

(opens in new tab) Read more: 20 best iPad art apps for painting and sketching. This article originally appeared in ImagineFX issue 147. It helps you to produce fantastic, realistic-looking results, gives you a lot of customisation if you need it, and is a bargain buy to boot. They appear translucently so that you can see your painting and use your brushstrokes to more creatively clone your photos, while ArtRage's Automatic Colour selection samples the relevant colours for you.ĪrtRage 5 is straightforward to use from the outset, with a gentle learning curve. Additionally you can use your reference images to colour-pick, to make painting even faster. Im upgrading from the Surface 3 because I wanted a larger screen. Yeah, just like the Surface 3 I reviewed weeks ago, I bought mine as a secondhand unit and saved a significant amount of money. Again, this enables you to make the most of your workspace. Ive finally gotten myself a Surface Pro 4 after months of waiting. ArtRage, is one of the very good ones out the gate - from day one of the Surface Pros release in pressure support for Ink.API and WinTab along with their UI elements. Multiple Reference Images can be pinned to your screens so that you can use them as you paint, which is handy in itself, but they can be re-sized, repositioned and also zoomed into if you only need to look at one specific area. ArtRage 5 enables you to choose options such as how much paint is loaded and how well it mixesĪnother new feature in version 5 is its ability to import photos or images as both reference images and tracing images.
