Review
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Artweaver Free is a freeware painting program which is suitable for beginners but also suitable for advanced users. You can record all your steps and replay them afterwards or provide them to other users. Also there are many tools and features like layers and effect filter in Artweaver Free.Artweaver Free is the free version of Artweaver Plus.You can record the whole painting process, save it and replay it later with Artweaver Free. So it is possible to show other users your painting style or you can just show the progress from an empty paper to a finished artwork.Artweaver Free includes a big number of predefined brushes. But you can also configure each brush individually or create new custom brushes. Beside simple round brushes it's also possible to use custom images as brushes.Artweaver Free has an intuitive and easy to use program window. But you can also adjust it to your own needs. For example free arrangement and docking of palettes.You can work together with several artists over Network or Internet on the same document with Artweaver Plus. Besides watching at brush strokes other artists or adding own brush strokes, you can also chat among each other with messages.
Features:
- Support for many file formats like AWD (Artweaver), BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, PNG and PSD (incl. layers)
- Transparency, layers and layer groups
- Common image editing tools like gradient, crop, fill and selection tools
- Many effect filters like sharpen, blur, emboss and mosaic
- Expandable by Plug-In modules (Artweaver standard)
- Editable text layers
- Pen tablet support
- History function to undo/redo last editing steps
- Support for many languages through language files
The following review written by one of the Software Informer contributors applies to version 0.5
Artweaver is a simple freeware tool to draw, create and retouch pictures, it includes all basic artistic effects required to get professional results.
Using a photo as a base to start making adjustments and applying effects "a la photoshop ", Artweaver allows you to enhance the picture, adding different pencils, retouching color or lines to obtain a professional and natural finish.
Thought it is not a Photoshop competitor, Artweaver still have all the traditional tools required to work with images, such as: degrade color, cut, fill and select, in addition to texture, mosaic, blur, sharp and contrast effects.
Artweaver even works with transparencies and layers which is ideal for graphic design and picture retouching enthusiasts that are learning how to use photoshop basic tools but cannot afford to pay a license.
It’s intuitive and user friendly interface will help you learn to use it quickly or almost make no difference if you are a photoshop user, avoiding to have hours in front of your monitor looking and watching tutorials. |
