Nōtan is a Japanese design concept involving the play and placement of light and dark elements next to the other in the composition of art and imagery. The Yin Yang symbol is an example of this design philosophy. The use of Nōtan in art composition is a powerful tool to help the artist identify the structure of the light and dark portions of the image they want to incorporate into their project. The first function simply divides the image into black and white with colors above the set value being white and those below being black. You can then use the slider to move that line to enhance detail that may otherwise be obscured. The second and third functions displays the image in either a grayscale or color so the artist can focus on the structure and design of the image. The last 3 functions are Levels. They set either 3, 4, or up to 10 levels of color spread over black, gray and white pallets. The 3 and 4 levels have sliders to adjust where those levels are while the Levels function just evenly divides the image by the number of levels. And of course, share your image in many ways. Any artist will benefit from seeing their work in a different light. NotanIzer is that light.
Notan love
Love this app. It helps me with all of my artwork as I play with the possibilities! Thanks!!!!!
good app
really simple ui and did exactly as advertised. id say it’s a good investment, but you can definitely find free apps with b&w sliders if ur just looking for that
Great tool
Really helps me see shapes and contours! Use in drawing studio a lot.
Limited Features
I really wish there were a way to save a NAMED file to my mac. The only current option I see is to save it to the Apple Photos app with a predefined name. Saving your image in the folder of your choice seems like an essential feature that should be there. I should not have to do multiple steps to get one image to my chosen location.
Useful tool for artists
I’m a painter and I use this app all the time. Super useful
Wonderful
Simple and eye-opening. The only thing I wish to change would be to disable that terrible sound when you try to set levels too high or low.
Fantastic App a strong and useful tool to artist
I'm an art insturtor of adults in Colorado and have found this app to be indespencable in teaching values. It's simple to use and effortlessly comunicates visiually the most powerful tool in art, values. I use this tool almost daily. Bravo, to you, good people at Notanizer!
-Fixed drag and drop bug on iPads -Completed multiple project deletion
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