Afterwards, you can use Brushes Viewer, a free application for Mac OS X, to replay your painting stroke by stroke.. From the Gallery, you can choose a painting to work on, or you can cre
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User’s Guide
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Copying and Pasting Layers 22
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Opening brushes Files 28 Replaying the Painting 29
Trang 4Brushes is a painting app designed from scratch for the iPhone and iPod touch Featuring a simple yet deep interface, high-quality brushes, multiple layers, and extreme zooming, it is a powerful tool for creating original artwork, anyplace and anytime
Unlike other apps, Brushes records every brush stroke and erasure as you paint Afterwards, you can use Brushes Viewer, a free application for Mac OS X, to replay your painting stroke by stroke You can also export the painting at very high resolutions (up to 1920 x 2880), or export the replay as a QuickTime movie
This guide explains how to use Brushes and Brushes Viewer
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Trang 5The Gallery is the first thing that you see when you launch Brushes From the Gallery, you can choose a painting to work on, or you can create a new painting
The first time you open Brushes, several sample paintings are installed automatically
Import an album
photo as a
background.
Create a new painting.
Show the info panel.
Share your
gallery with your
computer.
Tap a painting
thumbnail to view
it full screen
Take a photo and use it as
a background.
The Connect button in the bottom-left corner lets you share your Brushes gallery with a web
browser on a nearby computer For more details about this feature, read the Exporting section
Trang 6When you tap a thumbnail in the Gallery, Brushes shows you the whole painting Touches on the painting will not modify your artwork, so you can show off your work without accidentally changing it
Return to
the Gallery. Start editing the painting.
Delete the current painting.
Display the action
menu Tap here to
duplicate or export
your painting. Go to the
previous painting.
Go to the next painting.
Start a slideshow.
To hide the toolbar and the navigation bar, tap once on the painting Tap again to show them again
Trang 7When viewing a painting, you can go to the previous painting by tapping the left arrow in the toolbar To go the next painting, tap the right arrow You can also move through your
paintings by swiping your finger over the painting
To start a slideshow, press the play button in the middle of the toolbar The slideshow starts with the current painting, and advances to the next one after four seconds To stop the
slideshow, just tap anywhere
Deleting a Painting
To delete a painting, tap the trash can button in the toolbar You will be asked to confirm that
you really want to delete the painting If you do, tap the red Delete Painting button,
otherwise tap Cancel
NOTE: Once a painting is deleted, there is no way to recover it.
Duplicating a Painting
Duplicating a painting is useful when you want to try some changes, but don’t want to risk destroying the original painting It can also be a handy way to reuse a background as a
starting point for a series of paintings
To duplicate a painting, tap the action button on the left side of the toolbar:
Activate the action pop up.
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Trang 9When you make a new painting in the Gallery—by tapping the New Painting button, or by
choosing or taking a photo—Brushes will automatically switch to painting mode
You can also enter painting mode by tapping the Edit button in the navigation bar when
viewing a painting
Return to
the Gallery. Tap here to stop editing
the painting and return to viewing mode.
Choose the paint color.
Show the
layers panel.
Show the brush panel. Undo. Redo. Activate the eyedropper tool.
The canvas
Drag your finger
here to paint.
To start painting, simply touch the canvas and move your finger, as though you were finger-painting Each touch becomes a brush stroke
The toolbar and navigation bar will automatically be hidden when you start painting To show them again, just tap once, anywhere on the canvas Tap again to hide them again
Trang 10Undo and Redo
To undo the most recent change to your painting, simply tap the Undo button Tap again to undo the change before that, and so on
Similarly, to redo a change, tap the Redo button
Brushes remembers as many actions as it can fit in memory, so you can usually undo many actions, but you may not be able to undo all the way back to the start of the painting In practice, this is rarely a problem
Undo Redo
Zooming and Panning
To zoom in and out, use the standard iPhone pinch gesture Touch the screen with two fingers
at once—usually the index finger and thumb Move your fingers closer together to zoom out, and farther apart to zoom in
Brushes can zoom from 70% to 1600% (and up to 3200% on the iPhone 4) While zooming, a zoom level indicator will appear at the top of the screen When the zoom level gets close to 100%, Brushes will automatically snap to 100%, making it easier to get back to normal