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09

TwistedBrush Pro Studio 16.11

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TwistedBrush Pro Studio v16.11| 13,4 MB

TwistedBrush – digital paint software with complete natural art tools – oils, acrylics, pastel, charcoal etc. Software for artists without the complexity of other art programs. TwistedBrush Pro Studio – creating art the way it should be, simple and fun! Simplicity without sacrifice, powerful enough for the professional artist yet simple enough for the novice. TwistedBrush Pro Studio has one of the most versatile and powerful brush engines in existence, yet it was designed from day one to be easy to use. TwistedBrush Pro Studio has more than 3,000 brushes, along with all the features that artists love to use: layers, realistic media, photo cloning, tracing, masks, particles, filters, script recording, scripts to AVI, drawing tablet support, brush shapes, patterns, textures, integrated scanner support, image brushes, drawing guides, reference image views, dirty brushes, scratch layer, dynamic palettes and a whole lot more. TwistedBrush Pro Studio runs on all versions of the Windows operating system and is designed for all realms of digital art including natural media fine art, photo retouching, photo composition, photo cloning to turn your photos into the look of hand painted artwork, mandala art, patterns, manga, even 3D like painting with the incredible blob modeling tools.

TwistedBrush Pro Studio Feature Highlights:

Workspace. The workspace in TwistedBrush is designed to reduce the number of floating windows that overlay your painting surface freeing you from the chore of constantly shuffling windows around. Over 50 brushes are right at your fingertips, along with numerous color palette options and tools that get assigned to your right button click to further streamline your artist workflow.

Sketckbook. TwistedBrush works much like a real sketchbook. When you start TwistedBrush it is like opening your sketchbook, it is immediately ready to draw or paint on your page. When you’re done with a page you turn to the the next page. You never need to manually save your work. But of course you can export your pictures to any number of the standard image formats such as JPEG, PNG, BMP, TGA, TIFF, GIF, etc.

Page Explorer. Like a unlimited supply of sketchbooks, TwistedBrush keeps your pages stored in books. Up to 500 pages per book and an unlimited number of books means you’ll never run out of paper! The Page Explorer makes it easy to view and reorganize your pages in your sketchbooks. Even assign a name to your sketch book if you like.

Select Brushes. In any digital painting program the core of the system is in the brushes. Therefore easy access to the brushes is key. In TwistedBrush there are over 2000 brushes included with more added all the time. With the brush shortcut system your favorite brushes are always ready for you.

ArtSets. ArtSets organize the brushes in TwistedBrush into groups of 60 brushes. There are a variety of types of ArtSets, from standard art tools, specialize collections, patterns brushes, cloners, photo retouching brushes, image brushes, etc.

Editing ArtSets. It is easy to create your own brushes and then store them into your own ArtSets. All the tools used by the creators of TwistedBrush to create brushes and ArtSets are included. You can even create your own collections of brushes easily by entering the ArtSet build mode and selecting brushes from other ArtSets. Then if you like, make these your shortcuts with a press of a button.

Select Colors. Color selections are plentitful with the included color palettes. Additionally you can tweak selected colors, create your own palettes, select colors from your picture, from a reference image, the scratch layer or even the trace source image. Dynamic palettes also aid in color selections, allowing you to pick from the history of colors used or hue ranges from your currently selected color.

Tools. All the tools you expect are available from the tool bar. When you have a tool selected it is activated with the right mouse (stylus) click. This means your drawing brush is always available and you never need to reselect your brush to start painting again. The tools you expect are here, eye dropper, cropping, moving, line, box, ellipse, flood fill, gradiant, masking tools, text, drawing guides, brush rotate, brush cleaner etc.

Layers. TwistedBrush includes an advanced system called Layers. With layers you can split your work into transparent layers that sit on top on each others and allow for incredible editing and adjustment options even at the end stages of your painting. A wide range of layer blending modes exist including many not available in any other painting program.

