06.10.2006
Review: PD Particles (Digital Painting Software)
In Digital Painting artist uses painting techniques to create the digital painting directly on the computer using digital tools like mouse, tablet and software. And one of the Digital painting software is Project Dogwaffle (PD) Particles by Dan Ritchie.
PD Particles is a cute program for sketching, doodling, painting and drawing with particles. You have never used a program like this which makes it as easy to spray realistic grass, hair, trees and many elements on the canvas with lots of customization options. This program exciting features keep the beginner entertained and professional very busy. PD Particles is not a freeware but cheap enough ($19) to buy as a toy.
Some of the plus points of the PD particles are:-
- Various natural media bushes, presets and FX
- Numerous brush settings
- Particle system settings include gravity, mass, life span, particles per emission, split angle like any 3d software particle settings.
- Create alpha map automatically for 3d
- Easy to use Color Gradient box
- Paper Textures can add realistic 3D surface look and bumpiness to painting
- Pressure sensitive tablet
- Support image formats like TGA, PSD, JPG, BMP, TIFF, PNG
- Image size presets available for the beginner
- Easy to learn user interface
- Low on memory and required very little disk space (20 MB)
If you're not sure whether digital art is for you, this is a nice way to find out. This is a must have software in every artist arsenal. It's also nice if you have a child who's interested in exploring computer art, because even young children should have no problem picking it up.
Hope till now you are excited enough to use this software, then visit the website thebest3d.com. Here you will find lots of tutorials (no help included with the software, but perhaps it's easy enough that the numerous tooltips are sufficient to learn by discovery), artist gallery and purchase the latest version. This site accepts payment from Credit card and Paypal. We are sure you will be amazed with the variety of artwork that can be achieved with this software and definitely these words came from your mouth Digital Painting has never been so much fun!
Rating:   (out of 5)
Related Links
Dan Ritchie Homepage: www.squirreldome.com
PD Particles Tutorials and Information: www.thebest3d.com
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