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TwistedBrush is a software that helps you paint and draw with completely natural art tools.

TwistedBrush - digital paint software with complete natural art tools. Software for artists without the complexity of other art programs. Compare us to the other "natural media" art programs.

Fine Artist Tools:
Oil paint feels thick with color.
Airbrushes feather their spray the further they are from the page.
A variety of blenders range from dry dust to wet to semi dry smudging.
Chalk and charcoal are...well...chalky.
Oil pastels mix and smear.
Soft pastels cover the page with texture and feel nice and dusty.
Oils paints with individual brush hairs that blend into the wet paint on the canvas.
The list goes on with, pencils, pens, crayons, felt markers and a collection of unusual tools.

Easy to use:
Your work is saved automatically when you turn the page or change books.
User interface designed with natural usage progression.
Preset system makes working on a piece streamlined.

Create:
Art should be a fun and creative activity. Pixarra TwistedBrsh puts the fun back in using electronic paint programs.

Incredible brush effects:
Use the random brush generation feature to create an unlimited number of brushes, from subtle to completely wild. Or manually create a brush with multiple levels of brush effects that act like a graphic synthesiser.

Photographic filters:
Over 50 filters to quickly enhance your original artwork of photos.

Picture Cloning:
A full cloning ArtSet with 60 brushes to turn any photo into a work of art.

ArtSets:
100's of preset brushes grouped into ArtSets covering traditional media such as pastels or colored pencils, specialized tools like masking, themes like the Landscape or SpaceScape ArtSets or one of the other ArtSets covering a huge range of different brushes.

Advanced Features:
TwistedBrush is easy to use, but the powerful tools are there for those inclined. Tools such as layers, masks, brush creation, scripting etc.

Features:

- Performance: Pixarra's attention to performance is a top priority. As an artist draws and paints the tools should disappear from thought and allow focus on the creative process rather than waiting for the tool to finish its job. In addition the responsiveness of the brush tools should be quick and show marks on the page instantly to allow the artist to enter the "zone".
- High Precision 64 Bit Brush Engine: Most graphic programs offer at most 32 bits of color resolution. TwistedBrush represents all image data internally at a full 64 bits of color resolution. This allows for super smooth color mixing and alpha blending.
- Brushes: TwistedBrush has hundreds of different brushes available. These range from very simple color dots to realistic representations of natural artist tools to very wild brushes
- Paper Textures: A wide variety of paper and canvas textures can be selected so that brush strokes respond with the texture as they are placed on the paper or canvas
- Filters: Over 50 filters can be used to quickly alter and adjust your image.
- Tracing Paper
- Cloners
- Masks
- Layers
- ArtSets
- Scripting
- Undo/Redo: Yes there are multiple levels of undo and redo. Up to 50 levels in fact, memory permitting.
- File Formats: Most standard image formats are supported. This Include, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, TGA, PCX, PSD, BMP, PCD, WMF and EMF.
- Sketchbook Paradigm
- Drawing Tablet Support
- Brush Effects System
- Random Brush Generation
- Photo Editing
- Free Upgrades Forever.

Requirements:

* Windows 95/98/me/2000/NT/XP/Vista
* 500mb disk space
* 512mb RAM (1gb or more recommended)

What's New:

* Enhanced - Significant reduction in the overhead for repeated script playback of the Script Brush Tool when clicking and dragging resulting in much improved performance for small scripts.
* Enhanced - Don't update the page between during script playback for the script brush. Visually less distracting and results in better performance.
* Improved - When starting the Page Explorer the currently selected page will show in the middle row rather then the top row.
* Improved - When using the Move Page actions in the Page Explorer keep the selected page visible when moving the page off the currently shown pages.
* Improved - In the Page Explorer clicking on the scroll bar (not the arrow) will page down a full page of thumbnails.
* Improved - The Space bar is now tied to the Pan tool. This is more standard with graphic software. The P key still works as well.
* Improved - Support for Netbook resolutions (1024x600). Dynamically detects this resolution and adjusts the UI.
* Changed - The Scratch Layer is now activated with the A key instead of the Space bar.
* Changed - Default the option for Full Intensity Hue slider to on. This can be altered in the Preferences dialog.
* Fixed - Right clicking and moving the mouse off the canvas when the Script Brush Tool was selected would result in the script being run when it shouldn't.
* Fixed - Script brushes (not Script Brush Tool) were not repeating properly.
* Fixed - The Bristles Size 1 brush modifier in the Art Tools - Watercolors Real Artset was inncorrect.
* Fixed - The Real Watercolor Core brush in the Art Tools - Watercolors Real ArtSet was incorrect.
* Fixed - Starting the Page Exploring with page 500 selected would result in invalid pages being shown.
* Fixed - The Page Flip and Page Rotate commands were not properly undoing. Now an undo restore point is saved for these operations.
* Fixed - Prevent brush strokes at the same time as tool actions.