Product Comparison

Realistic Painting Tools:

• Oil Brush
• Watercolor
• Airbrush
• Palette Knife
• Paint Tube
• Paint Roller
• Watercolor
• Paint blends on the canvas to create color variations based on how much paint is on the brush and how much is on the surface.
• Paint can be set to run out over time on the brush head to create realistic fading.
• Smear thick paint to spread it out over a larger area.
• Watercolors blend together to create delicate gradations.
• Maximum tool size increased to 800%

Drawing Tools:

• Pencil
• Ink Pen
• Pastel / Crayon / Chalk
• Eraser
• Marker Pen
• Apply automatic Smoothing to Pencil and Ink Pen strokes.
• Apply automatic Tapering to Ink Pen strokes.

Utility Tools:

• Flood Fill
• Color Sampler
• Cloner
• Text Tool
• Selection Tool
• Fill with solid color, gradients, or patterns.
• Edit gradients with a powerful designer tool.
• Sample colors at exact points, or from an area around the sampler.
• Apply text in different fonts and formats.
• Create selections in Circle, Rectangle, Polygon, Freehand, and Painted modes.
• Build selections using Add, Subtract, Difference, and Exclusion apply modes.
• Improved gap-tolerance on Fill tool – faster and more reliable.
• Selection tool has gap-tolerance on Wand fill. Ignore small gaps in your Wand selection areas.
• Gradient and Texture Fills can fill to extents of paint borders rather than just selection areas.

Special Effect Tools:

• Glitter Tube
• Gloop Pen
• Sticker Spray
• Choose the shape and color behavior of sprinkles from the Glitter Tube.
• Create textured surfaces by sprinkling glitter repeatedly in a single area.
• Spray images on to the canvas from a Sticker Sheet based on a wide range of control parameters.
• Move, rotate, scale, and delete every sticker independently if required to adjust the result of a spray.
• Create wet blending strokes with a variety of blend properties using the Gloop Tool.

Custom Brush Tool:

• Create your own custom tools with a wide variety of options.
• Choose from options to control the shape, stroke properties, color, and depth of the paint.
• Assign your own image brush heads and texture images then control how they move and scale with the stroke.
• Adjust the shape of the stroke with smoothing, jitter, and other properties.
• Control how color is picked up and blended by the brush head.
• Assign depth to the paint to create thick strokes of any shape.
• Use any Custom Brush shape as an Eraser tool.
• Store your favorite settings as Presets to create your own library of paint brushes.

Tool Settings & Presets:

• Each tool features a wide range of tool settings reflecting their real world equivalent, providing high levels of customization.
• Save your favorite settings as Presets.
• Comes with a wide range of default Presets representing different varieties of tool.

• Use the inbuilt PaintLink messaging system to coordinate with your friend.
• Start a collaborative painting session through your PaintLink account.
• Work with your tools and layers as normal – your friend sees your changes and you see theirs.
• Swap ownership of your layers if you want.
• Resume a collaborative painting session with your friend – collaboration and layer information is saved with your projects

Share content with all your friends

• Send ArtRage tools, reference images, colour sets and other content directly to your friends from PaintLink messaging
• Incorporate content your receive directly into your painting.
• You don’t need to have a collaborative painting session active – you can send and receive content to anyone in your friends list.

Color Pickers:

• Work with a natural Color Picker that provides a variety of HLS and RGB modes.
• Compact Color Picker stays at the bottom right of the Canvas and is small enough to remain while you paint.
• Tint/Tone Picker provides traditional artistic color selection.
• Precise Color Picker allows you to set precision color values via sliders.
• Custom Color Picker allows you to load an image to use as a source for the standard Picker.

Complementary Colors:

• Turn on Complementary Colors in the Tint/Tone Picker to display complements for your current color.
• Select complements or return to the previous color with a single click.
• Complementary modes include Linear, Triadic, Tetradic, Analogous, and Split Complements.

Other Features:

• Real Color Blending mode causes paint to blend in a traditional realistic manner rather than digital RGB mode.
• Apply Metallic values to colors to create reflective paint that blends with normal paint.
• Store colors in Color Samples for later use.
• Name individual Samples and store them in sets.

Canvas Settings:

• Larger canvases up to 32500 x 32500 pixels in size
• Create canvases in pixel sizes or by using a detailed Print Size tool.
• Customizable grain selection creates different textured surfaces.
• Customizable pattern selection allows for detailed coloring on the Canvas.
• Adjust the angle and intensity of lighting on the Canvas.
• Canvas Metallic surface selection.
• Realistic canvas texturing means that your painting is lit like a 3D surface, see the texture of your bristles and painting surface as you paint.

