Artrage 5 or open canvas9/28/2023 Well, let me put it simply: it feels great! Their "classic" mode is their original one, and it's very comfortable and unobtrusive, with convenient toggle buttons for panels and their signature tool palette and color palette corners. It's nice looking, straight-forward, and feels artsy but current at the same time. Also, for dark themed UI fans, there's the "Lights Out" option, to turn UI elements dark.īut if by now you're too familiar with docking panels to try something different, there's the Docking mode as well. One other thing I have to mention is the fact that if you have a panel open over your canvas when you're painting, it disappears temporarily while you make your stroke. It's so nice to see developers actually thinking about this stuff! I love this! When you're painting in a small pen display, like the 13" Cintiq Pro I have, you need this kind of function. The first thing I always do is to just play with the brushes. It's just such a joy to open a program for the first time and have a feel for it. It's like opening new art supplies and just making random strokes with them to feel that first sparkle of newness, before you get serious and analytical. My immediate impression while carelessly testing the brushes was how good they felt right from the start. They felt painterly, with nice pressure sensitivity and blending capabilities. ![]() Sometimes I have to spend a lot of time initially tweaking the brushes in other programs. This can be, of course, a matter of taste or habits. It depends on what your preferences are, but my point is I felt ready right from the get go.Īfter I spent some time with the brushes, I wanted to play with the brush engines and their parameters. It's a great thing there's the Brush Designer, that'll let you tweak and create your own brushes. Something new in ArtRage 6 that wasn't there before is that you can add volume to your Custom Brush strokes, or use any Custom Brush as an Eraser. So that's a good addition for users of previous versions. I have to confess, I got a bit confused at times, and I figured this is because a couple of reasons. The first one is that you can use the brush designer with only some of the brush types. For the others, you can tweak the settings in the settings panel and then save them as a preset, but you can't launch the brush designer and have them appear there. Last edited by markw 01-21-2022 at 01:33 PM.Another reason is the name conventions for some of the tools and parameters differ from industry standards and that means if ArtRage is not the first painting program you ever use, you'll have to "translate" some of the names in your head, even if later on they make sense. It can be activated by going to Edit > Filters > Warp… In addition to the Transform tool there is also the Warp tool which can be used for pushing/pulling paint around. To transform all the content of any given layer you have two options ġ: In the Layers Panel, Right Click on the layer and choose Transform Layer Contents… to activate the Transform panel.Ģ: With the target layer select in the Layers Panel, click once with the Transform Tool anywhere on the Canvas. When ready, click the tick box in the bottom right corner of the Transform panel, or hit the Return key, to confirm the transformation. Use the control points of the bounding box in combination with the different options found in the Transform panel to Move, Scale, Rotate, Flip, Skew the selection. ![]() This will bring up the Transform Panel and the selected area will now have a bounding box with control points around it. If you want to move/adjust just a part of an individual Layer ġ: Make sure the correct layer is selected in the Layers Panel.Ģ: Use the Selection tool to isolate the area of the layer you wish to alter.ģ: Now switch to the Transform Tool, found in the Menu/Tool Bar at the top of the User Interface, and click once with it inside the area you selected. Hello m-lamer and welcome to the ArtRage forums
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