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Corel Painter 11 (Mac/PC DVD)
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Product Description
Corel Painter 11.0 Mac/Win
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #218 in Software
- Brand: Corel
- Released on: 2009-03-27
- Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP, Mac OS X
- Format: DVD-ROM
- Dimensions: 4.41 pounds
Editorial Reviews
System Requirements
Mac OS version:
• Mac OS X (version 10.4 or 10.5, with latest revision)
• Power Macintosh G5, 700 MHz or greater
• 1 GB of RAM
• Mouse or tablet
• 24-bit colour display
• 1024 × 768 screen resolution
• CD drive
Windows version:
• Windows XP, or Windows Vista operating system (with latest service packs)
• Pentium IV, 700 MHz or greater
• 1 GB of RAM
• Mouse or tablet
• 24-bit colour display
• 1024 × 768 screen resolution
• CD drive
Upgrade Eligibility
MetaCreations Painter 6
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Corel Painter 6
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Corel Painter IX and IX.5
Corel Painter X
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X3
CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4
Manufacturer's Description
Corel Painter 11 is the ultimate art studio for anyone ready to expand their definition of creativity. With Painter, you can grow your digital darkroom 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 art every time. Painter is changing what’s possible in art.
Who Uses Painter
Concept Artists
Concept artists who work in the animation, comic and manga, automobile, movie, and video game industries combine Painter, their natural talents, and traditional techniques to create astounding scenes, vehicles, characters, and textures.
Designers and Illustrators
Many of the world’s foremost industrial designers, architects, commercial illustrators, and graphic designers rely on Painter for the depth and power of its digital art tools and its ability to help them vividly capture their creative vision.
Artists
Many fine artists use Painter as their primary medium. Their works appear in galleries around the world—proof that digitally created art is a recognized medium on the world’s art scene.
Professional Photographers
Painter helps professional photographers differentiate their businesses and generate new revenue streams by turning photographs into hand-painted works of art.
Students and Teachers of Art & Design
Painter lets students and teachers explore visual arts without the costs and mess associated with traditional art supplies. This ideal learning environment combines the techniques of classical art training with all the benefits offered by digital tools and media.
In the Box
Main Application
Corel Painter 11 – Mac OS and Windows versions
Content
Getting Started Guide (printed)
Libraries of unique textures, gradients, nozzles, patterns, stock photos, and brushes
Electronic documentation – User Guide (PDF), Getting Started Guide (PDF), Help files (HTML)
The Essence of Painter
As the world’s leading digital art studio, Painter helps artists differentiate their work with inventive painting and drawing tools that are unrivalled by any other painting software. Cornerstone features let artists push the boundaries of what’s possible and create distinct art, every time.
RealBristle brushes:
By copying the sensation and natural movement of a traditional brush, RealBristle brushes produce the most realistic brushstrokes and faithful interaction between paint, brush and canvas. This represents a major milestone for digital painting.
Brush Creator
The Brush Creator lets you create your own brushes in the type, size or pattern of your choice, so you can create custom brush strokes and produce artwork that is truly unique.
Pattern brushes
Existing or newly created Pattern brushes add dynamic and distinct effects, allowing you to create signature art.
SmartStroke brush technology
Photo-painting tools let you transform photos into paintings by hand. SmartStroke technology (in the Auto-Painting palette) paints a photo for you, following the lines and contours in the picture just like a real artist would. This lets you take the best of both worlds – photography and painting – to create new forms of art.
Natural-Media tools
Authentic-looking natural-media tools closely reproduce the effect of traditional media, such as acrylic, oils and gouache.
This sophisticated system lets brush strokes interact with paint on the canvas in the same way as traditional media. The brushstroke becomes fainter as oil on the brush runs out, true to traditional form.
Customizable surface texturing
In the traditional art world, an artist’s brush or drawing tool produces different results when applied to surfaces with different textures. Painter lets users control the texture of the canvas to achieve the same results, digitally. Textures can also be used to create special effects, such as rusted metal on an intergalactic spaceship, or bark on a tree.
Smart composition tools
Clever composition tools, such as Divine Proportion and the Rule of Thirds (and Fifths), help you visually arrange your canvas before sketching or painting to create perfect compositions.
Reasons to Buy and Upgrade:
Enhance the Creative Process
Enhance your creativity with more artistic freedom to create and customize brushes and media variants exactly how you want. Plus, the ability to mix media in Painter and use unique tools lets you create art in ways not traditionally possible.
Chalk: Reproduce the thick, rich texture of natural chalk sticks, with strokes that interact with the grain of your canvas and the tilt of your pen. Control opacity and width by changing the pressure and tilt of your pen on your tablet
Marker: Intensify colour with each new marker stroke, so you can colour in one continuous shade or create a buildup of colour
Pen Create fine strokes, thick strokes, or ink deposits by changing the velocity of your pen stroke. The faster you go, the thinner the line; the slower you go, the thicker the line
Pencil Choose whether to draw with the tip to produce fine lines, or shade with the side to produce broader, flatter lines by tilting your pen – just like in real life
New! Hard Media controls, such as customizable profiles, dab sizes, transitions, and stroke width preview, help you get the exact look you want.
