- Softonic Rating:
- Very good:8/10
- License:
- Free
- Added:
- March 21, 2007
- Updated:
- March 11, 2008
- Publisher:
- Website
- File size:
- 8.7 MB
- Downloads:
- 9,603
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“Create impressive drawings with this free painting tool”
The major developers might not agree with us but the rise of open source equivalents to large, expensive packages has arguably been the most exciting development in the software industry in the last few years. The GIMP and Mozilla Thunderbird are two leading lights of the open source phenomenon and have collectively saved users millions as alternatives to their big-budget rivals.
Artweaver certainly has the credentials to take on the big players and comes stacked with an ample range of brushes, which can be tweaked and customized easily to suit your designs. Just like its more illustrious rivals, the brush selection can be beefed up through plug-ins, although the range of available brushes is pitiful compared with those you can download for Adobe Illustrator. Nevertheless, it's promising to see freeware products embracing extendability in this way.
Other welcome features include a mighty effects selection, layers and transparency functionality, plus support for a range of file formats. You can also add text layers, making it great for creating logos or promotional material. However, it's when you put pen to paper that Artweaver stumbles somewhat. The fact is that the app renders certain brush strokes much slower than its major rivals, and unless you're packing heat processor-wise you're likely to be frustrated by the lag time waiting for the strokes to appear on the page. For such a polished program otherwise, this drawback threatens to stifle its attempts to win over the graphic design market. This said, for a pre-release version ArtWeaver is an impressive piece of kit.
Languages:
English, German
Recent changes in Artweaver:
- Selection can now be managed on own selection palettes
- New Brush Warping
- New Filter Seamless
- Point interpolation while painting improved
- Save button added to new document dialog
- Maximum brush size increased to 250 pixels
- Support for multi-monitor environment improved
- Smear method on layers improved
- Problems with loading brushes fixed
- Default language in portable mode changed to English
- Various improvements and bug fixes
OS requirements for Artweaver:
- OS: Win2000/XP
Minimum requirements:
- Processor: 600 MHz
- Memory: 128 MB
Recommended requirements:
- Processor: 1,0 GHz
- Memory: 256 MB
- Graphic tablet
- Wide selection of brushes
- Plug-in support
- Layers and transparency
- Rendering is slow
- Poor eraser functionality
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From the publisher of Artweaver
Artweaver is a simple freeware program for creative painting, i.e. Artweaver offers you all artistic effects which you need for your work. You can create sketches from photos and experiment with a wide range of brushes. The brush simulation as realistic as possible, conforming to natural brush strokes.
Artweaver features:
- Support for many different digital brushes e.g. chalk, charcoal, pencils, etc.
- Wide variety of adjustment settings, allowing you to customize the default brushes or to create new brushes
- Standard image editing tools like gradient, crop, fill and selection tools
- Support for the most common file formats like AWD (Artweaver), BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, PNG, and PSD (no layer support)
- Transparency and Layers support
- Effect filters like sharpen, blur, emboss and mosaic
- Editable text layers
- Pen Tablet support for a realistic feeling
- History function to und/redo last editing steps
- Expandable by plug-in modules (Artweaver Standard)
- Support for many languages through language files.
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Almost as good as corel draw 8
A good stand in for Corel 8 and Photo Paint 8 not being able to use in the new vista which stinks.If I knew I could not use Corel 8 with vista Iwould have bought an Apple. ... read more
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