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This button will be disabled if your painting has only one layer.. Add to Photos To add a painting to your photo album, make sure that you are in viewing mode and not painting mode.. Whe

To add a new layer, tap the + button on the right of the toolbar

Add a transparent layer.

You can also import a photo as a new layer, by tapping the album or camera buttons in the top-left corner (These buttons will be disabled if your painting already has four layers.)

To delete a layer, tap the trash button (This button will be disabled if your painting has only one layer.)

Delete the active layer.

To merge the contents of the active layer with the layer below it, tap the merge button (This button will be disabled if the bottom layer is active—there is nothing to merge it with.)

Merge the active layer with the layer below.

To fill the entire layer with a color, tap the fill button on the left side of the toolbar:

Copying and Pasting Layers

Brushes lets you copy a layer and paste it into the current painting, or into another painting

To show the Copy/Paste menu, tap on a layer and hold your finger down (If your painting already has four layers, you will be able to copy, but not paste.)

Undo and Redo

Just like painting and erasing, you can undo and redo any changes to layers

Undo Redo

Brushes provides several methods for exporting paintings You can add paintings to your photo album, email them, or directly access your gallery via a built-in web server

Add to Photos

To add a painting to your photo album, make sure that you are in viewing mode and not

painting mode If you’re painting, tap Done in the navigation bar to switch to viewing mode.

Tap the action button in the toolbar

Activate the action pop up.

In the menu that appears, tap Add to Photos:

Brushes will show this panel:

Tap the thumbnail

to rotate the

painting to the

proper orientation

before exporting.

Add the painting

to your photo album.

Cancel export.

Tap the painting thumbnail to rotate it When you’re ready, tap Export to add the painting to

your photo album

The next time you launch the built-in Photos app, the painting will appear in your album It will also get sent to your computer when you sync with iTunes or iPhoto From the Photos app, you can assign it to a contact, set it as your wallpaper, and more

NOTE: When added to your photo album, paintings are saved in the JPEG format, which uses

lossy compression Some amount of detail may be lost, and the painting may lose

transparency if it isn’t completely opaque To get the highest-quality results, use a different method to export your painting

Emailing a Painting

Emailing a painting works just like adding it to your photo album In the menu, just tap Email Painting.

Sharing with Wi-Fi

You can see the paintings in your gallery from any computer on the local Wi-Fi network, using Brushes' built-in web server

1 Start the web server.

Tap the Connect button in the Gallery:

Open the Connect panel and start the Brushes web server.

The Connect panel will appear

Enter the

displayed URL in

a web browser

to connect

directly to your

Brushes gallery.

NOTE: The URL

on your device

will likely not

match the one

displayed here.

Tap here to dismiss the Connect panel and stop sharing your gallery.

If you are not on a Wi-Fi network, the web server will not be able to start, and you will see “No Wi-Fi Connection”

2 Connect with your computer.

Make sure that your computer is on the same Wi-Fi network as your iPhone or iPod touch Open your web browser (Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer, etc.) Enter the URL exactly as it appears in the Connect panel Do not close the Connect panel

3 View your paintings.

In your web browser, click the [PNG] links to view the size paintings You can save the

full-size PNGs by dragging them out of your web browser, or right-clicking (control-clicking) on them and selecting “Save Image As…” (The exact details depend on what web browser you’re using.)

4 Download brushes files.

Brushes records all of your actions while painting and saves them in a special brushes file

Using the free Brushes Viewer application on a Mac, you can watch replays of your paintings,

generate much higher resolution images, and export movies To download your brushes files, tap the [brushes] links See the next section, Brushes Viewer , for more details.

5 Stop the web server.

When you are done accessing your paintings from your web browser, tap Done in the

Connect panel Your paintings will no longer be accessible

NOTE: Brushes will not allow your iPhone or iPod touch to sleep while the Connect panel is

open Make sure you close the panel when you are done accessing your gallery, or your

battery will be drained more quickly than usual

Brushes Viewer

Brushes Viewer is an application for Mac OS X that allows you to open the brushes files that

are created by Brushes See the Sharing with Wi-Fi section to learn how to transfer

the brushes files from your iPhone or iPod touch to your Mac.

Brushes Viewer will run on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) and higher, on both PowerPC and Intel-based Macs To download the latest version of Brushes Viewer, go to:

http://brushesapp.com/viewer

Opening brushes Files

To open a brushes file, double-click on it in the Finder or drop it on the Brushes Viewer

application icon Brushes Viewer will open the painting in a new window The viewer

generates a preview of the painting from the data in the brushes file You can drag the

preview image out of the window and drop it on another app

Replaying the Painting

The painting window displays several controls for replaying the painting

Play Click here to start

playing the painting

During replay this button

switches to Pause.

Advance one frame When

the painting is paused

(and not at the end) this

will display the next

stroke in the painting.

Advance to the final frame

Replay speed

While the painting is playing, a small triangle will move along the bottom of the preview image to indicate the progress

Rotating

If your painting should be in the “landscape” orientation—that is, wider than it is tall—simply tap

the Rotate Left or Rotate Right buttons in the toolbar, or use the menu items in the Tools

menu

Exporting an Image

Brushes Viewer can generate images with up to 6x the resolution of native iPhone paintings

(1920 x 2880) To export an image at a higher resolution, click on the Export Image button in the toolbar or choose File > Export Image…

This sheet will let you choose the export options:

Choose the export size, image format, and image quality, then click Next…

NOTE: Quality is applicable only for the JPEG format, since it uses lossy compression.

Choose a filename in the save panel, and click Save While the image is being exported you

will see a sheet indicating the progress

NOTE: Exporting at high resolution, or exporting paintings with many strokes, may take some

time

Exporting a Movie

Brushes Viewer can also generate movies from your painting Each stroke in your painting

becomes a frame in the movie To export a movie, click on the Export Movie button in the toolbar or choose File > Export Movie…

This sheet will let you choose the export options:

You can export movies at up to 3x the resolution of a native iPhone painting (960 x 1140)

Choose the export size, compression type, quality, and frame rate, then click Next…

Choose a filename in the save panel, and click Save While the movie is being exported you

will see a sheet indicating the progress

NOTE: If your painting has many strokes, exporting a movie may take some time, and the

resulting file may be quite large (depending on the settings)