ArtRage 2: natural media painting on the cheap

ArtRage 2 is a cool, inexpensive "natural media" painting program from Ambient Design. It's cross-platform, and it shows to some degree in its single window interface. The tool palettes, for example, aren't free floating windows, but rather part of the main window as you see above. Nonetheless, it has an incredible number of features for the price, offering different canvas types, painting tools, etc. For instance, you can move the "paint" around with a palette knife, and the texture of canvas affects how the pigment is laid down. All in all, it looks like a great value (and Macworld agrees) for those of us who don't need the power of something like Corel Painter X.

ArtRage 2 comes in two versions: a freeware version with fewer features, and the full version for only $20. It is available for download for both Mac and PC.

[Via Macworld]

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Andy T

I can attest to the quality of this one. For $20, it's insanely cool.

It's written by some guys who left Painter because they thought it was too bloated and hard to use...which it IS. So they set off to write something compact, but powerful.

April 23 2007 at 11:34 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

I suppose it's considered a duality, you only can choose from free/really cheap or really expensive, but that's not the case.

A previous version of Corel Painter Essentials comes with a Wacom tablet, and the tablet gives you proportional brush size depending on the pressure. It's actually a pretty nice program, and it's a Mac program. The tablet was on sale for $69.

April 23 2007 at 1:14 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply