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Thumbtastic ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ

Thumbtastic is a free image viewing app to view art reference

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lars barnabee's thumbtastic in use with a canvas

โฌ†๏ธ Thumbnails on a blank canvas โฌ†๏ธ



lars barnabee's thumbtastic selection screen

โฌ†๏ธ Selection Screen โฌ†๏ธ



Just select an image ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ or a folder ๐Ÿ“ of images ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ from your computer and you can view all of your reference with ease. Thumbtastic ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ works with the following image file types: .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .jfif, .webp, or .gif using file types other than the one's listed will not show. This application does not connect to the internet in any way, so you can practice without Wi-Fi or internet.



thumbnail feature to make  smaller draggable image view

โฌ†๏ธ Thumbnail ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ is a smaller draggable slideshow (photo credit: Ameer Hamza and Vladimir Fedotov) โฌ†๏ธ



thumbnail feature shows its menu bar when it has focus

โฌ†๏ธ A Thumbnail ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ shows its menu when it has focus (photo credit: Ameer Hamza and Vladimir Fedotov) โฌ†๏ธ

Thumbtastic does not automatically update, so check here for future updates, when I release bug ๐Ÿ› fixes. Please only trust this site for downloading my app. Do not trust downloads of this app from other websites that are not "larsbarnabee.com" aka "https://larsbarnabee.com". Do not trust other people distributing this application. This application changes the text based on users native spoken language based on your operating systems locale. For example- If your computer has a locale of english, it would be something like "en", if your computers locale was japanese, it would be "ja". This functionality was a bit difficult to make, but I did this to help spread the love of drawing all around the world. I wonder if extra-terrestrials speak any of these languages....


I made Thumbtastic because I was inspired by my mom. She is an artist, and she would cut out smaller images of stuff she was going to draw then clip it to her drawing board. She used images as reference, thus inspiring this app. I would always find small cut out images around the house. I should note, in my drawesome desktop app, I originally added that feature to drawesome. I realized that making an app to use as reference, rather than a small temporary slideshow window would be more helpful for drawing. It is funny how some of my work is a derivative of other features I made.


The Thumbtastic ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ App was translated using Google Translate for the following languages: Japan ๐Ÿ‡ฏ๐Ÿ‡ต Mandarin ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ณ Russian ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ Portuguese ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡น Korean ๐Ÿ‡ฐ๐Ÿ‡ท Italian ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡น Indonesian ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฉ Hindi ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ Hebrew ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ฑ French ๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Spanish ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡ฝ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ German ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช Bengali ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ฉ Arabic ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡ช Translators cost and deserve money. I am a bit short on it at the moment. If you want to help out, please contact me here


Downloaded Thumbtastic ๐ŸŽž๏ธ but need reference images? Get a pack of model pose images here. Note: purchasing through these links supports this website and Thumbtastic ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ development.

License: You are free to use "Thumbtastic", but you may not distribute the application, installers, executables, etc. You may not claim that you created "Thumbtastic". Thumbtastic is and always will be a free application, therefore you may not sell Thumbtastic to any person, entity, etc. I would like to thank my supporters ๐Ÿ˜‡ here I also want to thank "Twemojis" by Twitter.com (https://github.com/twitter/twemoji) because I use them in my Thumbtastic ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ application and Icons by icons8.com (https://icons8.com) Lars Barnabee LLC โ€” 2022 โ€” Copyright โ€” All Rights Reserved

Thumbtastic does not collect user data. I did not Code Sign Thumbtastic๏ธ ๐Ÿ–ผ๏ธ Therefore your computer may warn you that this software did not come from an verified publisher. Please only trust downloads of this application from this website "larsbarnabee.com" and no other websites. Do not trust other websites redistributing my application. When I say redistributing, I mean sending you the installers known as "setup.exe", "setup.dmg", or "setup.deb". Please feel free to tell others about my application and or share a link to this page.


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