Colors! Turns DS Into A Sketchbook
Modding and homebrew certainly has become a form of art, and perhaps none more so than Jens Anderssons Colors!, a home-cooked Painter style program that allows anyone with a microSD and an imagination to create masterpieces of their own.
Taking full advantage of the touch sensitive Nintendo DS screen, Colors! mutates the popular portable into a sort of drawing tablet, like Wacom’s not-so-free, fancy versions. Users can make use of the following features, with plenty more to be added as the software is still in development
- Hard and soft circular brush
- Pressure-sensitivity can affect opacity and brush-size
- 512×384 image resolution with 2 stage zoom
- Replay the whole painting process of an image
- Hue-circle and luminance and saturation-triangle style palette
- Load and Save to memory card
- Send painting as e-mail using Wi-Fi
The great thing about the DS homebrew is its portability. It’s like a good old paper sketchbook that allows you to immediately begin sketching when an idea, or inspiration strikes. Wired has a helpful tutorial on how to get it up, running, and creating some art. Who knows, if you get good at it, maybe you can create something like this:
This awesome drawing “Polar Bear With Cub“, was done using Colors! by the very talented otavio. Be sure to watch the playback at the bottom of the drawing’s page to watch the picture unfold step by step. Very cool.
Via | Wonderland
