Corel Painter Essentials 4 (Win/Mac)
| Corel Painter Essentials 4 (Win/Mac) |
New--Redesigned workspace: Corel worked closely with its customers to find out how they were using Painter Essentials. The result is a redesigned and simplified environment with two distinct workspaces: Drawing & Painting and Photo Painting. Each workspace is easily accessible from tabs within the application, and each presents users with the tools specifically needed for the task they've selected. In the Drawing & Painting workspace, users can access relevant tools, such as the Colors, Color Wheel, and Layers palettes. In the Photo Painting workspace, users are provided with the Source Image, Auto-Painting, and Restore Detail palettes. Both workspaces offer a reconfigured toolbox that makes it easier to identify and select brushes, media, and paper. New--Brush Drawer: With Corel Painter Essentials 4, a new Brush Drawer has been added to the toolbox, making brush identification and selection easier than ever before. The Brush Drawer opens with the click of a flyout button. Redesigned icons for each brush category are displayed on tabs along the top of the Brush Drawer. The list of available brushes changes depending on the selected brush category. When closed, the Brush Drawer displays a column from which users can quickly access their most recently used brushes. For convenience, users can also easily add their favorite brushes to the Brush Drawer column. New--Mixer palette: In addition to its traditional Color Wheel, Corel Painter Essentials 4 now provides the Mixer palette. By simulating the traditional experience of mixing colors on an artist's paint palette, the Mixer palette makes it easier for users to get the precise color they want. Users can apply two or more colors to the Mixer pad, and then blend the colors together until they are satisfied with the result. New--Colors palette: Corel Painter Essentials 4 provides the new Colors palette, which lets users choose a color with just one click. New--Easier pen tablet navigation: With its new workspaces, Corel Painter Essentials 4 makes it easier for pen tablet users to navigate. Many of the application's buttons and sliders are larger and easier to grab. In addition, the controls for frequent actions, such as Undo and Redo, have been better exposed so that users can access them without using a keyboard. New--Professional prints: Accessible from the File menu, the new Online Print Services option lets users get professional prints on canvas, watercolor paper, or other fine art materials.
Turn Photos into Paintings With Corel Painter Essentials 4, it's now even easier for users to turn photos into expressive, natural, hand-painted portraits. New & Enhanced! Photo Painting System: The Photo Painting System has been redesigned and enhanced, reducing the complexity of turning a photo into a painting. With Corel Painter Essentials 4, the streamlined Photo Painting System is now available as a separate workspace. All brushes within the Photo Painting workspace act as cloners and take their color from the source image. The new Source Image palette makes it simpler to choose a clone source, and includes controls to adjust the opacity of tracing paper and to toggle tracing paper on and off. In addition, the source image is now saved with the painting, meaning that users do not have to keep a separate photo open. The enhanced Auto-Painting palette now includes Smart Stroke technology, which provides more intelligent brush behavior during the auto-painting process. New & Enhanced--Smart Stroke technology: Built into the Auto-Painting palette, the new Smart Stroke technology paints with brushstrokes that follow the forms of the original photo. Smart Stroke technology dynamically changes brush size, stroke length, and pressure, based on the detail and focal areas of the original photo, which helps users quickly achieve impressive paintings or sketches. New--Source image saved with file: Previously, if users wanted to continue working on a Photo Painting project, they needed to remember which image file had been used as the source. With Corel Painter Essentials 4, the source image is now saved with the RIFF file, making it easier to return to a project later. Try the Broader Selection of Natural-Media Materials Painter has always led the way with its unrivaled selection of Natural-Media materials. With Corel Painter Essentials 4, users get access to an even greater selection of Natural-Media brushes, pens, and paper textures. New--RealBristle Painting System: First introduced by Corel Painter X, the new RealBristle Painting System heightens the responsiveness of the brush for the artist and represents a major milestone for digital painting. With Corel Painter Essentials 4, users get access to several RealBristle brushes in a variety of brush categories. Brushes that use RealBristle technology are identified by the prefix "Real" in their name. By authentically reproducing the sensation of the interaction between the paint, canvas, and brush, RealBristle brushes take realism to a whole new level. New--Charcoal brushes: The new Charcoal