Brushes – iPad Edition review

Brushes was made famous when the New Yorker magazine used its iPhone app to paint a piece that was used for the cover. Steve Sprang, the creator of the Brushes app has been busy working on the iPad version of his app called Brushes – iPad Edition.

Brushes sells for $7.99 and is a powerful app for painting artwork and original drawings on your new iPad. Check out some of the art created with the Brushes app on Flickr.

Features:
– High-quality brushes (with an erase mode)
– Up to 6 Layers (768×1024): reorder, merge, and adjust transparency
– Layer Blend Modes: Normal, Multiply, Screen, Overlay, and Color
– Desktop-class color picker (including swatches)
– Extremely responsive zooming from 50% to 3200%
– Eyedropper tool
– Generous level of undo and redo
– In-app replay of your paintings
– High resolution export with Brushes Viewer on Mac OS X (http://brushesapp.com/viewer)
– Upload your paintings directly to Flickr

In related iPad app news, Layers also has an iPad app out for digital art creation.

Here are some screenshots of the iPad version of the Brushes app.

Here is a video demo of the Brushes app on the iPad

AppSafari Rating: 5/5

AppSafari review of Brushes – iPad Edition was written by Joe Seifi on April 1st, 2010 and categorized under App Store, Art, Fun, iPad apps, Productivity. Page viewed 8328 times, 2 so far today. Need help on using these apps? Please read the Help Page.