Canvas Presets:

• Store settings in Presets for ease of application later.
• Assign a Preset as a default Canvas for future paintings.
• Comes with a wide range of default Canvas presets.

Other Features:

• Canvas Mover panel allows easy positioning of the canvas.
• Rotate and zoom the canvas freely.
• Quick Flip the canvas horizontally or vertically to check your work by holding down a single key.

Stencils & Rulers:

• Add Stencils to the Canvas to block out areas and prevent paint being applied.
• Each Stencil can be moved, rotated, and scaled independently.
• Stencils stack like real objects on the canvas.
• Use the edges of Stencils to draw precise lines, like running a pencil along a ruler.
• A customizable straight line Ruler allows you to measure size on the Canvas.
• Create your own custom Stencils.

Reference Images:

• Import images to pin to the Canvas as References for guiding you while you paint.
• Scale, rotate, and position References however you wish.
• Sample color from References for painting.
• Scrap References allow you to pin a small canvas to your workspace to mix colors or test ideas.
• View References allow you to pin a custom view of your canvas to your workspace to show different zoom levels or areas while you paint.

Tracing Image:

• Import an image to be projected on to the Canvas as a Tracing Image.
• Allow ArtRage to choose the color of your strokes automatically from the Reference Image as you paint.
• Use the Reference Image to control Glitter or Sticker Spray color to recreate the image automatically while you paint strokes.
• Scale and position the Tracing Image.

Stickers:

• Select traditional Stickers from sheets and apply them manually to the canvas.
• Scale, position, and rotate stickers independently.
• Apply color tints to Stickers.
• Stickers apply color, texture, and gloss to the surface.
• Apply and adjust drop shadows on each Sticker.
• Create your own Sticker Sheets from source images.

Grids & Guides:

• Display a grid on the canvas with customisable segments and sizing.
• Snap strokes to the grid automatically while you paint.
• Drag single line Guides to the canvas to act as a measuring tool or snap point for painting.
• Create Horizontal and Vertical guides at the same time with a single drag.
• Store and recover sets of Grids and Guides for when you need to have more than one in an image.

Perspective:

• Add Perspective Layout Grids as guides while painting.
• Customize every element of the grids, including vanishing points and Wall/Floor surfaces.
• Add individual Walls and Floors as you desire.
• Supports 1 and 2 point Perspective.
• Snap your paint strokes to a direction automatically along the line to the nearest vanishing point.
• Store and recover set of Perspective Guides for when yo need to have more than one in an image.

Layers & Groups:

• Add multiple layers to the document.
• Control the Opacity and content lock of each Layer.
• Assign industry standard Blend Modes to each Layer.
• Assign Paint Depth Blend Modes to each Layer.
• Store Layers in nesting Groups for ease of organisation.
• Export individual Layers either as flat images or the source maps for their color, texture, and more features.
• Assign Layer Effects: Drop Shadow, Cutout, Glow, Inner Glow, Emboss, and Stroke.

Transform:

• Scale, Rotate, and move the contents of any layer or Selection.
• Apply non-uniform transforms to distort content.
• Flip Horizontal or Vertical.
• Lock scale to current Perspective Guides if there are any.

Toolbox:

• Toolbox Panel provides a customizable space in which you can assign your own contents including Color Samples, Layers, Stencils, Presets, and other items you need for a specific painting.
• Save and load Toolbox layouts.

Other Features:

• Retina and HiDPI Display support in Windows and MacOS for improved UI rendering.
• Unlimited Undo and Redo.
• Multiple Document support.
• Full copy/paste of all special Layer Properties such as texture and gloss between paintings.

Paint Symmetry:

• Automatically create multiple strokes around a centre of symmetry.
• Customize the number of symmetrical segments, the position of the centre, and the rotation of the segments.
• Clip paint strokes to the segment they started in.
• Paint blends and smears like normal if you cross over segments.

Warp Filter:

• Smear and warp your images with non-destructive brush strokes.
• Adjust the size, hardness, and pressure of the brush head.
• Create smears, pinches, and swirls under the brush.
• Store your favorite settings as Presets for easy recovery later.

Adjustment Filters:

• Blur Filter.
• Color Adjustment Filter.
• Add Noise Filter.
• Remove Color Matte Filter.
• Supports some Photoshop standard filters.

