Flame Painter Online

Flame Painter Gallery

Flame Painter is a unique paint program, it belongs to my 'I am an 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 the background from black to white, the palette changes from additive to subtractive 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.

Another online painting program which is a part of 'I am an Artist' project is the Fluid Painter. Here is a link to Fluidance motion effect, drawing program Fields - drawing tool based on particles and link to more experiments.

Tools:

Click here for Flame Help in German.

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 screen (shortcut: spacebar)

Keyboard Shortcuts:

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

Flame Painter Online License Agreement:

Flame Painter Online is a free application, which can be used for personal, non-commercial or non-profit activities. Please read the complete Software License Agreement.
If you would like to use the application for commercial or for-profit activities, purchase a full featured Flame Painter standalone version.

Save Picture:

When you want to save a painting 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 Tiger (10.4) and Leopard (10.5) is not working correctly (you get a solid pink background), but works fine from Snow Leopard (10.6) or Lion.

Troubleshoot Help:

Recommended browser: Mozilla Firefox

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

Found out that applet is not working with Chrome on some systems. 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)

Selected Articles About Flame:

Here you can find articles about Flame Painter published in different medias.

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