ArtRage
Ambient Design Ltd.
$50
Current version: 4.5.10
Features:
· Natural painting tools (oil brush, paint roller, paint tube, watercolor, airbrush)
· Sketching & drawing tools
· Special Effect tools (sticker spray, gloop pen, cloner, glitter tube)
· Stencils and rulers
· Toolbox and workbench
· Canvas presets
· Tracing images
· References, scraps, views
· Layers and blend modes
· PSD support
Observations:
Lack of pen mode continues to be the Achilles’ Heel of this otherwise very capable software. Users continue to clamor for it and the community manager is becoming downright defensive: “I’m not saying it definitely isn’t possible or won’t happen in the future – but currently, it’s close enough to impossible *for ArtRage* that we haven’t yet added it.”
Although the program claims to support gestures, I wasn’t able to get them to work on a Surface Pro 4 running Windows 10 Anniversary Update.
This is a shame because this is a very fun, capable application and despite being designed for desktop, it features one of the cleanest, touch friendliest interfaces available.