A powerful and unique digital art program, focusing on natural media painting, photo editing and illustrative styles.




ArtDesignStudio is described as 'An image and stencil editor for artists. Work with layers, remove backgrounds, use a gallery, pressure-sensitive drawing, customize colors/effects, and edit offline for full creative control' and is a digital painting tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 25 alternatives to ArtDesignStudio for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, iPad, iPhone and Android apps. The best ArtDesignStudio alternative is GIMP, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like ArtDesignStudio are Krita, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Procreate.
A powerful and unique digital art program, focusing on natural media painting, photo editing and illustrative styles.




Artweaver is a simple Freeware program for creative painting, i.e. Artweaver offers you all artistic effects which you need for your work.

AliveColors is comprehensive graphics and photo editing software for Windows and Mac. It comes in Free, Home, and Pro versions, with differing levels of functionality.




Verve (Dictionary: Energy and enthusiasm in the expression of ideas, especially in artistic performance or composition...) is the result of a curious idea I had to try using the graphics hardware to run a fluid dynamics simulation.

Pixia is a freeware bitmap graphics editor program for Windows, created by Isao Maruoka. It was originally designed for the anime/manga community but has also been used in other branches of art.

Sketches is a perfect mix of beauty, simplicity and power, a truly unique combination you won't find anywhere else.




openCanvas, popularly abbreviated as oC, is a popular Japanese image editing program.






Black Ink is a digital painting software that uses your computer's rendering hardware to provide a perfectly responsive experience no matter your picture's size.



PhoXo is small and free image editing application. It's tiny, fast, easy to use, can be treated as a mini PhotoShop. Its features include layers, undo, over 50 special effects, batch processing, and a wide variety of useful and powerful tools for selecting, crop, painting...



Seashore is an open source image editor for Mac OS. It features gradients, textures and anti-aliasing for both text and brush strokes. It supports multiple layers and alpha channel editing. It is based around the GIMPs technology and uses the same native file format.


Because beautiful tools make beautiful drawings, we endlessly refined Sketches brushes to create the most realistic drawing tools.


