New art app with a great brush engine -- Realistic Paint Studio -- Digital App Review

[@colorwithkurt]

They updated the resolution limitations shortly after this video was made.

[@bampidraws]

I’ve just started to use this app and it’s awesome. Thanks for sharing this video great job

[@johnhunter1653]

I was immediately attracted to this app when I saw a realistic water colour pallet just like my real ones. The colours you chose go in these oblong pallet spaces and stay there for use just like a real painting process. No others do this so realistically, except Corel’s Painter programmes. The rest is very good except the resolution problem. I look forward to this point being addressed. I am a traditional painter in all real media, so I think the developers have really grasped the nature of traditional methods. Great

[@conquerorkang6193]

Clip Studio Paint is still my primary app,but any new affordable app is welcomed to oppose the Price gouging empire of Adobe. 👍🏿

[@brodriguez11000]

Corel says hi.

[@mmgg4940]

krita like ur coment

[@EdL-m3b]

Ugh....after years of using Adobe products I left them completely.

[@brucebissell7626]

AWESOME REVIEW. THANKS, GOD BLESS YA!

[@clockmaster_77]

I Own both Rebelle 7 Pro and this software. I love both, very different but both excellent. This is far less complex than Rebelle, but it is a Very Good painting software, and above of all very easy of use and with a nice brush blending engine. I found that the Dry Brush in the Oil Paint Tools acts like a tracer of the previous layer too, fantastic! With the updates now it is possible to have custom canvas sizes and this is very useful. I love the brushes.

[@andypandy3736]

this is better than artrage and if they allow 300dpi or higher this could be the best app ive ever seen for natural realistic brush engine

[@aniaphotouk]

You can set up custom size now, love this app so far

[@alalme7691]

You didn't mention price. At $20 or $25 it's quite affordable.

[@Nazareth434]

$10 right now on sale

[@UkuleleVillain]

$25 is for additional content

[@florribart]

Gracias, bajé la app estos días y estaba buscando videos de reseñas

[@calcramer]

Just purchased this for iPad. Loving it so far!

[@KyninhaH]

There is a lot of interesting stuff going on here, but yeah, the canvas size limitation is a deal breaker. I will keep my eye on this in the future though! Thanks for making this video, I love learning about new art apps!

[@redactedrajan4773]

Recent update came out that allows you to make custom canvases :)

[@TheKevphil]

The TUTORIALS approach is definitely impressive!

[@colorwithkurt]

Yeah, you can apparently make your own, so I'm looking forward to learning more about that.

[@CarlosFerreira-kaiko]

@@colorwithkurt Hi. Can you tell me which is your computer specifications? My computer runs it so much lagging that it is unworkable right now, specially when using the market pens... Thank you

[@colorwithkurt]

I have a pretty high-end PC.

[@CarlosFerreira-kaiko]

@@colorwithkurt Ohhhh... I can see. That's why the issue on my desktop. Thank you!

[@eliezermexicanimation]

@@colorwithkurt do you know how to move within the canvas? I diacovered zoom in and zoom out but i didnt find any hand icon o tool to move to especific canvas areA

[@BestnameIcanThinkof89]

I’m definitely going to check this out!

[@MooreThanaPodcast]

Saw this video today and I was very impressed. As a new artist looking to learn the fundamentals, I think this would be a perfect tool for a beginner like me.

[@ariewinata-filmdirector]

Rebelle 4 software for me. I Just wish they have an app version for ipad.

[@KayzeChannel]

Cool APP. Thank you for sharing it, Mr. Kurt.

[@martinpearce5588]

Hi Kurt, good news! I’ve recently bought the app and you can set your own custom size and resolution.

[@colorwithkurt]

Yeah I need to do any update.

[@postmax81]

I tried it and quite like it, even if I don't get a kick out of real media emulation. I just wish for a. custom canvas sizes. b. a more minimal interface with this brush engine I just don't like this kind of app design, it just makes it feel more like a toy or a game, not like an art tool. Other people might differ, but its not my thing.

[@3polygons]

I completely agree, same thoughts.

