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ARTRAGE STUDIO AND ARTRAGE STUDIO PRO RELEASED BY AMBIENT DESIGN
New Digital Painting Products Provide Comprehensive Tools for Home, Education, Skilled Hobbyist and Professional Artist
Auckland, New Zealand, December 17, 2009 - Ambient Design has announced that they have released ArtRage Studio and ArtRage Studio Pro. These new products in the ArtRage family contain all the tools found in the entry level ArtRage product, plus dozens of added innovations for advanced users. ArtRage Studio Pro was created for artists who require a professional toolset while ArtRage Studio was designed for artists who don’t need the high-end features. Both products include an intuitive, scalable and customizable interface, a "Canvas Puck", which allows for easy navigation on the canvas, customizable keyboard shortcuts, an auto-smoothing inking pen, watercolors, flood fill, selections, a text tool that for live text editing on layers and the bitmap "Sticker Spray" brush. Hobbyist and professional artists, animators, illustrators, scrapbookers and manga and comic creators will appreciate the software’s power and its ability to allow for seamless, artistic expression.
Customers can choose the software that best fits their needs. ArtRage Studio Pro's more advanced features include: Real color blending, sophisticated color adjustment options, PhotoShop® filter support, a customizable Sticker Spray brush and an inking pen with opacity, blending and anti-alias control. 3D programs can also make use of ArtRage Studio Pro's exported channel maps to recreate the color, volume, gloss and reflectivity of paintings in their native renderers. ArtRage Studio and ArtRage Studio Pro support Windows® 7 touch screen capabilities. Watch a video of the Sticker Spray in action here: Sticker Spray Video.
Matt Fox-Wilson, Ambient Design's creative director said, "As we were adding features, we realized that one product with a large set of features wouldn’t suit many of our users so we decided instead to create a second product aimed more at the mid-level artist. ArtRage Studio is perfect for that group of users. It's not a "lite" version, but a version tailored specifically to their needs."
Both products include the intuitive, realistic behavior of the ArtRage toolset, such as sophisticated brushes, numerous stencils, blending of artistic media on the canvas, and easy-to-use, customizable color pallets. Users have many choices of paper varieties and paper grains and paint and drawing mediums such as oils, pencils, crayons, airbrush, chalk and markers. ArtRage provides Photoshop compatible transparent layers that can be used for advanced compositions and allows photos and images to be easily recreated as paintings.
ArtRage Studio Pro beta tester, Hans Deconinck said, "Everyone will love this software. Watercolor painters, oil and acrylic painters and the comic book and manga artists too."
Pricing and Availability:
ArtRage Studio can be purchased for $40.00 (USD) and ArtRage Studio Pro for $80.00 from the ArtRage web site: www.ArtRage.com. ArtRage 2.5 Full Edition is available for $20.00 and will be upgraded in the future. Some users of ArtRage 2.x are eligible for "Switch To Studio" discounts when purchasing one of the new products.
ArtRage supports popular pen tablets from companies such as Wacom® and Adesso® that allow the artist to draw and paint with a pressure sensitive stylus. New camera based touch screens like the HP TouchSmart allow the user to finger paint or use traditional paintbrushes for a unique digital painting simulation experience. Watch a Touch Screen demo video here: Touch Screen/ArtRage Demo.
For a complete list of new features in ArtRage Studio and Studio Pro, please see: Features.
A PDF comparison chart for all three ArtRage product offerings can be found here: Comparison Chart.
A trial version of ArtRage Studio Pro can be download here: Artrage Studio Pro Demo.
For more information, or to purchase or to view the galleries, forums and tutorials, please visit the ArtRage home page: www.ArtRage.com
System Requirements:
Windows XP, Vista, or Windows 7
Mac OSX 10.4 or later with 1GHz processor (Intel/AMD or PPC G4/G5)
1024 x 768 screen size, 512MB Memory, 100MB disk free.
Languages: English, French, German, Dutch interface. English manual.
About Ambient Design Ltd.
Ambient Design is a New Zealand based software development company specializing in the design and development of creative applications and interfaces. The company was founded on a strong graphical basis after Andy Bearsley and Matt Fox-Wilson left MetaCreations Corp. in January 2000 and has grown to encompass a wide range of technologies.
Press Contact:
Daryl Wise
StreetWise PR
831-763-9313
dsw@streetwisepr.com
ArtRage Paint Software and NYC Subway Portrait Artist Featured in LA Times Front Page Story
Auckland, New Zealand, July 8, 2008. A recent front page article in the Los Angeles Times entitled "Subway Sketchers Create an Online Community" featured NYC artist, Ed Velandria and documented his use of the paint and drawing software, ArtRage.
In a graphic commentary on the intersection of technology and everyday life, Velandria uses the time he spends on his daily subway rides from Brooklyn to Manhattan to sketch portraits of other subway riders on his laptop computer with ArtRage and a digital drawing tablet.
ArtRage, by Ambient Design, allows anyone to easily paint and draw realistically. Users can use artistic tools such as oils, pencils, Crayons, airbrush, chalk and markers. There are also choices of canvas size, paper grains, stencils and layers. ArtRage is ideal for all artists including hobbyists and the education market.
Velandria loves the simplicity of ArtRage and how it allows him to capture the essence of his subjects quickly. "My ultimate goal is to really capture the soul of a person."
His subway sketching has caught the attention of other artists from around the world too. There is now an online community of "sketchers" that Velandria stays in touch with. He has about 500 subway sketches available online and his gallery has received more than 4,000 views.
More Information:
The entire LA Times story can be found here: http://tinyurl.com/artrage.
