Flame Artworks Gallery

Flame is a painting program, it belongs to my 'I am Artist' experimental project. I think with tools which inspires you, everyone can be an artist. You can try it here, change different brush settings and paint your own flame paintings. When you change background from black to white, palette changes from additive to substactive and the feeling of the painting is very different. It's not easy to explain all brush parameters, so I leave this for your experimentation.

With a new update Flame saves super hires pictures - 1680x1050!

Another painting tool which is a part of 'I am Artist' project is the Fluid Painter.
Here is the link to the classic version, to new Fields particle sandbox and to more experiments.

UPDATE 3.1.2010: palette color, color per pixel, fade, undo/redo, upload to flickr
UPDATE 5.1.2010: save, eraser tool, undo/redo shortcut
UPDATE 11.1.2010: speed improvement
UPDATE 13.1.2010: save super hires (1680x1050) pictures
UPDATE 19.1.2010: Flame gallery is opened
UPDATE 10.2.2010: brush saturation
UPDATE 22.2.2010: new Gallery with voting system
UPDATE 6.3.2010: I am sorry, upload to Gallery is unavailable, it was too overloaded... but you may still Save your artworks
UPDATE 11.3.2010: I am starting to work on a standalone version.
UPDATE 29.4.2010: Flame beta for PC starting next week, first screenshot.
UPDATE 17.5.2010: I redesigned a interface, so this is a new Flame face.
> UPDATE 6.6.2010: Flame Painter standalone is finally released today!
I hope you will enjoy it as well as I do. :)
> UPDATE 28.6.2010: Flame Painter Demo version is available for free download, so you can try all amazing features of Flame Painter.

Tools:

COLOR - brush color
SATURATION - brush saturation
OPACITY - brush opacity
C - color cycling [ on | off ]
P - color per pixel [ on | off ]
FADE - fade in/out [ on | off ]

SIZE - brush size
SOFT - brush softness
CENTER - global forces
FOCUS - local forces
CHAOS - very chaotic parameter
NOISE - crazy noise parameter

ERASER - eraser tool
SAVE - opens painting in a new popup window for saving (press Right Button > Save Picture As...)
UPLOAD - upload picture to gallery, fill out the picture title and your name
SMOOTH - brush smoothness (Catmull-Rom splines) [ on | off ]
FILL - drawing style [ line | fill ]
UNDO - undo / redo last step (shortcut: Z)
BCG - switch background [ white | black ]
CLEAR - clear scene (shortcut: spacebar)

Keyboard shortcuts:

[ spacebar ] - clear screen
[ Z ] - undo / redo last step

Flame online license agreement:

Flame online users may use the application only for personal, non-commercial, or non-profit activities.
If you would like to use the application for commercial, or for-profit activities, please buy a full featured Flame Painter standalone version.

Save picture:

When you want to save a picture to your computer, press SAVE, picture will be opened in a new popup window for saving (press Right Button > Save Picture As...) and then will be deleted from server, so don't use external links to this picture, the link is only temporary!

Saving pictures takes a while, depends on internet speed.
Save from MacOS Leopard (10.4) and Tiger (10.5) is not working correctly (you get a solid pink background), but works fine from Snow Leopard (10.6).

Upload picture to gallery: (unavailable)

If you would like to share and publish your creation in the gallery, press UPLOAD button, fill out the picture title and your (author) name and press SUBMIT.
Title and author name is 3-20 characters long and use letters [a-z][A-Z][0-9][space].

Upload rules:

- Please don't upload few lines, simple texts or website links, don't spam.
- Pictures without appropriate title name and author will be deleted. :/

Troubleshoot help:

Recommended browser: Mozilla Firefox

The applet is tested and working in browsers with Java plugin:
- Windows - Firefox, Opera, Chrome, Internet Exporer (allow popup)
- MacOS Snow Leopard (10.6) - Firefox, Safari (allow popup)
- Linux (tested on Ubuntu) - Firefox, Chrome

Save and upload from MacOS Tiger (10.4) and Leopard (10.5) is not working correctly, there is older java and you get a solid pink background. :/

If applet is not running in a browser window try to:
1. reload page and wait a while, if it doesn't help,
2. delete browsers cache and restart browser, if this doesn't help,
3. download latest Java (you need Java 6 Update 10 or later) from here for windows or manually from here for all operating systems and reload page. Test if you have installed latest Java plugin here.
4. use Firefox instead of Internet Exporer (you have to allow active content and unblock popup in IE).


Suggestions from users:

For Mac users (from Roman):
Macintosh! Press SHIFT+CMD+?4 then highlight the pic and release the button; you'll get a snapshot of the pic on your Desktop.

For Linux users (from DigitalVampire):
Was having problems with the save function working, but Installed Sun's Java and restarted browser and it worked fine. Linux user's, I would recommend removing IcedTea and just go ahead and install Sun's Java. (and yes, I hate it as much as you do...I'm on Fedora 12)



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