AmaZio Graph User Manual

Have you ever wanted to draw like a professional artist?
Are you fascinated by mosaics and symmetry?
Amaziograph Oﬃcial Manual

If so, Amaziograph will help you express your creativity.
Publication AMZG-IOS-04-AUG18
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Amaziograph was designed and created in
2015 by Hristo Staykov, a 15 years old student
at the time.
The name comes from two words: Amazing

and Graph.
Amaziograph was designed to support lessons

for symmetry and tessellation and help
students to discover the beautiful connection
between mathematics and art.
Using Amaziograph is all about having fun

creating amazing artworks and expressing
Believe us, you will feel like a real artist, not like a your creativity. The Amaziograph app is just a
tool that helps you to save time from
computer app user and further in the manual the term
repeating patterns and use it to look for more
“artist” will be used. amazing combinations.
Amaziograph interface and functionality are

designed to be very close to the natural way
of drawing on paper.
Don’t worry from small imperfections in your

artworks, they have their own charm.
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Create a drawing
Create new Select Collection

  Manage In Amaziograph the drawing, your artwork is
drawing Collection Name graphs called graph.
To create a graph tap on the “+” button at

the upper left corner in the Collection view.
To edit existing graphs, tap on the drawing

preview.
To manage graphs press “Edit”
Notes:
•Once you delete a graph, you can not

restore it.
Graphs
preview •If you can not see any of your graphs,
make sure the All Amaziographs collection
is selected.

Manage drawings
Duplicate Move Delete Selected Select All The graphs edit menu allows you to:
selection selection selection graphs drawings
•Duplicate selected graphs
•Delete selected graphs
•Move selected graphs to different
collections
•Share / export selected graphs

Share
selection The duplicate feature is very useful to create
a variances of a graph.
The collection is merely a graph’s tag and

does not move its file. All graphs are stored in
one folder and are visible when  
All Amaziographs is selected.

Create a drawing
Add new Edit You can organise your graphs into Collections.
Collection Collection
To see your collections, tap the Collections
button from the sketchbook screen.
•All your collections are listed in the

window that appears. The current
collection is marked with “✔”
•To view graphs in a different collection,

tap the collection name
•To create a new collection tap the “+”

button.
•Tap “Edit” in the small window to change

collection names or delete collections
•To move graphs into a collection, select

them as described in the previous section,
and tap the folder icon

Select a symmetry
Change Select a Import an Once the “+” button is pressed to create a

Canvas size Symmetry image new graph the next step is to select a desired
symmetry and canvas size. The available
current symmetries are:
1. No symmetry
2. Mirror
3. Kaleidoscope 60˚
4. Kaleidoscope 30˚
5. Rotation
6. 3-Mirror kaleidoscope
7. Hexagons + Rotation (6)
8. Hexagons + Rotation (3)
9. Hexagons
10. Squares + Rotation (4)
11. Squares + Kaleidoscope
12. Tiles
The number in the brackets shows how many

times the rotation will be applied.

Select a graph size
Predefined The Amaziograph app by default uses the size

sizes of your iPad screen in pixels.
For old iPad models the screen resolution

may be only 1024x768 pixels.
Before selecting a symmetry you can select

one of predefined canvas sizes.
Mind that while a bigger canvas gives you

more space to work on, it can also lead to a
lag in performance.
The canvas size also can be changed later on

when drawing the graph.

Import image
  You can import an image as a background by

Images
pressing camera button in new graph window.
You can select an image from photos.
Amaziograph will import the selected photos

in the canvas and the symmetry will be “No
symmetry”.
Notes:
•The canvas will be resized in accordance

to selected photo’s size.
•Images above 4096x4096 px will be

resized
•Images that do not fit in the proportions

will not be imported

Start drawing
After opening a graph, you will see the screen

Stylus Colour Undo and
On/Off
Colour palette
transparency Redo
Layers on the left.
The drawing canvas has a top hidden part,

below the menu and system toolbars.
You can zoom into the graph with two

fingers.
You can:
Return to Quick brush Brush Symmetry
Collections sizes softness settings
•Select between three tools: Brush, Paint
Bucket and Eraser
Brush and
settings •Select stroke size, opacity and softness
Bucket and
Resize, Share,
Preferences
•Change colour
settings
•Manage layers
Eraser and
settings
•Undo and Redo changes
•Change and adjust symmetry
•Change canvas size
•Share the graph
Graph canvas
Symmetry
grid