To see Ed Velandria's subway portrait gallery: http://tinyurl.com/5b9how.
For more information about ArtRage, including galleries, tutorials and user forums, please see: www.artrage.com/artrage.html.
Pricing and Availability:
ArtRage is available as a download product for $25.00.
ArtRage Deluxe, including additional content such as videos and tutorials is available at Apple Stores, Amazon and other retailers and mail order for $49.00.
About Ambient Design Ltd.
Ambient Design is a New Zealand based software development company specializing in the design and development of creative applications and interfaces. The company was founded on a strong graphical basis after Andy Bearsley and Matt Fox-Wilson left MetaCreations Corp in January 2000 and has grown to encompass a wide range of technologies.
Press Contact:
Daryl Wise
StreetWise PR
831-763-9313
dsw@streetwisepr.com
November 21, 2007 - Three Million ArtRage Downloads!
In November 2007 the total number of downloads of ArtRage Starter Edition - Ambient Design’s free natural painting application - exceeded three million copies.
Since its first release in February 2004 more than three million copies of the Starter Edition of ArtRage have been downloaded from Ambient Design’s website. ArtRage Starter Edition is now at version 2.5 and has had many updates and improvements since its first release. Schools, hobbyists and people who just like getting messy with paint have been downloading and using the Starter Edition of ArtRage.
"It was just six months ago we passed the two million download milestone, and now we’re at three million downloads of ArtRage Starter Edition. It’s exhilarating to see the quality of artworks being produced. We’ve had great feedback from people who became disillusioned with the cost and hassle of using traditional art media but have started painting again in ArtRage." - Andy Bearsley, Technical Director of Ambient Design Ltd.
ArtRage Starter Edition is a fully-featured natural painting application. It has tools which look and feel like their real-world counterpart. For example, the oil paints mix and smear like real oil paints on real canvas. They even leave bristle marks from the virtual brush in the paint strokes. It is easy to use for new users while having features and technology powerful enough for advanced users. New features in the 2.5 release include rulers, DPI support, more image import/export formats, and many other new features and enhancements.
The Starter Edition of ArtRage is free to use with no time limits. It is also has *no* adware, spyware or other malware. It is available in English, French and German languages, for Windows and as a Universal Binary for MacOSX.
Recently Ambient Design also released ArtRage 2.5 Plus Edition on CD for purchase. This is the perfect way for people to share the unique painting experience of ArtRage with friends as a gift this holiday season.
ArtRage 2.5 Starter Edition can be downloaded from this web address: http://www.artrage.com/artragedemo.html
About ArtRage.
ArtRage is a computer painting package designed to provide a natural and easy to use environment for producing art on your computer. By providing realistic tools such as oil paints and pencils, and simulating the real world dynamics of those media, ArtRage allows any user to play around with paint without the expense and mess of its real world counterpart. By providing Tracing tools, ArtRage lets any level of user produce paintings based on photographs or other existing images.
ArtRage 1 was released as a free product in 2004 and went on to win a number of online awards, followed by the first place in Microsoft’s ‘Does Your App Think In Ink’ contest for Tablet PC applications (2004).
ArtRage 2 introduces a wide range of new features and technology improvements that allow everyone from amateur hobbyists to professional artists to get deeper in to the process of painting, without losing the ease of use, sense of realism, and friendly feel that made ArtRage 1 successful.
ArtRage 2.5 introduced powerful new tools such as rulers and stencils which also work the same way as their real-world counterparts.
Visit www.artrage.com for more details.
About Ambient Design Ltd.
Ambient Design is a New Zealand based software development company specialising in the design and development of creative applications and interfaces. The company was founded on a strong graphical basis after Andy Bearsley and Matt Fox-Wilson left MetaCreations Corp in January 2000, but has grown since then to encompass a wide range of technologies.
Contact Details.
You can contact Ambient Design by post at the following address:
87 Bethells Road
Henderson
Auckland 0782
New Zealand
Or you can fax us at: +64 (9) 810-8459.
Or email us at: matt@ambientdesign.com
November 1, 2007 - ArtRage 2.5 Plus edition on CD Released!
ArtRage 2.5 Plus edition on CD was announced today by Ambient Design Ltd. This CD edition of ArtRage contains ArtRage 2.5 Full edition with additional content, tutorials, and demonstration movies. It also comes with a full color, glossy, 80 page printed manual, presented in an attractive DVD case.
'We’ve had many customers who purchased ArtRage as download-only product ask us about printed manuals and backup CDs, or whether they can give ArtRage as a gift. The ArtRage 2.5 Plus edition on CD makes the perfect gift' - Matt Fox-Wilson, Ambient Design’s Creative Director.
The ArtRage 2.5 Plus edition CD is compatible with Microsoft Windows and Apple MacOSX. It has been tested with the new edition of Apple Mac OSX (10.5, Leopard) and also 10.3 and 10.4. It is a Universal Binary so it will run on PowerPC as well as Intel processors.
For Microsoft Windows ArtRage 2.5 Plus edition is a Windows Vista Certified application, and has also been tested with Windows XP and Windows 2000.
ArtRage 2.5 Plus edition on CD is available for purchase for US$39.95 (plus postage and handling) from www.artrage.com
About ArtRage.
ArtRage is a computer painting package designed to provide a natural and easy to use environment for producing art on your computer. By providing realistic tools such as oil paints and pencils, and simulating the real world dynamics of those media, ArtRage allows any user to play around with paint without the expense and mess of its real world counterpart. By providing Tracing tools, ArtRage lets any level of user produce paintings based on photographs or other existing images. ArtRage also includes powerful real-world stencil and ruler tools for more accurate design work.
