Hands-on with Paper 1.2.1: Colors and pressure support give drawings new life

01.11.2012

Paper appears to be converting the Pogo Connect's pressure information only into line widths, but unfortunately, there's no way to set beginning size and end size, so you can't customize how big or small you want your lines to be--they're pre-set. And because it doesn't look like Paper is converting the Pogo Connect's pressure into opacity, you still get weird issues with watercolors; the darkness of the watercolor is still dependent on speed, rather than pressure.

In truth, Pogo Connect support isn't completely there yet; in addition to my tool problems, the stylus's large rubber tip sometimes makes it challenging to work on detail (a double problem, when you consider Paper's lack of zoom support, too). But I hope for improvements. FiftyThree has been incredibly proactive in pushing out major updates in the last year; with any luck, zoom and expanded stylus support is in the works.