Brushes 4 is the latest version of the app that played a significant role in the iPhone and iPad painting revolution. The app has been redesigned with a clean and modern user interface, offering support for iPhone and iPad devices, with optimization specifically for iPhone X, iPhone XS, iPhone Pro, and iPad with Apple Pencil.
Highlights:
- Clean and modern user interface with light and dark modes.
- Files based painting gallery.
- New canvas interface.
- Apple Pencil support with pressure curve.
- Unlimited undo and redo.
- Continuous auto-save.
- Cloud Drive import and export.
Parameterized Brushes:
- Selection of ready-to-use brushes with customizable settings.
- Create your own custom brushes from millions of permutations.
- Generate random brushes for inspiration.
- Dynamic adjustment of brush size and opacity.
Layers:
- Layer your artwork for greater control.
- Lock and hide layers.
- Use alpha lock to only paint where pixels already exist.
- Adjust individual layer opacity.
- Duplicate, rearrange, and merge layers.
- Apply layer blending modes: normal, multiply, screen, exclude.
- Color fill any layer.
- Invert layer color and desaturate.
- Flip and arbitrarily transform layers.
- Adjust the color balance per layer.
- Adjust layer hue, saturation, and brightness.
Colors:
- Color picker with hue ring and saturation square.
- Store and recall your favorite colors in swatches.
- Sample painting colors with the eyedropper tool.
Apple Pencil:
- Intuitive and powerful pressure curve to match your style.
- Configurable real-time pressure-based adjustment of brush size and opacity.
Creation:
- Preset canvas sizes for paper, photographs, iPhone and iPad screens, film and television displays.
- Custom canvas size.
Import, export, and sharing:
- Import images directly from your camera roll.
- Import PNG and JPEG images from cloud services.
- Export your paintings for sharing or importing into other apps as PNG and JPEG to all cloud storage services or as photos directly to your camera roll.
- Compatible with paintings created by Brushes 3 and Brushes Redux.
Light and dark appearances:
- Choose between light and dark monochrome appearances, or use the system's current setting.
- Minimal use of user interface color to ensure that tints in the user interface do not distract from or influence your artwork color choices.
Acknowledgements:
Thank you to Angela Ali, Jason M., Jeff Parker, Sandra Perez, and Yoshiyuki Uchida for contributing artwork to the App Store screenshots. Please visit our website to see more of their artwork and for links to their portfolios.
History:
Brushes was originally created by Steve Sprang for the iPhone in 2009 and for the iPad in 2010. His last version, Brushes 3, was released in 2012 but was removed from the App Store in 2015. I took over development to modernize and support an app that has continued to be enjoyed by many artists.
Overview
Brushes is a Commercial software in the category Graphics Applications developed by Envoza.
The latest version of Brushes is 4.2.3, released on 08/03/2024. It was initially added to our database on 12/26/2023.
Brushes runs on the following operating systems: iOS.
Users of Brushes gave it a rating of 5 out of 5 stars.
Pros
- Offers a wide variety of digital painting tools and features
- Supports both raster and vector brushes
- Allows for customization and creation of brushes
- Intuitive user interface for easy navigation
- Compatible with Windows, Mac, and iOS devices
Cons
- Not as widely used or supported as some other popular digital painting software
- May have a learning curve for beginners unfamiliar with digital art software
- Some users may experience occasional bugs or glitches
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