Brush properties
You can control brush properties by double

Stylus Brush style
On/Off preview tap on the brush icon.
You can control:
•Line width, opacity, softness and colour

•Line pattern: solid, dash and dots
The stylus settings are available when Apple
Pencil or another supported stylus is
connected.
If you do not need to use pressure settings

can tap on the icon and green dot will
become white.
You can control the sensitivity level selecting:

Low, Medium or High
If the stylus has buttons you can assign

functions. This is not available for Apple
Pencil.
You can select between brush Size or Opacity

Active only to be changed when pressure is applied.
fro Adonit
Size or
Opacity

Eraser properties
The eraser tool acts as a brush drawing tool

and has the same properties.
The difference is that it deletes to alfa

channel.
This can be use to mix images in third party

software.
You can use the eraser tool to make visible

the layer under the current one.

Fill bucket drawing
The fill bucket tool allows the artist quickly to

fill homogeneous colour areas with new
colour.
You can select colour and opacity of the

bucket tool.
NOTE:
•When the symmetry is On the fill will be

replicated in accordance of the symmetry.
•When the symmetry is Off only the

selected area will be fill.
•Applying the fill bucket tool in the

beginning will change the background of
the canvas.
•The initial canvas colour is a transparent

alfa channel that can be exported in PNG
format.

Colour palette
The great artists have never used a computer colour wheel. The Amaziograph colour palette is unique
with the colour mixing approach.
 
There are nine base colours and artist’s
custom colours palette.
To mix a new colour drag a colour from a

base or custom colour cell to a new cell and
use mix gesture to get a new colour. If you
repeat a mix gesture - moving left an right
the stylus or finger the new colour will get
more from the selected colour till get 100%
of the selected colour. The info will show you
animation hot to mixture the colours.
To create a gradient colours between two

colours in the custom palette, you have to
select the colours by fingers and and move
fingers towards each other. The cell in
between will fill automatically with gradient
colours.
When you holds the finger or stylus on the

custom colour cell new menu will appear from
where you can mix a new colour in RGB mixer
or type a colour HEX code. From this menu
you can pick a colour from the graph.
The colour palette is designed to have the same behaviour as natural colour
mixing to support students in elementary schools, not to loosing a sense of
mixing colours.

Draw your first mandala
  Now you are ready to create your first

artwork.
The graph is created by using the following

sequence:
•Select a new graph with standard canvas

size and “2 mirror kaleidoscope” symmetry
•Select a “black’ colour and use fill bucket

tool to change the canvas background
•Crete a customise colour

•Select a midsize brush with softness
•Free style drawing

Manage layers
  Amaziograph supports layers from ver. 5.

Swipe the layer Left to Right Swipe the layer Right to Left The number of layers is limited by memory of
the iPad model.
Every new graph is created only with one

layer. To add/remove layers you have to
touch the layer button.
To create a layer touch the “+” button in the

layer menu.
The layer name by default is Layer <layer

number>. Afterwards you can name the layer
Can adjust layer Opacity as you want.
Can Clear the layer
or to Hide/Unhide the When you swipe the layer Right to Left, you
or delete it.
Layer can clear the layer content or delete the layer.
When you swipe the layer Left to Right, you

can Hide/Unhide or electing Adjust, you will
be able to control the layer opacity.
To reorder the layers, select a layer and move

up or down.
Every layer can have its own symmetry. To

change the layer symmetry, you have to
select the layer and to go to Symmetry menu

Now is time for amazing artworks
  Using layers, you can create, even more

amazing artworks.
The drawing on the screenshot is created in

six simple steps:
•Select New drawing and import a photo.

