ArtRage Deluxe 2.5
by Smith Micro Software Inc.
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Software Reviews of ArtRage Deluxe 2.5
Customer Review: a NO brainer!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
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!!!
Customer Review: Love it, wonderful program
Summary: 5 Stars
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.pCustomer Review: Not quite what I expected, but very usable.
Summary: 3 Stars
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.Customer Review: Incredible software!
Summary: 5 Stars
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......Customer Review: Stellar Software Design!
Summary: 5 Stars
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.