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Rebelle for Mac

Real-media paint app.

$89.99
In English
5.0
Based on 10 user rates

Rebelle overview

Rebelle is an award-winning watercolor and acrylic painting program created by Escape Motions. Its watercolor simulation is based on a real-world color mixing, blending, wet-diffusion, and drying. Rebelle convincingly mimics the way natural media interacts with the canvas and itself. Users can paint, smear, re-wet dried colors, blow wet washes across the paper, tilt the paper to create water drops and runs and create countless fantastic watercolor effects.

  • Rebelle integrates groundbreaking improvements, watercolor and acrylic brushes got an unprecedented realistic look and together with watercolor masking fluid give an exceptional traditional feel to the digital painting.
  • Completely new brush engine allows users to create custom brushes - round, flat, bamboo, various wet splatters, sponges and many others. Moreover, Rebelle’s various wet tools - watercolors, acrylics or ink pen can be combined with pastels, pencils or any other dry media tools, in wonderfully intuitive ways.
  • New stencils and selection tools together with wet paint diffusion open new creative results yet not possible to achieve in digital art.
  • This new super charged version comes with full multi-touch support and layered PSD support. All these convenient features are wrapped in an agreeable and easy to use interface with a tiny learning curve.
Features
  • Realistic Brushes
    • Real world simulation of paint diffusion
    • Wet tools: Watercolor, Acrylic & Ink Pen
    • Dry tools: Pencil, Pastel, Marker, Eraser
    • Blend and Smudge tools
    • Wet, dry and blow the wet painting
    • Tilt the canvas to get flow effects
    • Pen pressure support
  • Layers and Colors
    • Unique color mixing
    • Multitouch gestures
    • 10 paper and canvas presets
    • 23 Photoshop blending modes
    • Sets of user predefined colors
    • Image color tracing
  • Intuitive Interface
    • Intuitive customizable interface
    • English, German, French, Spanish, Finnish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and other translations
    • Custom keyboard shortcuts
    • Support for Retina displays
    • Fullscreen mode
  • Files
    • Drag-and-drop image from folder or web
    • Import and export with alpha channel
    • PNG, JPG, TIF, BMP and REB files
    • Iterative Save
    • Image file thumbnails
    • Publish and share artworks in Gallery

What’s new in version 7.1.4

Changes:
  • When "Use Alpha" in the Fill Tool is checked, the area is filled with a new color and original alpha, instead of blending with the background
Fixes:
  • Fixed crash when removing reference image (and possibly path, structure, stencil)
  • Fixed 'Reset' / 'OK' / 'Cancel' buttons for Deform, Perspective, and Warp transformation tools for the mouse
  • Fixed occasional crash when using Deform, Perspective and Warp
  • Fixed redo with Stencils with activated border
  • Fixed state of the Stencil menu when the stencil is not active
  • Fixed crash at importing non-openable SVG, an error message pops up instead
  • Fixed state of Reference image panels when the "Show | Hide Reference Image" button is used
  • Fixed: Pressing the "Fast Dry" button in the Layers panel could cause not working keyboard shortcuts
  • Fixed issue that could cause the paint to be mixed too strongly in 'Paint & Mix' paint mode with 'Linear Opacity'
  • Fixed: NanoPixel Export could create green artifacts on borders on paper with deckled edges
  • Fixed: Converting artwork color profile could cause artifacts after undo/redo
  • Fixed saving artwork if it contained a reference image that could not be loaded from disk, instead a tooltip "File not found" is displayed
  • Fixed crash connected to Guides, Navigator panel, and panels in general
  • Fixed possibility to lock aspect ratio using 'Shift' for selection
  • Fixed state of Libraries buttons after closing them with a stylus
  • Several other crashes fixed
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Rebelle for Mac

$89.99
In English
Version 7.1.4
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5.0

(8 Reviews of Rebelle)

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DragonMaster
DragonMaster
Nov 3 2019
3.1.6
5.0
Nov 3 2019
5.0
Version: 3.1.6
One of my top 3 favorite digital paining apps! I use it every day. There is no subscription either!
obvious_trouble
obvious_trouble
Mar 5 2019
3.1
5.0
Mar 5 2019
5.0
Version: 3.1
It is a powerful tool! It gives me what I want with pleasant surprises just like real water. I enjoy painting with Rebelle very much and recommend it to everyone who enjoys painting.
ron-murray
ron-murray
Jan 5 2018
2.0.3
5.0
Jan 5 2018
5.0
Version: 2.0.3
Really love where this program is headed and the watercolor simulation in particular is astounding. Aside from its standalone quality, for me this will eliminate endless hunting online for quality watercolor resources. Thanks for developing something extremely promising.
ellicott
ellicott
Nov 1 2017
2.0.3
5.0
Nov 1 2017
5.0
Version: 2.0.3
This software's a heaven for digital painters - affordable, easy to use and with some beautiful effects I have not yet seen in other software. The tilt effect almost made me cry... Finally a software that actually imitates the real world painting. Hoping for some additional features as salt, alcohol effects, etc.
zuchii7
zuchii7
Aug 10 2017
2.0.2
5.0
Aug 10 2017
5.0
Version: 2.0.2
Very unusual computer program at a relatively affordable price. Rebelle offers quite natural paint abilities. I really like the watercolor and I have just started experimenting. Can't wait to see what great graphics I can create with this software. Making my own stencils is so cool!
Wunderhorn
Wunderhorn
Apr 8 2022
5.1.0
5.0
Apr 8 2022
5.0
Version: 5.1.0
stones
stones
Jul 15 2021
4.1.2
5.0
Jul 15 2021
5.0
Version: 4.1.2
DragonMaster
DragonMaster
Nov 3 2019
5.0
Nov 3 2019
5.0
Version: null
obvious_trouble
obvious_trouble
Mar 5 2019
5.0
Mar 5 2019
5.0
Version: null
ron-murray
ron-murray
Jan 5 2018
5.0
Jan 5 2018
5.0
Version: null
ellicott
ellicott
Nov 1 2017
5.0
Nov 1 2017
5.0
Version: null
zuchii7
zuchii7
Aug 10 2017
5.0
Aug 10 2017
5.0
Version: null
anna-kmp
anna-kmp
Nov 30 2016
5.0
Nov 30 2016
5.0
Version: null
barry010
barry010
Oct 28 2016
5.0
Oct 28 2016
5.0
Version: null
taylormartin447
taylormartin447
Oct 25 2016
5.0
Oct 25 2016
5.0
Version: null