Artweaver : Photoshop Alternative
Sunday, September 14, 2008 by PoSmedley | Discussion: Skinning
   'Free application Artweaver isn't just a Photoshop alternative like GIMP, but a fair clone of Photoshop itself.'
If you're looking for a free alternative to Photoshop, this may be it. 'The programs are so similar, in fact, that seasoned Photoshop users will find themselves wondering why a feature is suddenly missing from the menu.' A lot of folks are looking for a free 'replacement' for Photoshop. This app won't replace it, but it may be as close as you can get. There are also plug-ins you can download for Artweaver. Artweaver's feature set is robust; it includes layer management, image cloning, a history function, transparency, pen tablet support, and a host of the common filters in Photoshop. Artweaver is available as a full install or in a portable version. |
Reply #4 Sunday, September 14, 2008 9:35 PM
soddit .. edit buttons not working NO PSD LAYER SUPPORT THO' - - Still gonna trty it out for a while ..
http://img244.imageshack.us/my.php?image=artweavernq6.jpg
Reply #5 Sunday, September 14, 2008 9:42 PM
trty ? 
Try ... 
wow .. need a spell checker in the reply box ... for when the edit button doesnt work , hehehe
Reply #7 Sunday, September 14, 2008 10:15 PM
Only had it a few minutes and I like this prog .. Gonna try it on a new Sidebar !
Reply #8 Sunday, September 14, 2008 10:51 PM
I think they need to update that. This version should have layer support.
Reply #10 Wednesday, October 8, 2008 8:18 PM
You Might Know This But.....................GIMP is another Photoshop Alternative And it is Free and Does Everything That Artweaver Can Do. It Can Even Run Photoshop Plugins And Run Filters For Animated GIF's.
LINK: http://www.gimp.org
About GIMP
Introduction to GIMP
GIMP is an acronym for GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed program for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
It has many capabilities. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc.
GIMP is expandable and extensible. It is designed to be augmented with plug-ins and extensions to do just about anything. The advanced scripting interface allows everything from the simplest task to the most complex image manipulation procedures to be easily scripted.
GIMP is written and developed under X11 on UNIX platforms. But basically the same code also runs on MS Windows and Mac OS X.
Features and Capabilities
This is only a very quickly thrown together list of GIMP features. You can also have a look at the illustrated features overview.
- Painting
- Full suite of painting tools including Brush, Pencil, Airbrush, Clone, etc.
- Sub-pixel sampling for all paint tools for high quality anti-aliasing
- Extremely powerful gradient editor and blend tool
- Supports custom brushes and patterns
- System
- Tile based memory management so image size is limited only by available disk space
- Virtually unlimited number of images open at one time
- Advanced Manipulation
- Full alpha channel support
- Layers and channels
- Multiple Undo/Redo (limited only by diskspace)
- Editable text layers
- Transformation tools including rotate, scale, shear and flip
- Selection tools including rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, free, fuzzy
- Foreground extraction tool
- Advanced path tool doing bezier and polygonal selections.
- Transformable paths, transformable selections.
- Quickmask to paint a selection.
- Extensible
- A Procedural Database for calling internal GIMP functions from external programs as in Script-fu
- Advanced scripting capabilities (Scheme, Python, Perl)
- Plug-ins which allow for the easy addition of new file formats and new effect filters
- Over 100 plug-ins already available
- Animation
- Load and save animations in a convenient frame-as-layer format
- MNG support
- Frame Navigator (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
- Onion Skin (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
- Bluebox (in GAP, the GIMP Animation Package)
- File Handling
- File formats supported include bmp, gif, jpeg, mng, pcx, pdf, png, ps, psd, svg, tiff, tga, xpm, and many others
- Load, display, convert, save to many file formats
- SVG path import/export
- Much, much more!
Reply #11 Wednesday, October 8, 2008 9:48 PM
Gimp can be *painful* to use. 
Any interface has to be better. 
Reply #12 Wednesday, October 8, 2008 11:25 PM
I Find It Easier to Use Than the Photoshop Interface.
Reply #13 Thursday, October 9, 2008 5:57 PM
Thanks Po. I DL'd this opened it and it looks interesting. Seems like there will be more updates to it as well.
Reply #14 Thursday, October 9, 2008 10:09 PM
Can't wait to see what you do with it, BigDog 
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Reply #1 Sunday, September 14, 2008 2:16 PM
Excellent program and post, Po...you can get a plugin for dogwaffle ( in case you use it)...