Comments on: Software Spotlight: ArtRage 2 http://danidraws.com/2007/02/14/software-spotlight-artrage-2/ Children's book illustrator, comics creator, artist, blogger, Photoshop geek, and all-around nerd Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:16:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Sheree http://danidraws.com/2007/02/14/software-spotlight-artrage-2/comment-page-1/#comment-40768 Sheree Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:09:42 +0000 http://danidraws.com/2007/02/14/software-spotlight-artrage-2/#comment-40768 I am learning layering on artrage and add a new layer. There is a thin box around it that I can't get rid of unless I erase it. I was wondering if you knew a quicker way to show your new layer blended in the backround picture without the outline box that it came with. I tried to send e-mails to the technical people in art rage but did not get an answer. I tried to go on Photoshop and Illustrator older version that I have to learn how to do this. I have 7.0 and 10.0 respectively. I'm not sure what to do because I am a beginner and these programs seem so much more complicated than art rage. If you can help I would really appreciate it. I am learning layering on artrage and add a new layer. There is a thin box around it that I can’t get rid of unless I erase it. I was wondering if you knew a quicker way to show your new layer blended in the backround picture without the outline box that it came with. I tried to send e-mails to the technical people in art rage but did not get an answer. I tried to go on Photoshop and Illustrator older version that I have to learn how to do this. I have 7.0 and 10.0 respectively. I’m not sure what to do because I am a beginner and these programs seem so much more complicated than art rage. If you can help I would really appreciate it.

]]> By: Dennis Dewey http://danidraws.com/2007/02/14/software-spotlight-artrage-2/comment-page-1/#comment-17716 Dennis Dewey Wed, 27 Jun 2007 20:21:39 +0000 http://danidraws.com/2007/02/14/software-spotlight-artrage-2/#comment-17716 Sketchbook Pro wasn't abandoned by Alias because they no longer own the software. It was purchased and killed (????) by Autodesk. I spent $180 on this software and now I cannot use it with my black intel MacBook. It supposedly works on MacBook Pros, though. However, it was never actually ported to an Intel version and the system requirements are misleading on Autodesk's website. It just says "Power Mac® G4 or better with at least 256 MB RAM" I've been thinking about nationalizing my copy of it because it makes me so sick that Autodesk did this.!!!! I guess it stings the most because Sketchbook was so perfect for my needs and now I'm having to deal with alternatives like Art Rage - which is a nice alternative although I don't care for how it takes over the entire screen and cannot stop at the dock like SBP. It also lacks a decent smear tool - the palette knife is a joke. The paint tube is also a waste. I don't like the glitter and the metallic paint options as well. The really cool aspects of the program is the non-destructive canvas movement and horizontal/vertical temporary flipping commands. You can also use images as palettes and the trace image is also a nice feature. I'm proceeding to boycott all Autodesk software in any way I can and advocating alternatives to ALL of their software. Need CAD?, use Google Sketchup....Need Maya, use ZBrush instead.....and so on. AD needs to be taught to respect their customers even when it means a slight negative flux in their bottom line. I mean,....I know that SBP wasn't a very profitable software and that is probably why it was so expensive, but they don't listen to their customers' complaints about compatibility issues with newer machines. I got forwarded to a forum that they don't even seem to look at and the customers are all jaded after having paid so much for a program that they cannot use anymore. They even seem to have the audacity to keep selling this software!!???? Sketchbook Pro wasn’t abandoned by Alias because they no longer own the software. It was purchased and killed (????) by Autodesk. I spent $180 on this software and now I cannot use it with my black intel MacBook. It supposedly works on MacBook Pros, though. However, it was never actually ported to an Intel version and the system requirements are misleading on Autodesk’s website. It just says “Power Mac® G4 or better with at least 256 MB RAM”

I’ve been thinking about nationalizing my copy of it because it makes me so sick that Autodesk did this.!!!!

I guess it stings the most because Sketchbook was so perfect for my needs and now I’m having to deal with alternatives like Art Rage – which is a nice alternative although I don’t care for how it takes over the entire screen and cannot stop at the dock like SBP. It also lacks a decent smear tool – the palette knife is a joke. The paint tube is also a waste. I don’t like the glitter and the metallic paint options as well. The really cool aspects of the program is the non-destructive canvas movement and horizontal/vertical temporary flipping commands. You can also use images as palettes and the trace image is also a nice feature.

I’m proceeding to boycott all Autodesk software in any way I can and advocating alternatives to ALL of their software. Need CAD?, use Google Sketchup….Need Maya, use ZBrush instead…..and so on.

AD needs to be taught to respect their customers even when it means a slight negative flux in their bottom line. I mean,….I know that SBP wasn’t a very profitable software and that is probably why it was so expensive, but they don’t listen to their customers’ complaints about compatibility issues with newer machines. I got forwarded to a forum that they don’t even seem to look at and the customers are all jaded after having paid so much for a program that they cannot use anymore. They even seem to have the audacity to keep selling this software!!????

]]> By: blair http://danidraws.com/2007/02/14/software-spotlight-artrage-2/comment-page-1/#comment-1905 blair Sat, 17 Mar 2007 11:22:36 +0000 http://danidraws.com/2007/02/14/software-spotlight-artrage-2/#comment-1905 A great book to reference for painting in PhotoShop along with Pinter is a book by Cher Thrainen-Pendarivs called The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting. Of course one has to have a digital tablet to go along with it. I myself have downloaded the ArtRage and even paid for the full version (A whopping $20) and it is fun, a bit confusing at first but they have a great online demo to teach you lots of stuff. I recommend it whole heartedly to have as a non memory hogging application that seems fully supported. Though I would say it would be for quick drawing and painting nowdays for me. If I wanted to do something majorly serious I might turn to Painter. Though I did find ArtRage a good alternative to Sketchbook Pro that appears to have been abandoned for future updates by Alias. At a $195 price tag for Sketchbook Pro I believe ArtRage is a good inexpensive alternative. A great book to reference for painting in PhotoShop along with Pinter is a book by Cher Thrainen-Pendarivs called

The Photoshop and Painter Artist Tablet Book: Creative Techniques in Digital Painting. Of course one has to have a digital tablet to go along with it.

I myself have downloaded the ArtRage and even paid for the full version (A whopping $20) and it is fun, a bit confusing at first but they have a great online demo to teach you lots of stuff. I recommend it whole heartedly to have as a non memory hogging application that seems fully supported. Though I would say it would be for quick drawing and painting nowdays for me. If I wanted to do something majorly serious I might turn to Painter.

Though I did find ArtRage a good alternative to Sketchbook Pro that appears to have been abandoned for future updates by Alias. At a $195 price tag for Sketchbook Pro I believe ArtRage is a good inexpensive alternative.

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