free software

Sculptris is an intuitive, powerful and yet easy to use 3D sculpting software, allowing anyone, whether starter or professional to simply focus on creating 3D artwork. What's more, the skills you learn with Sculptris directly translate to ZBrush and the download of the application is for free.

free web application

Color Scheme Designer (CSD) is a web application designed to easily create set of matching color. Color theory used by artists for centuries was transformed into algorithms to combine color they go best together while avoiding uncomfortable combinations.

colorschemedesigner.com

open sources

FreeArtSoftware lists the best free graphic design software downloads. Some may be test versions and only valid for 30 days, others are designed as freeware or licensed under open source.

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New at the App Store

Adobe releases Photoshop Touch today.
The Little brother of CS5 is available for iPad 2 only and comes with a fairly low resolution of 1,600 x 1,600 pixels.

www.adobe.com

Buy at iTune Store for $9.99

Brush Viewer

Downloading and sharing custom-made Photoshop brushes has become a common practise all over the internet forums. Whether for experiment or a certain purpose, there is a broad variety of resources. Rarely one can estimate the actual use of a brush-set before loading it into Photoshop.



ABRView is a little software that enables you to preview single brushes and helps you to pick the one you were looking for. Get this application (64KB) for free at easyelements.com

popular scripts

The growing community at CGHub offers a nice selection of scripts and brushes for both Photoshop and Painter. Of course you'll also find support files for the main 3D applications and Illustrator. Go here to find the brushes and here for an overview of all the shareware. Swatches such as color-picker are here and another useful tool, the painters wheel for CS4 was published on CDW earlier this year.

Alchemy.008.BETA.release

Alchemy isn’t software for creating finished artwork, but rather a sketching environment that focuses on the absolute initial stage of the creation process. Intentionally reduced to a level of functionality there are no undo, no selecting, and no editing features. Interaction focuses instead on the output of a great number of good, bad, strange and beautiful shapes.

Alchemy is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. A download is available for Mac 10.5, 10.6, Linux and Windows

A quick demo showing how an Alchemy sketch can be used inside ZBrush. Using the Alchemy sketch as an alpha mask, flat shapes are explored in 3d for a helmet or mech head concept piece. al.chemy.org

Painters Wheel 1.0 for CS4

A color picker resembling closely Corel Painter's color wheel is now availabe for Adobe Photoshop CS4.

The application can be downloaded at lenwhite.com and supports Mac OS, XP, Vista, 7, 32, 64 bit. The download is for free.

lenwhite.com
Painters Wheel 1.0

theshowreel.tv is a site for creating professional showreels streaming in the highest quality possible. It is a subscribtion based service with a user friendly drag and drop function that has been custom built for TheShowreel. The included software compresses and uploads all formats of quicktime automatically to high quality H262 FLV. www.theshowreel.tv

Modbook® by Axiotron

The Modbook is the only Mac tablet available and a fully functioning computer on it's own. Working in Mac OS® X, Modbook users can draw on the screen using popular applications like Autodesk, SketchBook, Express and Photoshop — or any other Mac-based application.

It has an etched ForceGlass™ screen to simulate paper, giving a natural experience when using the included digitizer pen. Its magnesium frame and top shell give it superior structural strength, yet it is only slightly heavier than its original MacBook base system — a 100% mobile creative tool. www.axiotron.com

Photoshop CS5

cs5.org shows a preview into the next generation of Adobe developments. Painter-style brushes and an advanced warp tool are a few of the new features of CS5 due to be released in 2010. A video shows ‘wet’ paints being smudged, smeared and blended. It also shows an on-screen representation of the 3D properties of a brush, being twisted to lay down different stroke types. read more...

Soy tu aire

Paint your own music video. soytuaire.labuat.com is a beautiful designed interactive website. Hit 'play' and give it a few seconds to load, then move the curser as you wish. Enjoy!