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CREATE TRADITIONAL PAINT EFFECTS BY COMBINING REBELLE AND PHOTOSHOPRebelle enables you to
combine the unique looks of
acrylic and watercolour paints,
which would be physically
impossible in real life!Rebelle imitates the subtractive
mixing of colours that you see in
real paint, which can dull down
tones. Add a Hue/Saturation
adjustment in Photoshop to bring
back those glowing colours.There are settings in Rebelle to
mimic the look of heavily diluted
watercolour dripping down paper- you can even lift up the paper
and angle it so your drips go
where you want them to.
Watercolour settings allow you to
achieve the look of softly blended
colours, where two hues of
diluted paint mix together on the
surface of the paper.
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o many people turn to digital art because of
the limitless possibilities for creation. You can
erase anything and start again, layer your
work and create your own brushes: you can
take things so much further than just the page. Some
might say art has never been so creative.
It’s somewhat ironic then, that the ultimate goal for so
many digital painters, no matter their software, is to find
a tool that gives them perfect realism and replication of
real life media. The perfect brush, the perfect tablet and
textures that look just like canvas are in high demand on
the internet. Digital artists love to get closer to the real
thing, and with that in mind, Escape Motions’ Rebelle
package is a perfect toy to experiment with.
While some Photoshop brushes are more intuitive
or realistic than others, Rebelle takes realism to a new
realm. It’s solely a painting program, with a set of
brushes and nibs on the left-hand side for picking, and
colours on the right. But where it really comes into itsown is with the sheer level of control and accuracy you
have when you’re painting.
It’s not necessarily that Rebelle has a wealth of
unique or revolutionary tools to bring you closer to the
art of painting; it’s more that the program uses simple
ideas brilliantly. The Smudge tool is a fairly standard
addition to any painting program, but in Rebelle, it feels
so much more responsive to your touch. You can create
swishes and flourishes, and even change the pattern
that you smudge with: useful if you’re imagining
smudging pastels with the side of your hand, rather
than acrylic with your finger. There’s the ability to make
your canvas wetter or drier, you can blow the canvas,
and you can even lift it up and tilt for the paint to slide in
a certain direction. All of this can be non-destructive with
layers, and the effect of the paint is realistic to the point
that even the paint drips look real.
That’s without touching on the wealth of resources at
your fingertips within the program. There are canvases