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    I've been testing a program called Artrage for a couple of days (After a tip from Torstan here on the site). It is a drawing program that let you use different tools like watercolour, oil paint, ink pens etc to make drawings. The program is really great and here is a very quick map of a small village I made while trying to learn the program. It really feels like it has a lot of potential, but most of all it is really fun to use.
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    The watercolour brush in Artrage looks pretty nice. What are the pen brushes like?

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    Well that looks interesting! Color me intrigued.

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    The watercolour brush in Artrage looks pretty nice. What are the pen brushes like?
    I must say I like all The tools I've tried so far. If you're interested in testning The program There's a demo on their homepage. That's what I've been using so far.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ravells View Post
    It looks great. What is the biggest size document you can use before it starts really slowing down?
    Honestly I don't know. I tried to start a drawing that was 6000px X 4000px and that worked fine. The watercolour though had some problems when you started to mix colours. But as long as you don't work too quick it seems to work.
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    Wow that sounds good. the watercolours on Painter seriously start slowing down on my machine when I get to over 3,000 px square.

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    That's looking really nice!

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    I've been using my copy of Artrage 2 that came with my new bamboo but it doesn't have watercolour or ink pen brushes so I assume the demo you are using is version 3. Your test results turned out much nicer than mine.

    One nice thing I noticed while using it and I assume this carries over into version three - when you start drawing near a tool/info/swatch/layer window/gump, it automatically "vanishes" so you can draw underneath it, and reappears when you stop drawing. Also it has a rotate canvas function like SAI does. I wish photoshop had that (have they added that to versions above CS3?)

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    Yes, you can spin the canvas in newer photoshop versions. You can even do it by using a two-finger spin on a mac trackpad, which is really, really handy.

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