brushes range from pencils to hard or soft charcoal sticks. As with other dry media brushes, the opacity is linked to pen pressure. New--Sargent brush: The new Sargent brush in Corel Painter Essentials 4 helps users paint in the style of master artist John Singer Sargent. New--Pens: Corel Painter Essentials 4 introduces pens in the Pencils & Pens brush category, such as the Scratchboard Tool and Smooth Edge Calligraphy, which are perfect for inking comic books or doing calligraphy New--Sumi-e brushes: Corel Painter Essentials 4 has added Sumi-e brushes, which let you create flowing sumi-e-style brushstrokes. New--Paper textures: Corel Painter Essentials 4 includes a greater selection of paper textures that accurately reproduce the feel of using traditional art materials. Users can control the texture of the canvas to achieve the results expected from using traditional media on a given surface--for example, pencil on watercolor paper, felt pens on cotton paper, or chalk on the sidewalk. Explore Learning Materials Getting started with Corel Painter Essentials and digital art has never been simpler. Users can take advantage of inspiring, tutorial-based videos and a companion guidebook, in addition to the application's Help system. New--Tutorial-based guidebook: The Corel Painter Essentials 4 Guidebook provides step-by-step tutorials that help users discover the application while completing fun projects. With projects ranging from beginner to advanced levels, the guidebook introduces various Corel Painter Essentials media and provides tips that introduce some of the elements and principles of art. New--Video tutorials: Corel Painter Essentials 4 includes video tutorials that are accessible from within the application. Users benefit by learning from the experience of Painter Master and Ambassador John Derry. The video tutorials guide users through a variety of projects, including those in the guidebook.
Enjoy Compatibility Users who work with the latest operating system from Apple or Microsoft can rely on the compatibility features of Corel Painter Essentials 4. The application is designed to work with the industry-standard software and hardware that digital artists and hobbyists use every day. New--Universal binary: While still providing a great experience with PowerPC processors, Corel Painter Essentials 4 is optimized for use with Intel processors. Enhanced! Windows Vista support: Corel Painter Essentials 4 Works with Windows Vista. Enhanced! Support for Wacom products: Corel Painter Essentials 4 supports the entire Wacom product line, including the Graphire pen tablets, the Cintiq 21 UX interactive pen display, the Intuos3 pen tablet, and the Wacom 6D Art Pen. Natural-Media Brushes Brushes are the heart and soul of Corel Painter Essentials. The following sections explain how brushes and media are organized within the application. Thick Paint Thick Paint brushes let users simulate painting with thick, sticky paints, such as acrylics and oils. All Thick Paint brushes cover underlying brushstrokes. Many of the brushes can produce multicolored strokes, and others interact with underlying pixels to create realistic effects. The Thick Paint category includes Acrylics, Artists' Oils, Impasto, Oils, Palette Knives, and RealBristle brushes. Thin Paint Thin Paint brushes let users simulate the application of thin paint or ink, such as thin acrylic, oil paint, gouache, or Sumi-e ink. All Thin Paint brushes cover underlying brushstrokes. The Thin Paint category includes Acrylics, Gouache, Oils, RealBristle, and Sumi-e brushes. Water There are two classes of Water brushes: watercolor brushes and airbrushes. Users must dry both airbrush and watercolor brushstrokes before applying effects. Watercolor brushes produce watercolor effects that react with the canvas texture. With the exception of the Wet Eraser, the width of watercolor brushstrokes is affected by stylus pressure. In previous versions of Corel Painter Essentials, the Watercolor brushes were referred to as Digital Watercolor. Airbrushes apply fine sprays of color. The Digital Airbrush carefully mirrors the feel of a real airbrush. The Wacom airbrush stylus is fully compatible with the airbrushes in Corel Painter Essentials. Pencils & Pens Brushes in the Pencils & Pens category are marking tools that simulate pencils, ballpoint pens, markers, and calligraphy pens. Just like their traditional counterparts, the pencils in the Pencils & Pens category interact with canvas texture and are great for a variety of artwork--from rough sketches to fine line drawings. The pencils and the Felt Art Marker build to black and link opacity to stylus pressure. Dragging quickly with a Pencils brush produces a thinner line, while dragging slowly leaves a thicker line. Pens, such as the Round Tip Pen and Scratchboard Tool, create realistic effects without the drawbacks of traditional pens, which can clog, spatter, or run dry. Dry Media Dry Media brushes range from charcoal and chalk to pastels and crayons. The opacity of Dry Media brushstrokes is linked to stylus pressure and all strokes interact with the paper texture. These brushes