Enhanced! Mixer Palette & Swatches give you more colour options because extra mixer swatches appear when you enlarge the newly resizable Mixer Palette. Reduce the size when you no longer need to mix colours, so the Palette takes up less space on screen.
Go Beyond The Digital Darkroom & Enjoy Broader File Compatibility
Expand your digital toolset with artistic painting media that’s designed to extend the capabilities of programs like Adobe Photoshop. Painter lets you go far beyond photo editing, so you can create art that’s entirely new and distinct.
Adobe Photoshop support lets you transfer files between Photoshop and Painter, so you can transform photos into art that becomes more imaginative and dynamic. Painter maintains colours and layers when transferring files between Photoshop and Painter. This saves time when importing and exporting artwork between the two programs because few corrections are needed.
Wacom support for the entire Wacom product line, including Cintiq pens and Intuos pen tablets, gives you the best digital art experience and most responsive painting tools, thanks to Painter’s compatibility with this leading tablet technology. Paint with pen and tablet the same way you would with traditional brush and canvas.
Enhanced! File format support provides new support for Portable Network Graphics (PNG). Open and save a variety of industry-standard file formats, including Adobe Photoshop (PSD),
Corel Paint Shop Pro (PSP), TIFF (CMYK & RGB), Windows Bitmap (BMP), PC Paintbrush (PCX), TARGA (TGA), GIF, JPEG, Mac PICT, QuickTime (MOV), and Video for Windows (AVI) files. You can also save files in Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) format.
Increase Performance and Productivity
Enjoy creating in a quick, reliable environment that’s optimized to streamline your workflow. This is the fastest and most dependable version of Painter yet.
New! Transformation Capabilities let you switch between different Transform modes from one centralized tool, and choose whether to transform the complete contents of a layer, or selected content, for greater speed, flexibility and precision.
New! Colour Management includes individual colour profiles per document and improved colour recognition for imported files, creating better colour matches. This enhances your workflow because you save time by having fewer colour corrections to make.
Enhanced! Faster Brushes perform up to 30% faster than brushes in the previous version, creating a more true-to-life painting speed.
Enhanced! Selection Tools include a new Polygonal mode for the Lasso tool, plus overall improvements to marquee tools and the Magic Wand, allowing you to make more nimble selections the first time around.
Enhanced! Colour Palette lets you adjust colours manually with sliders on the Colour Palette, and enlarge the Colour Palette up to 800 pixels for a clearer view of your selected colour. You can now also fine-tune the colour wheel with your arrow keys so it takes less time to find the perfect colour.
Customer Reviews
amazing but flawed
I have been using Corel painter since version 4 and think the best version is version 6. Since Corel took over the application it has seen some improvements; painting along a path is ingenious and the oil painting although of limited value to my own working method is really cool. But parts of it have got steadily worse with each release, brush size sliders are now 'drop down' (WHY?), dragging a brush out to place it on the canvas causes it to grow a large panel when the small icon would be infinitely better, the pressure sensitivity is jumpy at best (even with the new Intuos 4), the keyboard short cut for changing brush size is not accurate enough to be anything other than a gimmick, it would be much better to have the brush size slider appear at the tip. I could go on; I have a long list complaints collected over the years which I talked to Corel about but to no avail.
Painter is vastly better than photoshop for painting digitally and is the only application I would use but it is very flawed. The application is confusing and burdened with too many features that are not useful to a professional artist. The claims made for various brushes are nonsense...I would challenge someone from Corel to tell me the difference between say a 'fine tip marker' and a 'smooth round pen' ; they may be different under the hood but they look exactly the same when drawn on the canvas.
The new release Painter 11 is good for one reason; they finally introduced a 'polygon lasso'. but having bought it a few months back I don't use it because it is so buggy (missing strokes being the worst bug) and have gone back to 10. If you do buy it, my advice is to open the brush creator and switch off all the settings and experiment with each setting one by one, saving a brush when you get one that works. You'll soon have a collection that suits your working method. Also make use of the keyboard shortcuts; this is a fantastic feature which allows you to keep all the shortcuts at your non-drawing hand which means you can paint without ever looking away from the screen.
Painter is an application that needs to be wrestled free from those who want to add gimmicks to justify each new release and put in the hands of developers who would have the guts to strip it down to the great application hiding under all the garbage.
Why upgrade?
I have recently upgraded to Corel Painter 11 after using the version Painter Elements, which came with a Wacom Tablet that I purchased earlier. I have found that Corel Painter 11 has so many more options available to use compared with its simpler sibling. Personally I like the option to read and write PSD files which makes it easier to work alongside Adobe Photoshop (Elements 7 in my case). If I was to make a complaint it would be because the program is so feature rich; that it takes a while to come up to speed, but there are teaching videos provided, and also Corel provides a magazine for Painter which all help to speed up this process, if you are prepared to put in the ground work.
Best painting program available
Corel Painter is to painting applications what Adobe Photoshop is to photo editing the worlds number one.
