ArtRage Deluxe 2.5 | 
 enlarge | From: Smith Micro Software Inc.
Category: Software
List Price: $49.99
Buy New: $19.99
You Save: $30.00 (60%)
New (14) Used (3) from $19.98
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 444
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Mac Os X, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 1.3
MPN: ARDHBX2
Model: ARDHBX2
UPC: 717103856488
EAN: 0717103856488
ASIN: B001AEU0IW
Release Date: September 18, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| 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 gives you realistic art tools in a simple and stylish environment. You can start creating your own works of art right away - just pick up the mouse and start painting! 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. 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. You can paint with thinned oils, use wet or dry markers, soften your pencil and control the hardness of the crayon, and much more.
Everything You Need to Get Started Today: Choose and create custom colors Adjust canvas grain, color and metallic options Scale, rotate, move and crop Load and save custom color sets and color pickers ArtRage Deluxe includes tutorials and videos to learn from, reference images for tracing and stencils for painting precise shapes. You'll have the artwork and guidance you need to create amazing art!
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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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Painting without the mess September 28, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love this product. All the fun of painting without the expense of canvas and the mess of real paint. The interface is great. Very easy to use and work with. Clean up is a breeze!
Great Features with Nice Price Tag June 2, 2008
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
ArtRage is a natural media digital art software with several very nice features, some challenging those of Painter and Photoshop. The first thing that I liked was the software's graphic user interface or workspace. Given the number of features and the amount of controls to customize the tools, you would expect a complicated and intimidating GUI similar to that of Painter or Photoshop. Instead, you have an uncluttered workspace with only six panels bordering the edges. Also, as you are working, these few panels automatically disappear out of the way as your brush approaches and reappear again as you move your brush away. Other nice features are a rotating canvas and pen tablet support. ArtRage can import and export several image formats including JPEG, BMP, PNG and PSD.
Those artists who begin their artwork by blocking out the major shapes and colors in their painting will appreciate ArtRage's Tracing Image feature. This feature allows you to import a photo or sketch as a starting point for your painting. ArtRage projects the imported tracing image onto the canvas and you can control the scale and opacity of the image. For example, while tracing the outline of a rose with the Pencil tool, I set the opacity to around 80% which allowed me to see the details clearly. Later when I began to add color, I lowered to opacity to about 30% to create an "onion skin" of the trace image. For artists who like to paint from a reference image, ArtRage allows you to "pin" a reference image or images directly on to the canvas. Once the reference image is pinned to the workspace, you can reposition the image next to the area you are working on.
ArtRage has two ways to work with color; Trace Color and Normal Color. Trace Color is a feature which takes all the hard work out of choosing colors. As you paint with any of the tools, the software chooses the colors for you, based on the trace image. If you prefer to choose the colors, you can switch to the Normal Color mode and ArtRage has several color pickers including a Numeric Color Picker and the basic RGB and HSL color pickers.
With the Custom Color Picker feature, you can narrow your color choices in the color picker panel to a smaller group of colors such as complements, warm colors or cool colors. Finally, ArtRage comes with several preset Color Samples. You can even create and save your own custom color sets and color samples.
Now that we have our digital colors, we are ready to paint or draw. Each of the natural media art tools in ArtRage can simulate traditional art media including oil, pencil, palette knife, airbrush, chalk, glitter, paint roller, paint tube, felt pen, crayon and eraser. The realism and amount of custom control over the tool's properties such as wetness, pressure, hardness and angle, are surprising for the price. The natural media tools can also be used with the Metallic Paint option which gives a metallic characteristic to the media and to the canvas. In the Papers Settings Panel, you can choose a preset paper type and control several aspects of the canvas such as grain, roughness, color and opacity.
Another feature that one would expect in only high end software is layers. ArtRage's Layers panel rivals its competitors'. You can work on individual areas of your painting on separate layers. You can also copy, group and merge layers. Each layer has its own properties, such as opacity and blend modes, and can be moved, scaled and rotated. You can control the characteristics of the paper or canvas for each layer. ArtRage also supports transparency for layers, Photoshop's blending modes and has the ability to retain layer information when you import or export your artwork in PDS format.
The Stencil Picker is a very nice feature that can have many applications. The stencils and rulers work in three modes. In the Stencil mode, you can use the stencil or ruler as a mask to prevent paint from touching the canvas. In the Ruler mode, the stencils and rulers act as a combination straight edge and snap to function. As you move your paint brush along the edge of the stencil, your brush will automatically snap to the edge of the stencil giving you a nice clean edge. The Guide mode works like the Ruler mode but allows paint to spread under the stencil or ruler, giving a softer edge. ArtRage comes with a nice selection of preset stencils and rulers. You can also create and store you own.
Besides the built-in resources such as color samples, preset paper types, trace images, stencils and rulers, ArtRage comes with several video and pdf tutorials, sample paintings, quick start guide and a nice user manual.
I almost feel embarrassed to suggest additional features. But if I had a "wish list" for ArtRage it would include just a few things. For art media tools, I would like to see a watercolor brush and a drawing pen with a really fine point. As for new features, I would like to see selection tools and tooltips. Although ArtRage does have a multiple undo feature, it would be nice to have a history panel.
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