ArtRage

ArtRage allows artists to customise and share a wide variety of resources, from canvas textures to custom brushes. The custom resources in this collection are all downloadable, and generously created by the ArtRage community for other artists to use. If you have any resources of your own to add, they would be valuable and appreciated. There are instructions for each resource type in each folder down the left, and the generic package file instructions can be read below. Package Files If you have ArtRage Studio or ArtRage Studio Pro version 3.5 or later, you can install package files. These are collections of any type of resources packaged up by another user. If you see a post sharing a package file you should see a link to an .arpack file in the post. Click the link, then save the file somewhere handy. When the download is complete, double click the file to install it into ArtRage. A window will pop up with a summary of all of the items you are about to install. You can choose to install all of the resources, or only some of them. When you've decided, click the install button and all of the of resources will be automatically installed. If you need a visual guide, there are screenshot tutorials here: Creating Package Files in ArtRage Installing Package Files in ArtRage Unpackaged Resource Files Each resource has its own file types(s) which may or may not be packaged up in an Package File. You can find the individual instructions for installing each kind of file in the relevant folder. Updating Custom Resources from ArtRage Studio/Studio Pro to ArtRage 4 ArtRage 4 places custom resources in a different location to previous versions of ArtRage. This means that when you first start it, any custom resources you have created such as Presets, Stencils, Stickers etc. will not be found by the new edition. There is a shortcut built in to ArtRage 4 to help migrate resources over to the new product. Because these custom content items are all files on disk, they are easy to copy over. Here's how you do it: Open up ArtRage 4. In the Tools Menu locate the 'User Content' menu. At the top of the User Content menu is 'Open User Content Folder…' Select that menu item. This opens up the User Content folder for ArtRage 4. This folder is called 'Custom Content'. Leave that folder open and return to ArtRage. Return to the Tools menu and locate the User Content menu again. This time, hold down the Shift key on your keyboard and select 'Open User Content Folder…' This opens up the User Content folder on your computer from ArtRage Studio or ArtRage Studio Pro. This folder is called 'Resources'. If nothing happens when you do step 5, the folder didn't exist so you have no user content to copy over. Copy all of the folders from the old ArtRage Studio / ArtRage Studio Pro 'Resources' folder to the new 'Custom Content' folder. Restart ArtRage 4. You have now copied all of the custom content you installed or created in ArtRage 3 to your ArtRage 4 installation. Requests If you need a certain type of resource, feel free to comment at the bottom. While we cannot promise to meet all requests, they will certainly be looked at for ideas (and may inspire other artists as well). .