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Brushes

Name: Brushes
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.4 (779 reviews)

Unleash precision. This app transforms your mobile device into a serious art studio, giving you absolute command over every stroke and layer.

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Key Figures

Downloads

10k+

User Rating

4.4/5

Total Ratings

779

Publisher

Envoza Ltd

An evaluation of core functionalities crucial for serious iPhone and iPad artists leveraging Apple Pencil.

Key Features Analysis: Brushes for Professional Digital Artists

Comprehensive Layer Management

The app provides extensive layer controls, including alpha lock, blending modes, and transform options, which are critical for non-destructive editing and creating complex digital compositions.

Advanced Customizable Brushes

This tool features a vast selection of ready-to-use and user-definable brushes, enabling artists to create millions of unique permutations and adjust brush dynamics for precise control over their strokes.

Apple Pencil Integration with Pressure Curve

It allows users to leverage the full capabilities of the Apple Pencil, offering a customizable pressure curve and real-time brush adjustments for a natural and highly responsive drawing experience.

Professional Color Management Tools

The app includes a sophisticated color picker, swatches for favorite colors, and an eyedropper tool, ensuring precise and efficient color selection and application for artists.

Robust Cloud Integration & Export

It allows users to import and export images seamlessly from cloud services, supporting various formats and ensuring easy sharing and backup of professional artwork.

Unlimited Undo/Redo & Continuous Auto-Save

The app provides unlimited history states and continuous auto-saving, giving artists creative freedom to experiment without fear of losing progress or making irreversible mistakes.

Flexible Canvas Customization

It provides a variety of preset canvas sizes for different media and the ability to define custom dimensions, supporting diverse artistic projects from the outset.

Intuitive & Modern User Interface

This tool presents a clean and modern user interface with light and dark modes, designed to minimize distraction and keep the focus on the creative process.

The following screenshots and description are sourced directly from the app's official store listing and are the property of the app developer.

App Store

Screenshots

Brushes - Explore how the app facilitates creative control with robust layer management and detailed artwork possibilities. — Explore how the app facilitates creative control with robust layer management and detailed artwork possibilities.
Masterful Layering Control

Brushes - Observe the app's flexible display options, featuring both light and dark monochrome appearances for focused creation. — Observe the app's flexible display options, featuring both light and dark monochrome appearances for focused creation.
Adaptive Interface Design

Brushes - Navigate through the extensive library of ready-to-use brushes, each with customizable settings for fine-tuning. — Navigate through the extensive library of ready-to-use brushes, each with customizable settings for fine-tuning.
Diverse Brush Collection

Brushes - Delve into the sophisticated layer effects, allowing adjustment of individual layer opacity and blending modes. — Delve into the sophisticated layer effects, allowing adjustment of individual layer opacity and blending modes.
Advanced Layer Adjustments

Brushes - Examine the user-friendly color palette, enabling quick storage and recall of favorite colors in swatches. — Examine the user-friendly color palette, enabling quick storage and recall of favorite colors in swatches.
Precision Color Selection

Brushes - Uncover the power of parameterized brushes, offering millions of permutations through sliders for density and intensity. — Uncover the power of parameterized brushes, offering millions of permutations through sliders for density and intensity.
Customizable Brush Engine

Brushes - Experience the fluidity of dynamic painting, with real-time adjustment of brush size and opacity for expressive strokes. — Experience the fluidity of dynamic painting, with real-time adjustment of brush size and opacity for expressive strokes.
Responsive Brush Dynamics

Brushes - Utilize the expressive color selection tools, featuring a precise hue ring and saturation square for perfect shade matching. — Utilize the expressive color selection tools, featuring a precise hue ring and saturation square for perfect shade matching.
Intuitive Color Picker

Description

Brushes 4 is the latest iteration of the app that started the iPhone and iPad painting revolution. Redesigned with a clean and modern user interface, Brushes supports iPhone and iPad with optimisation for the 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 customisable 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: - Colour picker with hue ring and saturation square. - Store and recall your favourite colors in swatches. - Sample painting colors with the eyedropper tool. • Apple Pencil: - Intuitive and powerful pressure curve to match your style. - Configurable realtime 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 current system setting. - Minimal use of user interface color so 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 iPhone in 2009 and for 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 modernise and support an app that has continued to be enjoyed by so many artists.