•Create and new layer and use the grid to
draw lines and create a frame.
•Create a new layer with the same

symmetry: Hexagons + Rotation (6) and
repeat the lines again with bigger size
brush.
•Return to the second layer and change the

symmetry to Hexagons + Rotation (6).
•Use the fill bucket to fill the shapes.

•Change the layer opacity.

Adjust symmetry grid
  Of course as artist you need a flexibility to

change summitries and adjust symmetry
settings fro every layer
Tap on Symmetry settings button to:
•Turn On/Off the symmetry.

•Turn On/Off the symmetry grid.
•Hide the grid one you zoom out. This
helps to see the drawing without the grid.
•Change the symmetry. Amaziograph

suggests the first the symmetries based on
the selected previous one. To select
another symmetry, touch More
Symmetries
•Adjust the symmetry grid

When you select Adjust grid, Amaziograph will
show options to change the grid in
accordance of selected symmetry.

Adjust symmetry grid
To adjust symmetry grid tap and move one of

the grid pins or change number of axis.
Depends on the symmetry Amaziograph

shows adjust grid presets.
Using them you can quickly adjust the grid.
On the screen shots you can see how quickly

you can make your canvas a perfect tile that
can use afterwards to create fabrics or
envelope paper.
If your canvas has ratio 4:3, everything that

you need to do is to press 4:3 button and the
pins will be positioned automatically.
But you want the tiles to be shifted, like

bricks. It is so easy, just press half or a third
shift button.
NOTE:
•Every symmetry has specific presets

•You cannot use tiles from every
symmetry, this is possible only in Tiles and
only when you have selected the right
  presets.

Adjust symmetry grid - Presets
Set the pin in   Set the pin in

the middle of the middle of
the canvas the quadrants
Mirror
Set the Reduce twice Increase twice Position the Rotates the
number of the number the number of centre of the axes by half
axes of axes axes mandala angle
Rotation and 2-Mirror

kaleidoscope
Divide the canvas by Reduce and increase

Shift tiles be half
the written twice the size of the
or one third
proportions grid
Tiles

Adjust symmetry grid - Presets
The presets give unique opportunity to do

create combination in one type of symmetry,
using factors of multiplying or dividing by
two.
Knowing the proportion of your canvas, when

you use a Tile symmetry, you can split the
canvas on exact number of tiles and can use it
afterwards as one tile in other applications or
easy to crop a tile.
Of course always can use the pins to create

your own grid
NOTE:
In Tiles symmetry you can use presets to:
•Divide the canvas on exact number of

tiles - useful for fabric pattern design
•Using standard screen size canvas

the best is to use 4x3 preset
•For square canvas you can use 3x3

or 4x4
•Do not forget that the canvas size

shall be divided by 3 or 4 to get
integer tile size
•Multiply or divide by 2 the size of tiles

Pick up colour from the graph
Now is time to pick up a colour form the

graph.
•Tap on the colour icon (colour circle)

•Hold on on the cell of the customised
colours
•Wait to appear a window RGB mixing and

Pick up colour.
•Select Pick colour

•Move the picker - the colour in a circle will
change in accordance where is the left
down corner of the picker
•To finish colour selection tap on Done

Some tricks in the preferences
  You can open Preferences from the More

“˚˚˚” window.
In the preferences you can turn Off and On

the following options:
•Handedness - change the position of Undo

and Redo buttons. By default is Right.
•Undo Symmetry changes - on is On, you

can go back to previous symmetry with
Undo, when is Off, you cannot return to
previous symmetry, using Undo or Redo.
•Shape recognition - This function allows

you to draw free curves and Amaziograph
will recognise and convert them to:
•Straight line.
•Circle.

