How To Draw On Note 8

Annotation 8 Coloring (Prototype credit: Android Cardinal)

It's always been fun to use the Milky way Notation'southward S Pen stylus to putter in Southward Note and other compatible apps, but with the Note 8, Samsung has gone 1 stride further — it'southward added a dedicated coloring feature.

Office of the little-known merely, in some circles, wildly popular PenUP app, the coloring characteristic gives the Southward Pen a creative rejuvination past transposing all of Due south Annotation'southward brushes, styles and colors into a drove of thick line drawings.

The feature isn't surprising, though: coloring books, both existent and digital, have seen a resurgence in contempo years as smartphone and tablet addicts look for something that clears the mind and encourages focusing on 1 task. While it's not quite meditative, to many people the deed of filling in a pictogram with color is relaxing, rewarding, and fun.

If you're looking to do the same matter on the new Galaxy Note 8, here's how.

First, enable Coloring in Air Command

You tin can easily access the Coloring feature directly in the PenUP app, merely information technology'south much easier to become to it using the shortcut in Air Control, which pops up when you remove the S Pen from its holster.

But it'southward off by default, and so yous need to enable information technology.

Remove the South Pen from the holster. Wait for Air Command to announced.
Tap Add shortcut.
Tap on Coloring under S Pen features.
Now, access Coloring from the Air Control menu.

That's it! Now the Coloring icon will show up whenever yous open Air Command.

And then, play with the features

You tin also find the Coloring feature inside the PenUP app.

Swipe up from the Samsung Launcher to access the app drawer.
Open the Samsung folder.
Tap on PenUP.

Navigate to the Coloring section on the correct.
Find a drawing.
Play with brushes, opacity, colors and other features.

Now you're fix to utilise, in my stance, ane of the best features on the Galaxy Note eight.

The neat thing nearly the Coloring characteristic is that more pictograms are existence added every week, and you can compare your work to others who have submitted their work through the community.

Fifty-fifty meliorate, information technology's possible to download many of those finished works of fine art and apply them as wallpapers, or to employ as stepping stones for your own projects.

Accept you used the Coloring feature on the Galaxy Note 8? Allow united states of america know in the comments below!

Daniel Bader is Android Central's Editor-in-Primary, too as Executive Editor for iMore and Windows Primal. He got started with smartphones in the BlackBerry days, rooted Android phones when Droid was a matter, and feels very lucky to still practice what he loves every day.