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.
Vent Saving and Playback
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.
Many Brushes and Individual Configuration Possibilities
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.
User Friendly Program Windows
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.
Work Simultaneously on the Same Document
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. Create an own team at ArtweaverTeam.com which is worldwide reachable.
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
What's New
Artweaver 8 is the next major version of Artweaver with many new features and improvements.
- This new version highlights the following new features
- 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
