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Serious Art-Work:
Basic doodles:
click for large Animated Gif
or AVI, Flash, Quicktime
Draw tufts in a
single brush stroke:
presets & samples from
Project Dogwaffle 2.1
| Tutorials: |
 postwork on photos or 3D renderings  Foliage for 3D Props |
| Reviews: Paint Magic a review by Tom Arah:  CGarena   (4.5 out of 5) "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,..." 2DValley "A great and complete art program for anyone who is interested in digital painting, sketching, drawing or just doodling." |
::: What is PD Particles?
PD Particles is a software program for sketching, doodling, painting and drawing with particles. It is loaded with features made for professionals, yet priced low enough for artists, students and hobbyists at all levels. If you like to draw, this is for you!
PD Particles also contains a
number of
fascinating natural fx brushes
and can be used as a complete, self-contained painting program.
However, it is primarily intended as a companion to your existing
favorite photo editing, imaging and painting tools and it is focused on
the use of a
particular category of brushes: the Particle Brushes.
::: Key Features
- Particle brushes
for grass, hair, trees, shrubbery, foliage etc... includes mass,
gravity, velocity, splits, follow mouse, shrinking lines, with alpha,
shaded, fog and tinting and many other parameters for millions of
unique looks.
- Many Presets for
Particles from where to spend lots of time exploring more styles.
Additional settings can be created and saved and found online.
- Particle system also includes a Bristles mode to convey a
bristled painted look to an existing image. Great for turning a
photograph to a unique piece of art that appears hand painted. Bristles
mode also supports tablet pressure and even tilt (when used with
advanced tablets that report it). Another example: Kite
- tablet support (pressure controls size and/or opacity),
both for normal brushes as
well as in combination with particle brushes (using the 'Brush'
style)
- various natural media brushes and secial FX
- Start from a new blank, an image file or image found in the Clipboard
- Alpha channel support
- supports popular image file formats: TGA(default), PSD, JPG, BMP...
- Predefined brushes:
Particles (default), Simple, Airbrush, Pen, Pencil, Oils, Tempera,
Pastels, Watercolor, Effects, Organic effects.
- Numerous brush settings to customize new brushes
- Choice of built-in brush images
- Powerful color Gradient works by Drag-and-Drop from the color well
- Paper Textures can
add realistic 3D surface look and bumpiness to painting: stucco, paper,
skins, etc...
- special fx brushes like smear, dodge, burn, stars, flowers etc...
- Many more reasons to spend long hours having fun doodling around and enjoying artistic creativity powered by Project Dogwaffle!
::: Running PD Particles under Windows Vista?
You bet, yes it works! After all, PD Particles, like all Project Dogwaffle programs, is based on Visual Basic (VB). And Microsoft's statement regarding VB under Vista is: "it just works!". So even though it may not have been designed for Vista initially, it turns out that in our recent testing, PD Particles installed just fine under Windows Vista Home Premium with service pack SP1. Of course, there are many possible configurations, and your mileage may vary: you may need to install as Administrator, or with UAC disabled, or grab a copy of the VB runtimes from download.microsoft.com. For more details about using PD Particles and other PD versions under Windows Vista, read this FAQ on Vista.
| PD Particles under Windows Vista? you bet - Details here  click image to enlarge |
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PD Particles for Game Dev: Creating awesome foliage for 3D billboards |
| User Testimonials |
| the
press
release: announcing PD Particles |
shrinking lines for grass
using PD Particles with Artweaver:
the Dogweaver plugin
Whether you are a professional
photographer
and use the high-end leader
of photo editing software, or free-spirited hobbyist expressing your
artistic visions with a free image manipulation program such as the
GIMP or ArtWeaver, or any other of the dozens of image manipulation
programs, you will always find something new and exciting that you can
do now with PD Particles.PD Particles lets you easily create fascinating artwork containing shrubbery, foliage, trees and grass, and a variety of other effects based on painting with particles and bristles, such as magical lighting effects, hair, fireworks and waterfalls, to name a few.
::: Recommended System Configuration:
- Operating System:
Windows XP recommended. Earlier versions may also work, such as Windows
98 or
2000, but have not been tested as much. Still, they should work ok.
- System Memory:
at least 128 MB RAM available, 256 MB or more recommended.
- Disk Space: 20 MB
- Graphics: a video card set to 1024x768 or higher resolution, and 24-bit or better (truecolor) depth. No 3D acceleration needed, all display rendering is done in software and with MMX and through GDI.
- Processor Type:
MMX-enabled Intel Pentium 2/3/4 type or AMD equivalent, 1 GHz speed
recommended, although it has been seen to work satisfactorily on slower
processors too. One of our tests was successfully done on a Windows 95
SR2 based K6 MMX system at 200 MHz with just 64 MB RAM ! but as
you can guess, it was no fun....
::: How to Order
To order PD Particles, go to the sales page
Also, when you order PD Particles, you get a discount coupon for upgrading to PD Pro.