Leonardo

We believe artists deserve the best possible tools and we are determined to give it to them. The goal with Leonardo is to make the best painting application ever.

Commercial
Mac OS X
Windows

• swift workflowleonardo has a beautiful and easytouse interface that will scale to any screen and works great for both left and righthanded people.

• blazing speedleonardo starts in less than half a second. it saves your file in a blink and makes it possible to paint with a large brush in really high resolution without any lag.

• handy toolsleonardo makes it really easy to draw various lines and shapes, including circles in perspective. it also help you with stabilization and inking smooth outlines.

• infinite canvasleonardo's infinite canvas can be thought of as a giant sketchbook, instead of turning the page just scroll in any direction and keep sketching.

• tablet readyleonardo works great on the microsoft surface and all other windows tablets thanks to pressure sensitivity, multitouch and support for high resolution displays. we also support all wacom tablets.

and a lot more to come...smudge tool, psdsupport, better brushes and more are already in the making. but don't wait, even if you download leonardo today you will still get all these features automatically as soon as they are ready.

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