Description
Brushes was used to create the cover of the June 1, 2009 issue of The New Yorker:
http://tinyurl.com/brushes-newyorker
See Brushes on ABC News:
http://tinyurl.com/brushes-abc
Join the Flickr group:
http://flickr.com/groups/brushes/
Brushes is a painting application designed from scratch for the iPhone and iPod touch. Featuring an advanced color picker, several realistic brushes, layers, extreme zooming, and a simple yet deep interface, it is a powerful tool for creating original artwork on your mobile device.
Features:
– High-quality brushes (with an erase mode)
– Layers (rearrange, merge, fill with a color, and adjust transparency)
– Copy and Paste layers between paintings
– Import multiple photos as layers
– Desktop-class color picker
– Extremely responsive zooming from 70% to 1600%
– Eyedropper tool
– Generous level of undo and redo
– Slideshow mode
– Built in web server (download paintings to any computer)
– Replay your paintings at high resolution with Brushes Viewer on Mac OS X (http://brushesapp.com/viewer)
Support: Please email support@brushesapp.com if you have any problems or questions.
What's New in Version 2.1
– Redesigned Brush Panel
– A number of new brushes
– Brush spacing slider
– Hot corners for commonly used features
– Email paintings (iPhone OS 3 only)
– New Localizations: French, German, Italian, and Spanish
Customer Reviews
Compared to Colors!
So I have been painting with both Brushes and Colors! now for a few days as a break from work, I spend my workday painting in both photoshop and painter. Here is what I have noticed about the 2 apps.
• Both are great for painting. Colors gets kudos for having come up with a dynamic way to change brush size and opacity while painting by tilting the phone. It isn't intuitive but you catch on to it in just a minute or two.
• Brushes gets a point for a better zoom and scroll. Colors! seems to only zoom in large increments while the zoom on Brushes is super fluid and allows you to zoom at any level you want between 100 and 300%.
• Colors! wins on the color palette design but that is more of an aesthetic choice than a functionality issue.
• Colors! has different brush options that Brushes does. Brushes gives you three brush types from smooth to a brush that shows a hairy, natural media stroke. Colors! allows you to choose hard edge or soft edge brushes and whether to use the tilt accelarometer to control dynamic opacity or size. All in all, I would give the advantage here to Colors!.
• One last thing. Brushes seems more responsive overall than Colors! to me, especially when using undo. Also, Brushes seems to do a much better job of anti-aliasing the artwork. The images I made so far in Colors! all have a more pixelated look to them than the Brushes images, which are smooth even when zoomed in. Brushes also has a nice fill tool which can be used at low opacity to get a glazing effect.
• Brushes interface is absent while you are painting. I like that since Colors! tool bar is always present and I have hit it a few times while painting the lower part of the screen.
• I love the play feature in Colors! where you can watch a sped up replay of the painting being made. This is move of a gimik feature for me but still really cool.
It is hard to pick a winner between these two awesome programs. Colors! big selling point to me is the use of the tilt accelarometer while Brushes has a press and hold eyedropper feature and smooth zooming. Brushes feels a little slicker so far but that is just my experience.
Awesome app
I really love the new additions. This drawing app has almost everything I wanted out of it now.
The only thing I would suggest to add now is to make it so you can set your own point of touch. What I mean is that when you touch the screen the drawing line would start somewhere above the finger. My biggest issue is that I can't see what I am drawing b/c my finger is blocking the view, but this would solve everything.
My Favorite Art App as of 10-15-08
I've tried both Colors and Brushes, and while both are nice painting applications, I prefer Brushes at this point. One stand out feature in Brushes is that you can use a photo from the Camera or Photo Album, which is great for importing sketches or painting over photos.
The three brush options in Brushes produces a more painterly result (Colors has only one round brush shape). The zoom control on Brushes is much more refined and smooth than Colors, which only zooms in large increments. With Brushes you can paint to the edge of the canvas, while in Colors it is currently impossible to do so (and if you have a brush offset this is very obvious). I thought the brush offset in Colors would be a must have feature, but in practice it is difficult to tell where the brush line will start when using it, so in Brushes I don't miss this feature. The use of the accelerometer to change brush opacity in Colors works okay, but is a little fiddly. More brush shapes seems a more important feature.
I prefer the color picker in Colors, as it seems much more intuitive to use. The eyedropper in Colors seems a better implementation also. However, I do like that you can change brush color, size, and opacity within one screen in Colors.
The undo feature in Colors remembers undo states from session to session through the replay feature. Although I don't need a replay of how the drawing was made, I would like Brushes to save multiple undo steps (perhaps a user-defined number?) between sessions. That being said, the undo/redo feature during a Brushes painting session is both quick, effective, and more than adequate.
Although the Colors website showcases many very detailed paintings made with Colors, I have a feeling that most were made with the Nintendo DS version of Colors. Of course the DS has a stylus, so I don't feel the website images are a good representation of what can be done with the iPhone version.
- $4.99
- Category: Entertainment
- Updated: Dec 09, 2009
- Current Version: 2.1
- 2.1 (iPhone OS 3.0 Tested)
- 2.1 MB
- Languages: English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Spanish
- Seller: Steve Sprang
- © 2008-2009 Steve Sprang
Requirements: Compatible with iPhone and iPod touch. Requires iPhone OS 2.1 or later.
