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For those of you who aren't comfortable using your computer draw programs to plan out your haunt layout, if you have a tablet here's something you might consider.
I thought I would share a few very rough initial layouts that I did the other night from something I sketched out on my iPad with Penultimate, a free app (now part of the Evernote family). It's really a note taking app but has a lot of versatility to do more. I did these sketches freehand with my Apple Pencil on "blank paper" but you can just as easily set the paper choice to "grid" and get graph paper for more precise placement. You can do your planning on graph paper and then easily switch the paper choice to plain for a less cuttered look, where you can annotate better. Quite a bit of flexibility. I'll be using Penultimate to do my handwritten To Do and Shopping Lists, and plan to set up a Prop List for which I'll import photos of the props I might use or still want to pick up. I like having the visual of them in front of me when thinking through ideas (and sometimes have forgotten what I have to use so it serves as a reminder). The app also has a calendar page paper choice for monthly reminders.
I've always drawn my layout ideas on regular paper and this year transferring that task to my tablet has been so easy. I've only been using the app for a few days and it's pretty easy to work with. I like that you can bring in and scale down photos from iPhotos for placement on your design. For me this type of work is just faster to do by hand drawing than working in a draw program.
I thought I would share a few very rough initial layouts that I did the other night from something I sketched out on my iPad with Penultimate, a free app (now part of the Evernote family). It's really a note taking app but has a lot of versatility to do more. I did these sketches freehand with my Apple Pencil on "blank paper" but you can just as easily set the paper choice to "grid" and get graph paper for more precise placement. You can do your planning on graph paper and then easily switch the paper choice to plain for a less cuttered look, where you can annotate better. Quite a bit of flexibility. I'll be using Penultimate to do my handwritten To Do and Shopping Lists, and plan to set up a Prop List for which I'll import photos of the props I might use or still want to pick up. I like having the visual of them in front of me when thinking through ideas (and sometimes have forgotten what I have to use so it serves as a reminder). The app also has a calendar page paper choice for monthly reminders.
I've always drawn my layout ideas on regular paper and this year transferring that task to my tablet has been so easy. I've only been using the app for a few days and it's pretty easy to work with. I like that you can bring in and scale down photos from iPhotos for placement on your design. For me this type of work is just faster to do by hand drawing than working in a draw program.