But, and this is a hefty but, what can you really do with 'flame-art'? Its main usefulness is in post-production artwork or videos, but one cannot or should not use it extensively as that will forsake its novelty value. The 'Pro' version offers a great deal of features such as essential hi-res rendering, export to svg vector formats, Photoshop plugin integration for all versions, copy and paste to third party apps, open and save PSD layers and so on, to give it that 'pro' feel. Also, in many years as a registered user, I never received any advantageous price deals for upgrading to Pro. It's understandable but a major put-down nonetheless, with the Pro price so high, especially for non-US users. Also, the imposition of producing only low-res images in the 'Personal Use' version defeats having all those layer, transparency and blending features I mentioned above. The obvious reservations I mentioned are that it is naturally of limited use, it is not really software for painting as such, and the price tag for the 'Pro' version is therefore, high in my opinion.

Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. As a professional artist, I dislike 'subscription' offers that stick to you no end. Thankfully, it also adopted the age-old policy of one owning the software one buys and that is something I really appreciate. It has multi-core support too in its Personal Use (non-commercial) price bracket of USD30 and many more features in its 'Pro' version for USD90. This is a developer that has always worked a great deal on the several types of 'escape-like-art' software it offers with solid and beautiful results. It supports layers and transparency, has Photoshop integration and allows you to customize most everything about the 'flame' strokes to suit your needs and taste.

I have never come across any bugs, it's very responsive and its dark interface does make for a more 'professional' and pleasing look and feel. To be sure, this software has been finely crafted, has tons of tinkering and tweaking options to its presets both for amateurs and artists, but that said, for the latter however, obvious reservations apply.

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