Fauve Matisse was an extremely slick and powerful natural media paint and image manipulation program. It sold for a fraction of the price of the market leader Fractal Design Painter, and had a number of more powerful features like floating layers in its early versions. Matisse (and Fauve Software) died when the two brothers who owned it bet the farm on a high-end image-manipulation program called X-res - and lost. Ironically, X-res (and Matisse)was acquired by Macromedia.,While X-res continued to be published by Macromedia, Matisse was allowed to slip into a quiet grave." (And Macromedia was in turn bought out by Adobe).
Prior to Adobe PhotoShop 3.0, this paint program was the only software that supported multiple free-floating layers of images.
Download name | Version | Language | Architecture | File size | Downloads |
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Fauve Matisse 1.2.5 for Windows (3.5-1.44mb) | 1.2.5 for Windows | English | 12.31MB | 1 |