ImagineFX_Issue_148_June_2017

Digital art revolution!
What sets ArtRage apart is its ability
to recreate the flow and texture of oil
paint like a malleable medium
me to use swathes of colour and
natural emotive strokes that other
painting programs don’t seem to be
able to do without the process feeling
a little unnatural.”
Every tool acts differently, all
responding to texture and blend in
different ways, so picking the Felt pen
versus an Oil brush is a much bigger
leap than choosing a different-shaped
brush. “This is the opposite of most
digital art programs,” says ArtRage’s
Price £63 – or
upgrade discount:
50 per cent from
ArtRage desktop
editions (2,3 and 4)
Available PC, Mac,
(and iPad, Android
for £4.99)
Company
Ambient Design
Reviewed Issue 147
Rating ★★★★★
Uwe Maurer with more
than a hint of pride. “Such
programs have one ‘basic’
brush and then go on to
create multiple variants
based on it, and call them all different
brushes.” What cheek, eh?
Yet it’s not just the brushes you can
experiment with. You can adjust
Thinners in the Oil brush and
Watercolour tools to achieve much
runnier paint; you can turn on
Smoothing for the Ink pen to have it
automatically smooth out a shaky
stroke; or simply adjust the Softness
and Graininess of the Pastel and Pencil
tools. We also like the way ArtRage has
embraced mobile, linking up iPad or
Android with desktops. The iPad and
Android and version 5 editions can
record script files, which can be played
back in the desktop editions to recreate
every brush stroke, and it can do so at
any resolution, which enables you to
scale your mobile paintings up to any
resolution for printing larger artworks.
Whether the additions of the latest
iteration sound interesting or not,
ArtRage remains the leading
traditional art painting program.
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