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About Paintstorm Studio
Paintstorm Studio is a painting application for illustrators, concept artists and comic artists. Its brush engine offers bristle and double brushes, a dirty mode that picks up underlying color, a mixing palette and a large library of textured brushes, with full control over brush options.
For comics and line work there are gap closing, a stroke stabilizer, stroke post-correction and 2 and 3-point perspective rulers. It also includes GPU-accelerated symmetry and kaleidoscope tools, custom panels and warp transforms across several layers at once.
Strengths
- Very detailed brush customization
- Stabilizer, gap closing and perspective rulers for line art
- Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux and iPad
- GPU-accelerated symmetry and kaleidoscope tools
Limitations
- Paid after the trial
- The many brush settings take time to learn
Details
- Pricing
- PaidPaid software with a trial version.
- License
- Proprietary
- Developer
- Paintstorm Studio
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Digital painters and concept artists who want fine control over brushes
- Categories
- Image editors
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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