Brushes Redux

Brushes Redux is a painting app designed exclusively for iOS. Rewritten from the ground up, Brushes Redux is universal — the same version runs on both your iPhone and your iPad. Move paintings between your devices and keep working wherever you go.

An accelerated OpenGL-based painting engine makes painting smooth and responsive — even with huge brush sizes. Brushes also records every step in your painting. Show off your creative process by replaying your paintings directly on your device.

General Features:

– Create paintings with dimensions up to 4096x4096

– Full support for all Retina devices

– Background autosave

– Unlimited undo and redo

– Simple and approachable interface

Painting:

– Full screen painting

– Record and replay paintings

– Ultrafast OpenGL-based painting engine

– Huge brush sizes up to 512x512 pixels

– Simulated pressure

– 64-bit painting on the latest hardware

– 14 parameterized brush shapes

– Adjustable brush settings (spacing, jitter, scatter, etc.)

– Adjustable color opacity

– Invert color and desaturate

– Flip and arbitrarily transform layers

– Adjustable color balance (iPad only)

– Adjustable hue, saturation and brightness (iPad only)

Layers:

– Create up to 10 layers

– Lock and hide layers

– Lock layer transparency

– Adjust layer opacity

– Duplicate, rearrange, and merge layers

– Change blending modes: normal, multiply, screen, exclude

Import and Export:

– Integrated with Dropbox

– Import native Brushes 3 files, JPEG, and PNG files

– Export as native Brushes 3 files, JPEG, PNG, and Photoshop files (with layers)

– Place images from your photo album into paintings

– Copy paintings to the pasteboard

Gestures:

– Zoom with two finger pinch

– Zoom in with two finger double tap

– Zoom to fit with two finger double tap

– Toggle interface visibility with a single tap (this can be changed to a two finger tap in the app settings)

– Tap and hold to access eyedropper tool

Screenshot credit: "Portrait of Ally" by John Bavaro (http://johnbavaro.com)