Underlay Toolbar for Grisaille
Now has the expanded Underlay toolbar with 12 buttons made for value studies and grisaille under-painting techniques. Create a grisaille study in minutes, print the results, and simulate hue glazes.
Quick Start Tutorial
This tutorial explains how to use Artworks Basic to create and print grisaille studies. Available as a FREE download in a printable PDF format.
To download this study click here.
WINDOWS® 98, ME, 2000 Pro, XP, Vista
Released - April 20, 2009
Artworks Basic 1.9
FINE ART COMPOSITION SOFTWARE FOR ARTISTS
"I love it!" is the most common phrase stated by our members
Artworks Basic is a cutting edge tool made for "composition" with "real time color analysis" built in.
Artists who work from digital photos use its innovative features to save time, reduce waste, and improve their compositions before going to canvas. It's a handy, practical tool that pays for itself.
Feature Checklist
- robust analytical tools to study and mask color (hues, values, and chromas) in "real time"
- special underlay tool to create instant grisaille gray studies
- grisaille print controls to calibrate screen values with value scale when printing your grisaille studies
- re sizeable canvas window overlay to frame pleasing compositions
- "drawing" grid overlay to help draw proportions
- "golden mean" grid overlay to determine focal points in your composition
- basic photo-editing filters (e.g. unsharp mask, median blur)
- painting "effects" filters (e.g. dry brush, impressionist)
- open and save standard image formats (e.g. JPEG, PNG, GIF)
Value Added
Artworks Basic is more than just software. It comes with...
- three printed color charts - a "gray balanced" color wheel, a 16 step value scale, and a chroma scale (see Product Highlights below)
- electronic color tutorial - topics include the three color elements, the color system, contrast and related principles for composition, and color mixing.
MILESTONES
JULY 2008
We're honored and encouraged - Artworks Basic was listed for its composition features in the article...
The Best Software for Making Art
The Artist's Magazine - JULY / AUGUST 2008
The Artellmedia Difference
The Artellmedia difference is "real time color analysis" for art. It's what makes this technology truly innovative and so effective.
Artworks Basic does not conform to the mold set by the "art software" tools of the 1990's. Instead the core technology of special tools and controls are based upon an innovative new "composition" model that provides "real time color analysis". It's the basis for artistic control to study color in-depth, explore new possibilities, and advance.
The invention of the "real time" technology was an engineering breakthrough that simplified everything. It's what separates Artellmedia technology from all other software products for art.
What’s New in Artworks Basic 1.9?
The color framework of Artworks Basic 1.9 has been rebuilt using the Gagnon Color System for color analysis and composition.
The Gagnon Color System (Gonyeau) is an intuitive, 3D color system with a color wheel structured upon "golden mean" proportions and hues that are "gray balanced" for both digital and pigment colors. It was invented specifically for art in this emerging 21st century world of "digital" computers, cameras, and printers. This is a groundbreaking technology for art instruction and composition.
Highlights
Here are some of the nifty things you can do with this product...
Study Color Effects in Real Time
For the first time in the history of art, you can study color effects in digital images in "real time". That means you can study color in the same way that artists see and understand color for composition. This process is revolutionary and timeless! It emulates visual perception for art. It's simple, very effective, and most importantly... artist intuitive.
So what's that mean to you?
It means you have an effective way to analyze the color composition and gain in-depth knowledge of color fast and easy. These tools provide ways to make effective use of your study time. Time is precious no matter what age you are or experience you have.
You can start where you are and grow. Discover what combination of colors make things look the way they do... all while overcoming "tricks-of-the eye". You'll often be surprised. And what's great about these tools is that you can specialize in the color effects that interest you... skies, clouds, trees, mountains, fog, water, pets, portraits, barns, boats, barrels, ... you name it. What makes a "copper" pot look "copper"? What makes "ice" on the pond look like "ice"?... "trees" look like "trees", "water"... "water"? This technology reveals all. The overall composition and every color effect can be analyzed quickly and easily. You control what you want to see and how to see it in real time.
You can also simplify the lighting in your digital image for grisaille techniques. With a click of the mouse, use the special "underlay" toolbar to convert the image into a few shades of gray in "real time". Want five grays? Click "5". Six grays? Click... "6". Eight grays? "8"... and so on. There's nothing like it!
Mix and Plan Color
The Artworks Basic software package also comes with three printed color charts for reference when painting - a color wheel, a value scale, and the new chroma (intensity) scale.
What's important for artists and art teachers to know is that the Gagnon printed colors are gray balanced for "real world" art (e.g. painting). Each chart is reliably printed on acid free paper with light-fast archival inks for long life and each chart is laminated for protection and durability.
Use these charts to interpret screen colors, make color notes, share color notes, plan color compositions, and mix hundreds of colors accurately and with confidence.
Even without the software, these printed charts alone add considerable value as a reliable reference for color composition.
Compose the Non-Color things
Artworks Basic also comes with special overlay features that help you draw, frame, and compose the non-color things. Use the Canvas Crop Window with the Composition Grid overlay to frame pleasing compositions and the Drawing Grid to help with drawing proportions. 
And More...
When you add standard "photo-editing" plus special filters like "painting effects" to the list and look at the price, you have a handy, practical tool that everyone can afford.
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