ArtRage 1 was released as a free product in 2004 and went on to win a number of online awards, followed by the first place in Microsoft’s ‘Does Your App Think In Ink’ contest for Tablet PC applications (2004).
ArtRage 2 introduces a wide range of new features and technology improvements that allow everyone from amateur hobbyists to professional artists to get deeper in to the process of painting, without losing the ease of use, sense of realism, and friendly feel that made ArtRage 1 successful. ArtRage 2 is a Windows Vista Certified application, and is also available as a Universal Binary for Mac OSX.
Since its first release in 2004 there have been over Two Million downloads of the free edition of ArtRage.
Visit http://www.artrage.com for more details.
About Ambient Design Ltd.
Ambient Design is a New Zealand based software development company specialising in the design and development of creative applications and interfaces. The company was founded on a strong graphical basis after Andy Bearsley and Matt Fox-Wilson left MetaCreations Corp in January 2000, but has grown since then to encompass a wide range of technologies.
Ambient was founded with the intention of creating a strong engineering company that would provide an output for some of the talent available in New Zealand. Since our founding we have worked for a wide range of international companies providing complete software engineering services from design to implementation.
Contact Details.
You can contact Ambient Design by post at the following address:
87 Bethells Road
Henderson
Auckland 0782
New Zealand
Or you can fax us at: +64 (9) 810-8459.
Or email us at: matt@ambientdesign.com
Ambient Design is proud to announce a major update to their natural painting application - ArtRage 2.5. This upgrade is a free update to existing purchasers of ArtRage 2. It is available for Windows, and as a Universal Binary for MacOSX.
ArtRage 2.5 is a significant upgrade to the product. It adds many important new features in a way that retains the unique look and feel of ArtRage. Among the new features in ArtRage 2.5 are the following:
- Stencils and Rulers: Mask out areas of your canvas as you paint and constrain your tools to straight lines and curves. Stencils and rulers are easy to use real-world tools that look and work the way traditional-media artists expect.
- Layer content transformations: Move, scale and rotate the content of your layers - in groups or individually.
- Import images to layers, and copy/paste layers: You can now import an image as a separate layer, then precisely position using the transformation tools. Or paste directly from the clipboard into a new layer. This allows ArtRage to work more seamlessly with other graphics applications.
- Printing resolution support (DPI): Painting files support creation and measurements in Inches, Centimetres and Millimetres, with control over printer Dots Per Inch settings. This is also retained in PSD import and export.
- Smooth Blender and Precise Pencil: Two new tool modes have been added for users after a more precise look to their work. The Precise Pencil works more like a mechanical pencil for a precise clean line. The Smooth Blender gives soft-edge subtle blending.
- Import and export more image formats: ArtRage 2.5 adds additional image formats for importing and exporting images. Support for Photoshop PSD layer groups and layer names has also been added.
- Cleaner simpler UI: Even with the addition of many new features the User Interface has been made even easier-to-use and less intrusive than previous versions of ArtRage.
- Many other features and enhancements! The complete list of new features and enhancements is available on the ArtRage.com website.
About ArtRage.
ArtRage is a computer painting package designed to provide a natural and easy to use environment for producing art on your computer. By providing realistic tools such as oil paints and pencils, and simulating the real world dynamics of those media, ArtRage allows any user to play around with paint without the expense and mess of its real world counterpart. By providing Tracing tools, ArtRage lets any level of user produce paintings based on photographs or other existing images. ArtRage also includes powerful real-world stencil and ruler tools for more accurate design work.
ArtRage 1 was released as a free product in 2004 and went on to win a number of online awards, followed by the first place in Microsoft’s ‘Does Your App Think In Ink’ contest for Tablet PC applications (2004).
ArtRage 2 introduces a wide range of new features and technology improvements that allow everyone from amateur hobbyists to professional artists to get deeper in to the process of painting, without losing the ease of use, sense of realism, and friendly feel that made ArtRage 1 successful. ArtRage 2 is a Windows Vista Certified application, and is also available as a Universal Binary for Mac OSX.
Since its first release in 2004 there have been over Two Million downloads of the free edition of ArtRage.
Visit http://www.artrage.com for more details.
About Ambient Design Ltd.
Ambient Design is a New Zealand based software development company specialising in the design and development of creative applications and interfaces. The company was founded on a strong graphical basis after Andy Bearsley and Matt Fox-Wilson left MetaCreations Corp in January 2000, but has grown since then to encompass a wide range of technologies.
Ambient was founded with the intention of creating a strong engineering company that would provide an output for some of the talent available in New Zealand. Since our founding we have worked for a wide range of international companies providing complete software engineering services from design to implementation.
Contact Details.
You can contact Ambient Design by post at the following address:
87 Bethells Road
Henderson
Auckland 0782
New Zealand
Or you can fax us at: +64 (9) 810-8459.
Or email us at: matt@ambientdesign.com
May 22, 2007 - Two Million ArtRage Downloads!
In May 2007 the total number of downloads of ArtRage - Ambient Design’s free painting application - exceeded two million copies. Since its release in February 2004 more than two million copies of the free version of ArtRage have been downloaded from Ambient Design’s website. Schools, hobbyists, artists and anyone who just wants to mess around with paint have been downloading and using ArtRage Free version. There have been several major updates to ArtRage Free since its initial release.
"This is a fantastic milestone. We’re very pleased so many people have been enjoying using ArtRage. The quality of some of the artworks we’ve seen produced in ArtRage Free version is stunning. We’ve had great feedback from people who became disillusioned with the cost and hassle of using traditional art media but have started painting again in ArtRage." - Andy Bearsley, Technical Director of Ambient Design Ltd.
