Artweaver is a full-featured painting tool with a huge set of predefined realistic brushes to paint creatively or just experiment suitable for both beginners and advanced users. Artweaver is available in two versions: Artweaver Free and Artweaver Plus - see here for a detailed feature comparison between those two.
Artweaver key features:
- Standard image editing tools like gradient, crop, fill and selection tools
- Enhanced and additional tools like Mirror painting and free transformation of selections
- Working together in a team
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Support for High DPI displays
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Advanced support for Photoshop compatible Plug-Ins
- Support for common file formats like AWD (Artweaver), BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, PNG
- Extended support of the PSD file format (e.g. Layer groups, selections, PSB, ...)
- Support for EXIF meta data in many file formats
- Basic support for pen tablets through the Wintab interface (Pen pressure)
- Extended support for pen tablets (Pen erasers and Tool-ID)
- Saving and replaying of event files
- Protection for saved event files
- Support for events in the Artweaver Document file format (AWD)
- Import of images from scanners and digital cameras through the WIA interface
- Many predefined digital brushes like chalk, charcoal, pencils, ...
- New creation and adjusting of existing digital brushes
- Detailed configuration of digital brushes through brush editor
- Basic brush types like Circular, Airbrush, Imagestamp, ...
- Additional brush types like Hairy brush, Pixel brush, ...
- Basic brush methods like Cover, Buildup, Eraser, ...
- Additional brush methods like Colorize and Warp
- Maximum supported brush size (in pixels)
- Common image and effect filters like Curves, Brightness/Contrast, ...
- Additional image and effect filters like Channel mixer, Deskew, Filter gallery, Remove red eyes, ...
- Real-time preview for filters directly on the document canvas
- Preset saving and loading for many filters
- Virtual memory management with scratch disk support
- Individual configuration of virtual memory management
- Support for multiple CPU cores
- Native 64 bit support
- 8 Bits/Channel support
- 16 Bits/Channel support
Artweaver Free 7.0 changelog:
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Improved brush handling and adjustments
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Simplified preset handling
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Windows Ink Pen support
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Improved update
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Misc improvements / adjustments
Misc improvements / adjustments
- Paper color is removed and is replaced by background or transparent color in tools and filters
- The size of filter dialogs is increased
- Automatic saved recovery information is now in Awd format instead of events which makes the recovering faster and more reliable
Artweaver Plus 7.0 changelog:
- Improved brush handling and adjustments
- Simplified preset handling
- Interactive gradient tool
- Digital watercolor simulation
- Windows Ink Pen support
- Improved update
- Misc improvements / adjustments
Misc improvements / adjustments:
- Paper color is removed and is replaced by background or transparent color in tools and filters
- Text palette is removed, and additional text settings are now available as popup on text tool property bar
- Move tool shows transform controls for active layer to directly transforming it
- Text tool can be now also applied by double clicking outside the text area
- Layer duplication is enhanced with settings
- The size of filter dialogs is increased
- The history palette shows the last document saved state
- The current brush preview can be also used as custom icon
- Changes to impasto settings are now undoable
- Automatic saved recovery information is now in Awd format instead of events which makes the recovering faster and more reliable
- Tablet mode is removed
Download: Artweaver Free 7.0 | 14.6 MB (Freeware)
Download: Artweaver Plus 7.0 | 24.0 MB (Shareware)
View: Artweaver Website | Artweaver Screenshot | Release Notes
