Thoughts on Rebelle 5?

Hey Expresii and Expresii Users,

Rebelle 5 has been recently announced. When I first read the announcement and landing page (https://www.escapemotions.com/products/rebelle/about), I could not help but think of Expresii.

Specifically, Escape Motions (the company behind Rebelle) is advertising features like:

- Pigment Color Mixing
- NanoPixel Technology (similar to Expresii built-in zoom feature, https://www.expresii.com/blog/vexel-marrying-pixels-with-vector-for-organic-digital-painting)
- Real Watercolors with Granulation

These features seem awfully similar to Expresii's features. So, I was curious: what does the community or Expresii have to say about this?

I think at least Expresii has set the trend for ultra-high-zoom for natural-media digital painting (first previewed in 2013 and app released in 2016; subsequently improved with vexel rendering in 2021). Having another app 'follow suit' kind of confirms that this is something worthwhile to do. I hope at the end of the day, at least Expresii would be credited for that in the history of natural-media digital painting.  Now let's see others natural-media paint apps would follow.

The Kubelka-Munk-to-RGB transformation (by Secret Weapons) that Rebelle uses should be credited too. It is a very nice solution if one wants to have color mixing close to real paint instead linear RGB interpolation.

Granulation - I think there's still room for improvement for both of us.

Rebelle is the best digital painting software I've ever used, and I've been doing digital art since the 2018.

It's still missing some features, and I actively try to get the Escape Motions team to implement my suggestions by hounding them in their forums and with emails.

In addition, I also recommend beginners some free yet great art programs: pctechtest.com/20-best-digital-art-drawing-software