[@AtomekKotalke]

I think it’s more for a fun and experimenting than professional use of the artwork you made in this app. The team behind this app already made Paintstorm studio so it’s good that it is it’s own thing.

[@tarabooartarmy3654]

Same. I’m really disappointed that I can’t do custom canvas sizes, especially. It’s fun to play with, but it’s a bit pricey for a toy.

[@trooperjoe73]

Looks very nice. Plus, it's available for Windows, which is nice because I don't do mac products. Once it gets going, I'm sure they'll improve it. Well, we can hope.

[@BenFrankarts]

I have Realistic Paint Studio and the way I get around the canvas limitation is I blow it up with Gigapixel App from TapazLabs (I’m not sponsored) and overall it does a pretty good job of blowing up my work and the only trade off I’ve noticed is on the works that rely heavily on the detail of the paint brush texture I lose about 10% of that but in exchange my clients have yet to even notice and I sell digital prints that emulate natural media to private collectors. You can try it for free, just Google it up.

[@sullax1]

Wow.. that's an awesome app tnx for bringing attention to it :D

[@antmax]

I got it last night, and really like it. Was a little put off by the quirky depiction of surfaces like books and canvases and not just a flat screen. But got used to it pretty quick. I bought a 24 inch Huion last week and it feels like I have a lap desk with all my gear on it. It's kind of cool lol. Was relieved when I found I could create a new custom canvas and choose the size in inches and DPI. I plan to use this as a rough sketch tool where I might end up doing real oil paintings from the roughs I REALLY like. Price is amazing..

[@jk114403d]

I agree that the canvas size is a big problem for serious artists, but I think that's the price we pay for such a fantastic brush engine. My bog standard iPad runs it ok, but there is significant lag. Perhaps one of the solutions may be to either build in an upscaling option (and there's some pretty decent ai resizing algorithims these days) or update the desktop app and have the option on the iPad to record a script file that can be played back within the desktop app at higher resoltion...Neither is ideal, but I have a feeling if they can come up with a few decent updates this may become my favourite painting app...just about to fire off an email to the developers with my suggestions...thanks for the great review video :)

[@gullyexplores]

it looks beautiful! I've been testing it out on my Surface Pro 4 which gets hot very quickly! As they have made an iPad version I'd love to see an android tablet version soon

[@robertolazary2807]

Thank you for showing this. My favorite app is Photoshop and Rebelle, but I will give this app a try.

[@nicoled.4472]

So in my version when you go to pick a canvas at the top right corner is a "create custom" in there you pick your size and dpi

[@colorwithkurt]

It's been updated. :)

[@marcar365]

This looks really interesting! Thanks for sharing 🤩

[@kingdomanimations1193]

Nice!!!

[@CaptainCayy]

You can get this on ipad! I just downloaded it and holy hell i love it so far. And its only 12$

[@ArtisticLibra]

This video was very helpful and I ended up purchasing the app on iPad. I was debating because I already had Procreate but I must say the app is worth it and has things Procreate it missing. Hopefully they add gouche and acrylic in the future.

[@sandtripper]

You can not get a canvas only output. You get the a frame or whatever. At least as I have found so far. Still looking. I agree with you and I would add canvases only outputs is a must before I would continue using the program. If you find me wrong please comment. I am on iPad Pro 11 in.

[@colorwithkurt]

You could always export without the background from the home/main screen. There's an export button at the top if I remember correctly. Custom canvases have now been added as well in a recent update.

[@sandtripper]

Tools>box w up arrow>jpeg>image........that gets jpeg canvas only Got it. Thanks for the help. Your objection still stand.

[@colorwithkurt]

Sustained!

[@davidrivero299]

Looks pretty cool! But yeah, sounds like it was made only for social media so far. I'll be checking it out though.

[@pauloribeiro6936]

They add custom size canvas in recent updates, i buy the app and love it!

[@mylazyeyedesignandillustra3109]

Can you import?

[@filipyoha]

Respect for txe poster.

[@JunFender-art]

I'm loving this software, and... Uh, I didn't notice I could change the brush size!