Lets use shape recognition
The screenshot shows the difference with

using Shape recognition function.
With red colour is an attempt to draw a

straight line and circle, when the Shape
recognition is Off. The pressure sensitivity is
turned on and selected to change the brush
opacity.
Which green colour is the result when the

Shape recognition is On.
If you use pressure sensitivity for brush size

and opacity, you should not worry, it will be
kept in the corrected curve.
Everything that you have to do is to draw

almost a circle or a straight line.
NOTE:
The Shape recognition requires more
processor time and you can face minor
delays.
You have to practice a little bit, before you
are get to using it.

Smooth lines
The Amaziograph app is a raster image

Lines without Lines with
No zoom
smoothness maximum drawing app and lines are project in a raster
grid. This can cause a pixelation depending on
canvas size an artist hands.
To reduce this effect the you can use line

softness. The line softness creates artificial
brush softness and reduces pixelation effect.
The pixelation effect can be reduced by using

Lines with a bigger brush sizes.
maximum
It is normal to see pixels in the most thin lines

and when you have maximum zoom in. This
effect can be seen in other similar apps, when
the same line settings are used.
Maximum
zoom Lines without
smoothness

Smooth lines
Another way to improve line smoothness is to

Canvas size Canvas size Canvas size increases the canvas size.
1024x1024 px 2048x2048 4096x4096
The screen shots show the difference

between line smoothness on iPad Pro 9.7 “
with Apple Pencil and minimum brush size,
same line settings and no zoom in.
The digital artworks needs to be print.
The A4 format (210x297 mm, 8.27”x11.69”) is
•2480 x 3508 pixels in 300 dpi (print

resolution).
•595 pixels x 842 pixels in 72 dpi (screen

resolution).
The A3 format (297x420 mm, 11.69”x16.54”) is
•3508 x 4961 pixels in 300 dpi (print

resolution).
•842 x 1191 pixels in 72 dpi (screen

resolution).

Change the canvas size
At any time the you can change the graph

size.
Tap on Resize and Share button (three dots).
Select Change Canvas size.
Define the new size. You can select to keep

the proportions or to unlock the W/H ratio
and change the proportions. The minimum
size is 256 px and maximum is 4096 px.
There are two options for resize the graph:

Stretch and Expand.
In the Expand you can select direction to

expand the graph. You have to select where is
the graph is anchored.
Tap on Resize button to execute the resize.
As result new graph will be created with the

new size.

Change the canvas size
After applying the Expand you will get a new

graph where the expanded area will be in
transparent colour (alpha channel).
You can check the size using again Resize and

Share button and Change Canvas size.

Organise graphs in Collections
From the experience we know that

Amaziograph app can be very addictive and
very soon you will end up of hundreds of
graphs.
It will be possible to scroll over All

Amaziograph, but the better way is to create
Collections and group graphs in collections.
In All Amaziograph you still be able to see all

graphs. Be very careful of deleting files from
All Amaziograph, because they will be
deleted from the collection, too.
It is a good idea you to keep only the most

valuable artworks and as a backup to store
them in Photos as a JPG or PNG.

Work in teams
From Amaziograph ver. 5 you can share your

drawings with others and they can be able to
continue to work and return back to you.
To share your artwork with others, perform

the following steps:
•Return to Collections.
•Press Edit.
•Select the graph.
•Press Share button.
•Select Amaziograph File.
•Select the method - preferable by mail or

Airdrop.
NOTE:
At the Dropbox and Box, due to unknown
reasons do not allow to store Amaziograph
files, using Share functionality of iOS.

Share your artworks
Every artist can share artworks.
Tap on Resize and Share button (three dots).
Select Share.
You can include or not the symmetry grid or

include transparency.
When the Include transparency is OFF the file

will be in JPG format and when is ON it will be
in PNG format.
Tap on Share button and select how to share

the graph.
You can share the graph in Amaziograph file

format, too.
NOTE:
Use Save Image to sea the graph in Photos
Use Print to print fro the iPad.
Clear button will clean the canvas and all
layers
Use Share to publish direct your artwork in
Instagram or Facebook or Twitter

Organise graphs in Collections
From the experience we know that

Amaziograph app can be very addictive and
very soon you will end up of hundreds of
graphs.
It will be possible to scroll over All

Amaziograph, but the better way is to create
Collections and group graphs in collections.
In All Amaziograph you still be able to see all

graphs. Be very careful of deleting files from
All Amaziograph, because they will be
deleted from the collection, too.
It is a good idea you to keep only the most

valuable artworks and as a backup to store
them in Photos as a JPG or PNG.
NOTE:
Removing and reinstalling the app will delete
all graphs from the iPad.

