Brush Strokes Image Editor for Windows

User Reviews

• good

  punkiieMarch 21, 2008

  Pros

  to do my pictures better

  Cons

  i havent try it yet

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• crappy, crappy, crappy

  frodoyugi28July 12, 2007

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  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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• It did what I needed. Lacks tool-tips, help, not very intuitive.

  Le HibouSeptember 5, 2006

  Pros

  It converted an Open Office Draw .odg document into a.jpg file, with some tweaks, like centring the text (not automatically, though, just by shaving pixels off the sides). I could control item positioning and size down to pixel level. Although I didn't use it, I liked it's ability to skew the image to any angle (not just rotation by 90° or 180°) with no apparent loss of quality. In spite of it's faults, it did the job!

  Cons

  No tool-tips on the toolbar, so it was difficult to know what the icons meant. No help included in the download. Very important for modern web-sites: no support for UTF-8 characters, e.g. ?œ. Not at all intuitive to use: it took me an hour to make some simple edits. However, having climbed the learning curve it should be easier next time.

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• It has many useful features you wouldn't find in other free programs.

  LoboeAugust 22, 2006

  Pros

  Among very useful features, I found it excelent to edit animated gif images.

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• MS Paint on Steroids

  tommymc51August 10, 2006

  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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• Useful and free but don't expect too much

  A-KhooJuly 11, 2006

  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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• This software is mediocre at best...

  DigitalVSJJuly 11, 2006

  Pros

  Very similar to Microsoft's free Paint program that is bundled with Windows.

  Cons

  Very similar to Microsoft's free Paint program that is bundled with Windows. This program is not even worth paying for the upgraded version.

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• Its ok but I think MS Paint is better

  Sme isMay 19, 2006

  Pros

  I will have to get back to you on that

  Cons

  It isn't User friendly. It doesn't seem to be any better than paint which should already be on most or all computers. Doesn't come with unistaller

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• can't handle large files

  abz2005April 25, 2006

  Pros

  simple to use,good for non complicated tasks

  Cons

  crash when the file is too big,like scanned hiresolution pages...pity

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• Just too difficult to use

  OctavioOSeptember 12, 2005

  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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