Journalist

Journalist

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3.4
Reviews
61
Make journal pages with sketches, maps, images, video, audio, and text.
Draw with color palettes from ColourLovers.com.
Draw with a variety of pens or make your own custom pens.
Try the effects like shadow, glow, and blur with pens.
Use the ruler to draw straight lines with any of the pens or pencils.
Use patterns from ColourLovers.com for page backgrounds, adjusting the opacity and scale.
360 Drawing with perspective grid and 360 view popup window.
Journalist
Draw in 3D with the Isometric drawing mode.
Watch videos about journaling techniques.

App details

Release date

2016-09-24

Last update

2023-11-15

Product ID

9WZDNCRDKJJ2

Categories

Multimedia design

About Journalist

Keep a digital journal
Learn journaling techniques
Learn about journaling tools and supplies
See examples of journals to get inspiration
Draw with a variety of pens, pencils, unique brushes, effects, and color palettes. (not on Xbox)
For devices without pens, you can draw with a finger or mouse using the touch drawing mode.
NEW: on-screen ortho-toggle buttons to help you draw straight horizontal and vertical lines.
NEW: Create 3D photos with depth maps to upload to Facebook. This is a new feature that uses the new Layers pane where you set the depth of a layer from 0 (back) to 255 (front) and that is used to create depth when uploaded to Facebook. Save as a JPEG image with depth map and upload the results as a Facebook post!

NEW: Layers control to lock, hide, set the opacity and depth of each layer of a drawing.

NEW: Create 360° drawings (equirectangular) that can be viewed in the app, with a head-mounted display, or on Facebook in as 360 pictures and video. For 360 video export, you can add audio and embedded videos by adding them to the page.

NEW: On Windows desktop & tablet - Surface Dial is now supported on all Microsoft Surface devices to select drawing tools, undo/redo, rotate, zoom, and scroll the drawing surface

NEW: On Windows Creators Update: for devices with a pen you can now draw basic shapes and they are recognized and cleaned up.

Create vertical or horizontal-scrolling parallax pages with 4 independent layers - and save scrolling the pages as videos.

Save journal pages as PNG, BMP, JPEG, JPEG XR, TIFF, GIF, or SVG files.

Convert ink to text. (not on Xbox)

Print pages or whole journals. (not on Xbox)

Add gradient meshes to pages

A pen is recommended for drawing, although the app supports a touch drawing mode where a mouse or finger can be used for drawing as well.

Key features

  • Draw with Windows Ink with pens, pencils, and the ruler (not on Xbox). For devices without pens, you can draw with a finger or mouse using the touch drawing mode.
  • Create multi-media pages with drawing, pictures, text, videos, and audio
  • Use voice commands to control Journalist while creating pages
  • Pin journals or pages to the start screen
  • Drag and drop files onto journal pages.
  • Cut, Copy and paste items onto journal pages.
  • Extensible with page item and export extensions.
  • Create 3D images with depth maps to upload to Facebook.
  • Share content from other apps: text, URLs, bitmaps, HTML, RTF, .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .bmp, .gif, .jxr, .tif, .tiff, .mp4, .wmv, .mp3, .m4a, .txt, .rtf
  • Export journals as HTML pages, images, or videos.
  • Create 360 Drawing that can be viewed on Facebook's 360 Photo Viewer or 360 picture-viewing apps.
  • Draw with the shadow, glow, and blur pens. (not on Xbox)
  • Insert journal pages as images in other apps using the file picker.
  • Save pages as PNG, SVG, JPEG, TIF, JXR, GIF, MP4, WMV, or AVI
  • Create vertical or horizontal parallax scrolling pages - adn save the pages as videos
  • Insert Video, audio, images onto pages: .png, .jpg, .bmp, .gif, .jxr, .tif, .mp4, .wmv, .mp3, .svg
  • Insert 4-color gradient meshes onto pages.
  • Create 3D drawings with the Isometric drawing mode.