ArtRage Free version is a fully-featured natural painting application. It has tools which look and feel like their real-world counterpart. For example, the oil paints mix and smear like real oil paints on real canvas. They even leave bristle marks from the virtual brush in the paint strokes. It is easy to use for new users while having features and technology powerful enough for advanced users.
The Free version of ArtRage is free to use with no time limits. It is also has no adware, spyware or other malware. It is available in English, French and German versions, for Windows and as a Universal Binary for MacOSX.
ArtRage 2 Free version can be downloaded from this web address: http://www.artrage.com/artragedemo.html
About ArtRage.
ArtRage is a computer painting package designed to provide a natural and easy to use environment for producing art on your computer. By providing realistic tools such as oil paints and pencils, and simulating the real world dynamics of those media, ArtRage allows any user to play around with paint without the expense and mess of its real world counterpart. By providing Tracing tools, ArtRage lets any level of user produce paintings based on photographs or other existing images.
ArtRage 1 was released as a free product in 2004 and went on to win a number of online awards, followed by the first place in Microsoft’s ‘Does Your App Think In Ink’ contest for Tablet PC applications (2004).
ArtRage 2 introduces a wide range of new features and technology improvements that allow everyone from amateur hobbyists to professional artists to get deeper in to the process of painting, without losing the ease of use, sense of realism, and friendly feel that made ArtRage 1 successful.
Visit www.artrage.com for more details.
About Ambient Design Ltd.
Ambient Design is a New Zealand based software development company specialising in the design and development of creative applications and interfaces. The company was founded on a strong graphical basis after Andy Bearsley and Matt Fox-Wilson left MetaCreations Corp in January 2000, but has grown since then to encompass a wide range of technologies.
Ambient was founded with the intention of creating a strong engineering company that would provide an output for some of the talent available in New Zealand. Since our founding we have worked for a wide range of international companies providing complete software engineering services from design to implementation.
Contact Details.
You can contact Ambient Design by post at the following address:
87 Bethells Road
Henderson
Auckland 0782
New Zealand
Or you can fax us at: +64 (9) 810-8459.
Or email us at: matt@ambientdesign.com
January 30, 2007 - ArtRage 2 for UltraMobile PCs (UMPC) Released!
ArtRage 2 is now available in a version specifically designed for UltraMobile PCs. This new version of Ambient Design’s stylish and natural painting application has been enhanced to make it easier to use with small form-factor portable PC devices. For the ultimate painting and sketching experience ‘on the go’ ArtRage 2 for UltraMobile PCs gives you style and ease of use.
UltraMobile PCs present two unique challenges to graphical software. Firstly the screen resolution is typically lower than a desktop or notebook computer. UMPC displays are typically around 800 x 480 pixels in size. This means there is less space to contain both the user interface as well as the working area of a project.
And secondly UltraMobile devices are commonly used with fingers as input devices meaning the user-interface elements have to be larger and easier to press. Typically UltraMobile devices are used while they’re carried in the hand rather than being placed on a level surface, so it can be more difficult to press user-interface elements even when using a stylus on the UMPC screen.
ArtRage 2 for UltraMobile PCs overcomes these challenges:
- Increased the size of small UI elements: The smallest UI elements from ArtRage 2 have either been increased in size or made their ‘clickable area’ larger in the UMPC version. This makes them easier to press with fingers or a stylus.
- Controls and panels get out of the way: Panels in ArtRage 2 get out of the way while painting. In the UMPC version they more actively minimize when not being used, and leave a more easily clicked control to bring them back.
- Panels and controls hide when ‘Enter’ is pressed: UltraMobile PCs have an ‘Enter’ button mapped to a physical button on the front of the case. When this button is pressed while using ArtRage 2 all the User Interface controls and panels hide completely. So it’s very easy to work with all the panels and controls visible with one button press, but hidden completely while you’re working. This leaves the entire display surface available for painting and sketching.
- All the features of ArtRage 2 Full version!: ArtRage 2 for UltraMobile PCs has all the tools, features and style of ArtRage 2. There has been no compromise on features!
ArtRage 2 for UltraMobile PCs is also still only US$19.95 to purchase! For more information about ArtRage 2 for UltraMobile PCs including full features, screen shots, and comparisons with other versions of ArtRage: http://www.artrage.com/artrageumpc.html.
ArtRage 2 for UltraMobile PCs is currently only available in the English language versions, for Windows XP operating systems. ArtRage 2 for UltraMobile PCs is recommended for use on small form-factor portable devices with a display resolution around 800 x 480 pixels.
About ArtRage.
ArtRage is a computer painting package designed to provide a natural and easy to use environment for producing art on your computer. By providing realistic tools such as oil paints and pencils, and simulating the real world dynamics of those media, ArtRage allows any user to play around with paint without the expense and mess of its real world counterpart. By providing Tracing tools, ArtRage lets any level of user produce paintings based on photographs or other existing images.
ArtRage 1 was released as a free product in 2004 and went on to win a number of online awards, followed by the first place in Microsoft’s ‘Does Your App Think In Ink’ contest for Tablet PC applications (2004).
ArtRage 2 introduces a wide range of new features and technology improvements that allow everyone from amateur hobbyists to professional artists to get deeper in to the process of painting, without losing the ease of use, sense of realism, and friendly feel that made ArtRage 1 successful.
ArtRage 2 is available in English, French and German versions, for both Windows and as a Universal Binary for MacOSX.
About Ambient Design Ltd.
