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ArtRage Deluxe 2.5

Manufacturer : Smith Micro Software Inc.
In Stock : 13

List Price:	$49.99
Price:	$27.77
You Save:	$22.22 (44%)

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

Product Description

All the tools you need to draw and paint on yourcomputer

ArtRage Deluxe 2.5 gives you realistic art tools in a simple and stylishenvironment. You can start creating your own works of art right away ? justpick up the mouse and start painting! Have a photo or picture you want to use asreference? Simply load it into ArtRage Deluxe and use the tracing paper functionto get started immediately.

Each tool is designed to work like its real world counterpart. Thick paintsmears and blends, pencils and chalks smudge, and markers work just like they doin 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 andcontrol the hardness of the crayon, and much more.

Everything You Need to Get Started

Create with oils, pencils, chalk, glitter and more
Metallics to blend and mix with other media
Stencils and rulers for precise shapes and lines
Tracing paper function to get you drawing immediately from a photo or sketch
Create layers or import layers and effects from Photoshop
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

Tools of the Trade
Paint and draw with oils, brushes, pencils, rollers, pens and more. Blend andsmear paint on the canvas, and use the bristle texture of your stroke to adddepth to the image. You can even paint and blend with metallic colors that shinej

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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!

Customer Reviews

Average Rating of 4.50 out of 18 reviews

Rating :
a NO brainer!!! - Julio Caicedo, Nov 17, 2009

People....the price tag for such incredible and complete software it's just AMAZING!!!.

I'm not exagerating, Artrage Deluxe 2.5 it's a great application for both professional and amateurs alike. It give's you tons of different tools and choices that you wont even know what to choose or where to start (happened to me at the beggining).

The interface it's so simple and clever that you will want to use every color, try every canvas and every painting tool available.

It's fun for kids and a great hobbie for grownups. If you are a pro you will definetly find usage for it.

Don't be fooled by the price (wich is excellent) Artrage Deluxe 2.5 it's a complete software and will provide hours and hours of fun.

(Better results with a Digital Drawing Tablet...Wacom or Genius)Check out the image I posted for this software, please take in mind that I'm not a pro by any means....

Cheers!!!

Rating :
Love it, wonderful program - goma, Oct 28, 2009

everyone in the family loves the program! It is easy to use and very realistic. It it a nice way to introduce kids to art and to computer programs of this kind.p

Rating :
Not quite what I expected, but very usable. - David W. Williams, Oct 26, 2009

I really was looking for a vector drawing program, like Adobe Illustrator but not as expensive. When I loaded the program the interface took a little while to figure out. But no vector pen tool. This is more like a painting program than a drawing program. But I think I will put this to good use for illustration purposes.

Rating :
Incredible software! - Trevor J. Riches, Oct 22, 2009

I bought this sofware thinking that I would be able to use it for a couple of the effects and that it would be worth the price. Wow! this is absolutely incredible......the description of the product is spot on it CAN do all it is advertised to do.....at the full price of $49.99 it is a great value but at $19.99 it is a STEAL for what you can do with this software. I have ordered an additional copy for my wife......

Rating :
Stellar Software Design! - Eileen Parzek, Oct 20, 2009

This is easily the best designed, most thoughtfully executed and brilliantly coded piece of software I've ever used in a 20+ career in computer technology. That's not a compliment I give out easily - I'm a lifelong artist turned software and web designer with a background in usability and interface design. That said, Art Rage 2.5 is absolutely BRILLIANT. Nothing unnecessary is thrown in to clutter the work space, its intuitively designed the way an artist works, and its powerful, yet simple to understand. I highly recommend the tutorials, especially the series of videos, available on the Art Rage site, before you get started - I bumbled around for an evening, experimenting, and was able to do things instantly but after spending about a half hour watching the work flow, I "got it" in a whole new way and took off, creating my first painting.

Incidentally, I HAVE used Painter and this is not it. If you have used Painter, you might think this is really missing a lot. Art Rage is intended to be "prosumer" software - easy and affordable enough for anyone with an inner artistè but incredibly powerful, enough that a professional artist can have the tool kit they need to create just about anything in the digital art and painting realm. It is missing a lot of things that Painter has, which might also clutter up the interface and cause a bit of "options paralysis" - but there are ways to accomplish most things, even if its a round about way. For example, I found myself wishing there was a water color brush - a way to "just add water" - but after going to the forums, I learned that I could turn the "thinner" way up on a paint brush and make similar effects for blending the colors. The forums and gallery, I should mention since they are loaded with people you can ask questions of, who know this software much better than you will at first. And its amazing to see the potential by browsing the galleries and forums for examples of what others have done.

Art Rage, as with all digital art and design software, is merely a tool - if you don't have any eye for color or composition, its going to show in your work when you create freehand. BUT - on the consumer side of the equation, it offers amazing tracing options where you can paint over top of an existing image, semi transparent below the layer you're on, and it will chose your colors for you. You can pencil trace an image and then color it in. There are stencils galore to make it easy to draw your shapes even if you don't have a steady hand. It really is for everyone and my only two regrets in the purchase are 1) it doesn't seem to have a direct affiliate program so I can toot its greatness to the hills and make some $$ and 2) Amazon dropped the price two days after I finally purchased it. The only negative I've spotted is that there doesn't appear to be a type tool for putting words on the images, unless you create them with stencils. But I haven't searched the forum for that yet, and I know I can also export out to other apps and add text.

PS. A graphics tablet is a MUST but since you're saving hundreds from buying Painter, you can afford it ;) I am using an ancient Wacom II tablet that I bought nearly 10 years ago, which simply will not die or refuse to install on whatever computer I upgrade to - and its wonderful. But there are many to choose from. You don't need a big one - just something paper sized - and it will open up whole worlds of potential with software like this.

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