ArtRage

 

Ambient Design Ltd.

$50

Current version: 4.5.10

http://www.artrage.com

 

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.

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