Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2793 in Software
• Brand: Smith Micro Software Inc.
• Released on: 2008-10-17
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X
• Format: Closed-captioned
• Original language: English

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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!

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!

Customer Reviews

ArtRage Deluxe 2.5
I was disappointed when I received this boxed product because the box contained only the program disc although there was space for a printed user guide. In fact, I could have downloaded this program for less than half the price I paid for the 'boxed,' deluxe version.

Really disapointing
I was extremely disappointed with this piece of software
The tools are not easy to use and they bare to relation to the real equivalent that it promises. (For instance the pain has a horrible gungy effect)
There are also so much lacking (PC 'paint' is better) like an out-liner, filler, and the way it runs goes against common sense.

I would not recommend anyone getting this program.