One of the coolest features that my students love in the older ArtRage, and is still in the new version, is the ability to trace images. I just love being able to put a ruler right up to something to measure it. That was a little confusing, but once I got the hang of it it was fine. I didn’t like the pin used to move it around. You click and drag the end to resize it to your need.
The big guys better pay attention to this ruler. The palettes are fully customizable in size and position and can be hidden or shown. You now have floating palettes which many of the Adobe products and Painter use. I goes without say the new tools brings a larger tool area. All of the brushes now have presets, or brush variations, that will help you get just the right feel to your painting without struggling to get the brush just right.īesides new tools, the interface has some welcome additions as well. For example, the palette knife has a wet blender in the Pro version. The new tools are great, and even the old tools have been improved and given new features. For example, I could paint something covered in flames using the flames brush. Stickers can also be used like a brush similar to the image hose in Painter. You chose themed stickers onto your image. Stickers is a pretty cool feature and one mine students would love. This was not a bad thing, but it is nice to see ArtRage embracing the tools that make great art programs even better. You could not add text or select areas of your painting for editing for deleting or moving. In the past versions of ArtRage the experience was more of a true painting experience. Two features which are a welcome addition for me are the text tool and the selection tool. Some of the new tools include a watercolor brush, a smooth inking pen which is great for outlines and getting perfect lines, a special effects gloop pen, and stickers. It has a slicker feel, and with the new version comes more tools. ArtRage mimics real life art tools and media, and it does a fantastic job of it.ĪrtRage 3 keeps the same ArtRage interface, but improves on it. If you are familiar with Painter, Painter Essentials, or Dabbler you will be familiar with ArtRage. Find out about the different features here: įor those not familiar with ArtRage, it is a natural media painting program for the Mac (and Windows). Pro is twice the price of Studio, but it comes with a lot more features for the professional artist and is well worth the price. Just like previous updates, it keeps on improving.ĪrtRage now comes in 2 flavors: Studio and Studio Pro. Well, I am thrilled to be writing a review of the newly released ArtRage 3. It has also become a standard in my art classroom on my iMacs and my students love it. Since that time I have reviewed ArtRage 2 and ArtRage Deluxe for MyMac and each new version has made ArtRage better and better. In November of 2005 I first wrote about ArtRage.
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