Rebelle 2

KEEP IT REAL Escape Motions’ budget program is the latest evolution in digital art software, which attempts the recreation of traditional media.

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After launching the program for the first time, Rebelle feels like a low-calorie version of Photoshop. There are noticeably fewer tools and menus. The list of brush tips is a lot smaller (at least in the program’s default installation package) and there appear to be fewer options.

But this program is a different beast from Photoshop. In the top left corner is a small set of realistic-looking paint brushes with different shapes. Yet clicking them doesn’t give you a variety of shapes, but rather different painting media.

Furthest on the left is watercolour, then acrylic, pastel, coloured pencil, ink, marker and spray paint. Within each of these is a submenu of brush tips, each with a clutch of options.