Corel Painter 11
- Painter 11 offers a broad range of digital painting, photo-painting and drawing tools that enhance your creativity, expand your digital darkroom, support unlimited experimentation and help you work faster
- All-new RealBristle painting system models traditional brushes like never before--replicate the sensation and interaction between traditional paint and canvas with your pen and tablet
- Painter 11 is the world's most powerful Natural-Media painting and illustration software, ideal for commercial designers, entertainment artists, pro photographers, fine artists and students
- Support for the entire Wacom product line, including industry-leading Cintiq interactive pen displays and Intuos drawing tablets, gives you the most responsive digital painting experience so your hand and brush work fluidly as one
- Box version includes bonus brushes, gradients, image hose nozzles, paper textures, patterns and weaves
Corel Painter 11 is the ultimate art studio for anyone ready to expand their definition of creativity. When it comes to your art, the uniqueness of your work depends on your imagination and your ability to express it. With Painter, you can grow your digital darkroom and create the art you’ve always envisioned with the most advanced digital painting and natural media tools available. Pressure-sensitive brushes allow your hand and brush to fluidly work as one, producing brushstrokes that are unrivaled in texture and precision. Inventive drawing tools and customizable media let you create distinct digital and photographic art every time. Painter is changing what’s possible in art.
Just don't get scared of the interface... 5 out of 5
...and you'll find the most awesome collection of art tools in existence :)
I recommend collecting some brushes from the likes of Jeremy Sutton and John Derry. That may sound crazy with Painter having soooo many right out of the box, but there's interesting things people have done with the brush engine.
Corel, you just need two goals:
1 - Make it fast. Real fast. Build it from the ground up if that's what it takes. Painter has a 2GB limit and is behind the curve.
2 - Do some house cleaning on the interface! It's just a bunch of floating palettes and lists! What is streamlined about that?!
And custom palettes... Adding brushes merely adds a brush category icon. So there might be ten brushes from one category in my palette, meaning ten identical icons. If I hover the mouse over the icon for about three seconds, the tool name comes up, but let me tell you, if I'm under deadline, that's too long!
Just make it play nicer with new technology (and my brain). Focus on the user experience, not adding features. Make it beautiful, not really awesome bloatware!
Painter still deserves 5 stars. The sheer variety of marks you can make leave no limitations on exploring visual creativity. Keep at it Corel!
Perfect! :) 5 out of 5
Corel Painter 11
Perfect!
I've been using and playing with Corel Painter 11, off and on, for about a year and can find no painter software that even comes close to all the usable, fun, features Painter 11 has. For my digital photography enhancements, I keep coming back to Painter 11. :)
Never had a problem running it with Vista operating system, but it is a bit slow going with my XP. Highly Recommended! --Katharena Eiermann, 2010
Painter 11 is Pretty Doggone Nifty 5 out of 5
Painter isn't for everybody as it's not an all in one image editing tool It won't replace Photoshop, though with this edition it comes close, but close is no cigar. There are forty new brushes with Painter 11 and for me that makes it a must upgrade. If you're any kind of artist and haven't experienced Painter's amazing RealBristle tool, you are in for a very pleasant surprise. The program actually seems to give you the sensation of working with a real brush. It recognizes the pressure you use on your stylus and the speed you use for your strokes and makes them look so real on your screen that you'd swear you were working on Canvas. Faster strokes are thinner, slower thicker. Also, if the tons of brushes Painter offers aren't enough for you, you can create your own. Pretty Nifty.
There are many other improvements in Painter 11, so you shouldn't just think it's for those folks who want to tweak their brushes to the ultimate or who want to create that ultimate brush so they can turn themselves into a digital Van Gogh. Actually, Painter 11 will do that for you automatically. Some of the other improvements are the fact that you can now resize the color palate, so no more squinting or, in my case, no more reaching for those reading glasses. Also the virtual palette is very nice. Actually the whole program is very nicely put together. It won't turn you into an artist, so if you flunked out of art in college this might not be the program for you, but if you work with digital images or have an artistic bent and like to create, you can't go wrong with Painter 11.
Just Loving Painter 11 5 out of 5
One super improvement in Painter 11 is the Transforming and Selecting tools. Now you can do a good deal of that in Painter, which keeps you from going back and forth between Painter and Photoshop so much. Yes, much of what you used to have to do in Photoshop, you can do in Painter, but sadly not everything, you still need Photoshop. Still, with some projects I find I don't have to go to the Adobe program at all.
There's a new and improved color management system in Painter 11. Open the Canvas Menu and you'll see all the new options and with these setting you can control the color profiles of your files with relative ease.
I work on both a PC and an Intel Mac and I've seen a definite speedup of the program on the Mac. At least it feels faster to me. And then there is the Real brushes and pencils which really make Painter shine, those and the color management system, the improved tools and the faster speed all combine to make this a worthy upgrade.
Cool photo editor! 4 out of 5
I have only used Corel Painter with existing photos to apply effects, and it's fun and feature-laden! There are all kinds of effects, from applying patterns like bricks, to posterization and color manipulation. I've barely scratched the surface with Painter 11, but it's a fun and powerful addition to my photo-editing tool kit.
