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They recommend using a tablet and stylus to lay down the strokes, and that’s great advice. In this second function, Painter Essentials 5 provides a very broad assortment of brushes and cloners and a powerful color mixing palette. The second function is creation of original art, either by starting with a literally blank canvas or by overlaying your choice of colors and patterns onto a tracing paper copy of a digital image. If you are accustomed to “getting what you want” through creative control instead of happily “wanting what you get” through random alterations, you may be disappointed. However, this function is automatic to the extent that other than choosing the style (e.g., Watercolor or Pencil Drawing) the user has no control over the creative process.

It can automatically render any digital image into a painting or drawing and provides 11 style choices. Painter Essentials 5 has two primary functions.

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A thinned version of Corel’s professional Painter 2018, which has a hefty MSRP of $429, Painter Essentials 5 is affordable ($49) yet surprisingly powerful.

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Note: The Download button on the Product Information page takes you to the vendor’s site, where you can download the latest version of the software.If you’ve ever had the itch to paint-or to turn one of your digital images into a great looking painting without taking up a brush-then Corel Painter Essentials 5 software may be just the ticket.Īvailable for Windows 7-8-10 and Mac OS X platforms, Painter Essentials 5 is “a painting, cloning and smart photo painting” program that is thoroughly satisfying to use and fun play with.

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If you ever outgrow it, the transition to the full Painter is a natural and easy one. Painter Lite is more than powerful enough to get you started.

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Whoever went over the full version of Painter to decide what to drop and what to keep for Lite made careful decisions resulting in a product that offers excellent value for money, and is fun to use. Fortunately, this isn’t the case for Painter Lite: It feels like a powerful toolkit with plenty of possibilities for artistic expression. Things that have Lite in the name sometimes end up feeling like shoddy substitutes for the real thing. Just like the full Painter, Painter Lite can adjust to your individual tablet pen stroke style. You can also adjust a layer’s colors independently of the rest of the painting, and apply effects such as motion blur or depth-of-field just to that specific layer.

You can even make two alternative versions of the same part in your painting, each on its own layer, and toggle between them to decide which one you like best. These make it easy to manually trace over existing photographs, or to separate your background and your subject and experiment with different brushes and looks. Just like the full Painter, Painter Lite supports layers. Still, if you’re a beginner looking for an affordable auto-painting tool, you can always check out Dynamic Auto-Painter.

I was surprised at the decision to drop this from Painter Lite, because in my mind auto-painting is mainly for people who aren’t professionals and still need a hand creating the paintings they’re after–in other words, exactly the sort of users who get into digital painting for the first time with Painter Lite. In the full Painter 12 you can load an image, pick a brush and settings, and set Painter loose to recreate it with brush strokes, resulting in a convincing painting. One interesting decision Corel made with Painter Lite was to remove the Auto Painting feature. Painter Lite comes with 97 art brushes categorized according to type and style. Still, the wide variety of bundled brushes makes it easy to create many different looks, from finely detailed pencil sketches all the way to large, expressive impasto creations. Notably missing are the Real Watercolor and Real Wet Oil brushes, two extremely realistic brush types that drip, dry, and blend in ways that impressed me when reviewing the full Painter 12. Corel bundled no fewer than 97 different brushes with Painter Lite, including markers, airbrushes, watercolor brushes, special effect brushes, and many others. The most important part of Painter is, of course, the paint brushes. When you use a pen tablet, Painter Lite reacts to your stroke pressure and the angle in which you’re holding the pen, making for a natural painting experience. Painter Lite’s welcome screen showcases a collection of art created with both Painter and Painter Lite, and makes it easy to get started.Ī pen tablet, by the way, is something you really should get if you’re serious about digital painting: You can use Corel Painter Lite with a mouse, but it feels a bit like trying to cook dinner with nothing but a spoon.

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