Preview Photoshop Brushes With abrViewer

abrviewer

abrViewer is an external application that allows you to preview Photoshop brushes without going through Photoshop application. This standalone application is particularly useful for those who downloaded free brushes from the internet but have little time to go through each one every one of them. It generates a small preview the brushes so you’ll have a clue with to be loaded into Photoshop to use.

Windows Users

abrViewer for Windows requires Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1. Click here to download abrViewer.

Mac and Linux Users

To use abrView (version that works in Mac and Linux) on Mac or Linux, download the Java version from easyelements, and launch the application with the following shell command:

java -jar ABRView.jar

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george January 29th, 2008

thanks for sharing
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Pavel Ciorici January 29th, 2008

Thank`s…. very useful tool
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arsenal malaysia January 29th, 2008

wow….good..
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penny January 30th, 2008

this is not the abrviewer! it’s called abrview and it’s a lousy copy of this one http://abrviewer.sourceforge.net/
abrviewer is GPL open source, but not this one. I think this fact should be notified to the the author of the original version.
Bye
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hongkiat January 30th, 2008

If I’m not wrong, the author has stop further developing. abrView is just something for the mac and linux users. It might not be the original but at least something :-)
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Steve Yu January 30th, 2008

Nice to have it on my laptop :-)
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florian February 6th, 2008

Hello and thanks,
It looks great but can you drop a line on how to do the shell command because it doesn’t great without it of course… ;)
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hongkiat March 18th, 2008

Florain: I’ve just noticed you don’t have to use command to execute it. If Java (JAR) is installed, all you need to do is just double click.
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googoo May 29th, 2008

thank you so much
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Luigi Bellanca July 29th, 2008

I’m sorry but I have to ask you to review this article to clarify the fact that the two projects aren’t related. My original software is released since the first 2005 version OPEN SOURCE under a GPL license.
The “abrView” is not open source and claims a 2007 copyright for an original idea I had in 2005.
Thank you in advance. Best regards.
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