
Update will be free for owners of ArtRage 4 and at a 50% discount off the normal $49.90 price for owners of ArtRage 2 & 3. The desktop app received a 64-bit rebuild, customizable grids, and Live Pencil Tilt.

They also announced ArtRage 4.5 for the Mac and Windows. The iPhone version of the painting app is currently free for the duration of CCSD. However, in the art context, the most creative option is the ability to lay down natural media brushstrokes – especially useful when used with ArtRage’s ability to colour Stickers based on an original photo.ArtRage has made a couple of announcements to coincide with Comic-Con San Diego.

This lets you quickly add photo-realistic objects such as leaves or pebbles, or abstract images such as blobs or characters. The most useful new tool is the Sticker Spray, which lets you apply multiple bitmap images to create a stroke or spray. There’s also a new Inking Pen that smoothes the strokes it applies and a Gloop Pen that produces expanding blobs of ink. New additions here include a Watercolour brush that understands how much pigment and water is loaded and whether the underlying canvas is dry or wet. ArtRage even encourages you to squeeze on paint via the paint tube then spread it around with its roller, brush and palette knife, smearing it into any existing paint and the underlying canvas. Here you can see the difference that a dedicated art package makes as your paint doesn’t just have colour but thickness and wetness.

ArtRage has long offered the basics of pencils, chalks, crayons, air brush and marker pens, but its real strength has always been its oil handling.
