we don't seem to have a dedicated art software general, didn't find anything in the archives either and between /dbag/ and /dtg/ this is the better place i think so i'm going to ask here: are there art software nerds here?

for most of my early art days i've only ever used sai1 + ps cs2 but it seems i missed out on quite a lot of good software and went on a spree to try out what i could a few years back

i'm targeting for a specific version of the software called opencanvas, which is 5.5. oc is a really old series of software that goes back at least 25 years. you might know oc1.1 from kuzuvine on yt who streams their illustration process using either oc1.1 or ps cs5/6. between versions 1.1 through 5.5 it had a mixing engine akin to sai, with later versions having an ui akin to ps. i know in current day, in most aspects csp mogs every version of oc except when it comes to mixing, only thing csp has going there is having pigment mixing. in oc6 they neutered the mixing engine to shitbits and it followed to oc7.

3 to 4 years ago i remember SOMEHOW finding a torrent that was still getting seeded through torrent search engines that were apparently blasted to shit bits, i'm mad at myself for deleting it all. second best thing may be cgillust is by deleter which is oc rebranded. but iirc the latest version cgillust neo is based on the neutered oc6 which i don't want. honestly betting some oldfag lurks /ic/ and /dbag/ AND somehow kept this shit to 2025. i don't even have a desktop or laptop to test the software anymore but when i'm able i want to try it out again.