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Archive for January, 2010

If, like me, you’re a compulsive trialler of software, you’ll want to head over to Livebrush for a twiddle with their awe-inspiring painting program.

The basic version is free, but has limited export capabilities.  Having said that, the pro version is only $10 (just over £6.00) so it won’t break the bank.  What it will do, is have you saying, “But that effect would’ve taken me ages in photoshop/illustrator/etc.”

Paying the £6 allows you to export your creations as vectors (svg format), but you can also export png files of the whole image, or just selected layers.

Unbelievably, you can work in pixels or vectors and play around with layer blending modes and a plethora of settings.

There are still a few niggles – e.g. you can import new styles from the forum, but the app doesn’t remember them.  According to their forum, they’re going to fix that soon, and it’s worth remembering that it’s still early days.

I think it has massive potential, and if you’ve ever spent hours carefully drawing a floral swirl or a light-ribbon, you’ll know just what I mean when you find Livebrush will do it in 2 seconds.

Go play!

It’s an Adobe Air application, so it should work smoothly on all major operating systems.