TwistedBrush
- digital paint software with complete natural art tools - oils,
acrylics, pastel, charcoal etc. Software for artists without the
complexity of other art programs. TwistedBrush Pro Studio - creating art
the way it should be, simple and fun! Simplicity without sacrifice,
powerful enough for the professional artist yet simple enough for the
novice. TwistedBrush Pro Studio has one of the most versatile and
powerful brush engines in existence, yet it was designed from day one to
be easy to use. TwistedBrush Pro Studio has more than 5,000 brushes,
along with all the features that artists love to use: layers, realistic
media, photo cloning, tracing, masks, particles, filters, script
recording, scripts to AVI, drawing tablet support, brush shapes,
patterns, textures, integrated scanner support, image brushes, drawing
guides, reference image views, dirty brushes, scratch layer, dynamic
palettes and a whole lot more.
TwistedBrush Pro Studio runs on
all versions of the Windows operating system and is designed for all
realms of digital art including natural media fine art, photo
retouching, photo composition, photo cloning to turn your photos into
the look of hand painted artwork, mandala art, patterns, manga, even 3D
like painting with the incredible blob modeling tools.
TwistedBrush
Pro Studio Feature Highlights: - Workspace. The workspace in
TwistedBrush is designed to reduce the number of floating windows that
overlay your painting surface freeing you from the chore of constantly
shuffling windows around. Over 50 brushes are right at your fingertips,
along with numerous color palette options and tools that get assigned to
your right button click to further streamline your artist workflow.
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Sketckbook. TwistedBrush works much like a real sketchbook. When you
start TwistedBrush it is like opening your sketchbook, it is immediately
ready to draw or paint on your page. When you're done with a page you
turn to the the next page. You never need to manually save your work.
But of course you can export your pictures to any number of the standard
image formats such as JPEG, PNG, BMP, TGA, TIFF, GIF, etc.
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Page Explorer. Like a unlimited supply of sketchbooks, TwistedBrush
keeps your pages stored in books. Up to 500 pages per book and an
unlimited number of books means you'll never run out of paper! The Page
Explorer makes it easy to view and reorganize your pages in your
sketchbooks. Even assign a name to your sketch book if you like.
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Select Brushes. In any digital painting program the core of the system
is in the brushes. Therefore easy access to the brushes is key. In
TwistedBrush there are over 2000 brushes included with more added all
the time. With the brush shortcut system your favorite brushes are
always ready for you.
- ArtSets. ArtSets organize the brushes in
TwistedBrush into groups of 60 brushes. There are a variety of types of
ArtSets, from standard art tools, specialize collections, patterns
brushes, cloners, photo retouching brushes, image brushes, etc.
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Editing ArtSets. It is easy to create your own brushes and then store
them into your own ArtSets. All the tools used by the creators of
TwistedBrush to create brushes and ArtSets are included. You can even
create your own collections of brushes easily by entering the ArtSet
build mode and selecting brushes from other ArtSets. Then if you like,
make these your shortcuts with a press of a button.
- Select
Colors. Color selections are plentitful with the included color
palettes. Additionally you can tweak selected colors, create your own
palettes, select colors from your picture, from a reference image, the
scratch layer or even the trace source image. Dynamic palettes also aid
in color selections, allowing you to pick from the history of colors
used or hue ranges from your currently selected color.
- Tools.
All the tools you expect are available from the tool bar. When you have a
tool selected it is activated with the right mouse (stylus) click. This
means your drawing brush is always available and you never need to
reselect your brush to start painting again. The tools you expect are
here, eye dropper, cropping, moving, line, box, ellipse, flood fill,
gradiant, masking tools, text, drawing guides, brush rotate, brush
cleaner etc.
- Layers. TwistedBrush includes an advanced system
called Layers. With layers you can split your work into transparent
layers that sit on top on each others and allow for incredible editing
and adjustment options even at the end stages of your painting. A wide
range of layer blending modes exist including many not available in any
other painting program.
- Paper Textures. Use paper textures
while you draw to give the feel and look of textured paper and canvas.
Over 70 different surface textures are included. Masks. Masks are the
artists masks you may be familiar with if you've done traditional
artwork. TwistedBrush has an extensive set of masking capabilities that
you'll use to protect and manipulate areas of your work. Included is a
magic wand with a number of different modes for creating your masks. Or
use a common shape or one of the many masking brushes to create exactly
the mask you need.
- Filters. A filter allows for processing the
image all at once. TwistedBrush includes the full range of image
processing filters ready to use. Tracing Paper. The tracing paper
feature gives you the ability to turn your canvas into tracing paper so
that you can see a reference image below it for use as a drawing guide.
This is invaluable for many types of work.
- Cloning. Cloning,
taking image data from somewhere else and placing it into your painting,
that is cloning. The source image for the TwistedBrush cloning brushes
can be a different image or from another area of your current picture.
The cloners can be used to render a photo as a artist drawing, or to
touch-up a photo or do many things in-between.
