"Sony will pre-load our ArtRage Studio and Studio Pro v. 3.5 into some select models of its VAIO PC family to offer consumers the as-if experience of actually ‘painting” on a real canvas with oil paints," reads the PR statement from Ambient Design.
Users can digitally paint portraits, or whatever come to their mind, on a touch-enabled computer screen with oil paints that smear and blend, and watercolors that flow together to create soft, wet gradations, just as they would in a traditional art studio, it added.
The select models include Sony VAIO PCs: Sony VAIO Tap 20, Sony VAIO Duo 11, Sony VAIO L24, Sony VAIO E14P, and Sony VAIO T13.
ArtRage Studio and Studio Pro 3.5 are the only art programs that provide the most realistic tactile experience closest to actual painting, with an easily accessible user interface.
ArtRage is so easy to use, so it even allows children and beginning digital artists to create realistic art works that appear to be painted by traditional art media, like oil on canvas or watercolors on special papers.
ArtRage can even record and play back actual paint strokes, with additional advanced features for color blending, scripting, and content sharing tools.
Optimized for multi-touch screens, ArtRage not only lets you rotate, scale and move the canvas with two fingers, but it also allows rulers, stencils, stickers, layers, selections and even menus to be easily rearranged without hunting for complex commands deep in the menu structure.
Ambient Design Ltd. is a New Zealand-based global software development and publishing firm, specializing in creative applications and user interfaces for artists of all ages and all levels of competency, including professionals, hobbyists and students.
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