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Corel Painter X (OLD VERSION)

 
Corel Painter X (OLD VERSION)
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Corel Painter X (OLD VERSION)

4.0(22 customer reviews)
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Description:

The ideal choice for any aspiring photographer's digital darkroom; an array of graphics tools and creative effects help you transform their photos into one-of-a-kind artistic images.

Features:
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The world's most powerful Natural-Media painting and illustration software


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All-new RealBristle painting system models traditional brushes like never before


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Ideal for commercial designers, entertainment artists, pro photographers, fine artists and students


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Box version includes bonus brushes, gradients, image hose nozzles, paper textures, patterns and weaves


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Also includes full color User Guide and access to downloadable training movies


Product Details:
Product Weight: 0.88 pounds
Package Length: 9.5 inches
Package Width: 8.1 inches
Package Height: 2.2 inches
Package Weight: 2.35 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 22 reviews
System Requirements:
Platform: Mac / Windows
Media: CD-ROM
Item Quantity: 1
Customer Reviews:
Average Customer Review: 4.0 ( 22 customer reviews )
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19 of 19 found the following review helpful:

5Gritty, Dirty, Clumpy, Smudgy, and Fantastic!Jul 22, 2007
By David F. Kyte
In the past 2D computer art was too perfect. It lacked the hand of the artist, the interesting look only natural media could lend. While not perfect Painter gets as close as you can get without actually having to clean brushes. Colors can be mixed that have variations in tone and color. Paints can mix and smear with underlying color. An airbrush can spit and splatter or be perfectly smooth. Watercolors blend and soak into the paper.

Where Painter really shines is with the use of a graphics tablet like Wacom Wacom Intuos3 6X8 Pen Tablet. You can almost smell the turpentine.

26 of 29 found the following review helpful:

3Painter isn't quite "there" yet.Nov 02, 2007
By Jason A. Thomas
I was very disappointed in Painter X. After struggling with how slow Painter IX was, Corel boasted that this new release was the "fastest Painter ever!" It may be a tiny bit faster, but it's not noticeable! It still lags a LOT if you're using higher resolution images. Be prepared to work in 800 X 600 at 72 dpi if you want speed from the advanced brushes. I'm using a VERY fast system which is running very large Photoshop files at lightning speed. I find myself constantly struggling to keep my brush sizes low in Painter, just to avoid major lagtime.

Another problem I have with Painter is the interface. It is too clumsy to scale and rotate images when you can't see what you're resizing! I know, right? Not from $400+ software?! Yep.

Also, right out of the box, most brushes look pretty bad. I'm able to take some time and make custom brushes that look better, but most new users will have a hard time with this. WHY NOT MAKE BETTER PRESETS, COREL!?! Also, the textured paper looks like a cheap embossing effect, unless you really work with the lighting, etc.

So, the ability for Corel to perform is there, but it's slow, has a terrible interface, and takes a good bit of work to get the tools looking good. I keep hoping for them to address these issues, but they focus on making the paint effects look better. I would DEFINITELY have preferred ease-of-use to "real brisles" (a feature that you can't really use on bigger brushes without to major lagging)! It's too bad, because I LOVE what it CAN do, and how it looks, but getting there can be a real trial, especially compared to Photoshop.

So, I guess I'll just wait for Adobe to buy them, and take care of some of these issues.

10 of 10 found the following review helpful:

4Too Many Bugs for a Stable ReleaseSep 21, 2007
By S. Jenkins "Arshes Nei"
I am a Painter fan, but I think one should review the product with some honesty.

Painter's Brush engine is rather unmatched in terms of digital painting and graphics. This is one feature that overrides many of the other industry standard programs when it comes to illustrating and painting with digital applications. Painter's brush tracking also helps when one uses a tablet making it a very powerful application. The multitude of brushes that act like their traditional counterparts is one of the reasons a person could experiment without the fear of running out of paint, wasting paper, or supplies.

New Enhanced Brush Ghosting makes it a lot more easier to see the bearing and direction of your brush, especially making effects and strokes. Divine proportions help you with composition. I even like the fact that scripts even allow you to playback your drawing progress, similar to PortalGraphics Open Canvas. You can even create movies and animations. With the combination of Photoshop this is indeed a powerful program.

However, and granted I don't expect every program to be perfect upon release, the GUI (Graphical User Interface) has some major bugs. Scrollbars will disappear, going into the Brush creator will undock your palettes or mess with settings you previously had. Workspaces weren't able to save. Your brush would disappear at times too.

Now there is a current patch for this software at Corel's site, but if you were new to the program and saw such bad interface errors, wouldn't you be upset, given the cost of the software?

I can't honestly give this product 5 stars since you're met with such errors right out of the box.

7 of 8 found the following review helpful:

4fantastic brushesSep 01, 2007
By Lac
Pros:Tons of brushes to use, like a real painter where you have to dip it in the palette or you can adjust the well to refill your brushes automatically.

Capture pattern feature is great!
Help! Web page links are good and it's easy to find information.
Registering your copy gives you access to some neat little tutorials
The palette: mix your own colors like a real palette
No water or turpentine required, you can noodle around on this program rather than get out the whole kit and caboodle, the photo it, then scan it, then post to a webpage.

Cons: I tend to crash this program every time I use it by having giant canvases and making the brushes really wide. Ordering more computer guts for better performance (my pc had been redone with a new video card 3 mo. prior ect for gaming, so this proggie does take a lot).

The auto paint program is cool for about an hour. Photoshop has better filters and ad ons [eyecandy & alienware]if all you want to do is retouch photos or don't want the extra fancy brushes.

Won't beat ye olde sketchpad and ink for portability, tactile value or having an excuse to go to the art store. Instead of "You spent $10 dollars on ONE sheet of paper!" it will be "You bought a $300 art program AND you STILL need to go to the art store?!"

4 of 4 found the following review helpful:

5Great software, digital painting at its best.Jun 18, 2008
By ARTmuffin
I'm a Photoshop user but had read so many great reviews and tried the trial version of PainterIX and just had to buy this. I'm very happy with it. For me it was a very quick learning curve from PS to Painter. Painter is much more "painterly" than PS and the brushes and paints really do react very much like the real deal. Coming from studio painting using acrylics for my underpainting and oils on top I found that Corels' oil pastels actually gave me a very similar look and feel once I learned how to tweak the brushes to my liking. In my opinion the most important things to learn to really get what you want from Painter are learning how to adjust the brushes to your liking, learning to use "papers" as textures instead of the brushes as textures (that's how PS works), and getting used to the color wheel. But I found the color wheel indispensable once I got used to it. I actually found myself wishing I had the color wheel in PS when working in it.
Oh yeah, and if you don't have a tablet yet, I suggest the wacom intuos3 6x11. IN FACT, you may want to check on Corel's website. They almost always have a bundle deal where you can buy Painter and get a Wacom tablet at a discounted price instead of buying them separately (sorry Amazon...maybe Amazon has a bundle price too though...?).
I can't even imagine trying to use this software with a mouse. Spend the extra little bit to get the cd version of the software. It comes with a great book that covers a lot of Painters features, including their new "real bristle" technology, as well as some goodies on the cd.

Overall if you're looking for a more "painterly" end product I think Painter is the way to go. You may also want to look on [...] for some great dvd tutorials on using Painter. I bought Ryan Church's and Puddnheads tutorial dvd's and although their styles and workflows are very different I learned a great deal by watching and working along with the dvd's and I'm sure I saved myself a great deal of time rather than just trial and error.

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