![]() It's an Auckland company, right down here in lil young New Zealand, run by a Waikato farm boy and a Britisher. Try the 30-day demos if you are interested. The prices are in US dollars – just $40 and $80 respectively, or about NZ$58 and $116. It has inbuilt colour adjustment and blur, and supports Photoshop Filters. There are two versions – ArtRage Studio is for artists who want to work with the wider range of tools Studio and Studio Pro offer but do not want the filtering and detailed editing options Studio Pro provides.ĪrtRage Studio Pro is for artists who want to be able to manipulate their images without leaving ArtRage, or work with stickers that can be edited after spraying. As soon as you realise that holding down different keys (on a Mac, Control, Command, Shift and Option) while you work gives all sorts of options, it makes everything a breeze and you'll master it in no time.įor example, hold down shift and drag ons-screen and your brush grows bigger. It's a little non-Mac to work in, but this impression only last a few minutes. You can import image files, make a new layer and paint over the top of them. It exports in the formats SCI Image, Windows BMP, JPEG, PNG, MacPaint, Tiff, Truevision TGA, JPEG 2000, QuickTime image and Photoshop. Velandria told the LA Times he loves the simplicity of ArtRage and how it allows him to capture the essence of his subjects quickly.Īpart from layers, blending, being able to replicate palette knives and 'smear' stuff and more, ArtRage has Stencils and photo-realistic 'stickers'. You can noodle with a mouse but you're really set free with a pen and tablet – and if you go wrong, you can undo, unlike with that replica Goldie oil painting you're working on in the shed. In ArtRage there are choices of canvas size, paper grains, stencils and layers, too. ![]() I'll never forget that day I sneezed on a large, airbrushed commercial. Retaining the detail on artwork while avoiding damage during the scanning process (and before that, on a lithographic camera) was a major pain in the proverbial, analogue, erm … you know what. I know this because I used to work in pre-press. If you can get a similar result directly into a computer, you not only avoid this step, you also avoid any loss in detail you may be inviting. True, and sure, those things are great, but to reproduce the products of these analogue artistic efforts you need to scan the work, as large as it may be, into a computer for it to enter the publishing chain. Conniptions are for those arty sorts who believe oils, pencils and crayons should be real oils, crayons and pencils. Now, before you have conniptions, you have to put this in context. Users can use artistic tools in 'virtual replicas' of oils, pencils, crayons, airbrush, chalk and markers. The software allows anyone to easily paint and draw realistically. Velandria uses the time he spends on daily subway rides to sketch portraits of other subway riders on his laptop computer using ArtRage with a digital drawing tablet. That may be a thing of the past – in some quarters, anyway. Once upon a time, if you were bored and had to ride the subway every day, you might find yourself surreptitiously delving into a bag or pocket for a permanent marker and before you know it, your transport is a moving canvas. It documented his use of the paint and drawing software, ArtRage. 'Subway Sketchers Create an Online Community' featured NYC artist, Ed Velandria. There was a story in 2008 on the front page article in the Los Angeles Times. A friend of mine – a clever 17-year-old who makes Flash animations, hacks his friends' phones for them and problem-solves his family's computers is a member of a 'tablet' club a group that meets online to share drawings and animations in a forum-style international community.Īpparently, this is not uncommon.
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