Good but needs some improvement – Inspire Review

I will ditto that this app is the best for realistic painting. It's fantastic. Now this review is for earlier version because I don't want to upgrade to iOs8. 1. The iPhone version offers two sizes - they come as a square and a rectangle. I cannot stress enough how important that you select the square!!! A rectangle will reduce your image DOUBLE THE SIZE making your efforts lacking any detail. The images will be tiny. This happened to me. I wanted to save my painting in each of it's stages because a lot if times I cannot makeup my mind whether I want this or that in a painting. Well. At some stage I accidentally have selected Import as a rectangle. It was a huge heartbreak for me. I will have to re-import and repaint. No big deal for some but for me over 6 hrs of work. If I was the developers I would kill the rectangle option. I think it's clear that us artists want as big as possible of an option!!! NOONE on earth in their right mind would say they want to paint something so tiny that nobody can see it. It's common sense! It doesn't matter which shape it is, be it rectangle or oval for all I care - is it too much to ask, please give us a bigger size. Give us the biggest you've got!!! I had an original photo of 580 kb, after import it became 216 kb. WHY, when it said in option that it would now be 916 kb??? Still usable (a A5 page can be printed) but after I accidentally reduced by selecting a darned "rectangle", it went to 100 kb!!! It became completely unusable. Ideally let us keep original size of imported photo!!! 2. Second suggestion is to allow for layers and a layer transform tool. Right now I need to switch between ArtStudio and Inspire. Which I got used to - not as big of a deal as losing QUALITY of an image and hours of work. 3. Add Airbrush setting for halos around the moon or soft glows around things. Otherwise a very nice software, very comparable to Painter as it feels and blends like the oils ... But with it's current size it's only usable as a sketch.
Review by MissDarkness on Inspire.