Artweaver is a painting application with advanced uses for professional users and includes additional painting tools. Mainly the program can be used for raw drawing, designing, digital painting and includes a wide range of predefined brushes to work with. The program window is user friendly despite the first run appearances and it is easy to understand and manage. You have support for a variety of image types such as BMP, GIF, JPEG etc. Above all the application is free to use by everyone.
Artweaver lets you paint creatively with the help of a huge range of painting tools. You can create sketches from photos or just experiment with colors. For professional users, Artweaver offers layers, group layers and support for the PSD file format. It is also possible to load and run Photoshop compatible filters. Artweaver is a painting program which is suitable for beginners but also suitable for advanced users. You can record all your steps and replay them afterwards or provide them to other users. Also there are many tools and features like layers and effect filter.

Support of many different digital brushes e.g. chalk, charcoal, pencils...
Standard image editing tools like gradient, crop, fill and selection tools.

A wide variety of adjustment settings to customize the default brushes or to create new brushes. Standard image editing tools like gradient, crop, fill and selection tools.

Features
* Support for many file formats like AWD (Artweaver), BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, PNG and PSD (incl. layers)
* Transparency, layers and layer groups
* Common image editing tools like gradient, crop, fill and selection tools
* Effect filters like sharpen, blur, emboss and mosaic
* Expandable by Plug-In modules (Artweaver standard and Photoshop format (*))
* Editable text layers
* Pen tablet support
* History function to undo/redo last editing steps
* Support for many languages through language files

Home Page - http://www.artweaver.de/