Ambient Design is a New Zealand based software development company specialising in the design and development of creative applications and interfaces. The company was founded on a strong graphical basis after Andy Bearsley and Matt Fox-Wilson left MetaCreations Corp in January 2000, but has grown since then to encompass a wide range of technologies.
Ambient was founded with the intention of creating a strong engineering company that would provide an output for some of the talent available in New Zealand. Since our founding we have worked for a wide range of international companies providing complete software engineering services from design to implementation.
Contact Details.
You can contact Ambient Design by post at the following address:
87 Bethells Road
Henderson
Auckland 0782
New Zealand
Or you can fax us at: +64 (9) 810-8459.
Or email us at: matt@ambientdesign.com
November 9, 2006 - ArtRage Free version 2.2 Released!
Ambient Design has released an update to the Free version of ArtRage, their award-winning natural painting software. ArtRage 2.2 Free version is available for Windows XP/2K and Vista users, and a Universal Binary is available for Mac OSX users for both Intel and PowerPC. ArtRage 2.2 Free version has been released in English, French, and German language versions.
ArtRage 2.2 Free adds many new features and improvements. Here are some of the most important changes:
- Mac OS X Universal Binary: ArtRage 2.2 Free for OS X is now a Universal binary for PPC and Intel Macs. It will run on OS X version 10.3.9 or higher.
- Felt Pen Options: All the settings for the pen tool have been made available. With control over pen softness and wetness, and the ability to use the Art Pen option for opaque lighter colors the pen tool becomes a powerful artistic tool.
- Magnified Precise Cursor: The precise cursor has an option to be bigger and more visible.
- Color Sampler options: The Color Sampler tool can sample paint with lighting applied or the pure colour of the paint.
- TabletPC Numeric Entry: When entering handwritten numbers into text-entry boxes using the TabletPC input panel, the handwriting is more likely to be recognized as numerics, rather than alphabetic characters.
- PTG File Thumbnails: Your painting files are now given thumbnails in your OS. On Windows, a Shell extension (downloadable separately) gives thumbnails of ArtRage paintings inside Windows Explorer when the view mode is ‘Thumbnails’. On MacOSX a custom icon displays the painting contents in the file browsers.
- Many other features, updates and bug-fixes!
To download ArtRage 2.2 Free Edition: Go to the ArtRage Downloads Page. (http://www.ambientdesign.com/artragedemo.html). From there, you can download the Free Version directly.
ArtRage 2.2 Free version is still entirely free with no adware, no spyware, no malware of any sort. ArtRage 2.2 Free has no time limitations or any other limitations on works produced with it. ArtRage 2.2 Free version has a subset of the features of ArtRage 2.2 Full version with some features of the Full version disabled.
The following features are only available in the Full version of ArtRage 2.2:
- Layers with Blend Modes: All 23 Photoshop CS2 layer blend modes are available in layered ArtRage paintings.
- Layered PSD import/export: To help work seamlessly with other applications, ArtRage 2 Full version supports PSD import and export with layer blend modes intact. Layer transparency and visibility is supported as well as copying, moving, and merging layers.
- Additional tools: A precision Airbrush tool with tilt support for graphics tablets, Paint roller tool for blocking in large areas, Paint tube tool which works well in conjunction with the palette knife. Glitter tool gives interesting textured areas to paintings.
Additional tool settings: Some tool settings are only available in the Full version of ArtRage 2.
- Metallic paints: All tools can use metallic colours for richer effects and sparkly bits in the glitter.
- Custom Color pickers and color swatches: ArtRage 2 Full version allows artists to save sets of frequently used colours, and to define their own color pickers.
- Reference Images: You can pin as many reference images to the canvas as you like to help get details right in your paintings. The contents of reference images can be scaled and panned around to focus on areas of detail in larger references.
- More control over Canvas texture and color: With the ability to load custom canvas grains, change the roughness, add a metallic sheen to the surface, and affect the transparency of the canvas, there is much more room for artistic expression with the painting surface.
- Painting resizing and rescaling: Paintings can be resized with a high-quality scale, or the canvas can be enlarged or shrunk around the painting.
- More things than you can shake a stick at: I didn’t want to make the list too long - there are plenty of other features in the Full version to make it worth the price.
ArtRage 2.2 Full version is available to purchase for only US$19.95 from http://www.artrage.com/http://store.kagi.com/?6FGVH_LIVE&lang=en
About ArtRage.
ArtRage is a computer painting package designed to provide a natural and easy to use environment for producing art on your computer. By providing realistic tools such as oil paints and pencils, and simulating the real world dynamics of those media, ArtRage allows any user to play around with paint without the expense and mess of its real world counterpart. By providing Tracing tools, ArtRage lets any level of user produce paintings based on photographs or other existing images.
ArtRage 1 was released as a free product in 2004 and went on to win a number of online awards, followed by the first place in Microsoft’s ‘Does Your App Think In Ink’ contest for Tablet PC applications (2004).
ArtRage 2 introduces a wide range of new features and technology improvements that allow everyone from amateur hobbyists to professional artists to get deeper in to the process of painting, without losing the ease of use, sense of realism, and friendly feel that made ArtRage 1 successful.
About Ambient Design Ltd.
Ambient Design is a New Zealand based software development company specialising in the design and development of creative applications and interfaces. The company was founded on a strong graphical basis after Andy Bearsley and Matt Fox-Wilson left MetaCreations Corp in January 2000, but has grown since then to encompass a wide range of technologies.
Ambient was founded with the intention of creating a strong engineering company that would provide an output for some of the talent available in New Zealand. Since our founding we have worked for a wide range of international companies providing complete software engineering services from design to implementation.
Contact Details.
