Gloop Pen The Gloop Pen is a special effect pen that produces expanding blobs of ink on the Canvas as you use it. Each stroke of the Gloop Pen expands wetly from the nib and ‘gloops’ in to itself as you draw, and there are settings that control exactly how it looks as it gloops. […]
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Paint Roller The Paint Roller lets you paint solid block strokes of flat paint on to the Canvas. This tool is great for filling in large areas with a flat color without it looking fake, as it takes into account the texture of the Canvas and can blend colors as it applies paint to the […]
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Ink Pen (This page is from the ArtRage 4 manual) The Ink Pen is a precise, solid line pen that can be used for illustration or detailing without blending with other paint on your Canvas. The Ink Pen comes in round or chisel-tip forms and also allows you to automatically smooth your lines, removing some […]
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Airbrush The Airbrush allows you to spray a fine mist of paint. The spray coats the surface of the Canvas, tinting it without flattening any paint that was already there and without blending with any color beneath. The Airbrush has the following features: Dryness: The spray from this tool is thin and dries really quickly. […]
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Blending Blend paint texture and color with interactive natural media tools or the many modes of the palette knife. The Palette Knife is the main blending tool in ArtRage. Choose from different shapes and adjust a variety of settings to get different blending patterns and effects. The Palette Knife is a natural media tool and […]
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Palette Knife The Palette Knife provides a blending and smearing tool that takes a number of different forms to produce a variety of effects. In its simplest form, the tool is a flat bladed knife that can be used to smear around paint that has been applied to the Canvas. If you want to soften […]
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Watercolor The Watercolor tool lets you paint with a variety of watercolor styles using a soft bristled brush on wet or dry paper. Because it is a wet medium the Watercolor tool is ideal for creating subtle, blended color washes and detail. The control you have over the amount of wetness of your brush and […]
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Natural Media Painting & Drawing Tools ArtRage is primarily a natural media painting program and offers a range of realistic tools based on real world traditional media, but also offers powerful customizable digital brushes. These tools don’t just look like their real world inspirations, they act like them too. Watercolors wash away with water, oils […]
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ArtRage’s Customizable Brushes: Custom Brush & Sticker Spray ArtRage 5 offers two entirely different types of customizable brushes, the Sticker Spray and the Custom Brush. While you can create similar brushes in both tools, they have very different properties. Use the Custom Brush and the Sticker Spray to create any effect you need, whether for […]
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Blend Modes Blend Modes can be used to tell layers to interact with layers beneath them in different ways. Bump blend modes affect the bump (texture) results, and layer blend modes affect the colors of different layers. Layer Blend Modes By setting Blend Modes you can make paint darken paint below, tint it, or otherwise […]
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