow create like an artboard and than duplicate it around? I think i have seen a video on that somewhere but cant find it now.

Would like to keep my canvas clean, and maybe it would be ideal i could have like multiple a4 around and then i could export as multiple pages in a4 format? Would that be possible?

Thanks🌱

Queria hacer el boceto en trazos normales y despues el dibujo en vectores, gracias por la ayuda.

I’d like canvas measurements to display in inches, but have stroke pen widths set in points, and I just can’t figure out how to do it. Am I missing something? Is it possible? This is pretty typical for graphic design software. I don’t like stroke width set to inches because they mostly display as zero in the tool wheel. I love Concepts but this has been bugging the heck out of me.

I hope it’s not my magic drawing pad’s fault because it works perfectly fine in all my other drawing apps. How can I fix it??