You can contact Ambient Design by post at the following address:
87 Bethells Road
Waitakere
Auckland 1008
New Zealand
Or you can fax us at: +64 (9) 810-8459.
Or email us at: matt@ambientdesign.com
October 12, 2006 - ArtRage 2.2 Released!
Ambient Design Ltd today announced the release of a new version of ArtRage, their award-winning natural painting software. ArtRage 2.2 is available for Windows XP/2K users, and a Universal Binary is available for Mac OSX users for both Intel and PowerPC. ArtRage 2.2 has been released in English, French, and German language versions.
ArtRage 2.2 adds significant new features which will appeal to high-end artists as well as hobbyist and inexperienced artists. Here are some of the most important changes:
- Mac OS X Universal Binary: ArtRage 2.2 OS X is now a Universal binary for PPC and Intel Macs. It will run on OS X version 10.3.9 or higher.
- Improved Memory Management: Memory use has been improved so that large documents with multiple layers use significantly less memory than in version 2.11.
- Photoshop Layer Blend Modes: ArtRage 2.2 supports all of the blend modes in Photoshop CS2. You can access these from the Layer Blending menu in the Layers Panel. Blend modes are imported and exported with PSD format documents.
- ArtRage Auto Updater: The ArtRage Auto Updater included in version 2.2 allows quick and easy updates when a new version is released.
- Oil Thinners: The Oil tool now allows you to thin your oils significantly. Everything over 50% thinners starts to make the paint transparent to allow painting of oil glazes or gels.
- Metallic Value Control: You can now adjust the level of metallic color applied to your paint to give partially reflective or pearlescent paints.
- Glitter improvements: Glitter has other shapes available for different texturing effects. Also glitter now chooses color from tracing images for each glitter particle individually so detailed textured paintings can rapidly be created.
- Reference Image Zoom: You can now zoom and pan the contents of reference images without changing the size of the reference pinned to the canvas to focus on detail on one particular are of the reference. With multiple reference images pinned to the canvas, you can mix detail with overviews.
- PTG File Thumbnails: Your painting files are now given thumbnails in your OS. On Windows, a Shell extension gives thumbnails of ArtRage paintings inside Windows Explorer when the view mode is ‘Thumbnails’. On MacOSX a custom icon displays the painting contents in the file browsers.
- Many other features, updates and bug-fixes!
A full list of all the updates and changes in ArtRage 2.2 is available on the ArtRage website: www.artrage.com/artrageupdate.html.
The update to ArtRage 2.2 Full is available as a free upgrade to users who have purchased ArtRage 2 Full version. Existing purchasers of ArtRage can download and install the ArtRage Auto-Updater. This will automatically download and apply changes to previous versions of ArtRage Full to bring it up to the ArtRage 2.2 Full product installation. ArtRage 2.2 is also available for purchase.
About ArtRage.
ArtRage is a computer painting package designed to provide a natural and easy to use environment for producing art on your computer. By providing realistic tools such as oil paints and pencils, and simulating the real world dynamics of those media, ArtRage allows any user to play around with paint without the expense and mess of its real world counterpart. By providing Tracing tools, ArtRage lets any level of user produce paintings based on photographs or other existing images.
ArtRage 1 was released as a free product in 2004 and went on to win a number of online awards, followed by the first place in Microsoft’s ‘Does Your App Think In Ink’ contest for Tablet PC applications (2004).
ArtRage 2 introduces a wide range of new features and technology improvements that allow everyone from amateur hobbyists to professional artists to get deeper in to the process of painting, without losing the ease of use, sense of realism, and friendly feel that made ArtRage 1 successful.
About Ambient Design Ltd.
Ambient Design is a New Zealand based software development company specialising in the design and development of creative applications and interfaces. The company was founded on a strong graphical basis after Andy Bearsley and Matt Fox-Wilson left MetaCreations Corp in January 2000, but has grown since then to encompass a wide range of technologies.
Ambient was founded with the intention of creating a strong engineering company that would provide an output for some of the talent available in New Zealand. Since our founding we have worked for a wide range of international companies providing complete software engineering services from design to implementation.
Contact Details.
You can contact Ambient Design by post at the following address:
87 Bethells Road
Waitakere
Auckland 1008
New Zealand
Or you can fax us at: +64 (9) 810-8459.
Or email us at: matt@ambientdesign.com
August 9th, 2006 - New Zealand schools receive over 3000 copies of ArtRage for One Dollar.
Ambient Design Ltd has given over 3000 copies of ArtRage 2 Full version to New Zealand schools for one dollar per installed copy. ArtRage 2 Full version normally retails for around NZ$32.00, so this represents a saving of almost $100,000 to New Zealand schools.
In March 2006, Ambient Design announced the offer of their award-winning ArtRage 2 for New Zealand Schools for One Dollar in recognition of the difficulty many schools face funding the purchase of worthwhile software for students.
"We're committed to making powerful software easily accessible to New Zealand students. This will give them an introduction to the types of tools they'll be using in more expensive packages without the cost to the schools" - Andy Bearsley, Technical Director of Ambient Design Ltd.
ArtRage 2 Full version has many of the professional tools of digital artists, such as layers and Photoshop PSD support, with an easy-to-use and friendly environment for painting. It also offers tools such as glitter and thick smeary paints in addition to the more traditional painting media to make the learning and creative process more enjoyable. More information about ArtRage can be found on the web at www.artrage.com.
Teachers and software administrators for New Zealand schools should register their interest with Ambient Design by sending an Email to schools@artrage.com. Include a contact name and phone number, address of the school and number of installations required for both MacOSX and Windows (only one installation is required per computer).
