(Upgrade)If your talents lean toward the artistic, Corel Painter is a must-have tool for maximum creative expression in a digital environment. With textured surfaces, brushes, and tools, you can mimic painting and drawing with chalk, pastels, watercolors, oils, crayons, pencil, felt pens, ink, and so much more.
Painter Features:
- Hundreds of brushes in over 30 mediums with the ability to customize or create new brushes with infinite variety. Painter brush mediums include: acrylics, airbrushes, artists oils, blenders, calligraphy pens, chalks, charcoal, cloners, colored pencils, conté, crayons, digital watercolor, distortion, erasers, felt pens, gouache, impasto, liquid ink, oil pastels, oils, palette knives, pastels, pattern pens, pencils, pens, photo, sponges, sumi-e, tinting and watercolor.
- Paper textures that interact with your brush strokes like traditional media.
- Artists' Oils which work like traditional oil paints. Artists' Oils let you pick up blended colors on your brush, blend paints on the canvas, and apply strokes with a finite amount of paint that runs out as you paint.
- Liquid Ink technology that mimics the viscosity and surface texture of a thick, gluey medium.
- Watercolor technology that closely simulates true watercolor painting and remains "wet" between sessions.
- Impasto brushes for thick dimensional paint that builds up texture.
- Cloning and tracing tools to create new artwork based on another image or photo. The Quick Clone feature sets up an image for cloning in one step.
- Image hoses and pattern pens that allow you to paint with photographic images and patterns.
- A Mixer Palette that allows you to mix paint colors interactively.
- A Brush Creator tool for designing and customizing brushes interactively. Within the Brush Creator users can test their brush creations on a scratchpad area.
The new RealBristle brushes in Painter X realistically simulate the natural way the hairs of your paint brush would expand and contract as your brush moves on the canvas.
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- A Brush Tracker palette which provides access to the last 24 brushes used while working on a painting.
- Snap-to-path painting lets users constrain a brush stroke to a path or shape.
- A text tool that supports curved text, text on a path, shadows, and other text effects.
- Perspective grids to aid in setting up and drawing three dimensional images.
- Effects filters and plugins for correcting color, retouching images, adding special effects. Dynamic plugins that can be modified on the fly without modifying the source image. Painter also supports most Photoshop-compatible plugins.
- KPT Effects Filters: Gel, Goo, LensFlare, Lightning, Pyramid Paint, Reaction, and ShapeShifter.
- A scripting engine that lets you record any series of operations and play them back with one click to automate your work or create movies. Scripts are automatically saved and can help you recover your work in the event of a system crash.
- Tools for creating and editing animations and video.
- Vector-based drawing tools and shapes.
- Customizable workspace layouts and custom keyboard shortcuts.
- Color management.
- Photoshop compatibility. Users can save and open layered PSD files, keeping layers intact and preserving layer masks, layer sets, alpha channels, and most blend modes.
New in Painter X:
The Divine Proportion layout tool helps artists employ the concept of the Golden Ratio which has been used throughout history to create art and designs that are aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
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- RealBristle brushes which behave more like real brushes against the canvas. 16 new RealBristle brush variants are included.
- RealBristle palette gives artists control over brush properties and allows existing brushes to be customized.
- Divine Proportion and Layout Grid composition tools to aid in visual arrangement of the composition.
- Improvements to the Photo Painting System include color schemes, photo enhancement controls, smart strokes, and speed control.
- The Match Palette effect for duplicating colors between two images.
- Universal Mixer palette for improved control over color blending.
- Workspace Manager for customizing the workspace, saving and sharing custom workspace layouts.
- Dodge and Burn tools for lightening and darkening areas in a photo in preparation for painting.
- Improved learning resources including a printed, spiral-bound User Guide, training videos by Jeremy Sutton, and links to online resources.
- Also: Mac Universal Binary, Windows Vista support, improvements to color management, improved Wacom support, session memory, and auto-backup feature.
Minimum System Requirements:
- Macintosh: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher, 700 MHz, 256 MB RAM (512 recommended), 1024x768 monitor resolution.
- Windows: Windows 2000, XP, or Vista, 700 MHz Pentium III (or higher), 256 MB RAM (512 recommended), 1024x768 monitor resolution.
Corel Painter Product Summary
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