Preview: Brushes 2.1
Brushes 2.1 has been submitted to the app-store, and with Sketchbook Mobile on its heels, it’s a long anticipated update. And it’s a great one.
The most significant changes are coming with the brush panel:
Additional to the original 3 brushes you get another 8 great brush tips, some of them also alligning to the stroke direction of your finger (a behaviour already known from SBM). You can roll through the brushes on a horizontal ribbon, with every tip remembering its last used settings. Another new feature: the spacing is adjustable now which makes stippling easier e.g. The color wheel shortcut on the upper left lets you easy switch back and forth between brush and color panel now.
But the coolest new feature (at least to me) is the introduction of hot corners: tapping top right for example calls a quick brush size menu:
The other corners let you quick switch between brush/eraser, undo and redo respectively. It’s amazing how the hot corners improve your flow and thus get the interface out of your way.
Along with this new version, the Viewer gets an update to support the new brushtips, and the interface has been localized to Chinese, French, Italian, Spanisch and German.
Brushes 2.1 should hopefully appear in the app-store before christmas.
December 6th, 2009 at 03:16
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December 6th, 2009 at 03:51
That’s sounds like a great but still need a blender or dry brush
December 6th, 2009 at 19:33
Yes, it sounds wonderful but like Corliss, I still need a blender. That is why I like Inspire, which does allow smearing and combining of colours. I know you can superimpose transparent strokes to give a blended impression, but for me it just comes out streaky.
December 7th, 2009 at 05:21
Nice review… should be a solid well liked update. Love more brushes.
December 7th, 2009 at 08:29
And my holy grail is layers with blending modes.