- Scripts. With
scripts you can record your painting actions and play them back,
recreating your painting from scratch. This has value for trying out
different "what-if" scenarios, for teaching pusposes, for animation
production when used with the AVI saving option or just for
entertainment.
- Pattern Brushes. There are a number of ArtSets
that contain Pattern brushes. These brushes paint a pattern on your
canvas as you paint. Adjust the size the pattern with the density
slider. Categories of patterns include, surface, materials, nature and
others.
- Brush Shapes. Most any brush in TwistedBrush can be
further enhanced with a shape.
- Drawing Guides. Drawing guides
are a visual aid that appears over your canvas to help you with
perspective, distances, and general construction of your artwork. A
large number of different drawing guides are included.
- Image
Brushes. Image brushes are powerful tools for both recreating the flow
and feel of working with natural media but also for allowing for
extraordinary painting effects. The Image Brushes : Basic ArtSet
includes the brushes you need that when used in combination of captured
images give you an unlimited supply of brushes.
- Image Warp.
When using the Image Warp tool you will be pulling, pushing, pinching,
and stretching your image as if it was make of rubber or putty. These
tools at the extreme case can be fun for wildly adjusting a photo as
shown here. But used with more finese they are invaluble for making
minor adjustments to your photos or artwork saving you countless hours
or re-working in more labor intensive ways.
What's new? *
Added - Art Pro - Natural Media ArtSet added. Covers most natural media
brush with flexible brush control! * Added - Art Pro - Nu Media
ArtSet added. Beginning stages of interesting brushes. * Added - Art
Pro - Effects ArtSet added. Beginning stages of useful and flexible
effects. * Added - Art Pro - Photo Edit ArtSet added. New brushes for
photo editing! * Added - Art Pro - Plants and Trees ArtSet added.
Very early stages of this ArtSet with just one great brush so far. *
Added - Art Pro - Utility ArtSet added. The location for new utility
oriented brushes. * Added - Support for reading camera RAW files
added. Well over 100 camera models supported. * Added - Color
Contrast filter added to the Brightness and Contrast category. *
Added - Solutions Paint Style 01, Pastel Style 01 and Pastel Style 02
added. * Added - New solutions added to the Image Enhancement
category. Bright Detail Style 1 - 4, Bright Hyper Light Style 1 - 3 and
Bright Light Details Style 1 - 4. * Added - New solutions added to
the Special Effects category. Extreme Bright Detail 1 - 2. * Added - A
new solutions category Noise Reduction added with 10 new noise
reduction solutions. * Added - Auto Levels Solution added to the
Image Enhancement category. * Added - Mask High Low filter added to
the Mask Generation category of filters. * Added - A new solution
category called Channels was added with solutions for splitting and
merging an image into channels components. * Added - New brush
effects Shift Dab Up, Shift Dab Down, Shift Dab Right, Shift Dab Left,
Shift Dab Angle and Rebase Dab Pos. These are used for the new Photo
Repair brushes. * Added - Brush effects pRnd Ang Init and pRnd Pos
Init added. * Added - D Blender brush added to Duarte's Brushes
ArtSet. Thank you for the contribution! * Added - Conte Style 01
solution added to Artistic category of solutions. * Added - Colored
Pencil Style 01 solution added to Artistic category of solutions. *
Added - Brush effect Repeat added. * Added - pMove Smooth brush
effect added. * Added - pRegress brush effect added. * Added -
Brush effects, Lay Multiply, Lay Screen, Lay Darken, Lay Overlay, Lay
Hard Light, Lay Soft Light, Lay Dodge, Lay Burn, Lay Add, Lay Subtract,
Lay Color and Lay Hard Color added. * Improved - Added a pixel
isolation mode to the Mask Detail filter. * Improved - Added an Auto
Levels option to the Levels filter! * Changed - Don't remove disabled
effects from brushes when using the Optimize ArtSet feature. *
Changed - Return to using the higher quality, but slower Gaussian blur
filter. The faster one has some poor quality side effects. * Changed -
All Scatter and Jitter brush effects now result in no action when the
strength is zero. * Changed - All particle random position and angle
effects no result in no action when the strength is zero. * Changed -
All Bld Mix brush effects result in no action when the strength is
zero. * Changed - The default shortcuts have been completely updated
to include mostly Pro brushes. * Removed - The ArtSets Art Pro
Watercolor, Art Pro Soft Pastel and Art Pro Oil Pastel have been
removed. * Fixed - Using the Fixed Size Edge and Rectangle options
for the Vignette filter could result in a crash on some image sizes. *
Fixed - Using the mask wand tool off the top of the image would result
in a crash. * Fixed - When selecting brush sizes larger than 600
pixels for brushes with a texture a crash would occur. * Fixed - The
Lay Normal brush effect was not working correctly. * Fixed - The core
brush attribute Prime Primary Color was not working correctly for
dynamically sized brushes. * Fixed - A number of brushes including
Cartoon brushes were not working properly on layers. * Fixed - The
dynamic status panel was not updating when a system was not restarted
for over 21 days.
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