Pixa VS PureRef

Hey thanks for checking out Bear! Yes, Bear is still in quite active development (and we've hired a few people recently!), we're just heads-down on Bear 2 right now. It's a huge release with a lot of new features that you can get a better feel for in our forum. There's a beta for the Mac right now with iOS coming soon. If you're interested in trying it, leave a comment on this thread and we'll get you in with the... Source: about 1 year ago

You might be right. If that's true, then it's a major problem, because according to the Shiny Frog website, they have sixteen employees at the company. Source: over 1 year ago

Regarding small team, they are not as small as one might think, 16 people: https://shinyfrog.net Craft was about the same size last year, and look what they've done in these 12 months. Source: over 1 year ago

I get that Bear 2 has been in the oven for a while, and I'm not here to tell anyone how to live their life. But I'd argue it's a little excessive to worry that a 16-person company and its app might be dead if they haven't released something new in just 30 days. Source: almost 2 years ago

The subscription doesn’t pay for iCloud anyway, it pays for continued development. I have been looking at the team’s page and seen they have been growing over the months. This is what our subscriptions are paying. Source: over 2 years ago

I mainly use offline means: organising all my files in a hierarchy of folders and using pureref (which I highly recommend) to make moodboards, and ofc an external hard drive to save backups. The only online means I use is google drive for online backups. Source: almost 2 years ago

If you just want the image to be a transparent overlay while you draw 'through the image'(with it being unchanged) you can use something like Pureref(pureref.com) to set the image as always on top + turn opacity down a bit. Source: almost 2 years ago

If you can’t get it to work inside of max, I thought of a free easy workaround you could try. I use the software pureref to manage and quickly access reference images. You could just resize an empty pureref window to cover your username. Change the color and opacity to whatever you want, lock the window and switch turn on the transparent to mouse option and you should be good to go! Source: about 2 years ago

The high kicking girl on the right is in a PureRef board I keep to practice gesture. Source: over 2 years ago