Artweaver 8.0 Build 2584

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

• Support for High DPI displays

• 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 / Plus 8.0 new features and improvements:

• The brush palette which provides all brush settings is back and replaces the brush editor
• Quick access in brush tool to frequently used features like zoom, rotation, color and last used brushes
• Brush selector now shows by default a stroke preview of each brush besides the regular preview
• Mirror painting is now part of the brush tool and no longer an extra tool
• Clone source selection moved from main menu to brush tool options
• Brush engine enhancements to Jitter, Stroke smoothing and Warp method
• Pen calibration moved into its own dialog with a scratchpad to test settings
• Color history for recently picked colors moved to color set palette
• Displaying of vanishing point in perspective grid improved
• New options Sample size in magic wand tool and Interactive in gradient tool
• Support for selections outside of the document bounds
• Color themes reduced to only Light and Dark and also noticeable improved
• Read support for the SVG format
• Read and write support for the WebP format

Further improvements and changes:

• Added shift key support to move tool
• Added shift key support to rotate view tool
• Added impasto support to brush warp method
• Added option to link brush jitter to brush size
• Added events playback controls
• Added gradient preset selector to fill document dialog
• Added gradient preset selector to paint bucket tool options
• Added tools cursor preference
• Added remembering of save options
• Added support for latest Open Raster file format specification
• Added support for cursor preference to eraser and stamp tool
• Added shift key support to selections palette
• Added support for saving grayscale TIFF files
• Improved high dpi support
• Improved brush stroke interpolation quality
• Improved zooming
• Improved tool apply button design
• Improved brush preview
• Improved document and canvas resize
• Improved tool quick info
• Improved opacity support in brush other method
• Improved Targa file format save dialog
• Changed default history states to 40
• Changed supported platforms to 64-bit only

Download: Artweaver Free 8.0 | 16.6 MB (Freeware)
Download: Artweaver Plus 8.0 | 16.6 MB (Shareware)
View: Artweaver Website | Artweaver Screenshot | Compare Free vs Plus

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