GOMEDIAZINE (and brand new editor George Coghill) did me a big favor on July 17th and introduced me to a nifty little program called Brush Pilot, and now I would like to introduce it you. GOMEDIA hosted a contest and allowed readers download a demo and review the program.
What is Brush Pilot you ask? From the Brush Pilot website, “Brush Pilot™ is a fast and easy application for previewing Adobe® Photoshop® and Adobe Photoshop Elements Brushes (.abr), built exclusively for Mac OS X. Brush Pilot is designed to save you time by allowing you to instantly preview your brushes without having to load them into Photoshop.” The program does exactly as it says and it’s pretty darn awesome. Here is my full review from the GOMEDIA website.
First of all, I would like to say great job to Jay Hilgert the creator of the program. It makes sense that a graphic designer came up with this idea (and impressive that a graphic designer wrote an application)! There are several things to like about Brush Pilot. The first is the ease of install. As with most OS X programs it’s easy, but all Brush Pilot requires is a double click on the zip file and it’s ready to go. You can leave the program on your desktop or wherever it’s most convenient. The next great feature is how it will automagically find all of your brushes on your Mac, and it does it in very short order. I try to keep all of my resources organized, but try as I might that does not always happen. Enter the next great feature of the program, “reveal in finder”. After installing the demo, the program found 15 brush sets (I really loved) that I thought I had lost from a previous hard drive crash. If I had to choose one feature as my favorite, it would probably be the most obvious… The ability to visually browse through all of your bushes in one place. Not only is it a great time saver, but being able to actually see what a brush set looks like (and zoom in on them) without having to load it into PS first will cut down on my frustration level when looking for that “perfect brush”.
