CNET Editors' review
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, supports 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. Editable text layers (font, size, color, leading), support for pressure sensitive pen tablets, history function to undo or redo last working steps, and support for plug-ins.
What's new in this version: Version 3.0.3 has added getting started with team functionality information and improved quality of brush tool.
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"Haven't done much yet"
Version: Artweaver 1.2
Pros
looks like Photoshop
Cons
looks like Photoshop
Summary
The only thing I have actually tried to do so far was to do a quick edit on a photo. I was actually not the right tool. Unlike a lot of other less powerful tools I have been using (like MS Office Picture Manager) it doesn't have an Auto Correct.
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"A Favorite Paint and Photo Program"
Version: Artweaver 1.2
Pros
Great for Photo and Paint, but My favorite function is it has support for Scanners. You can scan documents and immediately export as PDF!
Cons
Could have more functions
Summary
A great Paint and Photo Program, perfect free Paint Program
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"Lightweight but capable of original work."
Version: Artweaver 1.2
Pros
Has the basics - layers, adjustments (including curves), selections and filters (limited in the freeware version - but, hey, it's free). Change the brushes to yours heart's content. Good help files.
Cons
No big quibbles. Some of it isn't totally intuitive, but that's what the help files are for.
Summary
It's not Photoshop - but it's free and offers a nice set of tools.
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"great brushes"
Version: Artweaver 0.5.7
Pros
it has the best brushes I have even seen. you can do just about anything with them.
Cons
with that it does bring it some cons since there are so many brushes and costume things you can do sometimes it gets a little confusing
Summary
yet I glad I found this program since so many free ones can lack in the area. it is in my collection of art programs to stay. now I just got to remember how I made that special brush but I guess I could of saved it... -_-
here is a short list of awesome free art programs
artweaver
photobie
paint.net
gimp 2
openoffice
painttool sai
they all have something to add to your art collection and they are free -
"it surpassed my expectations"
Version: Artweaver 0.5.7
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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"A non-expert review"
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 investment that programs like Photoshop require. It certainly doesn't seem to have the photo editing features of photoshop, but that's largely because Artweaver isn't designed to be a photo editing software as much as it's meant to be a painting software (at least from what I can tell). It's worth downloading and playing around with. It's free, so if you don't like it, no harm no foul. :)
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"good program for editing photos"
Version: Artweaver 0.5.7
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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"This is one of my favorite photo editing programs."
Version: Artweaver 0.5.7
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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"Very very good"
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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"Really Awesome!"
Version: Artweaver 0.5.7
Pros
It works as well as photoshop or painter but is FREE! No viruses and it's really easy to understand and master!
Cons
no side scroll bar, but its not big deal.
Summary
I say download it, it works as well as or better then any program I have ever used.
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