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ArtRage Deluxe 2.5


Price: $49.99 $32.00

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Product Features

  • All the artists' tools you need to draw and paint on your computer
  • Paint with oil brushes, palette knives, airbrushes, paint rollers or paint tubes; Draw with pencils, erasers, chalk, felt pens or crayons
  • Import and export PSD files with layers and blend modes; crop, scale, move and resize any layer
  • Tracing paper function gets you drawing immediately with reference images
  • Supports multi-monitor systems and tablets

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Product Description

ArtRage Deluxe makes creating art on your computer easier than ever! Paint, blend, sketch, get creative!

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All the tools and instruction you need to draw and paint on your computer.

Get started quickly with an easy-to-use, intuitive interface. Click to enlarge.

Realistic Natural Media Painting Tools

Recreate your favorite Photos or Images. Click to enlarge.

Choose from built-in stencils and rulers or create your own. Click to enlarge.

Adjust canvas grain, color and metallic options. Click to enlarge.

ArtRage Deluxe 2.5 includes tutorials and videos to learn from. Click to enlarge.

Easy-to-Use Painting Tools
ArtRage Deluxe gives you realistic art tools in a simple and stylish environment. Have a photo or picture you want to use as reference? Simply load it into ArtRage Deluxe and use the tracing paper function to get started immediately.

  • Paint with oil brushes, palette knives, airbrushes, paint rollers or paint tubes
  • Draw with pencils, erasers, chalk, felt pens or crayons
  • Create special effects with metallics and glitter
  • Use the color sampler to customize your palette
  • Use included images or load your own photos for tracing and reference
  • Convert photos to paint on a layer and create your own custom oil paintings
  • Import and export PSD files with layers and blend modes
  • Choose from built in stencils or create your own
  • Expand your artistic skills with instructional videos and tutorials
  • Move, scale, and rotate the canvas to any angle
  • Change your canvas grain, colors and metallic effects
  • ArtRage uses your tablet's pressure and tilt support

Each tool is designed to work like its real world counterpart. Thick paint smears and blends, pencils and chalks smudge, and markers work just like they do in the real world. Many of the tools can be adjusted to give different effects.

Recreate your favorite photos or images
ArtRage makes it easy to recreate photos or other images using its paint tools. ArtRage projects the Tracing Image onto your canvas so that you can use it as a guide while you sketch and paint. Pick colors from the tracing image, zoom in and out and trace your image as loosely or tightly as you see fit. Convert your tracing image to paint and create your own custom photo oil painting. If you just want a reference while painting, you can pin an image to your canvas and scale, rotate and position it as desired.

Precise Shapes and Lines
Stencils and rulers let you make precise shapes and lines while still painting freehand. Put down as many stencils as you like, then paint over them and create unique, precise shapes. Place rulers and create straight lines or smooth curves. Add paint to a layer and quickly convert it to your own custom stencil.

Metallics
The Metallic Paint option gives you spreadable, blendable gold and silver oil paints, sparkling glitter, silver leaf sprays and more. Any tool can be switched to Metallic mode for a wide range of incredible effects. Metallic paint still smears, smudges and blends with the regular paint.

Instructional Videos, Tutorials and More
ArtRage Deluxe includes tutorials and instructional videos, reference images for tracing and stencils for painting precise shapes. You'll have the artwork and guidance you need to create amazing art quickly and easily!

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Customer Reviews


M. Staffeld Said: ArtRage Works Well ( Aug. 28th 2010 )

I bought the ArtRage Deluxe after reading a review of it in an art magazine and decided to try this product again. I had bought an earlier edition of ArtRage a few years ago and wasn't impressed but the ArtRage Deluxe has vastly improved from the earlier versions! ArtRage supplies a number of tutorial videos and help features which will help those of us new to digital art and the tutuorials are provided in a user friendly format. While the toolbars are a little touchy to use (and this may be more of an individual computer issue) they're easier to use than previous versions and there's more 'materials' to choose from. ArtRage offers a number of art tools such as paints, pencils, pastels and so forth and working with layers and different sized 'canvases' is easier to do than with some other art programs. I'd strongly recommend those looking to venture into digital art buy a copy of the ArtRage Deluxe.

Frustrated gamer Said: Great for the price ( Jul. 22nd 2010 )

Great alternative to a much more expensive Corel Painter. Deluxe is great it feel like you really painting and drawing. I might upgrade for more features in the future. But for $20 you can't go wrong. I you get good enough with it you can create anything that can be done in painter.

M. Schlecht Said: The program is excellent for art simulation. ( Jul. 22nd 2010 )

The program is excellent for art simulation.

Pros:
The program works and it works easily with my pen Hanvon Tablet. After watching the video demo, I am not kidding you can do exactly what they can do in that video in less than 10 minutes. Unlike other products you can't figure out the controls and have to read books for simple things like drawing on a screen. I was like wow this acts like real paint and pencil too? I have all my best It was even annoyingly realistic to put it blunt. Yes, it even could tell how much pressure my pen Tablet was applying and made gaps in my pencil like a real pen would do. It was relatively inexpensive and was simulating real artist materials.


CONS: (DISLIKES)
They need a smugger or graphite smudge tool, they have a PAINTERS knife for smudging unfortunately it cuts doesn't blend well.
The only export types. (JPEG)
Save for editing only in it's format.
There is something I really would like is an easier way to keep a certain set of colors from the wheel on the right. I tend to start painting then switch a color then can't get one of my old colors back. Why cause it's mixed or not exactly the same. You can use their tool the color sampler? Which doesn't look like a tool and that took me the longest to find.

Other programs to compare against: I might save you some money.

I tried Anime Studio 6 which they also make, What a waste of money. You can't draw in it well enough to make a figure to use. Which would be such a big deal if it wasn't a special picture format that no one uses far as I can tell accept them.

You have companies like Adobe taking away simple drawing abilities with their cheaper software like Adobe Elements. Don't buy the only good thing about it is the auto clipping. This is not a joke. You can't even do some basic drawing inside it anymore. Also it takes a step back making it like picture it from Microsoft where you go through wizards but worse in their design.


Becky Daniel Said: A bit hard to understand ( Jun. 4th 2010 )

I haven't used this program that much. It's probably me... it's hard to comprehend.

Sanket Khidkikar Said: Excellent product for a very reasonable price ( May. 14th 2010 )

I really like this software both for its excellent feature set, and the intuitive UI. I also tried Photoshop Elements which came with my tablet. But I'm really glad I bought this software. It allowed me to immediately start painting. Photoshop elements has many more features, but it's also designed to be a "work" application. ArtRage Deluxe feels like a "play" program, that is very easy to experiment and prototype with. And, the fact that it has fewer tools is actually an advantage for beginners in my opinion. Instead of reading help documents, you can start playing right away! I will most certainly try their pro versions once I have gotten mileage out of this one :)


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