Rebelle is the award-winning, hyper-realistic painting software with phenomenal oils, watercolors, and other wet and dry media. Using real-world color blending, wet diffusion, and drying, it convincingly mimics the way natural media interacts with the canvas and itself.
Rebelle is designed for everyone who wants to explore their artistic skills using digital technology, no matter the level of proficiency. Its state-of-the-art tools will certainly change the mind of every digital art non-believer.
The unique watercolor simulation was created by artist Peter Blaškovič as one of his experimental drawing projects. The vision is to come up with a versatile software with the most natural painting tools. Artists can explore all kinds of very realistic painting techniques working with a wide range of mediums.
Rebelle 4 is packed with tons of exciting new tools and improvements that open up new creative possibilities for your digital art. The hyper‑realistic digital oils and acrylics will allow you to master the most universally used painting techniques and the state‑of‑the‑art watercolors come closest to the traditional media than ever before. The new version has crucial optimizations. With 4x faster painting and minimal lag between the stylus and cursor, you may feel like you are painting on a real canvas. Additionally, the brush size is 4x larger covering 16x larger area compared to Rebelle 3.
For a detailed comparison of all features in Rebelle 3 and 4, please see the table below.
Feature | Rebelle 3 | Rebelle 4 |
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Paint Tools | ||
Oils | NEW | |
Acrylics | ✓ | ✓ |
Watercolors | ✓ | ✓ |
Inks | ✓ | ✓ |
Pencils | ✓ | ✓ |
Markers | ✓ | ✓ |
Airbrush | ✓ | ✓ |
Tools | ||
Eraser | ✓ | ✓ |
Blend tool | ✓ | ✓ |
Smudge tool | ✓ | ✓ |
Clone tool | NEW | |
Fill Tool | NEW | |
Color picker | ✓ | ✓ |
Water tool | ✓ | ✓ |
Dry tool | ✓ | ✓ |
Blow tool | ✓ | ✓ |
Selection tool | ✓ | ✓ |
Magic wand | ✓ | ✓ |
Transform tool | ✓ | ✓ |
Image size, Canvas size, Crop tool | ✓ | ✓ |
Ruler tool | ✓ | ✓ |
1, 2, and 3 points Perspective tool | ✓ | ✓ |
Paint mixing | ||
Paint, paint & mix, paint & blend, blend modes | NEW | |
Transparent, semi-opaque and opaque watercolors | NEW | |
Dirty brush for oils and acrylics | NEW | |
Color modes | ||
Natural Colors (Red-Yellow-Blue color mixing) | NEW | |
Gamma correction | NEW | |
Watercolor Simulation | ||
Drop Engine | ✓ | ✓ |
Show / hide wet areas | ✓ | ✓ |
Pause watercolor diffusion | ✓ | ✓ |
Wet and dry the layer | ✓ | ✓ |
Fast dry | ✓ | ✓ |
Brush Presets | ||
Included brush presets | 50+ | 170+ |
Download brushes from online library | NEW | |
Duplicate / remove brush presets | ✓ | ✓ |
Import / export brush presets | ✓ | ✓ |
Brush preset groups | ✓ | ✓ |
Share brushes in online library | NEW | |
Save size, opacity and water into brush preset | NEW | |
Save paint mode into brush preset | NEW | |
Line Smoothing | ||
Moving average, Pulled string | NEW | |
Position smoothing | ✓ | ✓ |
Pressure smoothing | ✓ | ✓ |
Pressure sensitivity | ✓ | ✓ |
Artwork settings | ||
Canvas size presets in pixels, cm, and inches | ✓ | ✓ |
Included paper presets | 8 | 8 |
List of recent opened artworks | ✓ | ✓ |
REB, JPG, PNG, TIF, BMP, PSD file format | ✓ | ✓ |
Iterative save | ✓ | ✓ |
Import assets - papers, brushes, color sets | NEW | |
Layers | ||
Blending Modes | 23 | 23 |
Lock Layer | ✓ | ✓ |
Lock Transparency | ✓ | ✓ |
Masking Fluid Layer | ✓ | ✓ |
Tracing Image | ✓ | ✓ |
Transform layer | ✓ | ✓ |
Clear layer | ✓ | ✓ |
Add / remove / duplicate layer | ✓ | ✓ |
Add / remove layer group | NEW | |
