- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
- Date added: December 23, 2008
- Total Downloads: 12,939
- Downloads last week: 130
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 13 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET staff on August 26, 2009
Artweaver is an art supply store and a blank canvas all rolled up into one. With it, you can create your own masterpieces and experiment with the multitude of built-in tools. Choose from paint and calligraphy brushes, pens, pencils, crayons, and even sponges and brushes made to mimic famous artists like Van Gogh.
Artweaver's interface is very similar to Photoshop's. Creative professionals and hobbyists who are familiar with Photoshop will be able to navigate their way through its palettes and windows with no problem. This helped us get up and running with the program easily and made our experience more fun. Many of the same tools that Photoshop and other graphic programs have are included in this Artweaver's toolbox, such as selection tools, move tools, color swatches, a paint bucket, and a clone stamp. Artweaver has layers, which makes experimentation easier. You can create a background layer and then create another layer for brushwork so that you can paint away without damaging your original background layer. Each brush has a control palette that opens when you select it. Users have an enormous amount of control with each tool and can fine-tune every aspect of it with the control palette.
Artweaver installs and uninstalls easily and has a great Help file that people new to graphics software and creative professionals alike will find beneficial. It's a robust program that has many features that are usually available only in expensive graphics programs, but Artweaver is free. You can't beat that!
Publisher's description
From Boris Eyrich :Artweaver is a program to simulate natural brush tools. It is therefore suitable to leave your creativity free run. Artweaver functions: realistic imitation of brushes, chalks, and charcoals; detailed adjustment possibilities for altering existing brushes and creating new custom brushes; common image processing tools like gradient, crop, fill, and selection tools; countless file formats like AWD (Artweaver), BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, and PNG; transparency and layers; large number of filters like sharpen, soften, emboss, and mosaic; many effect filters; editable text layers (font, size, color, leading); support for pressure sensitive pen tablets; history function to undo or redo last working steps; support for plug-ins.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 13 votes
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Version: Artweaver 0.5.7
"it surpassed my expectations"
Pros: this product allows the average user to create digital masterpieces
Cons: wish it had even more features
Summary: looove it
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Version: Artweaver 0.5.7
Pros: The software is very easy to use for a beginner like myself.
It works well with my tablet.
Has all the tools I need for drawing. (Haven't tried it for photo editing really)Cons: Has occasional glitches, which are to be expected from Freeware.
Doesn't have quite the level of response I expected for use with my tablet's pressure sensitivity.Summary: All in all, Artweaver is a very good program for someone like myself who is artistically inclined but new to the field of digital art. It's a very good program for experimenting with digital techniques and styles without the heavy financial investm... read more >>
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Version: Artweaver 0.5.7
"good program for editing photos"
Pros: easy to use
Cons: wish it could be combined with the Gimp program
Summary: economy program that has Photo Shop qualities
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Version: Artweaver 0.5.7
"This is one of my favorite photo editing programs."
Pros: Everything is good about this program. It is easy to use and does good job on your photos.
Cons: No Cons just all Goods.
Summary: This is a great free program
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Version: Artweaver 0.5.7
Pros: It can do a lot --In a easy to work with way.
I especially like writing on fotos.
And its so very freeCons: What could that be ````
Summary: After avirus had bitten my pc--Artweaver was one of the first I searched to reinstalate.
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