Like most other painting software, it is usable with a mouse, but shines when used with a pen tablet or a touchscreen. The attractive price tag doesn’t hurt, either. Polaroid-like Views of your work keep the big picture in view while zooming in for detail work.ĪrtRage feels deep and capable, but remains accessible and easy to start with. The same concept is used to show pieces of scrap canvas or other files for reference. Unlike its real-world counterpart, you can also change a View’s size, and zoom in or out on its contents. Just like a physical Polaroid, you can drag the View around and rotate it. A View works like a little Polaroid snap of your painting that lies on top of your canvas while you zoom in to work on the details. ArtRage helps avoid this by offering a feature called Views. When watching videos made with SpeedyPainter, I noticed just how often artists would zoom in and out, again and again, to get a sense of how the work is progressing. When zooming in for detail work, it often helps to keep the big picture in mind. ArtRage supports layers, too, and you can blur individual layers, adjust their blend modes, change their textures, and more. Stencils and rulers are made to look like physical objects lying on top of your canvas: You can drag them around and resize them, but they look like pieces of plastic or metal. Symmetry makes it possible to create interesting, kaleidoscope-like drawings, while stencils and rulers let you constrict your work in interesting ways, for a more accurate, geometric look. Once you get used to the friendly interface and simple tools, it’s time to start playing around with some of the more creative features. Stencils and rulers make it easy to constrain your work. While most of the interface is touch-friendly, it’s not all quite there yet: Adjusting layer opacity still requires the keyboard, for example. You can pan, zoom, and rotate the canvas with two fingers, making for a very natural workflow. Other tools show up as floating panels, which are easy to drag and resize using large, comfortable grippers, and automatically wink out of existence as you paint near them. Radial toolbars at the bottom two corners of the screen let me quickly switch tools and adjust colors without fiddling with menus. I tested it with a simple stylus and one of the new breed of touchscreen-enabled laptops, the Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 13. Paint over an area again, and colors will blend, leaving visible brush strokes.ĪrtRage’s interface is simple to pick up, with most functions in easy reach. Paper and brush both have textures load your brush with paint and draw it across the canvas with one long stroke, and it will gradually fade out. Much like Corel Painter Lite and its older sibling, Corel Painter, ArtRage simulates natural media. In any event I have sent a Tech Support request to Art Rage and am hoping I get a response soon.The Symmetry feature makes for interesting paintings that sometimes look like koalas.
I was hoping someone here might have tried a similar setup. So its really strange that only some work.
#ARTRAGE TOUCH MAC#
I use it for all my Mac applications - Mail, Safari, Pages, Photoshop etc and all functions work perfectly.Īnd much of Art Rage functions with it, including about 5 of the tools. When I received it I plugged my monitor into my MacBook Air via USB and HDMI cables and was off and running. ANd it's cheaper by $1000 than a Wacom 22.
#ARTRAGE TOUCH TV#
All sizes from desktop to the large ones you see on cable TV news.
Interestingly enough there are several companies out there that make Mac Compatible touch screen monitors, I bought this one from One World Touch - great customer service by the way, They take standard monitors and add projected capacitive touch to them. I'm combining my art skills with my years in computer systems in the corporate world and see it as a brand new medium, WIth ArtRage I've recreated some of my original paintings and it is very difficult to tell the difference. Yes it is a bit unusual but I wanted to make my art with my finger and stylus to get away from the art materials I have used in my studio over the years.
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