Manage your artworks in Files
  Amaziograph ver. 5 allows you to see all

amaziograph files in Apple Files app.
From here you can copy them, move to

iCloud or send to your personal backup
storage.
You can use Files to send corrupted files for

further investigation at
feedback@amaziogrph.com
NOTE:
All files will be removed when you remove
the Amaziograph app from your iPad.
Perform regular achieving of your artworks.
Some of the artworks will not have
thumbnail, because they have been created
with lower versions.

Start drawing
Now is time for fun with

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Amaziograph. Official Amaziograph pages:
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https://www.facebook.com/amaziograph/?
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https://www.instagram.com/amaziographapp/
https://www.youtube.com/channel/
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Technical support:
feedback@amaziograph.com

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Have you ever wanted to draw like a professional artist?

Are you fascinated by mosaics and symmetry?

Amaziograph Oﬃcial Manual

The name comes from two words: Amazing

Amaziograph was designed to support lessons

Using Amaziograph is all about having fun

Amaziograph interface and functionality are

Don’t worry from small imperfections in your

Amaziograph Oﬃcial Manual Publication AMZG-IOS-04-AUG18 Page 2 of 33

Create new Select Collection

To create a graph tap on the “+” button at

To edit existing graphs, tap on the drawing

To manage graphs press “Edit”

•Once you delete a graph, you can not

Amaziograph Oﬃcial Manual Publication AMZG-IOS-04-AUG18 Page 3 of 33

•Share / export selected graphs

The collection is merely a graph’s tag and

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•All your collections are listed in the

•To view graphs in a different collection,

•To create a new collection tap the “+”

•Tap “Edit” in the small window to change

•To move graphs into a collection, select

Amaziograph Oﬃcial Manual Publication AMZG-IOS-04-AUG18 Page 5 of 33

Change Select a Import an Once the “+” button is pressed to create a

7. Hexagons + Rotation (6)

8. Hexagons + Rotation (3)

10. Squares + Rotation (4)

11. Squares + Kaleidoscope

The number in the brackets shows how many

Amaziograph Oﬃcial Manual Publication AMZG-IOS-04-AUG18 Page 6 of 33

Predefined The Amaziograph app by default uses the size

For old iPad models the screen resolution

Before selecting a symmetry you can select

Mind that while a bigger canvas gives you

The canvas size also can be changed later on

Amaziograph Oﬃcial Manual Publication AMZG-IOS-04-AUG18 Page 7 of 33

You can import an image as a background by

You can select an image from photos.

Amaziograph will import the selected photos

•The canvas will be resized in accordance

•Images above 4096x4096 px will be

•Images that do not fit in the proportions

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After opening a graph, you will see the screen

The drawing canvas has a top hidden part,

You can zoom into the graph with two

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You can control brush properties by double

You can control:

•Line width, opacity, softness and colour

If you do not need to use pressure settings

You can control the sensitivity level selecting:

If the stylus has buttons you can assign

You can select between brush Size or Opacity

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The eraser tool acts as a brush drawing tool

The difference is that it deletes to alfa

This can be use to mix images in third party

You can use the eraser tool to make visible

Amaziograph Oﬃcial Manual Publication AMZG-IOS-04-AUG18 Page 11 of 33

The fill bucket tool allows the artist quickly to

You can select colour and opacity of the

•When the symmetry is On the fill will be

  You can import an image as a background by

  Now you are ready to create your first

  Amaziograph supports layers from ver. 5.

  Using layers, you can create, even more

  Of course as artist you need a flexibility to

Set the pin in   Set the pin in

  You can open Preferences from the More