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
Thanks Freddy for the hat tip
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Posted by hongkiat in Photoshop Tutorials , at 01.29.08 |
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Comments
george January 29th, 2008
thanks for sharing
ReplyPavel Ciorici January 29th, 2008
Thank`s…. very useful tool
Replyarsenal malaysia January 29th, 2008
wow….good..
Replypenny 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/
Replyabrviewer is GPL open source, but not this one. I think this fact should be notified to the the author of the original version.
Bye
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 :-)
ReplySteve Yu January 30th, 2008
Nice to have it on my laptop :-)
Replyflorian February 6th, 2008
Hello and thanks,
ReplyIt 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.
Replygoogoo May 29th, 2008
thank you so much
ReplyLuigi 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.
ReplyThe “abrView” is not open source and claims a 2007 copyright for an original idea I had in 2005.
Thank you in advance. Best regards.
Stanford Griffith January 17th, 2009
The Java version loads on my Mac, but it ignores any folder I add to it. So, for me, the program is dead. There’s no way to contact the author to ask for help either.
ReplyStanford Griffith January 17th, 2009
I could get the Windows version to work with Parallels. Annoying to have to do that though.
ReplyChristian Fantana November 21st, 2009
wow thanks for this post, this is exactly what i was looking for! you can use ABRView on a PC as well. just download the jar file and double click on it. it actually runs a lot smoother and doesn’t crash like abrViewer. i’m on Vista 64bit.
ReplyRobert Roy December 26th, 2009
I found the java one, and works fine on my mac
ReplyI would like to have command line augments java -jar ABRView.jar -file Resourcebag.com_Watercolor.abr
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