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The ArtRage workspace is clean, uncluttered, and easy to understand.

ArtRage  is a digital painting application similar in many ways to Corel Painter, and comes in two flavors: free and nearly so ($25USD). As a long-time Painter user, I finally decided to give ArtRage a trial run, and see how it measures up to Painter. After all, the founders of Ambient Design (makers of ArtRage) originally worked for Metacreations, which once upon a time was the maker of Painter (called Fractal Design Painter back then), so I was curious to see just how similar the two programs are. I’d love to report that ArtRage is an inexpensive alternative to Painter, but it’s not really powerful enough to be used as a professional tool. It is, however, a lot of fun to play with. And it’s a great way to get your first taste of digital painting without a big investment.

While Painter is known for being complex and hard to learn, ArtRage stands at the other end of the spectrum. It’s simple. It’s intuitive. But the ease of use comes at a price: there are only a handful of brush types available, and your options for controlling how they behave are very limited. Using ArtRage is nearly as intuitive as picking up a brush and dipping in a paint well. The interface is modern and fun to work with. It reminds me a lot of the old Metacreations front ends for Bryce and Kai Power Tools, though it’s not as quirky.

ArtRage allows you to dive right in and begin exploring digital painting. If you’re looking to give digital painting a try, this is a great place to start.

ArtRage does a good job of mimicking traditional media

There are enough brush types here (Oil, Chalk, Crayon, Pencil, Airbrush, and Markers) to give you a taste for how digital painting programs can mimic their traditional counterparts. You’ll be able to vary the “paper” surface from smooth to rough, in a very convincing way. You can load in an image to trace, or load an image as a starting point, and begin painting right on top of it. ArtRage even includes layers, and will retain layers (and their blending modes) from imported Photoshop files.

ArtRage supports layers and blending modes

The downside is that brush behaviors are limited, and there are very few to pick from. While Painter has dozens of variations of a single brush type, such as Oils, ArtRage has a single Oil brush. The options for controlling an Oil brush in Painter are practically overwhelming, though beginners can just pick one of the hundreds of presets and get to work. ArtRage’s single Oil brush has just three variable settings: pressure, thinners, and loading.

My recommendation is to give ArtRage a try. The free version has many options and brushes turned off, but it will let you take it out for a spin, so there’s nothing to lose. You may just find yourself a new way to express yourself, and have a ball doing it.

Paramount and Sony have now set a concrete date for Steven Spielberg's latest film. According to TheHollywood Reporter, the studios have set a December 23, 2011 release date for The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn.
Sony, which is handling the international distribution, will roll the film out in international territories much earlier, sometime in late October. Steven Spielberg is directing the film from a script by Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish.
Jamie Bell stars as the title character, a young reporter who must square off against the nefarious Red Rackham, played by Daniel Craig. Andy Serkis, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Gad Elmaleh, Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook all co-star in the film.

the first image from the set of The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn, which is set for a 2011 release. Check out the first image from the set below.

Thrilling and wildly funny, the Tintin stories chronicle the escapades of a junior reporter who has a nose for a good story and a talent for attracting trouble, which more often than not imperils his life! Spielberg and Jackson have selected three stories from the Tintin book series to develop into theatrical featurefilms, which they intend to direct back to back, employing state of the art performance capture technology.

Goa

Cast: Jai, Premji Amaran, Vaibhav, Sampath and Sneha
Director: Venkat Prabhu

Review – This movie is typical masala movie which will be liked mainly by youths as it contains stuffs like wine, girls,love, fun without involving much seriousness in it. The film is inspired from a real life incident which took place at Goa, in which a man was charged for raping a British teenager. Well as all youths want to do that thing ( marry white girl) in their age group, so they are in same hunt. They visit to Goa, want to enjoy their life and marry a white woman and settle abroad. But the real twist comes, when they are trapped in the some conspiracy involving all three of them for her death. The story begins from fun, enjoyment with a good comedy in beginning and the story diverts towards a thriller end.
Good acting not involving much essence of good direction. but seems close to realistic.

Apple is back with a very beautiful and smart and also a easy to use gadget called iPad.. this gadget borrows the technology from apple’s previuous innovations, iphone and ipod touch. ipad has a 9.7 inches brilliant capacitive touch screen.. obviously it’s again a multi touch device from apple… it will be a great experiance of browsing inernet using fingers and reading ebooks… it will be a new gaming platform… The iPad size is about half an inch thin and weighs just 1.5 pounds and it’s powered by a 1GHz Apple A4 chip, and has 16GB to 64GB of flash storage. it’s also light enough to hold with one hand comfortably. in addition to wifi connectivity it also has 3g support via simcard… not only features are great, the price tag was also so cool starting at 499$.Finally iPad is a decently priced feature packed gadget with light weight and easy handling …

 

watch a introduction video of iPad below….

Now u can understand why the title caption is “iPad-can kill laptops and ebook readers”

Pakistan player Shahid Afridi was banned for two Twenty 20 international match because of ball tampering issue in the final ODI against Australia.Shahid Afridi captained the final match in the absence of his captain Mohammed Yousuf . Pakistan team was in a hopeless situation to win the final match since they lost all of their previous matches of the series . . he got caught in the TV cameras damaging the ball by bitting on two or three occasions in order to win the match. But the Australians won the match with 2 wickets and four balls to spare and caulked the series 5-0. Immediately after the match being ended, Match referee Ranjan Madugalle called Afridi regarding ball tampering issue . shahid Afridi accepted his tampering issue and excused for his misbehavior. He was then charged with article 2.2.9 offence of ICC Code of Conduct and was banned for the two next upcoming T20 international matches for Pakistan. He will miss a T20 against Austrailia and England each. With Mohammed Yousuf already being ruled out of series, with Afridi being banned and Younis Khan retired from this format, now the Pakistan selectors are in quandary of selecting a captain for the T20 match for upcoming matches.

           Tiger is our national animal….does anyone know how many tigers are there in our country…? still counting? okay there were only 1411 left… is that a big number? or at least  good enough to call it as our national animal? We should be ashamed of our situation. we know what is a tiger but our future generation? Like dinosaurs to us ,tiger will be an unbelievable creature to our future generation. Is that a good thing?
           Everyone should start to spread awareness from now onwards. there are lot of ways to create awareness.. can write own blogs or articles on famous web pages… can teach to children that we should save our tigers. want to contribute yourself? please visit http://saveourtigers.com . A good initiative by “AIRCEl”. Every one of us should support.. come let us roar together….