[@gusduenasArt]

hi, do you have an ipad, a mac or a surface pro?.

[@JunFender-art]

@@gusduenasArt I have a PC with windows 10 and a cintiq 16hd

[@gusduenasArt]

@@JunFender-art do you care to share your specs on the machine...but probably its not the comp but the cintiq hd the one ismaking that possible...mine is not wacom...sniff

[@JunFender-art]

@@gusduenasArt you mean that you can't change the brush size?

[@gusduenasArt]

@@JunFender-art it seems like the brush size it is the same, and the pressure sensibility doesn't work at all

[@RalphDacanay]

some tools doesn't work with my Wacom tablet? but it works with a mouse. like the 3rd step in painting watercolor mountain tutorial

[@abduljalil6646]

Regarding the export file. You should use snippet or any other screen capture.

[@Kyle_Butterfield81]

Canvas size is a bummer but also i didn’t see how to use wet oils, or dry oils. I’m probably not explaining that well. But using oils in a more fluid way vs dry brush, or something like that.

[@MyLazyEye23]

Ya deal breaker with the low res. Can you zoom into the canvas?

[@colorwithkurt]

Yes and that feature was updated shortly after this video was made.

[@aine4400]

Great video - 72 ppi is also a dealbreaker for me - one thing also critical - for the iPad - can u rotate the canvas ? Thank you

[@fedebut]

Yes u can

[@colorwithkurt]

Yep! Rotation, zoom, pan is all there.

[@aine4400]

Thanks for Update on Zoom - good to know

[@GrinningFeline]

That brush engine. I could see my wife working in this app.

[@pencilsandstories]

The brushes look really good! I’m not sure if all the clutter around the canvas would eventually start bothering me. But it looks just really fun, just for making something for yourself. Doesn’t sound like it’s suitable for pro work. How does the export work? Will you get just the canvas?

[@JunFender-art]

And yeah, the final resolution it's not very good, just like a postcard size print more or less, can be nece for small presents anyway. I Hope they can increase the size at least for a A4 300dpi in the future.

[@JunFender-art]

You can choose to export only the canvas yes

[@3polygons]

@@JunFender-art I need A2 or at least A3, at 300 dpi. And I'm fine with the UI if I can totally disable it permanently in preferences. Even if for the regular user it appears by default. You can indeed hide it already, but not sure if same functionality is available...

[@JunFender-art]

@@3polygons ever tried Expressii!? But I'm not sure about the resolution and size of that one...

[@leopillay8939]

Hi can u export on this program n can it be used on MacBook

[@mohammedmusleh2553]

it's a good idea to use this app as a digital sketchbook to practice drawing without worrying about which brush should I use 😂😂

[@skullmammon909]

What kind of pc or laptop are you using Do you recommend this software for older laptops , I have a think pad x1 carbon from 2013 i7 . Could you recommend me a software that would run smoothly on it ? Thank you in advance.

[@niobesivorydream5658]

Also they have to revamp the import/export options... u cant Export just the picture without canvas Textur and u cant import for example png with an Outline picture for doing just the coloring

[@colorwithkurt]

You can export the plain images without the canvas from the main screen. Haven't tried importing much yet.

[@niobesivorydream5658]

Color with Kurt what i mean is exporting it with opacity, like just the linework for example....

[@colorwithkurt]

Yeah I don't believe this is that sort of app. I wouldn't be surprised if that isn't an option for a while. Just not a focus.

[@niobesivorydream5658]

Color with Kurt its a pitty, cause i would like to draw the sketch in RPS (i like the feel of the pencils), do the inking in procreate (i like the inking there better) and then Switch again to RPS to Color there for example with watercolors,that would be perfect!

[@colorwithkurt]

It's just a guess on my part, but I agree with you. :)

[@LillenArt2]

Couldn't you (in PS) just change the DPI to 300 but keep the inches the same? I heard changing DPI doesn't actually affect the quality of the file the same as pixel resolution.

[@colorwithkurt]

Sure. It's a really small canvas though.

[@THEMAYQUEEN1]

Do you know if there is a way to save your art work without the background image frames?

