Corel Painter IX

Corel Painter IX.5 is the newest version of paint software designed especially to artists who create their projects with a help of traditional painting techniques and would like to import their workshops to the computer screen.

In the box we will find:

• CD with Corel Painter IX.5:

• colored guide book with all features described;

• tutorials prepared by professionals.

Everyone interested in starting the adventure with digital painting, should be satisfied by the information that in the box there is also video tutorials prepared by www.lynda.com which specialize in making creating video guides. Thanks to that everyone who has been using previous Painters' versions will be able to discover full potential from this software.

In this version of Corel Painter the speed and stability has been improved. Thanks to that improvement some brushes work even 10 times faster. After starting the Painter, the new welcome window is poping up, and we have easier access to such options as:

• Artists' oils painting system;

• Snap-to-Path Painting;

• Customisable shortcut keys - Corel Painter now offers creative professionals an unprecedented level of control over their workflow by enabling complete customization of shortcut keys;

• Quick Clone speeds up the image-cloning workflow and reduces five steps to one;

• Quick access to recently used files, tutorials, brush and more;

• Digital Watercolor paint stays wet between sessions;

• Iterative Save quickly saves sequentially numbered versions of an image;

• Enhanced colour management - Supporting industry-standard ICC4.0 profiles, Corel Painter IX Colour Management enables colour matching between on-screen and printed colours.

The newest thing in Corel is Artists' Oils Painting System – A milestone in the evolution of digital art, this new painting system creates a new level of realism for digital painting, delivering oil paints that truly behave like traditional media. They blend, mix and feel 'organic'. Artists' Oils blow away previous notions of what is possible in the digital realm. Also new is Snap-to-Path Painting – When users need to paint or draw a perfect curve or shape, Snap-to-Path Painting is a great time-saver. Snap-to-Path Painting makes it possible to constrain a brush stroke along a vector path or shape, creating a distinctly made-by-hand Painter look.

Digital Watercolour has been significantly enhanced in Corel Painter IX. Paint stays wet between sessions, enabling artists to start one session where the last one ended. Digital Watercolour emulates the traditional watercolour painting experience more realistically than ever before.

New to Corel is function Quick Clone that is ideal for photographers, Quick Clone enables the easy transformation of a photo into a painting. This new feature speeds up the image-cloning workflow, reducing five complicated steps to one simple click.

Moving between Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter is easier than ever. Files saved to the Adobe Photoshop (PSD) file format open in Corel Painter, with layer masks, alpha channels and layer sets (layer groups) maintained. New layers are now added above the selected layer, layers with different merge modes are collapsible, and it is now possible to hide or display multiple layers by simply clicking and dragging.

Corel Painter IX features support for Wacom's newest pen tablet model — the Wacom Intuos3 — and the entire Wacom tablet product line. The Wacom Intuos3 has touch strips that can be configured to control brush size, zooming, and many other functions, eliminating the need for a keyboard.

To sum up Corel Painter IX lets photographers offer their customers unique painted masterpieces created from photos.

by Slawomir Zadrozny