Crayola Creative Studio
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Ideal for a promising young artist, Crayola Creative Studio ($50, Windows) combines the features and tools of four programs in one - Art Start, Art Studio, Animation Studio, and PhotoFX Studio - allowing you to draw, paint, animate, photo-edit, and apply special effects. The five levels let you choose the one that's right for you based on skill level. The Art Start level is for young children just learning to use computers. The Art Studio level allows children to draw and paint using digital crayons, markers, paints, watercolors, chalk, acrylics, etc., as well as learn to enhance their digital images and add text to their artwork. The Animation Level lets children create animation to use in stories, web pages and emails. The Photo FX level features FX tools to edit and add special effects to photographs. And experienced users can use the the Creative Studio level to access all tools and design features. Other features of the program include: 12 realistic art tools; hundreds of editable images to supplement artwork; progressive undo and redo; shape tools including circle, rectangle, star, polygon and spline; symmetry tools; photo effect tools such as smearing, lightening and darkening; and other tools including resize, rotate, skew, and distort. Prices are $50 for one user, $800 for a 25 user license; $1200 for a site license; and $850 for a one year online site subscription. See also corefx Creative.
$50, Windows
Teaches: drawing and creativity