[@colorwithkurt]

There's a button at the top of the main gallery that will.

[@THEMAYQUEEN1]

@@colorwithkurt ok great I will have a look. Thank you 😊

[@ziksarthi]

how did you screen record it?

[@3polygons]

Yeah, I had tested it before your video... but... canvas sizes, man! No way for professional work... Most apps mimicking trad painting have this HUGE problem. Clients ask one to print stuff of 1.5 meters wide, 300dpi. NO WAY. Good toy, a solid promise, but... not as is now. Rebelle 3 has a bit less this problem, but u can't either work and print a 1.5 x 1 meter canvas, 300 dpi. For me, till things changes, it's all (in desktop) Clip Studio (great trad brushes, even if is not a 1:1 mimic) and Krita.

[@cisp360]

I agree. I was sad though because this app has the most realistic pencil. There is no setting or custom brush in clip studio paint or krita that comes as close to being a real color pencil than the one in this app. All other apps such as rebelle 3 or artrage 6 who claim that they have realistic pencil but the results are just fake. Rebelle 3 has okay watercolor but it is too slow even on brand new pc that I built for rendering 3D graphics. The watercolor in rebelle 3 is limited too. For example, if you make a huge canvas, you will have problem if you want to do washes. For me now, regarding watercolor, the only app worth using is Expresii. It is fast and you can have like 12k by 12k resolution. The result if superb. You can see the fiber of the paper, the infinite subtlety of the brush and ink. However, the watercolor style in Expresii is sumi-e, not western watercolor. But I did get amazing result using the app. So much so that I am jealous because my real watercolor skill cannot be this good because I cannot hit ctrl-z in real life :))

[@patmurphy7266]

krita was the first to honestly surprise me in that department way back in 2015-16ish i decided to stress test it with a 6ft x 9ft @300dpi on my pc and it actually worked David Revoy had for at the time, the coolest brushes too for Krita, and I still enjoy them. It's just Krita is Krita, stability woes kill me

[@3polygons]

Krita does not crash on me anymore, since a while. It used to, but haven't noticed more crashes. They improve the code base at high speed... I've met in person the actual original developer, he is an extremely nice guy, he actually informed me a lot about stuff from other apps as well (in open source realm). They have now an ongoing-incoming new impasto engine, to better simulate oils (and other techniques) and that's really exciting. And yes, it also surprised me with the capability with large canvases. And they were first in adding line stabilization when Affinity Photo and even Photoshop did not have it yet ! (Photoshop has taken decades to add line smoothing to its PS CC 2018! Goes a long way in telling you how much a industry standard is not questioned... I've learnt and worked in companies with PS, and I am fully capable with it, I like its UI, so, is not criticizing what I can't use... ;) ) Expresii is a jewel, I discovered it a while ago (from reading a comment in a Fresco video, lol), yep... Is a bit basic in features compared with these other softwares, but perfectly capable with the act of painting it self (and is zero issues to export to Affinity Photo, dirty cheap Photoshop, imo, and really good, for whatever extra retouch is needed). And yes, incredibly well optimized to work even in cheap tablets, and that reflects to in that it can work great in large canvases if handling decent (does not need anything too special) computers with enough memory, etc. The problem with Rebelle is that it does not mind that you have 32 GB of RAM, a 3900X and a good card, even a SSD disk. It simply can't deal with canvases (and I checked this with the developers, it is just like that, *but they might solve it for version 4!*) of the sizes needed for many commercial projects, specially those bigger than A4 and the usual 300 dpi. But is a MUCH better case than the sizes proposed by this tool, _Realistic Paint_ . Art Rage is in a middle place... You can do bigger canvases than with Rebelle, but is not as well perfoming as Clip Studio or Krita at those sizes. All of these (including Rebelle and PS, but (since recent CC versions, not CS5 and etc) PS at least can use QUITE the GPU for improving painting performance) are CPU and RAM based, not GPU. Even Affinity Photo is mainly CPU (BUT! uses BETTER the multiple threads than PS, while PS is mostly single threaded in what counts...old code base). I'm told that this is not a random weird matter, simply the BUS speed is not fast enough to transfer from GPU and the main system, and back, at enough speed, constantly, versus doing it all in CPU and RAM. Expressii's author was in its day the creator of a FABULOUS oil painting simulation (we're talking about MANY years ago!!!!), an algorithm, library or code base or however they call that that was purchased or sth, dunno if for MS, then resold to Adobe, if I remember well, don't quote me on that... He has posted around here, and said that he recognizes part of his algo in Fresco (or it's Alfresco?), de new painting app of Adobe for the iPad...I can't remember the name as I don't care about 12 inches tablets, iPads and whatnot, lol... I need my 23 inches and up screens, painting on them or not for professional work... I spoke to him and told him that would be amazing if he would implement that oil painting to Expressii, that a lot more buyers would be interested than only in eastern watercolor painting. IMO, watercolors already do not count on a majority of current painters (although a very large number, of western watercolor), at least, not the digital ones (most paint with that digital touch, even if painterly), let alone ask them to paint with two colors loaded in brush, and produce results non controlled (a bit like water also "paints" by itself, but in a major degree). Is a catch-22, as while he leaves it being a bit too much niche, masses won't be that much interested, and if he does not get the masses, neither the income to support further areas of development (like the oils implementation)... so, after promoting it quite in several media, I left my following of the app in stand-by, to see if at some point something changes... If Expressii ever gets that oil painting in, will have in me a customer, that's for sure.