Interface Features:

• Simple, stylish interface that leaves as much of your workspace free as possible.
• Panels and other objects vanish as you paint close to them to avoid interrupting your work.
• Choose between Classic layout where panels are docked to the corners, or Docking layout where you can customize stacks of panels on the left and right of the canvas.
• Lights Out mode allows you to replace the default light canvas with a dark layout.
• Customize the color of tints in the interface.
• Choose between different types of cursor for your tools.
• Customize keyboard shortcuts for most common functions.
• Supports Retina displays on macOS.
• Interface adapts automatically to supported languages including English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Russian, and Japanese.

Pen Tablet & Touch Support:

• Supports pen tablet input for natural variance in your strokes.
• Pen features supported include Pressure, Tilt, Tilt Angle, and Barrel Rotation where available.
• Supports Stylus ID where available, allowing you to assign specific tool variants to individual styluses for ease of selection.
• Supports Multitouch gesture input.
• Supports Windows Touch Rejection.

File Format Support:

• ArtRage PTG painting format stores your entire painting including the Tool Settings and colors you used, all of your Layers, and the thickness and wetness of paint on the canvas.
• Exports to standard image formats for when you want to share your paintings, including PNG, JPG, and TIFF.
• Import standard image formats to turn them in to paintings.
• Supports import and export of Photoshop PSD files with layers and groups intact.
• Create automatic backups of your files as you save.
• Creates icon previews of your files on your Windows or macOS desktop.

Package Files:

• Gather multiple resources together in to a single file that can be shared with other users.
• Add Presets, Color Samples, Stencils, Pickers, Sticker Sheets, and other types of content to a Package File.
• Install Package Files with a double click to install all of their contents in the appropriate location for ArtRage.
• Uninstall Package Files from a simple panel when you don’t want the content any more.

Script Engine:

• Turn on Scripting to record your paint strokes as you make them.
• Play back scripts to reproduce your painting from scratch, stroke by stroke.
• Adjust the size of the script to be played back to recreate your image at different resolutions.
• Share your scripts with other ArtRage users to allow them to watch your process in full PTG format.
• Annotate your scripts with notes and spotlights to show the techniques you used.
• The ArtRage Scripting language allows you to manually edit every element of your painting.
• Script engine has improved support for grids and guide overlays

Actions:

• Record simple processes and store them as Actions that can be played back on the current canvas with a single click.
• Choose whether to apply Actions to new layers, edit existing layers, and whether to record tool settings.
• Share useful actions with other ArtRage users.
• The ArtRage Scripting language allows you to manually create actions using a programming language that provides access to input values and allows you to create interface panels for script parameters.
• Recorded Actions can have Shortcut Keys assigned.
• Assigned shortcuts displayed in Actions panel
• Included sample Action scripts

Collaborative painting with a friend:

• Use the inbuilt PaintLink messaging system to coordinate with your friend.
• Start a collaborative painting session through your PaintLink account.
• Work with your tools and layers as normal – your friend sees your changes and you see theirs.
• Swap ownership of your layers if you want.
• Resume a collaborative painting session with your friend – collaboration and layer information is saved with your projects

Share content with all your friends:

• Send ArtRage tools, reference images, colour sets and other content directly to your friends from PaintLink messaging
• Incorporate content your receive directly into your painting.
• You don’t need to have a collaborative painting session active – you can send and receive content to anyone in your friends list.

Improved Color pickers:

• Turn on Complementary Colors in all the color Pickers to display complements for your current color.
• Hexadecimal color values can entered or copied in the color picker.

User-defined Color-Blending profiles:

• Real color blending can now use your own color-mixing profile.
• Create collections of color blending profiles to match the paint medium.
• Color mixing profiles can be scripted, and sent to friends through PaintLink messages.

Tiled Canvas Features:

• Turn on horizontal or vertical (or both!) tiling to allow seamless painting across canvas edges.
• Great for creating infinitely scrolling backgrounds for games or presentations.
• Useful in creating seamless textures for rendering or games.

Improved document saving and reliability:

• Documents save more than twice as fast.
• Settable auto-save timeouts means you won’t lose work.
• Faster saving of documents means your workflow is less interrupted.
• New Large documents are created up to two times faster.

Improved tools:

• Maximum tool size increased to 800%
• Improved gap-tolerance on Fill tool – faster and more reliable.
• Selection tool has gap-tolerance on Wand fill. Ignore small gaps in your Wand selection areas.
• Gradient and Texture Fills can fill to extents of paint borders rather than just selection areas.

Improved Recordable Actions:

• Recorded Actions can have Shortcut Keys assigned.
• Assigned shortcuts displayed in Actions panel
• Included sample Action scripts.

