Flame Painter Reviews

Animated Brushes letting me generate particle assets in minutes.

Not cheap at all.But worth it, if you dont mind the investment.

I mostly use it to generate particle texture and noise textures. I am severely under using the software capabilities, but it lets me whip up anything on the fly, while looks good. For that alone i was worth it for me.

The real-time rendering engine allows artists to see changes instantly, which enhances the user experience and speeds up the creative process.

While the basics are easy to pick up, some of the more advanced tools and settings require a bit of trial and error, particularly for newcomers to digital art.

Traditional graphic design and painting software often lack tools that can create dynamic, flame-like, or particle-based effects without tedious manual work.

For a Designer Flame Painter provides excellent features like Photorealistic Effects,Dynamic Compositions and other advanced tools which makes our work faster and easy. The outcomes looks extremely realistic and beautiful. We use it almost daily in our day to day work. The customer support is excellent.

We can incorporate more features. Glitches happen but it gets resolved timely.

The best part is making the paintings as realistic as an artist's imagination. it bridges the gap between a creator and his needed output for work.

- Produces high-quality vector-based images that look significantly more realistic than those produced from other graphic programs.

- Brushes can be customized with numerous settings and are fully adaptable within each particle brush system.

- You can create and export particle brushes (using your self-made design assets).

- Extensive free brush library.

It's not like photoshop at all it's entirely brush focused. I like that you can get creative by mixing the different brushes together on the canvas. I use a mouse pen to make designing more fun. The software is also very affordable and I got it Flame Painter 4 on sale!

I couldn't find a way to import PSD brushes from photoshop as I have many. Would be interested to know if that possible at all but not a deal breaker by any means.

More creative designs being pumped out while I explore the different brush sets included with my purchase as well as a growing library of premium brushes I can buy and play with when needed. The undo button is my friend and was pleased that it uses the normal ctrl+z key combo.

Flame painter provides an easy and enjoyable way to approach image creation. Even beginners can get some nice results from this software.

It can be difficult to adapt if you come from more traditional painting applications. Similarly, Flame Painter probably won't adapt easily to a too structured workflow.

Flame Painter is not a substitute for Painter, Photoshop, Artrage or similar programs. It carved its own niche. But, in its speciality, Flame Painter is unbeatable.

Flame Painter allows the creation of smoke, clouds, galaxies and of course, flames in a very natural way, producing some beautiful works without much effort. It would be very difficult to achieve similar results in regular painting applications.

I loved the controlles the best. The way I'm capable of adjusting the shape of the brush. I mostly use the flame brush for digital paintings, and the flames look realistic.

It seems to lag and take a while to catch up with my pen strokes.

With all the different types of brushes I'm capable to create effects much quicker then having to compost them in Photoshop.

To be sure, this software has been finely crafted, has tons of tinkering and tweaking options to its presets both for amateurs and artists, but that said, for the latter however, obvious reservations apply. I have never come across any bugs, it's very responsive and its dark interface does make for a more 'professional' and pleasing look and feel. It supports layers and transparency, has Photoshop integration and allows you to customize most everything about the 'flame' strokes to suit your needs and taste. This is a developer that has always worked a great deal on the several types of 'escape-like-art' software it offers with solid and beautiful results. It has multi-core support too in its Personal Use (non-commercial) price bracket of USD30 and many more features in its 'Pro' version for USD90. Thankfully, it also adopted the age-old policy of one owning the software one buys and that is something I really appreciate. As a professional artist, I dislike 'subscription' offers that stick to you no end.

The obvious reservations I mentioned are that it is naturally of limited use, it is not really software for painting as such, and the price tag for the 'Pro' version is therefore, high in my opinion. Also, the imposition of producing only low-res images in the 'Personal Use' version defeats having all those layer, transparency and blending features I mentioned above. It's understandable but a major put-down nonetheless, with the Pro price so high, especially for non-US users. Also, in many years as a registered user, I never received any advantageous price deals for upgrading to Pro.

The 'Pro' version offers a great deal of features such as essential hi-res rendering, export to svg vector formats, Photoshop plugin integration for all versions, copy and paste to third party apps, open and save PSD layers and so on, to give it that 'pro' feel. But, and this is a hefty but, what can you really do with 'flame-art'? Its main usefulness is in post-production artwork or videos, but one cannot or should not use it extensively as that will forsake its novelty value.

I have used it in my work with nature art for a reason, to produce the 'energy fields' I am trying to convey in certain cases, however, its use in advertising and such will be limited and sometimes pointless in my view. Painting with it, however, produces some unpleasant results when applied to portraits or scenic imagery, since it was not really meant for this, but most amateurs will use it that way anyway.