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Photos:
ArtRage for iPad Nelson’s Starwar Boy:
http://www.thomas-pr.com/136/photos/ambientdesignipadstarwar.html
ArtRage for iPad Photo:
http://www.thomas-pr.com/136/photos/ambientdesignipad.html
Contact:
Karen Thomas/Eva Yutani
Thomas PR (631) 549-7575
kthomas@thomaspr.com
eyutani@thomaspr.com
www.thomaspr.com
AMBIENT DESIGN
SPONSORS INAUGURAL iAMDA MOBILE DIGITAL ARTIST CONFERENCE
ArtRage for iPad
Launch Celebrated in New York and Worldwide with 40% App Discount During
Conference
October 22, 2010, NY, NY -- Ambient Design
www.artrage.com
is sponsoring the first annual MobileArtCon at NYU ITP (Interactive
Telecommunications Program) at the Tisch School of the Arts, October
22-25, 2010 in New York, NY. Organized by the iAMDA (International
Association of Mobile Digital Artists), the conference is bringing
visual artists, designers, musicians and app developers together from
around the world to discuss art and music created on handheld
touchscreen devices (iPhones/iPads, etc.) from a creative, technical and
historical perspective. The event features artist presentations, app
demonstrations, and forums by app developers.
The event follows upon the recent launch of ArtRage™ for iPad app
by Ambient Design Ltd. ArtRage for iPad takes the award winning
technology of the ArtRage desktop versions and packages it into a
creative, artistic experience tailor-made for tablet computers.
“We went for a no compromise approach to achieve a highly optimized
drawing and painting experience for ArtRage on the iPad,” said Andy
Bearsley, Ambient Design’s Co-Founder and Technical Director. “ArtRage
for iPad brings the user a real paint feel with wet watercolors, as well
as industry-standard blend modes on tools and layers.”
ArtRage provides the highly satisfactory experience of actually painting
with oil or watercolors. It provides oil paints that smear and blend on
the canvas, watercolor strokes that merge to create soft, wet gradations
and each different tool interacts on the screen the way it does in
traditional art settings. The iPad user interface allows artists of all
levels to unleash their creativity and to spontaneously draw, sketch,
and paint with many artistic effects.
“Once you experience ArtRage, you cannot live without it anymore”, says
Sarah Brody, Principal at Sarah Brody Design, a Silicon Valley-based,
human interface design consultancy. “Now I will never miss an
opportunity to express myself artistically with my iPad with ArtRage
installed on it. With ArtRage you can almost smell the paint and feel
the paper’s texture.”
Classically trained artists will readily adapt to the intuitive user
interface of the digital versions of their tools like pencil, chalk,
watercolor and oil brush, paint tubes, palette knife and airbrush, as
well as canvas and paper. Children, K-12 students, and aspiring artists
are comfortable getting started with painting and drawing. Files can be
swapped with desktop versions of ArtRage on Mac and Windows for
additional professional features and collaboration.
The desktop versions ArtRage 3 Studio and Studio Pro contain all
features of the iPad version, along with additional tools such as
stencils, rulers, stickers, sticker spray, glitter tools, custom color
palettes and more. ArtRage is available on Windows and Macintosh, and it
supports Wacom tablets and Interactive White Boards (IWB). ArtRage 3
Studio is also optimized for the new popular Windows 7 multi-touch
screens.
In addition, photo files can be imported and converted into paint,
reworked in oil or watercolor or serve as reference images while
drawing. With its image tracing capabilities, ArtRage can select colors
automatically for every new stroke. The ArtRage family of software
products provides an affordable electronic canvas with a range of tools,
colors, and palettes never seen before while maintaining the art studio
experience familiar to artists, hobbyists, and casual painters.
Special Promotional Pricing for ArtRage for iPad
For the duration of the conference – October 22nd through the 25th,
2010, ArtRage for iPad is available for the promotional price
of US $3.99 as compared to its normal price of US$6.99 at the
Apple iTunes Store. For more information on ArtRage, see website
www.artrage.com.
About iAMDA
The International Association of Mobile Digital Artists promotes and
supports artists who utilize mobile digital media to create art ranging
from paintings, photography, mixed media and music. Media includes
cellphones, mobile tablets (ie. iPods/IPads), mobile graphic tablets or
any other mobile wireless device(s). The organization is committed to
supporting these artists through the development of educational
resources, programs, workshops, conferences, and promotional events (ie,
group exhibitions). For more information on iAMDA, please visit:
www.iamda.org.
About NYU-ITP
ITP is a two-year graduate program located in the Tisch School of the
Arts whose mission is to explore the imaginative use of communications
technologies — how they might augment, improve, and bring delight and
art into people's lives. For more information about NYU-ITP, please
visit:
http://itp.nyu.edu/itp/
About Ambient Design Ltd.
Ambient Design Ltd. is a New Zealand-based global software development
and publishing firm, specializing in creative applications and user
interfaces for artists of all ages and all levels of competency:
professionals, hobbyists and students. The principals have over 40 years
experience in combining complex image processing algorithms with an
easily accessible user experience. Ambient Design Ltd. was founded in
2000 by Andy Bearsley and Matt Fox-Wilson, formerly of MetaCreations,
the developer of Painter, Bryce and Kai's Power Tools. Ambient Design’s
products are available in 12 languages and have been downloaded over 10
million times.
To learn more about Ambient Design and ArtRage and buy the desktop
versions of ArtRage, please visit:
http://www.artrage.com.
Additional Resource Links:
ArtRage for iPad main page:
http://www.artrage.com/artrage-ipad-main.html
ArtRage for iPad features:
http://www.artrage.com/artrage-ipad-features.html
ArtRage, Ambient
Design and the BrushMan logo are trademarks of Ambient Design Ltd. All
other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
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