About ArtRage.
ArtRage is a computer painting package designed to provide a natural and easy to use environment for producing art on your computer. By providing realistic tools such as oil paints and pencils, and simulating the real world dynamics of those media, ArtRage allows any user to play around with paint without the expense and mess of its real world counterpart. By providing Tracing tools, ArtRage lets any level of user produce paintings based on photographs or other existing images.
ArtRage 1 was released as a free product in 2004 and went on to win a number of online awards, followed by the first place in Microsoft’s ‘Does Your App Think In Ink’ contest for Tablet PC applications (2004).
ArtRage 2 introduces a wide range of new features and technology improvements that allow everyone from amateur hobbyists to professional artists to get deeper in to the process of painting, without losing the ease of use, sense of realism, and friendly feel that made ArtRage 1 successful.
About Ambient Design Ltd.
Ambient Design is a New Zealand based software development company specialising in the design and development of creative applications and interfaces. The company was founded on a strong graphical basis after Andy Bearsley and Matt Fox-Wilson left MetaCreations Corp in January 2000, but has grown since then to encompass a wide range of technologies.
Ambient was founded with the intention of creating a strong engineering company that would provide an output for some of the talent available in New Zealand. Since our founding we have worked for a wide range of international companies providing complete software engineering services from design to implementation.
Contact Details.
You can contact Ambient Design by post at the following address:
87 Bethells Road
Waitakere
Auckland 1008
New Zealand
Or you can fax us at: +64 (9) 810-8459.
Or email us at: matt@ambientdesign.com
June 23, 2006 - Ambient Design announces ArtRage 2.11 available in German Language versions.
June 23, 2006 - Ambient Design announces ArtRage 2.11 available in German Language versions.
Ambient Design today announced German Language versions of ArtRage 2.11 are now available in for both the Microsoft Windows and the Macintosh OSX computing platforms. ArtRage is Ambient Design’s award-winning natural painting software. In addition to the German Language Full-featured version retailing at US$19.95, Ambient Design has also announced a German Language translation of the free version of ArtRage 2.11. The free version is available for download from Ambient Design’s website at no cost.
"ArtRage has proven to be very popular in Europe. We’re pleased to offer more language choices to increase the accessibility of ArtRage 2", said Andy Bearsley, Technical Director of Ambient Design Ltd.
The German Language version of ArtRage 2.11 joins the English and French language versions available for purchase from Ambient Design’s webpage: www.artrage.com/artrage.html
About ArtRage.
ArtRage is a computer painting package designed to provide a natural and easy to use environment for producing art on your computer. By providing realistic tools such as oil paints and pencils, and simulating the real world dynamics of those media, ArtRage allows any user to play around with paint without the expense and mess of its real world counterpart. By providing Tracing tools, ArtRage lets any level of user produce paintings based on photographs or other existing images.
ArtRage 1 was released as a free product in 2004 and went on to win a number of online awards, followed by the first place in Microsoft’s ‘Does Your App Think In Ink’ contest for Tablet PC applications (2004).
ArtRage 2 introduces a wide range of new features and technology improvements that allow everyone from amateur hobbyists to professional artists to get deeper in to the process of painting, without losing the ease of use, sense of realism, and friendly feel that made ArtRage 1 successful.
About Ambient Design Ltd.
Ambient Design is a New Zealand based software development company specialising in the design and development of creative applications and interfaces. The company was founded on a strong graphical basis after Andy Bearsley and Matt Fox-Wilson left MetaCreations Corp in January 2000, but has grown since then to encompass a wide range of technologies.
Ambient was founded with the intention of creating a strong engineering company that would provide an output for some of the talent available in New Zealand. Since our founding we have worked for a wide range of international companies providing complete software engineering services from design to implementation.
Contact Details.
You can contact Ambient Design by post at the following address:
87 Bethells Road
Waitakere
Auckland 1008
New Zealand
Or you can fax us at: +64 (9) 810-8459.
Or email us at: matt@ambientdesign.com
April 8, 2006 - Ambient Design begins rollout of ArtRage 2 for New Zealand Schools for One Dollar.
Ambient Design Ltd has begun its rollout of ArtRage 2 for New Zealand Schools for NZ$1.00 (one dollar). This week around 1500 copies of ArtRage 2 Full Version were sent to schools around New Zealand as part of the ongoing rollout.
In March, Ambient Design announced the offer of their award winning ArtRage 2 for New Zealand Schools for One Dollar in recognition of the difficulty many schools face funding worthwhile software for students.
ArtRage 2 Full version has many of the professional tools of digital artists, such as layers and Photoshop PSD support, with an easy-to-use and friendly environment for painting. It also offers tools such as glitter and thick smeary paints in addition to the more traditional painting media to make the learning and creative process more enjoyable. More information about ArtRage can be found at www.artrage.com
Teachers and software administrators for New Zealand schools should register their interest with Ambient Design by sending an Email to schools@artrage.com. Include a contact name and phone number, address of the school and number of installations required (for both MacOSX and Windows ( one installation is required per computer).
About ArtRage.
ArtRage is a computer painting package designed to provide a natural and easy to use environment for producing art on your computer. By providing realistic tools such as oil paints and pencils, and simulating the real world dynamics of those media, ArtRage allows any user to play around with paint without the expense and mess of its real world counterpart. By providing Tracing tools, ArtRage lets any level of user produce paintings based on photographs or other existing images.
ArtRage 1 was released as a free product in 2004 and went on to win a number of online awards, followed by the first place in Microsoft’s ‘Does Your App Think In Ink’ contest for Tablet PC applications (2004).
