Art Rage 2 is Amazing!

Website: http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html
Grade: A
Cost: $20 (Free Version is available)

Art rage is a powerful yet intuitive paint application that is really amazing. You can start with a variety of canvas styles and instantly start your painting. Your tools are found in the lower left hand corner and you have a great selection of paint brushes, markers, crayons, a painters knife, the ever important eraser, and many more. I was able to pick up the program and create my first painting within a few minutes. The textures the program creates while painting are true to real paint tools, you even get the brush lines when using the brush. I have to say that the texture qualities of the paint's are the best I have seen even in much more expensive applications. It did take me a few minutes to figure out how to change the brush size, but once I figured it out it was very well placed and made sense. If you need a little help to get started the websites they have a great video tutorial on the website. This application is well thought out, and can be a perfect creative engine for students from the middle grades up through high school. In truth this is a professional level tool, with the ease of consumer level use. Have fun and create using Art Rage 2.