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