Performance: Pixarra's attention to performance is a top priority.  As an artist draws and paints the tools should disappear from thought and allow focus on the creative process rather than waiting for the tool to finish its job.  In addition the responsiveness of the brush tools should be quick and show marks on the page instantly to allow the artist to enter the "zone".

High Precision 64 Bit Brush Engine: Most graphic programs offer at most 32 bits of color resolution. TwistedBrush represents all image data internally at a full 64 bits of color resolution.  This allows for super smooth color mixing and alpha blending.

Brushes: TwistedBrush has over 1500 diffferent brushes included.  These range from very simple color dots to realistic representations of natural artist tools to very wild brushes.  Here is a very small sampling of some of the brushes that are available.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.