ArtRage 2 introduces a wide range of new features and technology improvements that allow everyone from amateur hobbyists to professional artists to get deeper in to the process of painting, without losing the ease of use, sense of realism, and friendly feel that made ArtRage 1 successful.
About Ambient Design Ltd.
Ambient Design is a New Zealand based software development company specialising in the design and development of creative applications and interfaces. The company was founded on a strong graphical basis after Andy Bearsley and Matt Fox-Wilson left MetaCreations Corp in January 2000, but has grown since then to encompass a wide range of technologies.
Ambient was founded with the intention of creating a strong engineering company that would provide an output for some of the talent available in New Zealand. Since our founding we have worked for a wide range of international companies providing complete software engineering services from design to implementation.
Contact Details.
You can contact Ambient Design by post at the following address:
87 Bethells Road
Waitakere
Auckland 1008
New Zealand
Or you can fax us at: +64 (9) 810-8459.
Or email us at: matt@ambientdesign.com
March 17, 2006 - Ambient Design Announces ArtRage 2.0 for New Zealand Schools for One Dollar.
Ambient Design Ltd is offering ArtRage 2.0 Full Version to New Zealand schools for NZ$1.00 (one dollar).
In recognition of the difficulty many schools face funding worthwhile software for students, Ambient Design Ltd is implementing a program of making their award-winning ArtRage software available to schools in New Zealand for one dollar (+GST) per installed copy. This will enable schools to give students an excellent introduction to digital painting.
ArtRage 2.0 Full version has many of the professional tools of digital artists, such as layers and Photoshop PSD support, with an easy-to-use and friendly environment for painting. It also offers tools such as glitter and thick smeary paints in addition to the more traditional painting media to make the learning and creative process more enjoyable. More information about ArtRage can be found at www.artrage.com.
Teachers and software administrators for New Zealand schools should register their interest with Ambient Design by sending an Email to schools@artrage.com. Include a contact name and phone number, address of the school and number of installations required (for both MacOSX and Windows - one installation is required per computer).
About ArtRage.
ArtRage is a computer painting package designed to provide a natural and easy to use environment for producing art on your computer. By providing realistic tools such as oil paints and pencils, and simulating the real world dynamics of those media, ArtRage allows any user to play around with paint without the expense and mess of its real world counterpart. By providing Tracing tools, ArtRage lets any level of user produce paintings based on photographs or other existing images.
ArtRage 1 was released as a free product in 2004 and went on to win a number of online awards, followed by the first place in Microsoft’s ‘Does Your App Think In Ink’ contest for Tablet PC applications (2004).
ArtRage 2 introduces a wide range of new features and technology improvements that allow everyone from amateur hobbyists to professional artists to get deeper in to the process of painting, without losing the ease of use, sense of realism, and friendly feel that made ArtRage 1 successful.
About Ambient Design Ltd.
Ambient Design is a New Zealand based software development company specialising in the design and development of creative applications and interfaces. The company was founded on a strong graphical basis after Andy Bearsley and Matt Fox-Wilson left MetaCreations Corp in January 2000, but has grown since then to encompass a wide range of technologies.
Ambient was founded with the intention of creating a strong engineering company that would provide an output for some of the talent available in New Zealand. Since our founding we have worked for a wide range of international companies providing complete software engineering services from design to implementation.
Contact Details.
You can contact Ambient Design by post at the following address:
87 Bethells Road
Waitakere
Auckland 1008
New Zealand
Or you can fax us at: +64 (9) 810-8459.
Or email us at: matt@ambientdesign.com
Jan 20th, 2006 - Ambient Design announces the release of ArtRage 2.0.
Ambient Design is pleased to announce the release of ArtRage 2.0, the update for the award winning paint package for Windows and Macintosh OS X.
ArtRage 2.0 adds tools for beginners and professionals alike. The new airbrush tool makes use of tablet tilt and pressure to allow realistic spray strokes. The paint tube and paint roller give you new ways to apply oils. The glitter tool works with the new Metallic Paint option to create sparkles on your canvas. Users can paint on multiple layers, and export or important layered Photoshop documents.
About ArtRage.
ArtRage is a computer painting package designed provide a natural and easy to use environment for producing art on your computer. By providing realistic tools such as oil paints and pencils, and simulating the real world dynamics of those media, ArtRage allows any user to play around with paint without the expense and mess of its real world counterpart. By providing Tracing tools, ArtRage lets any level of user produce paintings based on photographs or other existing images.
ArtRage 1 was released as a free product in 2004 and went on to win a number of online awards, followed by the first place in Microsoft’s ‘Does Your App Think In Ink’ contest for Tablet PC applications (2004).
ArtRage 2 introduces a wide range of new features and technology improvements that allow everyone from amateur hobbyists to professional artists to get deeper in to the process of painting, without losing the ease of use, sense of realism, and friendly feel that made ArtRage 1 successful.
About Ambient Design Ltd.
Ambient Design is a New Zealand based software development company specialising in the design and development of creative applications and interfaces. The company was founded on a strong graphical basis after Andy Bearsley and Matt Fox-Wilson left MetaCreations Corp in January 2000, but has grown since then to encompass a wide range of technologies.
Ambient was founded with the intention of creating a strong engineering company that would provide an output for some of the talent available in New Zealand. Since our founding we have worked for a wide range of international companies providing complete software engineering services from design to implementation.
Contact Details.
You can contact Ambient Design by post at the following address:
87 Bethells Road
Waitakere
Auckland 1008
New Zealand
Or you can fax us at: +64 (9) 810-8459.
Or email us at: matt@ambientdesign.com
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