Paper Textures. Use paper textures while you draw to give the feel and look of textured paper and canvas. Over 70 different surface textures are included.

Masks. Masks are the artists masks you may be familiar with if you’ve done traditional artwork. TwistedBrush has an extensive set of masking capabilities that you’ll use to protect and manipulate areas of your work. Included is a magic wand with a number of different modes for creating your masks. Or use a common shape or one of the many masking brushes to create exactly the mask you need.

Filters. A filter allows for processing the image all at once. TwistedBrush includes the full range of image processing filters ready to use.

Tracing Paper. The tracing paper feature gives you the ability to turn your canvas into tracing paper so that you can see a reference image below it for use as a drawing guide. This is invaluable for many types of work.

Cloning. Cloning, taking image data from somewhere else and placing it into your painting, that is cloning. The source image for the TwistedBrush cloning brushes can be a different image or from another area of your current picture. The cloners can be used to render a photo as a artist drawing, or to touch-up a photo or do many things in-between.

Scripts. With scripts you can record your painting actions and play them back, recreating your painting from scratch. This has value for trying out different “what-if” scenarios, for teaching pusposes, for animation production when used with the AVI saving option or just for entertainment.

Pattern Brushes. There are a number of ArtSets that contain Pattern brushes. These brushes paint a pattern on your canvas as you paint. Adjust the size the pattern with the density slider. Categories of patterns include, surface, materials, nature and others.

Brush Shapes. Most any brush in TwistedBrush can be further enhanced with a shape.

Drawing Guides. Drawing guides are a visual aid that appears over your canvas to help you with perspective, distances, and general construction of your artwork. A large number of different drawing guides are included.

Image Brushes. Image brushes are powerful tools for both recreating the flow and feel of working with natural media but also for allowing for extraordinary painting effects. The Image Brushes : Basic ArtSet includes the brushes you need that when used in combination of captured images give you an unlimited supply of brushes.

Image Warp. When using the Image Warp tool you will be pulling, pushing, pinching, and stretching your image as if it was make of rubber or putty. These tools at the extreme case can be fun for wildly adjusting a photo as shown here. But used with more finese they are invaluble for making minor adjustments to your photos or artwork saving you countless hours or re-working in more labor intensive ways.

/ What’s new?
* Added – Auto clean toggle and clean brush action were added to the quick command panel.
* Added – New brush effect, Bristles.
* Added – Pro Watercolor Wet Base brush added to the Art Pro Watercolor ArtSet along with 10 diffusion modifiers.
* Added – Scale option added to the Texturize Bump and Texturize Bump filters.
* Added – Invert option added to the Texturize Bump and Texturize Bump filters.
* Improved – ArtSets are now grouped into 19 different categories.
* Improved – Paper selection has been completely redone. Now paper can be adjusted by scale, weight, adherence, contrast and inverted.
* Improved – Give a warning message when attempting to use a color palette creation menu on dynamic palettes.
* Improved – When a tool is selected always show the cursor with a red outline as an indicator that a tool and not the brush is selected.
* Changed – Renamed the Pro Watercolor Base brush to Pro Watercolor Dry Base.
* Changed – Art Pro Watercolor Dry Base is now listed in the default brush shortcuts.
* Fixed – Typos in the the Art Pro – Watercolor ArtSet.
* Fixed – In the Brush Effects dialog for the Blend and Color Sources there was a duplicate Blend bImage entry.
* Fixed – When using the option to Start in Page Explorer the previously selected page would be cleared.
* Fixed – When using a dynamic color palette don’t adjust the color when the cursor movement is of the palette.
* Fixed – When luminance was set at 0 or 100 the hue and saturation values were lost when switching to a new brush.
* Fixed – When using Auto Brush Cleaning off, when switching to a brush that has colors saved with it make sure the brush is cleaned in that case and the correct color is selected.

