I didn’t download a brush set — I opened a portal to 1963 and stepped straight into the inky, dotty, gloriously smudgy world of old-school comics. I guess this makes me a professional time-traveller? ColorLab is less a product and more a time-traveling Swiss Army knife for anyone who’s ever swooned over retro panels and yelled, “Why can’t I make that?!” Well now you can. And you will. But give yourself some time—this is a new way of selecting and building color and I learn something new every time I'm working with it…
I actually built a 24x24" file with allllllll of the brushes on their own layers in their own different grain sizes. Took hours but it allows me to easily mask according to my color formulas. See the screenshot in my review for a better look. Took a few hours to build with all those grain sizes, but dang, saves SOOOOOOO much time!
Over 100 brushes, full halftone wizardry (clean dots! rough lines! shader brushes that actually shade!), and vintage paper textures that make your iPad feel like it's made of old newsprint and dreams. Pairs VERY well with their Phantom paper IMHO. AND — let’s just pause and breathe— 374 color formulas?! That's not a palette, that’s a dang encyclopedia of CMYK perfection that works in RGB for my prints. 💥💬
The bonus skin tone sheet? Amazing. Like seriously spot-on. The darker skin tones are amazing but only with a smaller grain size. Do lot's of test prints! The inking brushes? Flawless. The Ramen Brush alone deserves its own comic…
