Painter

Corel Painter lets you explore new creative possibilities with Natural-Media brushes, paper textures and media that look and feel just like traditional art materials.

Corel Painter 2018 is an ultimate digital art studio. Its inventive drawing tools, realistic brushes, cloning capabilities and customisable features let you expand your creative output in exciting new ways. When you use the pressure-sensitive brushes of Corel Painter, they become fluid extensions of your hand, so the resulting brushstrokes are unrivalled in texture and precision. What’s more, features such as the ability to build your own Natural-Media brushes and customise how brushes interact with the canvas give you countless ways to develop your artistic ideas. Corel Painter takes you far beyond what's possible in a traditional art environment.

Key Features:

• Blank Canvas: Painter includes all of the wet and dry media types you will ever need to easily transfer the vision in your head onto canvas.
  
• Photo Art: One-of-a-kind cloning and photo-painting tools offer a significant productivity edge.
• Papers: Choose from a library of included canvas Paper textures.
• Flow maps: Textures designed to maximise the creative potential of the Real Watercolor and Particle brushes by helping direct the flow of paint.
  
• Textures: Integrate intricate surface texture into your projects by selectively painting portions of the canvas or filling a selection with the texture of your choice.
  
• Artists Favorites: Draw using the pressure sensitive Scratchboard Tool that produces controlled thick to thin strokes and use the Sargent brush to produce bold multi-shaded brushstrokes.
  
• Chalk, Pastel & Pencils: Use hard media that reacts to pressure on the drawing tablet to produce highly textured marks that react to paper grain and shaded magic with the tilt of the stylus.
  
• Real Watercolor: Enjoy wet brushes that interact with paper texture and grain flowing, mixing and absorbing into the paper just like the real thing.
• Auto-Painting Panels: No experience required, open a photo, launch the Auto-Painting Panels and prep, auto-paint and restore details with ease.
  
• Clone Source: Use the Clone Source Panel to open the clone sources of your choosing, change size and shape if desired and paint from the embedded opaque or transparent images.
  
• Clone Brushes: These brushes are built to grab and paint.
• Image Hose: Artfully spray the objects of your imagination onto the canvas.
• Particles: Physics-inspired brushes that spring, flow, glow and gravitate onto the canvas, offering an infinite number of creative possibilities.
  
• Pattern Pens: These unique brushes produce visionary strokes incorporating exciting patterns. Choose from the existing library or create your own unique pattern to paint with.
  
• Texture Source Blending: These brushes seamlessly blend the texture source directly into your rendered 3D output, or let you paint with full control over the texture color, luminance, location and distortion.
• Divine Proportion and Layout Grid: Use guides & grids based on classical composition, creating a sense of proportion that guides the eye of the viewer across a painting.
  
• Mirror Painting & Kaleidoscope: Easily create a symmetrical painting by allowing Painter to create a mirror image by reproducing brushstrokes on the opposite side of the canvas or multiple reflections of mirror planes.
  
• Perspective Guides: Display non-printing Perspective Guides to create objects that give the impression that they are receding, or vanishing, from view.
  

Painter - Features

Corel Painter is a digital sketching and painting application for digital artists, illustrators, pre-visualisation artists and photographers who need tools that mimic the output and experience of traditional drawing and painting media.

Features include:

• Mixer Palette: blend colours interactively as with paint and a palette
• Brush Creator: design custom brushes in a visual, interactive environment. Use the Randomizer to modify the characteristics of an existing brush randomly, combine the characteristics of two brushes using the Transposer or fine-tune brushes using the Stroke Designer. The Brush Stroke preview displays changes made to each brush before applying them
• Sketch Effect: create sketches from photographs converting photographs to simple pencil drawings while controlling the amount of paper grain, the heaviness of the pencil line and the desired level of detail
• Digital Watercolour: hand-paint line drawings, touch up photographs and create simple watercolour washes in a simplified, transparent watercolour medium
• New Brushes: more than four hundred new brushes in over thirty media including acrylics, airbrushes, blenders, calligraphy pens, chalks, charcoal, cloners, coloured pencils, crayons, distortion, erasers, felt pens, gouache, impasto, oils, palette knives, pastels, pencils, pens, photographs, sponges, sumi-e, tinting and watercolour
• Re-designed Interface: providing easier access to tools, papers, patterns, gradients, nozzles, looks and weaves. A context-sensitive Property Bar provides access to commonly used controls and the Brush Selector simplifies brush selection
• Group and Ungroup Palettes: in any configuration to reduce the number of palettes on screen
• Tracker Palette: keep track of the most recently used brushes to navigate between brushes quickly
• Live Brush Preview: preview brushes before painting
• Brush Preview Cursor: view the dab size and shape of the brush whilst painting
• Information Palette: view image information such as cursor position, colour information and unit details
• Layer Masks: hide and reveal areas of a layer without making permanent changes
• Alpha Channels: create and store masks to modify, separate and preserve specific areas of an image
• Adobe Photoshop Files: open and save Adobe Photoshop files including layer sets, layer masks and channels
• Operating Systems: full compatibility with Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows XP.

System Requirements

Macintosh:

• Mac OS 9 (version 9.2.2 or higher) or Mac OS X (version 10.2 or higher)
• Power Macintosh G3 or higher
• 128 MB RAM
• 1024 x 768 display, 24-bit colour
• CD-ROM drive
• Mouse or tablet (Wacom tablet recommended).

Microsoft Windows:

• Windows 2000 or XP
• Pentium processor, 200 MHz or higher
• 128 MB RAM
• 1024 x 728 dislplay
• 24-bit colour
• CD-ROM drive
• Mouse or tablet (Wacom tablet recommended).