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Brushes

Name: Brushes
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.41 (800 reviews)

Experience professional-grade illustration with a minimalist interface. Master your art with advanced layers, customizable brushes, and seamless Apple Pencil precision.

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Key Figures

Downloads

150K+

User Rating

4.4/5

Total Ratings

800

Publisher

Envoza Ltd

Professional Tools for the Modern Artist

Brushes 4 combines a minimalist interface with powerful creative features, giving you the freedom to paint high-quality digital art wherever inspiration strikes.

Master Your Stroke

Experience unparalleled precision with full Apple Pencil optimization and customizable pressure curves tailored to your unique style.

Advanced Layer Control

Bring complex visions to life using professional blending modes, alpha lock, and an unlimited undo system for total creative freedom.

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 - Brushes app interface on iPhone displaying a digital landscape painting with drawing tools — Brushes app interface on iPhone displaying a digital landscape painting with drawing tools

Brushes - Brushes 4 mobile app interface demonstrating layer management with a detailed digital portrait of a woman — Brushes 4 mobile app interface demonstrating layer management with a detailed digital portrait of a woman

Brushes - Brushes 4 app interface in dark mode featuring a digital illustration of a green baby dragon hatching from an egg — Brushes 4 app interface in dark mode featuring a digital illustration of a green baby dragon hatching from an egg

Brushes - Brushes 4 mobile app interface showing a menu of digital brush styles and sizes — Brushes 4 mobile app interface showing a menu of digital brush styles and sizes

Brushes - A digital illustration of a gothic bride on an iPhone screen showcasing the Brushes 4 app layer effects — A digital illustration of a gothic bride on an iPhone screen showcasing the Brushes 4 app layer effects

Brushes - Digital portrait of a woman in the Brushes 4 app interface on iPhone showing the color palette feature — Digital portrait of a woman in the Brushes 4 app interface on iPhone showing the color palette feature

Brushes - Smartphone screen showing customizable brush parameters and settings in the Brushes 4 app — Smartphone screen showing customizable brush parameters and settings in the Brushes 4 app

Brushes - Brushes 4 app interface on iPhone displaying a digital black and white portrait with brush adjustment sliders — Brushes 4 app interface on iPhone displaying a digital black and white portrait with brush adjustment sliders

Brushes - Brushes 4 app color picker screen featuring a hue ring saturation square and color swatches — Brushes 4 app color picker screen featuring a hue ring saturation square and color swatches

Brushes - IPhone screen displaying the Brushes 4 app with a digital forest painting and import export options — IPhone screen displaying the Brushes 4 app with a digital forest painting and import export options

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.