Kromo Studio

Kromo Studio is a 2D drawing, illustration, and animation app that offers you a number of tools to create comics, work with vector graphics, and develop compositions with spatial references using Kromo Depth. The app makes use of a layer system and offers different tools to work on a canvas, in addition to allowing Photoshop files and Clip Studio projects in CLIP format to be imported. With it, you can carry out the entire creative process from beginning to end, whatever your style.

Work with layered illustrations

Kromo Studio includes features such as advanced layers, masks, precise selection, and adjustments, which allow you to build an illustration using different independent elements. It is also compatible with imported PSD and CLIP files, so you can work with projects originally created in other apps in these formats.

Create your own comics

Among the tools in Kromo Studio you will find panels, guides, and grids, which help you organize the different panels and the content of a page. Plus, Kromo Studio incorporates a timeline to organize the frames and a function to consult references from other frames while you work. These tools are designed to build animations through successive drawings and organize the different elements within the timeline. Thanks to all of this you can create your own comics in great detail, in total control of the entire process from start to finish.

Design and modify your own brushes

Kromo Studio features a brush editor with controls related to aspects such as shape, texture, response, and blending, among other things. It also includes a real-time preview and a testing area that can help you see how the adjustments you have made are responding. You will also find different types of brushes or you can import your own from Photoshop in ABR format.

My thoughts after trying Kromo Studio

What surprised me most about Kromo Studio is that it doesn't stop at being a drawing app, you can simply start by making a sketch, add all kinds of elements to the illustration, and then use other tools to create an animation or a comic without having to switch programs. The app has lots of features, but the interface is quite simple so you never get lost as you carry out your work.

The best and worst of Kromo Studio

• What I liked most is that it brings together lots of different tools in a single app and is compatible with formats like PSD, CLIP, and ABR.

• What I liked least is that some of the most advanced features are only available in the Pro version.

Download Kromo Studio for free to draw, create 2D animations, design comics, and work with different illustration tools without having to switch apps.