[@gusduenasArt]

agreed totally...I've just tried and my xp-pen doesn't like it or viceversa. anyway I've been using sketchbook, krita and CSP and Photoshop and has no problem with pen pressure ....for this "realistic" it is not working at all,,,that is a deal breaker, not working with my xp-pen and BTW is SLOW, even though I have 16gb memory and Rizen 7 , and 8GB Radeon RX580 graphic card...If you can make it work, enjoy it nice like a adventure for ipads .....probably not for me.

[@BeierFilms]

I just tried it on my PC and found the pen pressure WAY off. I have to push very hard to make any kind of mark and it feels like half the pressure spectrum doesn't register at all. I've got a Huion tablet/pen-display but I've never had this issue in ClipStudio, Photoshop, or Sketchbook. Anyone else notice this? Is there any way to adjust it in the program without having to change my global settings? I haven't tried it on the iPad yet.

[@gusduenasArt]

same with me...I have an xp-pen artist 15.6 hd

[@AshalleArt]

Yes, I got the same problem with my Huion. Guess it is because mine doesn't support tilt because it works fine on my windows tablet that supports it.

[@Mary-gz1qw]

I couldn't get the pencil tools to create a smooth circle - it was way too jagged, even if i know my hand was steady. Anyone else have this problem??

[@extjmrq]

You sound like Bob Markiplier friend haha,Nice skillshare class btw 👍

[@peacerose8024]

Can you save as a jpeg and share?

[@mingmaryoutube]

I dont know why but when i export a jpeg from procreate and then check the size in photoshop.. it also shows 72 dpi instead of 300 although i do everything in 300 dpi in procreate

[@iddeegee]

check the resolution in pixels, the dpi is used for physical dimensions which allows you to understand the print quality vs. canvas size. For example 3000x2000px(72dpi) give you a 42x27 in. print with a bad 72dpi quality. At the same time you can get a 10x6,6in. print at 300pdi quality from 3000x2000 pixels `

[@jeffclassics]

I bought this for iPad after watching your video. So as first impression, I think the watercolor brush engine isn't that realistic. I prefer Art Set 4 (iPad) in terms of watercolor but combining both features would be what I'm looking for. And for oil paint, I really like the spatula brush and it's tilt support in Apple pen 1. However the 3d texture is less interesting than Art Set 4 again. I haven't tried artstuidio but I am really looking for realistic old school painting app. Please review art set. Thank you.

[@mylazyeyedesignandillustra3109]

Can you import on iPad?

[@mylazyeyedesignandillustra3109]

Can you import?

[@dibujemaestro]

Thanks! Complete review!

