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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 98
- Date added: July 07, 2005
- Total Downloads: 152,240
- Downloads last week: 114
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 15 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Similar to Windows Paint with fewer tricks, this application is a decent piece of freeware if you're simply looking to dabble. The main program window of Brush Strokes Image Editor is an empty palette, so to speak; it's not crowded with the toolboxes often seen in design programs. Most program functions are found underneath the main menu as one-touch buttons. Though we liked this organization, it requires a bit of research to figure out which button does what (no alt-text appears when you move your cursor over a button, as is the case with other popular applications). Most traditional editing options, such as color and brightness adjustments or image rotation, are offered, yet we couldn't find an option for sharpening or cropping an image. Overall, Brush Strokes Image Editor isn't the most robust image editor out there, but as freeware it's useful if you'd rather use a tool other than a standard Windows Paint editor.Publisher's description
From PaulBirdSoft :This paint program, graphics editor, photo manipulator, and bitmap editor is called Brush Strokes and has been a year in the making. If you've used Windows Paint before, you should be able to use this program with ease--and if not, you should still be able to use it with ease. Brush Strokes has many of the features of a professional product. You can edit images in a variety of formats (GIF, JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF, PCX, BMP, TARGA, and AVI); create images for Web sites; create and view GIF animations; adjust colors; apply filters, rotations, and transformations; use magic-wand selections; use any picture as a brush or fill pattern; blur and sharpen images; use frames from videos; and capture frames from video cameras.
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- Average user rating: 2.1 stars out of 15 votes
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Brush Strokes Image Editor 1
Cons: it's just windows paint jazzed up- I was hoping it would freeze frame my .avi files like it claims to be able to, but every time I open one, the program shuts down.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: Brush Strokes Image Editor 1
"Useful and free but don't expect too much"
Pros: Brush Strokes is useful enough if you're an amateur image editor, but quite frankly, you could do the same things with paint.
Cons: Only get it if you're not serious about your image editing.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Brush Strokes Image Editor 1
Pros: This program has way more features than MSPaint. Tools include all the usual brushes plus: clone brush, blur, shade, liquify, filters, transparency, video frame capture and more. Right-clicking on each tool icon brings up a description, and most are easy to figure out. Another nice feature is that the program has a very small footprint. You just unzip to a folder and run it from there. To uninstall, just delete the folder. While this program can't be compared to Photoshop, as freeware it rocks.
Cons: There are no help files with the free version. Sometimes I get into modes I can't back out of. Without help files, I don't know if this is a glitch or just something I'm missing.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Brush Strokes Image Editor 1
Pros: It have almost all the tools you will ver need to edit and create images
Cons: This program provides many tools, but those tools are very difficult to use and for each kind of tool it opens a new tool window which leaves you with almost no space to work in the picture
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Version: Brush Strokes Image Editor 1
Pros: to do my pictures better
Cons: i havent try it yet
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