The Stroke Settings in the Custom Brush Designer This section of the Brush Designer lets you control the stroke of your custom brush. The settings here affect overall appearance of line, and there are many properties that are very similar to the way the Ink Pen works (opacity, smoothing, taper). The following settings are also […]
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The Color Settings in the Custom Brush Designer The color settings for the Custom Brush are found in the last tab of the Brush Designer, and allow you to create brushes with multiple colors that blend as you paint. The color blending does not affect paint texture, only the colors. It will use Real Color […]
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The Custom Brush Learn to create your own digital brushes or download new brushes from other artists. The Custom Brush lets you create specific digital brushes and effects that aren’t part of ArtRage’s traditional media system, but still allow you to use canvas texture and color mixing. You can edit a range of effects to […]
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Add Shadows, Glow, Emboss & Cutout with Layer Effects The Layer Effects in ArtRage 5 let you add highlights, shadows, and 3D effects to individual layers. You can customize the properties of each effect, combine them, and even load custom textures. Watch the Video! This ten minute video tutorial will demonstrate the different effects you […]
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One & Two Point Perspective The Perspective feature in ArtRage 5 lets you add one or two point perspective, and create your own customized perspective layouts. You can customize the individual lines and planes, add or remove any line or section, create complicated skyscrapers or simple landscapes. Perspective also acts as a drawing guide, helping […]
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Use Guides as Horizontal and Vertical Ruler Lines Guides allow you to easily add straight lines vertically and horizontally on your canvas as reference lines or as drawing guides in ArtRage 5. Guides are useful for planning out composition (rule of thirds, spacing, measuring across to make sure details are lined up), drawing straight lines, […]
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The Pencil Tool in ArtRage 5 The Pencil is the default sketching tool in ArtRage. Use it for drafting your composition before inking on a new layer, or for realistic graphite effects. The pencil allows you to use traditional sketching and shading techniques by adjusting the different settings, and the realistic way that the media […]
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Use the Color Sampler to Select Colors From Your Canvas The Color Sampler (found in the inside ring of the Tool Picker) lets you pick colors from the canvas. You can customise the Sampler options to get exactly the color results you need. Tip: You can hold ALT while clicking on the canvas or click […]
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Use Solid Fill to Fill Areas with a Single Color This page provides an overview of the Solid Fill (‘paint bucket’) tool, which will flood an area of canvas with a single solid color. Solid Fill is the default mode for the Fill tool, the other two modes are Gradient Fill and Pattern Fill. Border, […]
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Using Warp in ArtRage 5 to Distort and Transform Paint ArtRage 5 introduces Warp, which lets you smear, swirl, and otherwise distort your painting. It is similar to Photoshop’s Liquify filter, but specifically designed to respect ArtRage’s paint properties, so you won’t lose texture or paint depth when distorting. This means that you can make […]
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