Pencil is a Bluetooth stylus specially built for the Paper 53 application by the FirmThree studio. The design is very stylish and comfortable. What kind of experience will you have with the paper application on the iPad? Let's have a good experience.
Let's take a look at Pencil's exterior packaging:
Pencil's packaging is simple. The box is a round paper tube.
There are 53 and Pencil text marks on the front.
On the back is some information of Pencil, and also marked with the text produced by Paper.
There is a mark of 53 on the top of the box.
Take the top of the box and pull it out to open the round paper cylinder.
After opening it, we saw that the Pencil stylus was clamped in the center of the round paper cylinder.
There are also some semicircular paper covers on the upper and lower sides with instructions and replacement parts, which also serve as the protection of the central Pencil stylus. I have to say that the packaging inside is very careful.
We extract all the contents. On the left is the manual, in the middle is the relevant information, and on the right is the Pencil ontology.
There are also replacement parts of pen head and eraser hidden in the paper with relevant information. Don't lose them carelessly.
The instruction manual is also very simple, which can be understood basically by looking at the diagram.
This is the Pencil body. This time we bought a walnut color pen with a magnetic tail, which can be attached to some magnetic iPad cases.
The end of the pen is a hollow rubber, which can be used as an eraser. There is a beautiful 53 logo below.
Here is the pen.
Pencil's side is thin and flat, but when holding the pen, it can make the side fit the middle finger against the pen body, making the design full.
However, the pen head is also hollow, and the cortex is thin, so Pencil is specially equipped with an additional pen head and eraser.
The pen head is pulled out, and the whole main component can be pulled out by holding the pen head and pulling it out.
This is the main component of Pencil.
The back of the refill.
We can see that there are some metal touch plates on the top of the pen refill. In fact, this is the place where Pencil charges. It can be directly plugged into the USB interface of the computer or power adapter for charging. When charging, the LED light will display red, and after charging, it will be green.
As for the eraser, you can pick it up directly.
The removed eraser is as thin as the cortex.
The sensor component of the eraser is only fixed by simple screws.
As for replacing the pen head, hold the pen core and the pen head, rotate the pen head inward to remove the pen head. When installing a new pen head, rotate the pen head in the opposite direction to fix it.
Pencil pen body also has a whole metal skeleton to fix the pen core and shield the external electromagnetic influence, which is very careful.
The Pecan Pencil is very well made, and because it is a whole wood design, it feels very comfortable to hold it in your hand. I have to say that the feeling of fingers touching wood is much better than the cold feeling of those metal stylus before.
Next, let's experience the experience of this Pencil stylus.
After installing the Paper application, there will be a welcome picture when you enter for the first time. By the way, there will be some instructions.
First, let you choose a notebook that has already been prepared for you, and choose according to your preference.
There will be some creation legends.
Click the 53 mark in the upper right corner to open the setting interface, which is basically simple and clear, but not detailed.
One of the most noteworthy is the Pencil option, because we use the Pencil stylus. After this is adapted to the iPad, your iPad will mainly recognize your stylus and ignore the things in the palm. So you can rest assured that you can press your palm on the iPad, but only in this application can you use this function. In addition, you can also set the finger movement as the function of blending paint and painting. That is, besides recognizing Pencil, you can also recognize your finger movement (but not both). If you select "None", then even the finger motion recognition is turned off.
This is the interface of Paper painting application. The left side of the lower part is the brush stroke, and the right side is the color palette. Press and pull the rightmost main tone into the big circle color block icon to switch and adjust the color. After matching with Pencil, you can open all strokes and color palettes. Before matching, there is only one stroke, and the color palette cannot be used for subtle color blending. If you don't have Pencil, you can also open all strokes and palettes for a fee.
The pairing between Pencil and iPad is also very simple. Pencil does not have any switch. After charging, press the pen shaped image in the lower left corner with the pen head until the icon turns white, which means that the adaptation has been completed and is very convenient.
After the adaptation, there is a welcome video.
After fitting, you can use all the functions of Paper, and the palette can adjust more colors slightly.
By the way, how to use this app? What should you do when you suddenly draw the wrong line or color (for example, the line in the red circle)? There is no cancel button in the Paper operation interface.
