Corel Painter is an excellent tool for creating digital artworks. It has a wide range of features and tools that make it easy to customize and manipulate images. With its intuitive interface, you can quickly create stunning works of art with just a few clicks. The software also allows you to save and load existing files, apply effects, and reorganize palettes and layouts. Overall, Corel Painter is a great tool for digital artists looking to create amazing artworks.
Corel Painter is a professional painting tool which was designed to give a hand in creating digital pictures. The toolbar of the program is similar to that of Adobe Photoshop and other photo editors and includes such standard tools as eraser, lasso, layers, crop, rotate, selection and many others. However, the major advantage of the program is the vast variety of brushes. Watercolor brushes, particle brushes, airbrushes help you reach expressive results and save a lot of time. You can also create a brush by selecting main color and additional color or putting highlights and shadows in one brush which is especially useful for painting grass, leaves, hair, fur. It is also possible to add one of smoothing effects, so that hair would look more natural in the picture.
It should be noted, that along with a long list of smoothing effects the program offers smoothing color variability and expressions which make the lines change automatically from thin to thick within the given parameters and therefore look more organic. With the help of these options you can also get more natural and organic transition between colors of the background.
Corel Painter provides a number of textures, flow maps, image hoses, patterns, gradients and weaves. It includes very handy, time-saving features, such as Online Preview Option that makes it possible to see the results of application of different effects immediately or Adjust Selected Color which changes the color and hints of the object in one click.
To sum it up, Corel Painter opens many doors for digital artists to try a lot of new effects and to create the pictures which look like traditional oil, watercolor, pastels and pencil paintings.
v12.1 [Jan 13, 2012]
New and Improved Brush Sharing and Management
Easily share brushes, save valuable design time. Simply post to a file system, then email, post online or share via a USB memory device. The receiver can double click on the file to launch Painter 12 and automatically import the brush, category or brush library.
Enhanced Live Brush Stroke Preview
Get a sneak peek of an exact brush stroke before you paint the canvas! The enhanced preview feature brings the selected color into the stroke preview. If any brush attributes have changed, the edits will show up in the brush preview window.
New Moving and Copying Brush Variants within a Library
Updated brush variants and category creation bring more design flexibility and fewer steps when saving variants. Now, you can quickly move or copy a brush variant to any category by simply dragging the variant within the brush selector.
New Workspace Management
Workspaces can now be deleted! An active workspace that is being deleted will allow you to select another workspace or a default workspace. In addition, brush libraries can also be removed from Painter 12.
Enhanced Color Mixer Palette
Import a RIFF, PSD, JPG, PNG or TIFF file with custom colors, using the mixer pad import feature. This handy tool gives you the ability to pull a color collection from any source and start using it as a baseline color mixer.
New and improved drag and drop support for panels
Panels can now be dragged and dropped to the exact location you need them in your workspace. Plus, enjoy fine grained control over panel placement within a palette.
New Panel Resizing and Panel Presentation Options
Improved usability allows for panel resizing and the ability to hide context specific information on individual panels. If three dots are visible, you can resize the panel without impacting other panels in the same palette.
Enhanced Adobe® Photoshop® Plug-in Support
Take advantage of 3rd party Photoshop® plug-ins on Mac (32-bit) and 32- or 64-bit Windows.
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