Additional Features:

• Larger canvases up to 32500 x 32500 pixels in size
• Retina and HiDPI Display support in Windows and MacOS for improved UI rendering.
• Script engine has improved support for grids and guide overlays
• ArtRage Vitae is available through the Windows Store and Apple App store.
• Hassle-free licensing and downloading.

Tools & Settings:

• Customisable paint depth added to the Custom Brush.
• Eraser mode added to the Custom Brush.
• Import Photoshop standard bitmap brush heads in to the Custom Brush.
• Smoothing range for the Ink Pen increased.
• Smoothing added to the normal Pencil tool.
• Added deeper Impasto style and adustable Gloss to the Oil Brush.

Complementary Colors:

• Turn on Complementary Colors in the Tint/Tone Picker to display complements for your current color.
• Select complements or return to the previous color with a single click.
• Complementary modes include Linear, Triadic, Tetradic, Analogous, and Split Complements.

Canvas Features:

• Adjust the angle and intensity of lighting on the Canvas.

Perspective:

• Snap your paint strokes to a direction automatically along the line to the nearest vanishing point.

Layers & Groups:

• Merge Visible added to the Layers system.
• New Stroke Layer Effect.

Paint Symmetry:

• Clip paint strokes to the segment they started in.
• Increased number of Symmetry Segments available.

Interface Features:

• Allows resource pickers such as the Presets Panel to be shrunk to narrow mode to save space.
• Supports Retina displays on macOS.
• Improved controls for entering rotation values.

Pen Tablet & Touch Support:

• Supports Windows Touch Rejection.

Script Engine:

• Script Playback supports Video Mode which clears the interface and prevents canvas move, scale, and rotate for easier screen recording during playback.

Actions:

• Record simple processes and store them as Actions that can be played back on the current canvas with a single click.
• Choose whether to apply Actions to new layers, edit existing layers, and whether to record tool settings.
• Share useful actions with other ArtRage users.
• The ArtRage Scripting language allows you to manually create actions using a programming language that provides access to input values and allows you to create interface panels for script parameters.

Tools & Settings:

• Clone Tool.
• Custom Brush Tool.
• Custom Brush Designer.
• Added Area Sampling and HLS options to the Color Sampler.

Grids & Guides:

• Drag single line Guides to the canvas to act as a measuring tool or snap point for painting.
• Create Horizontal and Vertical guides at the same time with a single drag.
• Store and recover sets of Grids and Guides for when you need to have more than one in an image.

Perspective:

• Add Perspective Layout Grids as guides while painting.
• Customize every element of the grids, including vanishing points and Wall/Floor surfaces.
• Supports 1 and 2 point Perspective.
• Store and recover set of Perspective Guides for when yo need to have more than one in an image.

Layers & Groups:

• Control content lock of each Layer.
• Assign Layer Effects: Drop Shadow, Cutout, Glow, Inner Glow, and Emboss.

Transform:

• Lock scale to current Perspective Guides if there are any.

Other Features:

• Multiple Document support.

Warp Filter:

• Smear and warp your images with non-destructive brush strokes.

Adjustment Filters:

• Remove Color Matte Filter.

Interface Features:

• Choose between Classic layout where panels are docked to the corners, or Docking layout where you can customize stacks of panels on the left and right of the canvas.
• Lights Out mode allows you to replace the default light canvas with a dark layout.

Pen Tablet & Touch Support:

• Supports Barrel Rotation where available.
• Supports Stylus ID where available, allowing you to assign specific tool variants to individual styluses for ease of selection.
• Supports Multitouch gesture input.

Tools & Settings:

• Gradient and Pattern Fills added to the Fill Tool.
• Stiffness, Aspect and Rotation added to the Oil Brush.
• Gradient Editor Panel.
• Improved Font Picker.

Color Features:

• Store Color Samples in sets.

Canvas Features:

• Customizable pattern selection allows for detailed coloring on the Canvas.

Reference Images:

• Scrap References allow you to pin a small canvas to your workspace to mix colors or test ideas.
• View References allow you to pin a custom view of your canvas to your workspace to show different zoom levels or areas while you paint.

Grids & Guides:

• Display a grid on the canvas with customisable segments and sizing.
• Snap strokes to the grid automatically while you paint.

Layers & Groups:

• Store Layers in nesting Groups for ease of organization.

Transform:

• Apply non-uniform transforms to distort content.

Toolbox:

• Toolbox Panel provides a customizable space in which you can assign your own contents including Color Samples, Layers, Stencils, Presets, and other items you need for a specific painting.
• Save and load Toolbox layouts.

Paint Symmetry:

• Automatically create multiple strokes around a centre of symmetry.
• Customize the number of symmetrical segments, the position of the centre, and the rotation of the segments.

