A simple but lovely natural media painting and sketching program. Art oriented, but capable of loading/saving photoshop files.
Cost / License
- Pay once
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad



QAquarelle is described as 'Qaquarelle is a very young opensource Qt4-based painting application that is supposed to provide a native way of painting with emulated traditional instruments, including watercolor simulation, full support for tablets and OpenGL-based processing in GPU' and is a digital painting tool in the photos & graphics category. There are more than 50 alternatives to QAquarelle for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Mac, Linux, iPad and Android apps. The best QAquarelle alternative is GIMP, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like QAquarelle are Krita, MyPaint, Clip Studio Paint and Microsoft Paint.
A simple but lovely natural media painting and sketching program. Art oriented, but capable of loading/saving photoshop files.



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