Pixarra rebranded its digital drawing Sketchbook program into the new TwistedBrush application and I don\u2019t like it. The program claims that it is \u201cone of the most versatile and powerful brush engines in existence packaged in into an easy to use program\u201d. TwistedBrush has over 5,000 brush styles, with all the customization choices, but I much preferred Corel\u2019s Painter. Looking up images that were created on the program, they seemed amateurish and didn\u2019t have the same \u201cfine art\u201d look I found when I searched for Painter samples.<\/p>\n

There is an upside, however. Pixarra offers a fifteen-day free trial and sells the whole package for $129, a much more affordable deal than some of the other programs available. It only works on Windows though, so if you\u2019re a die-hard Mac user and don\u2019t run Windows, you\u2019re out of luck.<\/p>\n

Pixarra also claims that TwistedBrush is a good photo editing and retouching software. Again, I think it\u2019s mediocre at best.<\/p>\n

Functionality and User Friendliness:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Although it\u2019s a standalone program, TwistedBrush has a sense of familiarity when you open it up, probably because a lot of the tools and features have been borrowed from more popular programs. But, a downside to TwistedBrush is that it seems to consume a lot of your computer\u2019s resources (read: runs slow) when compared to the other programs I\u2019ve written about and used in the past.<\/p>\n

The Bottom Line:<\/strong><\/p>\n

When reviewing the program, I skipped the \u201cfeatures\u201d section because I couldn\u2019t really find any worth writing about. If you\u2019re a Pixarra TwistedBrush user and you absolutely love this program, please tell me why. If you\u2019re looking for a program to play around with some digital drawing, have some of the \u201creal digital\u201d effects, and do some photo retouching, this is a good buy for beginners because its much cheaper than Corel Painter.<\/p>\n

Final Mentions: \u00a0
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\nThe cartoon and manga (anime) creations I saw from users of TwistedBrush were quite good. If that\u2019s what you\u2019re into, this would be a good choice for you. Definitely DON\u2019T buy this program as a photo-editing tool, there are better, less pricey applications for that. (Adobe Elements<\/a>, for example).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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