File Format Support:

• Create automatic backups of your files as you save.
• Creates icon previews of your files on your Windows or macOS desktop.

Tools & Settings:

• Ink Pen Tool.
• Flood Fill Tool.
• Text Tool.
• Selection Tool.
• Gloop Pen Tool.
• Sticker Spray Tool.

Color Features:

• Precise Color Picker.
• Real Color Blending mode causes paint to blend in a traditional realistic manner rather than digital RGB mode.

Canvas Features:

• Create canvases in pixel sizes or by using a detailed Print Size tool.
• Canvas Mover panel allows easy positioning of the canvas.

Stickers:

• Select traditional Stickers from sheets and apply them manually to the canvas.
• Scale, position, and rotate stickers independently.
• Apply color tints to Stickers.
• Stickers apply color, texture, and gloss to the surface.
• Apply and adjust drop shadows on each Sticker.
• Create your own Sticker Sheets from source images.

Adjustment Filters:

• Blur Filter.
• Color Adjustment Filter.
• Add Noise Filter.
• Supports some Photoshop standard filters.

Interface Features:

• Customize the color of tints in the interface.
• Customize keyboard shortcuts for most common functions.

Package Files:

• Gather multiple resources together in to a single file that can be shared with other users.
• Add Presets, Color Samples, Stencils, Pickers, Sticker Sheets, and other types of content to a Package File.
• Install Package Files with a double click to install all of their contents in the appropriate location for ArtRage.

Script Engine:

• Turn on Scripting to record your paint strokes as you make them.
• Play back scripts to reproduce your painting from scratch, stroke by stroke.
• Adjust the size of the script to be played back to recreate your image at different resolutions.
• Share your scripts with other ArtRage users to allow them to watch your process in full PTG format.
• Annotate your scripts with notes and spotlights to show the techniques you used.
• The ArtRage Scripting language allows you to manually edit every element of your painting.

Realistic Painting Tools:

• Oil Brush
• Watercolor
• Airbrush
• Palette Knife
• Paint Tube
• Paint Roller

Drawing Tools:

• Pencil
• Crayon / Chalk
• Eraser
• Marker Pen

Utility Tools:

• Color Sampler

Special Effect Tools:

• Glitter Tube

Color Features:

• HLS, RGB, and Tint/Tone Picker.
• Custom Color Picker allows you to load an image to use as a source for the standard Picker.
• Apply Metallic values to colors to create reflective paint that blends with normal paint.
• Store colors in Color Samples for later use.

Canvas Features:

• Customizable grain selection creates different textured surfaces.
• Canvas Metallic surface selection.
• Store settings in Presets for ease of application later.
• Quick Flip the canvas horizontally or vertically to check your work by holding down a single key.

Stencils & Rulers:

• Add Stencils to the Canvas to block out areas and prevent paint being applied.
• Each Stencil can be moved, rotated, and scaled independently.
• Use the edges of Stencils to draw precise lines, like running a pencil along a ruler.
• A customizable straight line Ruler allows you to measure size on the Canvas.

Reference Images:

• Import images to pin to the Canvas as References for guiding you while you paint.
• Scale, rotate, and position References however you wish.
• Sample color from References for painting.

Tracing Image:

• Import an image to be projected on to the Canvas as a Tracing Image.
• Allow ArtRage to choose the color of your strokes automatically from the Reference Image as you paint.
• Use the Image to control Glitter or Sticker Spray color to recreate the image automatically while you paint strokes.
• Scale and position the Tracing Image.

Layers:

• Add multiple layers to the document.
• Control the Opacity and Blend Mode of each Layer.
• Assign Paint Depth Blend Modes to each Layer.

Transform:

• Scale, Rotate, and move the contents of any layer or Selection.
• Flip Horizontal or Vertical.

Other Features:

• Unlimited Undo and Redo.

Interface Features:

• Simple, stylish interface that leaves as much of your workspace free as possible.
• Panels and other objects vanish as you paint close to them to avoid interrupting your work.
• Choose between different types of cursor for your tools.

Pen Tablet & Touch Support:

• Supports pen tablet input for natural variance in your strokes.
• Pen features supported include Pressure, Tilt, and Tilt Angle.

File Format Support:

• ArtRage PTG painting format stores your entire painting including the Tool Settings and colors you used, all of your Layers, and the thickness and wetness of paint on the canvas.
• Exports to standard image formats for when you want to share your paintings, including PNG, JPG, and TIFF.
• Import standard image formats to turn them in to paintings.