In the lower left you’ll find the toolkit with clear, detailed icons in the lower right, a cleverly designed color picker. It’s glossy and gorgeous, but a bit of a mixed blessing. One of ArtRage 3’s most striking characteristics is its interface, which sidelines standard gray windows in favor of clean white elements with a subtle color highlight. It’s a powerful tool, if wielded skillfully. Stickers distinguishes itself from other graphic hose tools with its advanced options, allowing you to control not just the scale and rotation of each sticker, but also variances in hue, saturation, luminosity, and shadow. You can use ArtRage 3 with a mouse, but a graphics tablet will produce the most natural results.Īrt Rage 3’s Stickers is a new tool that lets you quickly create artwork using images on a “sticker sheet.” As the tool sprays stickers onto the canvas, each sticker is mutated ever so slightly in a few strokes, you can create a detailed field of wheat or sky full of snowflakes. Tool settings let you adjust the wetness of the paint, as well as how quickly the paint thins and how much paint is on your brush. Draw a stroke of a different color across your current stroke and the paint blends together, the colors combining as they would on a real canvas.

The application also takes into account the wetness of the paint and the grain of the canvas you’ve chosen, so in the case of the watercolor brush, the paint bleeds into contours of the canvas. Each tool has been carefully crafted to match its real-world counterpart for example, a stroke with the watercolor brush is lighter in the middle and richer at the edges. Two versions of the application are available: ArtRage Studio Pro ($80, reviewed here) and ArtRage Studio ($40), a pared-down variant that lacks a number of advanced brush and tool controls.ĪrtRage 3’s toolset includes items such as oil and watercolor paint brushes, ink and felt pens, and pencil, crayon, and charcoal.

A stroke of paint can be much more than a simple swatch of color: it can have a wet gloss, a rippled surface, and seep into the canvas below it. Ambient Design brings these subtleties to ArtRage 3.0.5, a painting app that mimics the nuances of natural media such as ink, charcoal, and paint.

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