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I learned one of the most important lessons from this book. I read Chasing Cool about a month ago as it was recommended by my friend Yvonne of HeyDoYou. As I started reading I begin to think it was a composition of articles throwing out catch phases and cliches about going within to find yourself and not copying or looking at others.

It talked about avoiding trend reports. What a foolish thing I thought, how can you design relevant pieces that people will buy if it’s not on the mark or what is hot.

The more I read into the book I realize the whole book was that one theme. But something change, it was me. I started to fully understand what it means to be yourself and not care about others. I knew what it meant to be authentic, true to your brand, your vision, and who you are as a brand.

That have been an important lesson, at the end I knew who I was, what JUZD Streetwear stands for, what I have to do create and not follow. It’s a simple lesson “be authentic”, two words but for me to understand the meaning behind the two words I had to read 227 pages and it was worth it.

What we have been doing was looking at the trends and fashion reports and works of other designer. However it felt very strange, incongruent. The first JUZD collection came out and it was very well received. Even to this point people are still ordering it. Yet when we did the first collection I didn’t know anything about fashion, about trends, about reports or the shirt industry, I did it because that’s what I thought was good art.

As I am working hard on the current collection no longer do I care what others are doing or what is doing well in the stores. JUZD is not in the business of copying others or even following paths of other lines, we are in the business of creating our brand, our own direction, and our own style. It’s even better if our line doesn’t look like what’s hot out there. It means we are original, and when you create good art, those people who appreciate it will buy it.

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Red Carpet Photos from the 82nd Annual Academy Awards
held at the Kodak Theatre on March 7, 2010 in Hollywood, California.




Actor Taylor Lautner wearing Dolce & Gabbana



Zac Efron wearing Calvin Klein



Super-Producer and Director Tyler Perry



Actor Robert Downey Jr. and wife Susan Downey
(wearing Lanvin).

LOTS more pictures, fashion summary, and Oscar winners below:




Actor George Clooney and girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis


Actor Samuel L. Jackson



Chris Pine wearing a Ralph Lauren Purple Label tuxedo
and Ferragamo shoes


Woody Harrelson and wife Laura Louie
wearing a custom tuxedo, shirt, and tie by Burberry.



Ryan Reyonolds
Wearing a tuxedo, shirt, gold cufflinks,
cummerbund, bowtie, and patent leather shoes by Tom Ford.



Actor Jake Gyllenhaal
wearing a Burberry suit and Ferragamo Tramezza shoes


Actress Paula Patton and husband singer Robin Thicke
(wearing head-to-toe Burberry)



Matt Damon and wife Luciana Damonin
in head-to-toe Ferragamo




Actress Zoe Kravitz and father singer/actor Lenny Kravitz


‘Hurt Locker’ Actor Anthony Mackie in custom Burberry


Hurt Locker’s Brian Geraghty in custom Burberry


Actor Jeremy Renner wearing a 3-piece Emporio Armani

Summary: As usual the guys kept it classic in traditional tuxedos and bow-ties. Robert Downey Jr. was on of the few who stood out wearing blue-lensed wayfarers, a blue bow-tie, and Lanvin sneakers. If I had to give my choice for the most well-groomed it would probably go to Ryan Reynolds, he looked damn-near flawless and exemplified the “grooming trend” of the perfectly trimmed, light, 5 o’clock shadow.

Winners for the 2010 Academy Awards:

Best Picture: The Hurt Locker
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, ‘The Hurt Locker’
Best Actress: Sandra Bullock ‘The Blind Side’
Best Actor: Jeff Bridges,’Crazy Heart’
Best Supporting Actress: Mo’nique, ‘Precious’
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz, ‘Inglourious Basterds’


(Front L-R) Director Kathryn Bigelow, screenwriter Mark Boal and producer Greg Shapiro, and (rear L-R) actors Jeremy Renner, Brian Geraghty and Anthony Mackie accept Best Picture award for ‘The Hurt Locker’ onstage.

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