Don't panic, there should be some. At this time, you just need to touch the screen with both fingers and draw a circle counterclockwise. At this time, you can see a pie chart with tape rewind on the screen. Counterclockwise rotation means cancellation. The more circles, the more cancellation. Clockwise is to restore and cancel. The operation is relatively intuitive. With this rewind function, you can recall the painting history to before the error.
When depicting some details, you can enlarge the part with both fingers, and then you can depict the details in this part. When you want to close it, you can shrink it with both fingers.
This magnifying glass can be used anywhere on the screen, and it will not automatically retract if it is pulled large enough. If you just stretch it a little, it will think you are just watching the details and automatically shrink back.
When you master the above, you can paint happily.
The default function of the eraser at the end of the pen is the eraser, which can be wiped by turning the pen. However, I still have to complain about this eraser. Pencil sometimes identifies the eraser as a finger. Originally, I wanted to erase this place, but I identified it as a finger and mixed and blurred the lines and colors. The experience is really not good.
Xiaobian sets his fingers to the reconciliation function, so that he can have the effect of the water drop function in PhotoShop.
Painting effect without brush stroke.
On the way to try painting, Xiao Bian found that the recognition of the edges was very poor, and he could not draw well. Often, he could not recognize the brush or suddenly drew a very strange line.
But Pencil's pen is too big and too thick. In addition, the pen is hollow and very soft. Sometimes the position where the lines come out is not the position you want to draw. It's too painful to master the position where the lines are drawn.
Samsung's Note series of stylus has always been doing well. Not only has the stylus ignored the setting of palm action on the screen for a long time, but it also displays a small circle on the screen to let you know where you are writing. In addition, the tip of the Note series of stylus is getting thinner and thinner, which makes it easy to grasp the line position. And it must be said that Pencil has no pressure.
I have also experienced the painting effect of S Pen on Note 3 before, and I feel it is good. If you are interested, you can go and have a look《 Comprehensive upgrade of Note 3 S Pen painting experience evaluation 》
As well as the painting experience on Toshiba AT703, this tablet is also equipped with an independent touch pen, so I also try to paint, but the sensitivity of this pen is relatively low, so it is not easy to paint. 《 Toshiba AT703 1024 pressure sensitive stylus use evaluation 》。
Let's talk about Pencil first. Although it feels very good to hold it in your hand, it actually feels bad to draw it on the iPad, and its sensitivity is also average. Sometimes, there will be imagination of recognition failure. For example, it can't be drawn, and the lines and colors are blurred by recognizing strokes as fingers... It is not suitable for drawing fine paintings. It may be OK for sketching, drawing simple brushes, and drawing quick effect design drawings. However, since Paper has only one layer, it is not as convenient to paint by layers as PhotoShop. People who are used to thick painting may easily accept it. Unfortunately, Xiao Bian is a painstaking painter. He used to paint in the style of Silulu. It really hurts Xiao Bian to want to thick paint.
Finally... after trying a variety of styles and lines, I can only try to draw some simple things, and then simply play some colors... Because it takes a very, very long time to polish out more sophisticated and complex paintings with this software, and I have to be quite familiar with this drawing method to be able to draw well. Xiao Bian has just started, and his time is limited, so he can't draw too many things.
In the final picture, Paper can export your paintings to local galleries, Facebook, Twitter and other social networking sites.
Of course, there are also gods and people. If God and people have time to polish, they can use this software and this pen to draw beautiful paintings. This is what I saw when I went to the official website to see other people's paintings.
To sum up: The Pencil Bluetooth touch pen is very beautiful, and has its own design style for refill, charging mode, pairing mode, etc. It is simple and straightforward, which is very pleasing. Walnut wood pen body gives a feeling of being very close to nature, and the feel of holding the pen is first-rate. Unfortunately, compared with more professional painting applications, Paper still has less painting functions. Even layers cannot be separated, which will make the creation conditions and scope more stringent. In addition, Pencil touch pen can not really be called excellent in use. Recognition errors and general sensitivity, especially stroke and finger recognition errors, often occur, which seriously affects the mood and play of the creator in the process of creation. In general, the design is very beautiful, but the actual use experience is relatively poor. At this stage, Pencil is definitely not the artifact you imagined. In addition, the application of Paper needs to be constantly improved to be truly "usable" and live up to the beautiful promotional videos.
