Artrage 3 drawing for mac#ĪrtRage StudioĪrtRage Studio comes in two editions: the $40 ArtRage Studio and the $80 ArtRage Studio Pro, both available for Mac and Windows. The cheaper package contains many of the tools found in the bigger package (the full comparison chart is here), but the major selling points for the Pro version are a text tool's per-character formatting, more advanced color blending, Photoshop filter support, and more color and layer options. It also boasts a cool 3D channel export feature that exports your painted image as a 3D-renderer compatible stroke: Artrage 3 drawing full# Physically displaced paint using the exported paint channels with V-Ray for Maya. Even the spot where the tube lifts from the canvas is accurately displaced. Appeal may be limited but, for those who need this effect, it's pretty awesome. In my testing, Photoshop filter support turned out to be pretty weak, with many of my filters not showing up, crashing ArtRage, or just failing altogether. I knew not to try 64-bit Photoshop CS5 filters, but older 32-bit Intel ones mostly failed as well (the India Ink plug-in was the only one I got working). The interfaceĪrtRage definitely rolls on the cuter side of interfaces. As I mentioned in the Photoshop Elements portion of my Pixelmator review, hobbyist apps sometimes look a bit kitschy for my taste. ArtRage treads this line well enough-it's cute enough to appeal to my six-year-old niece but space-efficient enough to avoid getting in my way or getting bogged down by frills. The default green highlights can be changed, but you're not going to get it looking as sleek as something like Autodesk's Sketchbook Express/Pro. The interface works well on both my 1400x900 MacBook Pro screen and my dual 1920x1200 screen Mac Pro, letting me drag palettes to separate screens outside its workspace. The larger palettes are also collapsible:įor users who won't want the cheekier effects like Stencils and Stickers, these 'Pod' modules can be disabled in the View preferences.įor working quickly, there's a shift modifier for brush size so you don't have to use the brush size widget at the bottom of the screen, or you can use the hotkeys to increase the size in increments.

You can rotate and scale the canvas with alt-right click and shift-right click. It's a bit pokey but it works well and you can quickly reset the paper scale and rotation by hitting the D key.

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