Paintstorm studio - new painting package.
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www.paintstormstudio.com
saw this on twitter today; it's windows only, costs $ 20, and has a free trial version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXUReniLyqw[/ame]www.paintstormstudio.com
saw this on twitter today; it's windows only, costs $ 20, and has a free trial version.
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yeah I just checked it out...it doesnt seem to like/ remember my 2nd/tablet monitor. Always reverts to monitor 1, and doesnt remember settings. It's a shame, because the tool look nice
it is able to load psds which have Photoshop pass-through groups and interprets them almost identical to its source - huge plus -
the price seems convincing
now the on my rig bad cases;
my gpu ram is unfortunately most of the cases way to limited for big psds in Paintstorm.
Photoshop pass-through groups as of now it seems, aren´t natively supported and when saving as psds, they are gone.
another thing which is strange is, that loaded files appear darker than in other psd capable programs?
so yeah it is interesting, lets see how and where it develops too.
I'll give it a shot, I have a rather unknown screen tablet this should be interesting. If it works then man, that looks like a fun program for speedpaints !
edit; not working on ugee 1910b ,maybe lateron I guess.
they have gathered pretty much all the best features of PS, painter, sai/clip paint studio, and other packages (I think only artrage currently wins with their advanced color mixing algorithms, but it's an odd software, idk)
Performance is good, and it's a good match of usability and painterly brush effects.
All around seems like a steal for $20.
I'm just missing my glorious RGB sliders(i paint with rgb sliders to compensate for colorblindness). There doesn't even seem to be a way to hard code colours, which is a fatal issue for me as a game artist.
I'm guessing uncaught memory leaks.
I sent them an email, hopefully they will get back to me.
I much prefer painting in tools that have a mixing aspect, traditional-like or not, but I have to say I've been having a bit of a trouble checking out this program when I don't have enough time to actually paint something. The "Trial Excecution timer" is a bit harsh, no?
The trial timer is bizarre...
EDIT:
Anyone worked out how the hell the perspective stuff works?
EDIT2:
Enable guides
So it's developed by one dude, who also painted all the demo images.
http://paintstorm-studio.deviantart.com/
This looks incredible, so sad it's windows only... I guess this and Ori and the Blind Forest are enough reasons to reinstall windows in a partition
Not sure it's a very good implementation of a trial. It just made me think the program had memory leaks.
EDIT:
Ok i bought it, Just waiting on the license file to be emailed to me.
I'll report back when i have some experience with it.
Getting kicked after 20 min, not so good. I'd rather have it for one day with no kicking than 15 days with kicking.
In a nutshell, it feels incomplete and very "beta", but my overall feeling is great and I expect this to become an alternative if it's well managed. I'm very excited about it, but for me it doesn't worth to use windows just for this software. Not yet.
I'm a mac user and I have all my stuff there, so if this would came up for OSX I would not hesitate to make a few drawings with it and use it sporadically until it could compete directly with Photoshop.
Things like being able to drag down layer visibility with one click and drag, or alt clicking on a layer visibility to isolate that layer. Or using the arrow keys to change layer styles. I can't even begin to imaging how tedious that functionality would be to implement.
Except i'm a windows user so it doesn't need to be a Photoshop replacement for me. Right now it sits at Paint Tool Sai killer for me which i bought ages back for $70. So this is a steal.
His responses in emails were a bit weird. I get the feeling he isn't really used to dealing with customers. Anyhow, i sent him a link to this thread, so i hope he drops by.
EDIT:
I'm going to start compiling a little bug list as i go.
Also just little annoyances:
I emailed him and he gave me steps to get a log file, but the directory it stated the log file is didn't exist :O. no response yet.
great sketches
I hope a mac version will be in the works, rip bloated phototracing mess of the current corel painter
corel did a good job of ruining it over many versions since purchasing it from american developer, but I'm so happy this thing came in.
This feels like a stripped back version of painter with a more logical brush engine.
Thank you all for your notices advices.
1)Crushes: we already fixed most of crush prblems.Just download new version (current is 1.26 - this version is already have new update checking)
2)Mac version - We have already started work on this
3)answers a little strange - English is not my native language
4)trial crush changed just to annoying message. why is it necessary? because the Trial reset for hackers easier then crack that thing.
!!!!!!!! excellent, and thanks a lot for taking your time to reply here. I can not wait to get my hands on this.
I'm downloading the new version now.
I also have this issue even with new 1.26 version. It can be fixed by deleting tablet preferences thought Wacom Tablet Preference File Utility. Unfortunately this works only until next windows reboot.
I'm having my artists use this today to tell me how they like it. If they enjoy it I'll be buying a couple copies.
Oh finally a SAI user! I love Sai but the lacks of any updates make me wanna change for paintstorm, It feel like the brush react similar to SAI, what's your opinion in term of comparison between those 2 softwares.
You've never used clip studio? A lot of people I know switched from sai to that.
This program has a great feeling brush engine, just I wouldn't say it was SAI-like.
All it needs is a symmetry brush and i'd be confident i could use this for a lot of work i do.
Most of the time when using the paint brushes in other programs i always feel the blending is "off" but this feels perfect.
I'll definitely be making a purchase this week.
Yeah i've never used sai but i've heard that a lot from my friends who switched. For me it was the only dedicated painting program that felt comparable to photoshop in function for me. I mainly use it cause the perspective and symmetry rulers are fantastic for fast concepting.
Clip Studio = Manga Studio 5.
Almost certain they don't, since they seperate Systemax and Celsys products entirely (The last mention I can find is when the collaborated in 2012 to create CATCON), but when Celsys got, for example, Metasequoia, it was added to their website. I would assume they would have added SAI, too?
Unless you just mean the actual developers of SAI. In which case, I'd be interested in a source, actually. That wouldn't surprise me, but I can't find any info on it.
(Sorry for the tangent)
Clip Studio > Manga Studio 5
Because you can darken the interface in the clip studio version which is for some reason removed in the MS5 version.
It was several years ago. I was talking with some very popular (hentai) illustrators about tools and one of them went into the history about the devs leaving Sai to make Clip Studio.
Clip Studio is Manga Studio 5 here in the US. The Manga Studio team imports the software and rebrands it. Version 4 was a different software (I forget the name) and 5 is Clip Studio. Although Manga Studio (Smith Micro) might own Clip Studio now since Clip Studio is the downloadable version of Manga Studio 5.
Sorry didn't mean to say it was like sai in functionality, just that it's filling the niche sai had in my workflow.
Developer is Russian
Did they just change that? I bought like 7 copies of clip studio in the past couple months.