Watercolor Helper

Plan your next painting

Photograph a scene or open a photo
Crop to your painting size
Study the values
Get a simplified pencil outline
Add a drawing grid, then transfer by hand

Open a photo

Your photos stay on this device. Nothing is uploaded.

Painting size (image area)

Orientation

Portrait Landscape

The photo is always cropped to the exact shape of your painting, so the grid squares on the reference match squares on the paper and nothing is distorted.