Merge layers | ✓ | ✓ |
View & Navigation | ||
Zoom in / out | ✓ | ✓ |
Reset zoom to 100 % | ✓ | ✓ |
Fit to screen | ✓ | ✓ |
Rotate clockwise / counterclockwise | ✓ | ✓ |
Reset rotation | ✓ | ✓ |
Flip canvas | ✓ | ✓ |
Grayscale preview | ✓ | ✓ |
Show / hide cursor | ✓ | ✓ |
Show crosshair while painting | NEW | |
Show / hide panels | ✓ | ✓ |
Import / export UI layout | ✓ | ✓ |
Lock panels | ✓ | ✓ |
Tilting the canvas | ||
Use tilting and set tilt angle | ✓ | ✓ |
Lock Tilt to canvas | ✓ | ✓ |
Use Accelerometer | ✓ | ✓ |
Center Accelerometer | ✓ | ✓ |
Rotate 90 degree | ✓ | ✓ |
Color management | ||
Color profiles | NEW | |
Assign profile | NEW | |
Convert to profile | NEW | |
Proof Colors | NEW | |
Gamut Warning | NEW | |
Color panel | ||
Circle or Square color selector | ✓ | ✓ |
HSV, HSL, HSluv, RGB color mode | ✓ | ✓ |
Grid mode | ✓ | ✓ |
Mix colors | ✓ | ✓ |
Color Set panel | ||
Add / Remove color from Color set | ✓ | ✓ |
Add / Remove / Duplicate Color set | ✓ | ✓ |
Create Color Set from Image file | ✓ | ✓ |
Create Color Set from Last Used Colors | ✓ | ✓ |
Create Color Set from Text File | ✓ | ✓ |
Order by Hue | ✓ | ✓ |
Filters | ||
Brightness / Contrast | ✓ | ✓ |
Hue / Saturation / Lightness | ✓ | ✓ |
Color Balance | ✓ | ✓ |
Color Filter | ✓ | ✓ |
Colorize | ✓ | ✓ |
Desaturate | ✓ | ✓ |
Invert | ✓ | ✓ |
White to Alpha | ✓ | ✓ |
Black to Alpha | ✓ | ✓ |
Stencils | ||
Open JPG, PNG, TIF, BMP file format | ✓ | ✓ |
Create stencil from layer or selection | ✓ | ✓ |
Move, rotate, scale stencil | ✓ | ✓ |
Invert, flip horizontally, flip vertically | ✓ | ✓ |
Tile stencil | ✓ | ✓ |
Preview panel | ||
Open JPG, PNG, TIF, BMP file format | ✓ | ✓ |
Fullscreen | ✓ | ✓ |
Reference Image panel | ||
Open JPG, PNG, TIF, BMP file format | ✓ | ✓ |
Greyscale mode | ✓ | ✓ |
Visual Settings - Watercolors | ||
Visual settings presets | ✓ | ✓ |
Absorbency | ✓ | ✓ |
Re-wet | NEW | |
Texture influence | ✓ | ✓ |
Edge darkening | ✓ | ✓ |
Create drips | ✓ | ✓ |
Drip size | ✓ | ✓ |
Drip length | ✓ | ✓ |
Visual Settings - Oils & Acrylics | ||
Impasto depth | ✓ | ✓ |
Gloss | NEW | |
Visual Settings - Canvas Visibility | ||
Paper texture | ✓ | ✓ |
Paint texture | NEW | |
Brush Creator | ||
Shape and grain texture library | NEW | |
Up to 4 shapes and grains per brush | NEW | |
Set texture order | NEW | |
Brush Creator - Pressure | ||
Size | ✓ | ✓ |
Opacity | ✓ | ✓ |
Multiplier | ✓ | ✓ |
Maximum | ✓ | ✓ |
Brush Creator - Shape | ||
Maximum size in px (700 px) | NEW | |
Spacing | ✓ | ✓ |
Spacing Jitter | ✓ | ✓ |
Scatter | ✓ | ✓ |
Glaze | NEW | |
Smudge | ✓ | ✓ |
Opacity | ✓ | ✓ |
Opacity Jitter | ✓ | ✓ |
Size Jitter | ✓ | ✓ |
Angle | ✓ | ✓ |
Angle Jitter | ✓ | ✓ |
Rotation | ✓ | ✓ |
Tip Tilt | NEW | |
Max. Loading | NEW | |
Max. Smudge | NEW | |
Brush Creator - Grain | ||
Scale | ✓ | ✓ |
DPI | ✓ | ✓ |
Tiled Texture | NEW | |
Texture Smoothing | NEW | |
Random Offset | ✓ | ✓ |
Random Splat Offset | ✓ | ✓ |
Follow Shape Size | ✓ | ✓ |
Follow Shape Rotation | ✓ | ✓ |
Random Angle | NEW | |
Angle Jitter | NEW | |
Brush Creator - Canvas | ||
Texture Strength | ✓ | ✓ |
Texture Contrast | NEW |
Rebelle 4 will kick your imagination with the impressive sets of new brush presets, including palette knives, watercolor, or sumi-e brushes, and an amazing set of realistic pencils and other dry media tools. More than 170 brushes are included in the package, and you can download more brushes from the online library. You are welcome to share your unique brushes with the community of artists directly from within the software and help others to express their vision.
