ArtRage is a painting package designed to provide a realistic and fun simulation of using paint on a canvas, along with pens, pencils, crayons, and other tools. ArtRage is available for both Windows and Mac OS X. It can be used with a mouse, but works better if you have a graphics tablet, or even better on a Tablet PC where ArtRage takes advantage of the unique interaction of pen and screen to produce a realistic painting feel. ArtRage is all about playing with paint without the mess, and having fun in the process. You can paint your own image from a blank canvas to completed work, or load in a picture to trace and have the tools pick their colours for you as you paint over it.
ArtRage is a unique painting software, that lets you draw on virtual canvas, using virtual drawing tools and produce a realistic (digital) painting. It provides several drawing tools, including chalk, crayon, felt pen, pencil and oil paint, as well as a virtual palette knife and different canvas style to choose from. It even comes with a virtual water glass to dip your paint brush... and can load an image of your choice to use it as virtual tracing paper for your painting. The interface is nicely designed and provides maximum work space while keeping all tools and option easily accessible. You can use ArtRage with a mouse, but it works particularly well if you have a graphics tablet, or even a TabletPC. The paintings can be saved or exported to JPG, BMP, PNG format.

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Simple, Intuitive Interface: The ArtRage interface is easy to understand and doesn?t get in the way of your work. In fact, it even gets out of the way while you?re painting...
Customisable Canvases: Change the grain, colour, and even metallic nature of your canvas at any time during your work.
Canvas Positioning: Move, Scale, and Rotate the canvas to your preferred angle.
Tablet Support: ArtRage uses your tablet?s pressure and tilt support where available.
Tool Cursors: Every tool has a cursor that tells you exactly how big the tool head is, to make it easier to see what?s going to be applied.
Multi-Monitor Support: ArtRage supports multi-monitor systems.