Corel Painter

MainManiac · Feb 2011

I saw this came with my Wacom Tablet, does anyone here have any experience with it? How does it match up to photoshop?

EarthQuake · Feb 2011

Install it and see! Its a completely different app than photoshop, emulating traditional media and brushes.

MainManiac · Feb 2011

Yea I just tried it out, the brushes are sort of annoying. I liked photoshops standard round brush which I dont see in the options

Swizzle · Feb 2011

Painter simulates actual paint instead of just putting down blobs of color you can control will-nilly. If you go into it expecting it to behave exactly like Photoshop, then that's your first problem.

MainManiac · Feb 2011

Yea I heard its really good for people who have been doing traditional for a long time.

pior · Feb 2011

Also, since CS5 photoshop now has a color blending engine (shift-B a few times to access it), so basically one doesn't really need Painter anymore...

Justin Meisse · Feb 2011

I used painter alot about 10 years ago but it was very unstable compared to Photoshop.

One thing I thought was awesome was it's image hose brush, while photoshop can only use a black and white image the image hose can randomly spray down a series of full color images.

Corel Painter

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