Rebelle blurs the line between traditional and digital painting thanks to its ultra-realistic papers, canvases, and lithography stones developed in cooperation with academic professionals. Discover more than 80 unique textured backgrounds for your artworks and experiment with different structures to achieve an original realistic look.
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"The new features are truly amazing! The physics simulations are very realistic and I love the new brush sets. Rebelle continues to impress me!"
"The oils are magnificent. Stunning! They offer an exquisite example of “technology so advanced it appears to be magic”. Bravo and congratulations!"
"Natural color mixing mode brings the more realistic color mixing effect, it approximates the real color blending effect well."
"Never have I used a more advanced software for real-media mimicking. So many times people were convinced that my graphics were painted with standard watercolors. And they were surprised to find out my paints were digital."
"I love watercolors, and I often try to give my digital works a watercolor feel and look. That is how I found Rebelle years ago, and I fell in love with it immediately. Watercolor brushes were the first I had to check out in the new Rebelle 4, and I am happy to say that they are even better!"
"Rebelle 4 - an App truly for an artist. If you are working in the traditional way, for example Watercolors on Canvas, this will be absolutely the same – BUT: with the possibilities of an App! Realistic water based colors and textures on your pc, or via Airplay on your iPad. That will bring the fun back! Simply the best!"
"The effects of Oil brush tool are truly spectacular and it both looks and feels like the act of laying down thick creamy paint strokes. The impasto effect is wonderfully dynamic and, more importantly, varied in appearance. Too many other apps try to rely on very linear repeated brush stroke effects but this one seems much more real and intuitive in its approach."
"Rebelle's new brush engine is very fast and the line smoothing options help draw precise strokes."
"Of all the digital painting/drawing software I've played with over the years, none have been as jaw-dropping to see in evolution (for me, anyway) as Escape Motions' Rebelle. If you want a digital art software that provides results as close to real-world painting as possible, Rebelle 4 should be on your radar."
"I have been using painting software for a long time. In comparison with Rebelle, others are too complicated and universal to be useful for drawing and painting in a fresh way. Rebelle is in this aspect a lot better."
"Rebelle 4 is a powerful painting software which very realistically mimics the traditional painting techniques and the feeling of traditional painting."
"What I didn't expect is how cool new Acrylics and Oils brushes are! Especially joining the wetness of watercolors and the impasto texture of Acrylic and Oils gives me a lot of pleasure. And Gouache brushes! And dry media brushes! And various ways of applying paint on a canvas! And StreamLine!"
"The oil painting brush settings provide the most realistic oil painting effects for digital artists."
"Rebelle 4 improves the already excellent digital watercolor and other traditional techniques and adds oil brushes. The impasto effect is very impressive, the brush strokes look dynamic and natural. And the real fun begins when you combine all these tools together to achieve artistically impressive effects. For me, Rebelle 4 represents the joy of digital painting."
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