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More free apps: Photo Collage maker, and Emoji Art Designer

18 February 2022

A couple of months ago I quietly launched a Comic Maker, and now I’ve added 2 more apps to the list. We have the Photo Collage Maker, and the Emoji Art Designer. Photo Collage I wanted to make something for my wife to use when she sells things online, plus...

New free app: Comic Maker

05 December 2021

As I mentioned in the newsletter recently, I have been working on a simple comic maker. This little app takes 8 images, one image for each page of the comic, and then positions them on a page so that they can be exported as a single image and then printed....

New: Erasers, Animation Sizes, and more Stickers

10 June 2021

So many new features this month, and some of them are hotly anticipated. Eraser Ever since the Brush Ninja 2 release the most commonly requested new feature has been to add an Eraser. With the switch to a vector based rendering engine I had to remove the eraser. I felt...

Now you can use Webcam images as Backgrounds

26 February 2021

This week I have added a feature nobody was asking for, but I thought would be fun. Webcam background images. The idea is that you can take photos with your webcam and then animate on top of them. This means you could draw little cartoons of people dancing on your...

Brush Ninja Newsletter

31 January 2021

I’ve wanted a way to reach the creatives who use Brush Ninja for a while, so I’ve decided to setup a newsletter. Previously I’ve had Patreon (which is great for beta stuff), Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram - but I’m only one man and I find it hard to update all...

Brush Ninja Version 2 Live!!

13 January 2021

I spent a good amount of time last year rewriting Brush Ninja to use a new graphic engine, and to add a whole stack of features. It was hard work, but it’s been well worth it and it’s now available for everyone to use! What’s new? The drawing engine is...

Custom Animation Backgrounds

28 May 2020

Update: As of January 2021 this feature is now available on Brush Ninja. There’s more help on setting custom backgrounds here. After ‘more colours’, custom background images is the most requested new feature. I’ve been asked for this a lot of times, and it’s finally coming in Brush Ninja version...

Shape Palette

13 May 2020

In Brush Ninja Classic (the current version), you can draw rectangles, circles, triangles and stars. Brush Ninja v2 allows so much more. This feature actually came about by accident. I had added the basic shape drawing functionality to Brush Ninja v2, and then wanted to add a heart shape. Which...

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