ArtRage Studio and Studio Pro Tutorials

ArtRage 3 comes in English, German, French and Dutch (Français, Deutsch, Nederlands). To select the language, go to Help in the menu on the top left, then Language>select the language you want.

Changing the size of the brush or pencil is done by dragging the little corner bar left (smaller) or right (larger). Alternatively you can double-click to get a text box, in which you can type the size you want. The highest it will go is 500%

If you want an oversized brush (more than 100%) you need to type it in manually. If you try and drag to change the larger size, it will jump back to 100%.

You can also resize (and oversize!) by holding down shift, and left click, while dragging on the canvas.

The nominal maximum size is limited, because larger tool sizes can get quite slow for some users and tools. The actual size of the tools is not correlated exactly to any measurement - it varies depending on pressure and loading and canvas type, as well as relative to other tools (e.g. the roller is larger than the watercolour brush)

While you'll never notice any lag at the doodle stage, people painting large, dramatic scenery of print quality, whi insist on creating larger and larger paintingsa and pushing hte boundaries of their computer, will probably run into lagging brushstrokes, freezing, and ArtRage hanging while it calculates and catches up.

The larger the canvas size and the more layers you use, the slower ArtRage will get. How much you can do depends on your computer, of course, ArtRage isn't going to be heavily utilising your video chipset, as it doesn't currently use hardware acceleration. It DOES use a lot of processing power, especially at large tool sizes.

How to avoid lagging?
Use smaller canvases
Merge your layers whenever possible
Use smaller tool sizes or find alternative tools (e.g. glitter to cover a large area. Some are faster than others)
Use smaller strokes - it can't finish calculating until you stop.
Turn off the 3D lighting - the extra texture effect uses a lot of resources.

If you followed the steps, you'll see AR3 makes it easy to construct a painting like this. Construct them any way you like to suite your style and creative sensibilities. This exercise took about four hours. Normally I'd do considerably more refinements, but hope this gets the idea across.

Sethren was kind enough to make a PDF of the tutorial

ArtRage 3 has more than one shape and type of colour picker to choose from.