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.

Artworks Basic 1.8
FINE ART COMPOSITION SOFTWARE FOR ARTISTS

"I love it!" is the most common phrase stated by customers

Artworks Basic is a unique "composition" tool tailor made for artists who use reference photos. What makes it unique are the specialty features not found in "photo-editing" tools. These features are designed to save you time while providing effective ways for you to study and improve your composition before going to canvas. This product delivers great value for your money. It pays for itself over and over again (see Key Features).




Key Features

Artworks Basic comes with special features designed to help you work out important details of your composition in the early stages of the creative process. What's more, it comes with color charts to help you plan color compositions, control color mixtures, and create the effects you desire on canvas. Here are three key features that make this product unique and valuable in the day-to-day joy of creating art.


Real Time Color Study Tools

For the first time in the history of art, you can study hues, values, and intensities in "real time". That means you can study color relationships in the same way that artists see and understand color for composition. This process is revolutionary! It's simple, very effective, and most importantly... artist friendly. Here are some benefits.

You can analyze the lighting to gain in-depth knowledge of color. Discover what combination of colors make things look the way they do... all while overcoming "tricks-of-the eye" and more. You'll often be surprised. What's great is that you can specialize in the color effects that interest you... skies, clouds, trees, mountains, fog, water, 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. Every color effect can be analyzed quickly and easily. You control what you want to see and how to see it.

You can also simplify the lighting in the image for grisaille techiques. It's quick and easy. With a click of the mouse, use the special "underlay" toolbar to convert the image into a few shades of gray. Want "5" shades?... click... "6" shades?... click... "7"? There's nothing like it!

The "real time" color study technology is practical and effective. Much of the color "study" time is shifted onto the computer. By studying the hue, value, and intensity relationships in digital photos, you reduce waste and advance your technical knowledge of color faster, easier, and better than any other way. It equips you with a simple and powerful way to move beyond the basics step-by-step and with confidence. And it only takes a fraction of the time that it used to take using traditonal methods. This is an exciting technology. The sky is the limit.


G-Lab™ Color Charts

In addition to the software, Artworks Basic comes with a printed color wheel and a value scale. These charts are precisely measured, printed on acid free paper with light-fast archival inks, and laminated for protection and durability.

Use the G-Lab™ Color Charts to interpret screen colors, make color notes, plan color compositions, and mix hundreds of colors consistantly and with confidence over and over again.


Canvas Window with Grid Overlays

Artworks Basic also comes with special features that help you draw proportions, frame, and compose the non-color things in your source image. Use the Canvas Crop Window with Grid overlays to frame pleasing compositions and draw proportions. And when you add standard "photo-editing" and "painting effect" filters and look at the price, you have a handy, practical tool that everyone can afford.

Why not try it for 30 days? Just click on the "Try It..." button below.

For Product Details...
click here

$ Australian price... click here
£ British Pound price... click here
$ Canadian* price... click here
€ Euro price... click here
$ New Zealand price... click here
$ USA price... click here

We ship to:

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, England, Finland, France,
Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, Mexico, Netherlands,
New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, United States,
and Wales.

* Canadians must use Canadian Dollars.