range from hard styles that reveal the paper grain to soft styles that glide on to completely cover existing brushstrokes. The Dry Media category includes Charcoal, Chalk, Crayons, and Pastels. Blenders Blenders brushes affect underlying pixels by moving and mixing them. Blenders can reproduce the effects of blending paint by applying water or oil. Blenders can be used to smooth drawing lines and create shading just like a traditional pencil sketch or charcoal drawing. Effects There are three types of Effects brushes: Artist brushes, Image Hoses, and Pattern Pens. Artist brushes let users paint in the styles of master artists, such as Vincent Van Gogh (with brushstrokes that are multishaded), or Georges Seurat (with multiple dots combining to form an image). Image Hoses are special brushes that apply images, instead of color, to the canvas. The images that these brushes "paint" with come from special image files called nozzles. Each nozzle file contains multiple images. The Variable-Size Image Hose varies the size of images as you paint. The Variable-Angle Image Hose varies the angle at which the images are applied. Brushes in the Pattern Pens category apply a pattern to an image. Users can vary the size and transparency of the pattern. Photo Photo brushes are based on popular brushes from other brush categories, but are optimized for auto-painting. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Now Comes Free with Wacom Bamboo Tablet ...Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/RVDFFNBRYU40B This software now comes free with the Wacom Bamboo Pen Tablet. While I do not normally do a lot of graphic art, I enjoyed getting to know and "play with" this particular software. The software has several options, including creating your own pictures and drawings. With the Pen, this is actually a lot of fun - and kids will enjoy using it. Make sure you check the price for the combination before you buy this, because at the time I created my review, the cost of the Pen Tablet (with this included), was only slightly more than this software alone. When I say that this is fun - to do the picture painting you choose a picture, then choose a style, and it paints it. I mean REALLY paints it. I'm used to photo editing where you choose a style and it applies it - but here you get to watch it happen in front of you. I've included two complete painting sessions followed by many of the other choices for painting. I hope you enjoy seeing a little of what this can do. I enjoyed making the video. I bought the Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate & VideoStudio Pro X2 Bundle as a lightning deal several months ago, and I used the Corel Video Studio to create the video. I'm getting more and more hooked on Corel as I go along. ***I have noticed that others have not received the correct software from this page. The software I am reviewing is the ACTUAL Corel Painter Essentials 4, which does include the ability to completely create a drawing from scratch. *** Rating:  - Title is MisleadingI purchased the item based on the item description. It says, The simple-to-use home art studio that makes it easy for you to draw, paint or turn your photos into paintings-", which, to me, means you can draw or paint without using a photo. That is, just a nice, easy paint/draw program. When the box arrived, it says, "Painter Photo Essentials", and is clearly meant for use with photos. (On the Amazon pages, the title omits the word, "Photo".) I am disappointed and am returning the product. Rating: - No What I ExpectedI didn't read the blurb closely enough and signed up to review this only to discover that it was really intended for the end user photo modification business instead of more professional image manipulation operations. So I started out dissapointed. The software lack the controls of its competitors and, frankly, displays the same problems with running on a Mac that Corel's previous attempts displayed. However, if you're a PC user who is looking for something to reprocess shots of the kids or your last vacation, this might do find. In which case add a star. Rating: - Excellant ProductPainter Essentials 4 is a dynamic product, very user friendly and quick to set up. I upgraded from Painter Essentials 3. I originally ordered from another site that sent only the Photo paint not the complete software. Sent it back, ordered here and was delighted with the free shipping and quick delivery. This was also the best price available. Rating:  - Buyer be awareAccording to Corel Web site and Amazon Web site, Corel Painter Essentials 4 includes two tabs: Photo Painting and Drawing and Painting. However, the software I received is an OEM version which doesn't include the Drawing and Painting tab. I already own an OEM version of this software, which is a bonus software from the Corel Paint Shop Pro Photo X2 Ultimate. I like it. So, I purchased this software. I am going to return the software today. A good thing for Amazon is that they e-mailed me a shipping label. So, I don't need to pay the shipping cost to return it. 
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