Corel Painter Essentials 4

• License:

  Free to try; $99.99 to buy (Buy it now)

• Editor's Rating:

  5.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  3.5 stars (out of 15 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  85,826

• Requirements:

  Windows 2000/XP

• Limitations:

  60-day trial

• Date Added:

  September 26, 2007

• Previous Versions:

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Publisher's description of Corel Painter Essentials

Corel Painter Essentials 4 is the simple-to-use home art studio that makes it easy for you to sketch, paint and turn your photos into paintings. Two new workspaces put the tools you need at your fingertips, whether you're turning a photo into a painting, or sketching and painting on a blank canvas. Based on the world's most powerful painting and illustration software, Corel Painter, it's the ideal way to get started with digital art.

Version 4 includes a wide array of new features, including a redesign photo-painting workspace, Smart Stroke technology, updated file formats, brush drawer, a Mixer palette, tablet supports, and a Magic Wand tool.

Editor's review of Corel Painter Essentials

• 5.0 stars

• "Essentials is a must-have"

Corel Painter Essentials 4 is a slimmed-down version of Painter for home use, but don't let that fool you into thinking that the average home user will be disappointed. For those who like to play around with their photos, tweaking them artistically, Essentials provides a deep toolbox under its intuitive layout.

All the tool icons in the palette are large and easy to understand, there's nothing obscure or hard to remember here. Brush sizes and opacity can be adjusted at the top of the editing window using sliders, and while a few main brushes live on the main left-side toolbar, you can change those by accessing the Brush Drawer. The program features two workspaces, Drawing & Painting and Photo Painting. The first is a standard image-creation template, while the second lets you upload a photo and "paint" over it.

The Photo Painting was quite impressive. When you upload an image, you select which parts of it you want shown by using the same variety of paint tools available in the Drawing & Painting workspace. The choices are quite deep, too: you can choose to change the texture of the image by changing the paper, you can change the brush type and width, and even use different kinds of paints to change your staid photo into an Impressionist work of art.

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• Average user rating: 3.5 stars out of 15 votes
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• 4 stars

  Version: Corel Painter Essentials 4

  "good"

  by centsoftinc on February 29, 2008

  Pros: good

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• 3 stars

  Version: Corel Painter Essentials 4

  "Easy to use"

  by datadude2 on July 9, 2008

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• 5 stars

  Version: Corel Painter Essentials 4

  "Slim yet Powerful"

  by rob.ruiz on June 23, 2008

  Pros: The UI is superb! It may be a slimmed down version of Painter X, but all that you would need is practically included. Your creativity will just flow!

  Cons: It is very addictive. hehe.

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• -1 stars

  Version: Corel Painter Essentials 4

  "cool"

  by kateonok on January 27, 2008

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• 5 stars

  Version: Corel Painter Essentials 4

  "Amazing"

  by Lad_funnymoney on January 12, 2008

  Pros: It was good

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