Editorial Review:Product Description:The interactive art studio that's a toolbox full of fun! Amazing effects and wacky new tools give everyone the power to create their own mind-blowing art. Bring your art to life - just like magic!
Amazon.com Review:If you have a young graphic artist in the house, odds are that you have already seen a range of paint programs for children. All offering a collection of templates for art projects, clip art to use with the templates, and some basic drawing tools for users who wish to go freestyle, these programs' primary differences have been in their look and user friendliness... at least until now.
Disney's Magic Artist Deluxe is one of a new generation of programs designed for users who enjoy creating art with computer assistance. In addition to the standard-issue graphic tools, this package makes artwork into a game, with moving animations, sound effects, and some very thoughtful design features. While earlier graphics programs often resembled scaled-down versions of adult packages, this one is entirely bent on entertaining children and encouraging sprees of creative electronic drawing. Its kit is full of brightly colored, genuinely wacky tools, including robots that run around the screen drawing patterns on your page and a sprayer that drops animations into the page. Imagine watching cookies bake onscreen, spreading a line of crawling spiders across a page, or planting roses along the bottom of the screen. Just watching these images mutate to their finalized form is delightful--and they come with topnotch sound effects and a good dollop of humor, too.
Another area where older graphics programs broke down was in their reusability factor. Once a child had seen and used all of a package's available images, it was often time to move on to the next contender. However,
Disney's Magic Artist Deluxe offers regular updates. Users can download new graphics and animations from the program's Web site, including packages designed particularly for a coming holiday or event.
For users uninterested in using prepackaged art,
Disney's Magic Artist Deluxe also offers a full set of tools to allow kids to import pictures of themselves and their friends, and then to decorate, alter, and distort them to their heart's content. Whether they want to build static scenes with Disney characters, construct animated tableaus, or digitally bend an existing favorite photograph, this is a graphics program certain to please artistically bent kids and their parents through project after project.
--Alyx Dellamonica
Amazon.com Product Description:Discover the tools to bring art to life.
Disney's Magic Artist Deluxe is an interactive art studio featuring effects and wacky tools to give kids the power to create their own art. Play with the Blender that mixes up colors and textures with the push of a button, or try a Texture Pumper that gushes out five different 3-D designs. Create desktop patterns with the Tile Tool or give the Pastry Tool a squeeze to squirt frosting and sprinkle on toppings.
The features are easy to use with streamlined navigation to make importing, exporting, and printing simple. Get access to exclusive animated stamps, props, and backgrounds online and create Web-ready artwork. Bring the canvas to life with exploding fireworks, baking cookies, flying butterflies, and more. Even scan and edit photos into crazy creations. E-mail friends for an instant online art exhibit.
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Disney's Magic Artist Deluxe
This software is at my daughter's daycare and she loves this it. It provides a great deal of tools for children to create beautiful pictures and is reasonably priced. It does advertise that it works for Windows, Mac and Linux. This is untrue and only supports Windows. However, I was able to run it under Linux using WINE[...]
I definitely recommend this to any parent who is looking for an inexpensive and creative program for children to make really amazing artwork.
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Not Mac compatible
* I received the CD ROM in the mail abut... it didn't work because my computer is a Mac (Apple). On the product description it lists the many systems that it is compatible with including Macs (listed 2nd after Linux). Unfortunately this is not true. My little daughter was so disappointed when the program wouldn't work on our Mac computer. Amazon must take care of putting the correct information over their products. ...
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Great for Kids
I bought this for my 5 year old daughter who is always looking for creative outlets. We have been impressed with all that she can do with this software.
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Great product if only I could use it on my computer!
* Disney Magic Artist Studio
Very disappointed when I received this. In the product details it said was compatible with 'Mackintosh' It does not work on my Apple Mac (Mac OS X Version 10.4.116) Gave the CD ROM to my mum as it works on her PC. My 3 year old daughter can now only play with it when she's there. Actual product is fantastic - there is lots to do - one of the best on the market. ...
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Probably really great, but...
Just received the CD ROM in the mail and opened it up to put in my disk drive and... it didn't work. Reason - because my computer is a Mac (Apple). On the product description it lists the many systems that it is compatible with including Macs (listed 2nd after Linux). Unfortunately this is not entirely true. I suppose if I install bootcamp and buy Windows Vista (or the like) I would be able to open the program.
Just a warning to Mac users about this problem. I have an older version that worked only on OS 9 classic but I don't have classic anymore. My little son was so disappointed when the program wouldn't work on our Mac computer. Still looking for a compatible version. Hope they come out with universal new version soon.