[@jigsawnora3207]

Interesting 🤔🤔🤔

[@rysowaniepogodzinach6609]

program won't open :/

[@Cainmak]

I can't tell if this a good program or not, but they put a lot of work on the visual design.

[@ziksarthi]

definitely a brilliant app, you should try it out...worth every penny!!

[@laniakeas92]

It's amazing. The color mixing engine is bomb.

[@gusduenasArt]

well I've just downloaded and first off ...it didn't work good with my xp-pen artist 15.6 hd display. I has no apparent support for pen pressure . I am using photoshop, krita, CSP and Sketchbook with my display and all of them works good with my display. Also the app is slow, even though I have a radeon rx 580 8gb and 16gb ddr4 3000 memory with a rizen 7 1700x...are you using a display pen or a graphic tablet? ...like to know because that it is a deal breaker for me....I love the UI and palettes but they dont have pen pressure, at least for my display.

[@gusduenasArt]

it has no apparent support for pen pressure....krita is free and it has it

[@colorwithkurt]

It does support pen pressure.

[@Armlesscrayon]

It's super buggy. I can't seem to use the pastels at all...and it pins my gpu and cpu.

[@colorwithkurt]

It requires a good gpu for sure. I didn't have any issues but I have a strong PC. I could see some devices struggling with it though. Probably not optimized well enough for some.

[@Armlesscrayon]

@@colorwithkurt I have an I7 with 32 gigs of ram and a good GPU. I just find some of the brushes don’t work at all for me with my Wacom or work with touch (I have a 23 inch touchscreen) some won’t work with touch...some will...and the pastels won’t work at all lol..it’s hit and miss. I just updated it so might just be the update, prior to the update I couldn’t run it at all it just pinned my CPU. I’m sure in future updates it will get better. I do like what works though!! Haha

[@danmarxtheone]

I got it for $12 today and it’s incredible fun. BUT... there’s no way to export/import a normal png, jpg, tff or psd image file which makes it cool, but not really useful.

[@colorwithkurt]

You can from the first screen/gallery.

[@lexxymoo51]

Just Screenshot your screen

[@colorwithkurt]

It can be done from the main gallery.

[@gusduenasArt]

BTW it is me or the app is slow in response?

[@inuloveskago]

It's so slow for me too! I was looking to see if it was slow for anyone else. I dont have a fast laptop though so it's a little disappointing. I'll have to try it on my iPad and see if it's faster there

[@gusduenasArt]

@@inuloveskago on the contrary, mine has a rizen 7 1700x quad core processor, radeon rx580 8gb grafic card and 16gb ram ddr4 3000...this is not supposed to be slow. My best bet is that is probably an ipad or window tablet app that has been ported for pc or a a mac/osx app ported to pc...

[@inuloveskago]

@@gusduenasArt Ah okay. I did end up getting it for the iPad instead after it kept lagging with my drawing monitor and it worked amazing there. Glad I only went for the trial on pc first. The app is actually fun with the tools, not the canvas size so much. It's disappointing that it doesn't work so well on PC because it would be so much fun on a drawing monitor since the size is bigger. Wonder if I can hook up my iPad to the drawing monitor lol

[@CytheriaXylia]

I realize this is a desktop version, but I draw with my iPad currently and I found this on the Appstore. Same name and everything, it's $16.99 and I really want to buy it, but I don't want to purchase it if it's just a rip-off of this software and I'm gonna get scammed. Does anyone know if that app is legit and safe? And if so, does it run as good on the iPad as it does on PC?

[@colorwithkurt]

It's available for iPads as well.

[@Keeper_Arts]

its gerat for sketching

[@TheChameleon2008]

great video and it indeed looks nice but 13 euro's for the app and extra 7 bucks for all the brushes is a no no for me since its pretty limited besides their pricing.... also the 2.7 user score doesn't help.

[@russianweezle]

its scary to buy this app since its using 2checkout which apparently has been giving people hidden fees.

[@СветланаГолова-б2с]

Кто русский с того лайк посмотрим сколько нас

[@mikethinks]

Currently this application is nothing but a toy. The limitations are just far to restrictive for even casual use. So much promise, so broken...