The powerful natural-media painting and illustration software

Corel Painter

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Corel Painter X - the powerful Natural-Media painting and illustration software - features unique digital brushes, art materials and textures that mirror the look and feel of their traditional counterparts. Setting the standard for digital painting and illustration, the Corel Painter X digital art studio introduces new composition tools, unparalleled performance, and the all-new RealBristle painting system that models traditional brushes like never before - right down the individual bristles on the brush!
Designed for Artists, Designers, Photographers and the next generation of Creative Professionals!

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Features

Creativity
Corel Painter X delivers an impressive array of new features that provide unprecedented power to replicate traditional art media - right down to the individual bristles on the brush.

• RealBristle Painting System
  The new RealBristle Painting System heightens the responsiveness of the brush for the artist and represents a major milestone for digital painting. While artists have always marveled at how closely Corel Painter simulates the look of traditional art media, Corel Painter X takes realism to a whole new level. With Corel Painter X, artists can now faithfully replicate the sensation of the interaction between the paint, canvas, and brush. Unrivaled, the RealBristle Painting System authentically reproduces the natural movement of the artist's brush.
• Divine Proportion
  The new Divine Proportion composition tool helps artists visually arrange their canvas prior to drawing or painting. Widely used throughout history by artists, designers, and architects, divine proportion is a ratio of 1:1.61803398874989, or approximately three to five, which is generally recognized as aesthetically pleasing to the eye. This helpful tool is ideal to assist artists in creating visually stunning compositions, whether they are painting from a blank canvas or cropping a photograph before transforming it into a painting. Corel Painter X provides palette controls for the Divine Proportion composition tool, which allow the artist to adjust the orientation, size, angle of rotation, display colors, opacity, and grid levels.
• Layout Grid
  The new Layout Grid composition tool divides the canvas into equal sections. Similar to the Divine Proportion composition tool, the Layout Grid helps artists visually arrange the canvas or a photo prior to drawing or painting. Artists can choose from three preset Layout Grids: the Rule of Thirds, 3 x 5, or 5 x 5. In addition, users can customize the Layout Grid to virtually any configuration of their choice.
• Photo Painting System
  The enhanced Photo Painting System makes it easier than ever for photographers to create beautiful paintings from photos. With Corel Painter X, new controls provide users with more options when creating an underpainting. In addition, the new Smart Stroke Painting option uses brush strokes that dynamically adhere to the forms of the original photo.
• The enhanced Underpainting palette
  Historically, an underpainting was used to establish the overall color values for a painting. Similarly, the Underpainting palette lets users prepare a photo for cloning - the first step in transforming a photo into a painting. Users can adjust the photo's contrast, lightness, or saturation and add a decorative edge effect, such as a rectangular, circular, or jagged vignette.
  With Corel Painter X, the Underpainting palette has been enhanced to include color schemes based on various media styles, such as Impressionist, Classical, Modern, Watercolor, Sketchbook, and Chalk Drawing. In addition, users can now choose a color scheme that matches the colors of any opened image.
• The enhanced Auto-Painting palette
  The Auto-Painting palette lets users transform a photograph into a painting by automatically applying random paint strokes that vary in stroke type, direction, and pressure. Users choose the type of brush stroke, and adjust the preset options to determine how the brush interacts with the canvas. With Corel Painter X, the Auto-Painting palette has been enhanced to provide the new Smart Stroke Painting option, which uses brush strokes that follow the forms of the original photo. When enabled, the Smart Stroke Painting option dynamically changes brush size, stroke length, and pressure based on the detail and focal areas of the original photo.
• The Restoration palette
  The Restoration palette allows users to touch up their painting manually with one of two special brushes that use the original photographic detail to "restore" image areas, such as facial features.
• Match Palette effect
  The new Match Palette effect lets artists match the color and intensity between two images. If you want to change an image's color scheme, you can now open an image that features your desired color scheme and use the Match Palette effect to bring the desired color scheme to the image you want to change. The Match Palette effect includes controls for color, color variation, brightness, brightness variation, and intensity.
• Universal Mixer palette
  With Corel Painter X, artists have greater control over color selection when using Artists' Oils brushes, RealBristle brushes, or any other bristle-type brush. For multicolor selection, the new Universal Mixer palette gives artists better control over color blending between the Mixer palette and the canvas.

Performance and Productivity
Corel Painter X introduces new tools that increase performance and streamline workflows for creative professionals. This is the fastest version of Corel Painter ever, as application performance, speed, and stability have improved dramatically.

• Universal binary
  With support for Universal binary specifications, Corel Painter X is optimized for use on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Mac computers.
• Workspace Manager
  With the new Workspace Manager, Corel Painter X makes it easy to share or switch between customized workspaces. For example, to suit specific workflows in a professional environment, workspaces may be customized to offer only tools relevant to sketching, photography, and painting. For learning purposes, the Workspace Manager is also useful for educators who want to streamline available tools to suit curriculum.
• Dodge and Burn tools
  With Corel Painter X, dodge and burn capabilities have been improved with the addition of two new image enhancement tools to the toolbox. The Dodge tool lets artists lighten, or overexpose, specific areas of an image. Conversely, the Burn tool lets artists darken, or underexpose, specific areas of an image. Artists often use dodging or burning to prepare a photo for painting.
• Color Management
  Corel Painter X includes an enhanced Color Management System, which ensures accurate color reproduction between devices and print jobs. In previous versions, users had to consider Color Management for each new project. Now, they only have to set up their Color Management options once, and Corel Painter X retains those settings until further adjustments are made. With support for industry standard ICC4.0 color profiles, Corel Painter X lets artists focus specifically on their work.

Compatibility
Corel Painter X fits into the workflow of creative professionals in various industries. Whether it's the latest operating systems from Apple or Microsoft, industry-standard software, or hardware that digital artists rely on every day, Corel Painter X delivers dependable compatibility.

• Windows Vista support
  Corel Painter X is designed to run on the latest Microsoft operating system, Windows Vista.
• Mac OS X support
  As the Mac OS platform has evolved, Corel Painter has kept pace so that artists can take advantage of everything the Mac OS has to offer. Corel Painter X supports the latest operating system from Apple and also provides built-in support for the Spotlight software utility.
• Adobe Photoshop support
  With Corel Painter, layer behavior is very similar to Adobe Photoshop, which makes moving files between Photoshop and Corel Painter simple. Files saved to the Photoshop (PSD) file format open in Corel Painter, with layer masks, alpha channels, and layer sets (groups) maintained. For Corel Painter X, enhancements include easier layer grouping and combining, and improved support for layer merge modes. Corel Painter X also supports Photoshop plug-ins for Mac OS X.
• Wacom support
  Wacom pen tablets and pens have long been staples in the creative professional's toolbox. With Corel Painter X, artists can use the entire Wacom product line - including the Cintiq 21 UX interactive pen display, the Intuos 3 pen tablet, and the Wacom 6D Art Pen. In particular, the new RealBristle Painting System was developed to take full advantage of Wacom's 6D Art Pen. Combined with the pen's six dimensions of control, Corel Painter X takes realism to new heights.

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