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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. Again, this enables you to make the most of your workspace. 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. The Stencil will change colour to show which mode it is in.Īs regards Manuals in general although AR6 dose ship with a Quick Start guide, (which you can access from the apps Menu by going to Help > ArtRage Manual), much more comprehensive help can be found on the web based Manuals: Īpart from new AR6 features the basic functionality of AR6, remains the same as in AR5 and to a lesser degree of AR4.5 too.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. Once you have activated a Stencil, to access the different Stencil modes just right click on it and from the popup menu you can choose from Stencil, Ruler or Guide.


If you do have the Full version then it should function just as in past versions of AR ArtRage 5 US79 ArtRage Lite US29.90 ArtRage for iOS US4.99 ArtRage for Android US4.99 ArtRage Oil Painter Free Free Free Trial Ratings Meets Requirements 8.8 Responses: 21 8.3 Responses: 69 Ease of Use 9.2 Responses: 21 9. If you have the Lite version then, I’m afraid no, you will not have the different stencil mode options which are only available in the full version.Ī features comparison between Lite and Full versions can be found here: Hello Susan and welcome to the ArtRage forumsįirst, to clarify do you have ArtRage6 or ArtRage6-Lite?
