Crayola Art Studio

I love this program, except for one thing; there is no eraser or white-out function.It more than makes up for it, I have yet to find a good, cheap program or pack that mimics Crayola supplies so it gets 4 of 5 stars. I am using it in conjunction with ArtRage Studio Pro 3.5.7.So, great for kids, easy to use, an awesome tool for artists, a good price, speedy delivery, good condition on arrival...But if they ever update this program they need the eraser button!All in all, a good purchase and a great gift for the artist, both big and small, hobbyist or professional, in your life.

This is like having an infinite supply of Crayola crayons (and other media). Picked this graphics package up during a recently weekly sale here at Amazon just to check it out – it was priced well below ten dollars so I figured I wouldn't be out much if it was a dud. To my surprise this is actually a nice little drawing package capable of doing things that some of the more expensive package can do. You get a wide variety of brushes, pens, crayons, markers, pencils to draw with and a palette system that gives you any color that you could ever want. There are also tools for drawing geometric shapes and text. Plus, a clip-art library (geared for younger users). There are also some more advanced tools – but you're going to have to dig down through the menu customization setting to find those (like paper textures). My guess they simplified the software package so not to confuse the intended younger users. There is a user manual and activity guide as well as a short video (SWF flash) that demonstrates the basic tools and their locations. I would imagine most kids that can read could figure this software out without parent help – but very young kids will probably need some assistance the first time.You can set up the pages your drawing to be any size you want – there are pre-sets of most of the basic sizes and you can add to those with any custom page sizes you want. I would think that this would be great for coloring some of the digital adult coloring book pages that seem to be the rage right now.Couple technical details that some people might be interested in. I'm using this software on a desktop machine running Windows 7 Pro. I tried this software out with my Wacom Bamboo tablet and it works great. There is a wide variety of image file formats that this software can use (and can save to). Most of the basic file formats are supported.For the price, this is a really impressive package – I like it enough that I went and ordered the full coreFx Creative graphics program. Corefx Creative

A great product but still a little difficult for my 6 yea old grandchildren, but I'm sure they will love it when they get a little older. It is even a little complicated for me, but I'm an old woman and not very computer literate

This is a good software package, however, I bought it to replace the Disney Magic Studio that we had and it is a little advanced for my 4 year old. My 12 year old enjoys it much more. I still prefer the Disney Magic Art Studio since it has cool sounds, great effects and many different tools, characters and palettes.I have the software on my computer and from time to time I go into it and play around as well.All considered - good fun!

We purchased this product this product after my 6 y/o son continually wanted to use my graphic design computer programs and would get frustrated after a few minutes of use. The "paint" program on our computer was too simple for him, and he wanted something more like what he uses in school. Voila! This program was everything we were looking for for him. It's perfect for school-aged kids, but I do think younger ones (3-5) would like it, too, with parental assistance. It allows him to free-hand draw in great detail with a variety of media and has a great color palette. He also likes the stamp function and the fact that you can color in the pictures. I like the fact that you can save the images as jpegs and transfer them to other print programs to create cards, posters, t-shirts, etc. with your child's artwork. The only two drawbacks that I have found so far are that the preloaded graphics are somewhat limited. For example, there is a section with "girl" related items but my son was disappointed that there wasn't a section for boys. Also, both the preloaded graphics and the images that your child draws can't be enlarged or shrunk (at least not that I have found yet), and the freehand images can't be copied. Although these are probably more advanced functions, they would have been useful to have. Overall, however, a great product!

Superb starting program for children just learning graphics on the computer. This will easily stimulate any innate artistic ability in a child that wants to explore computer artistic expression. My grandchildren love the program, which is loaded on an old win XP computer with limited memory and not much hard disk space. Would highly recommend for starting children on computer graphics.

This program is fun! Much better than KidPix in every way. Large set of options for each of the 12 tools will keep kids (and grownups) occupied for hours. The 1,000 templates are contemporary. The stamp art is plenty of fun all by itself. A simplified screen makes it suitable for really young kids, say about three, if you feel brave enough to let them near a computer. Overall, this is an extremely well designed program that is much more than a "toy". It is a real paint program, with a really well done user interface that makes it easy for kids to dig in, be creative and have fun. Crayola and Core are to be congratulated on their sensible licensing: you may install this on any number of computers as long as it is used on no more than one at a time. For the price, you simply can't beat Crayola Art Studio. It is great fun and very versatile.Jerry