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Originally Posted by Torplexed
Ahh. I forgot my demo probably doesn't have all the options enabled. Yes, it's a pretty good program considering. I was experimenting drawing Conan with the pen and ink tools today and it does probably the best I've ever seen for digital media. It doesn't exactly make you Frank Frazzeta caliber, but not bad. I imagine if you had a Cintiq or tablet PC where you are actually looking at what your pen is doing it would be even better.
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What got me is the way they have simulated oil paint and watercolours. I know such things from early PSP9, Corel Painter, Adobe, but nowhere the interaction between canvas, brush and wet colour looked so convincing.
If you check their fourm, there is a long sub forum with works presented by their creators, gallery. Some of the really good stuff there fools you into believing it is real, really. But their creators obviously are well-skilled and technically experienced real painters indeed.
One of the videos I set up shows how they work on a tablet PC with touchscreen, like you mentioned. This kind of program, is a prime argument for considering them.
Your demo is limited in functions, but be aware there are also two demos, one for ArtRage 2.5 Starter, and one for Studio Pro. Try the latter, if you have picked the 2.5 Starter, the trial time is 30 days.
The only feature that I miss so far from PSP9 is the
separate colour palette where you not just pick colours like here, but can actually mix them with your brush and separated from the canvas, mixing them from those you put on the it, like real painters would do, too. After some time the colour palette there started to look as chaotic and mixed like a real one! But picking the colour that you want is easy and fast here, too.