As in Windows applications, the Preferences command is found in the Edit menu. For example, when you close a painting, the program quits instead of sticking around so you can create your next masterpiece. The interface, though beautiful, takes some getting used to, as it’s not completely true to the Macintosh way. On the other hand, if you don’t care to have tools extend into the canvas, you can switch to a full-screen mode that places the canvas in the center of your monitor and the palettes arrayed around the screen’s edges. Or you can simply make all of these things disappear by Control-clicking (or right-clicking) on the canvas. If you need to work in the area occupied by one of these elements in this view, it will disappear as you move into the area. Instead, in the default view, all tools and controls extend into the window that holds the program’s canvas. Speaking of its interface, ArtRage takes a detour from other painting programs by dispensing with the many small palettes that litter other graphics applications. (You can select every tool and adjust every control with a keyboard shortcut for example, the tools are selected with numbers on your Mac’s numeric keypad.) You can even customize the texture of the canvas.ĪrtRage makes it easy to trace over imported JPEG images. Additionally, you can adjust the thickness of your lines and strokes from 1 to 100 percent. And the program is responsive to pressure transmitted by a pen and graphics tablet. These controls include Pressure, Thinners, and Loading gauges that you can adjust from 0 to 100 percent. ArtRage offers painting tools that include oils, pencils, airbrush, chalk, glitter, roller, eraser, paint tube, palette knife (for spreading applied media around), crayon, and markers a variety of canvas textures and controls that allow you to vary the amount of media you place on the canvas as well as the pressure used to apply it. The inexpensive price tag of this natural-media paint program belies its power. Where’s a dabbler (with a dabbler’s budget) to turn? Look now and what do you find? High-end applications such as Adobe’s Photoshop and Corel’s Painter.
ARTRAGE FOR MAC MAC
Once upon a time the Mac market was littered with paint programs-CE Software’s Amazing Paint, Microfrontier’s Color It!, Delta Tao’s Color MacCheese, MECC’s Easy Color Paint, Apple’s MacPaint, Electronic Arts’ Studio/32, Aldus’ SuperPaint, and Deneba’s UltraPaint, to name more than a few.
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