Corel Painter 11 is the latest release of Corel's advanced digital art studio software. By providing the drawing and painting technology, Painter 11 allows artists to pursue their creative endeavors in totally new and inspiring ways.
Corel Painter 11 is aimed at five major groups of users. First are commercial designers who require the tools to create their visions for architecture, graphic design, and illustration. Next are concept artists who need tools to speed their production time as well as have the ability to create astounding scenes for animation, movie, and video games. Photographers have, in recent years, begun using Corel Painter to explore new avenues for creative work, and generate additional revenue. Then there are the fine artists who use digital as "just another medium" within the world of fine art. Finally there are students and teachers of art or design who want the ability to learn their craft without the cost, mess, and chemicals associated with traditional art supplies.
What do you need to run Corel Painter 11? There are both Windows and Mac versions, and each requires a 700 MHz or better processor, 1 GB RAM, a mouse or pen tablet, 24-bit color display with 1024x768 screen resolution, a CD-ROM drive, and 500 MB hard disk space.
So what is new with this version of Corel Painter 11?
• Hard media variants continue Painter's leadership in the creation of realistic natural-media brushes. In version 11 you get a range of 40 new hard media variants that are suitable for drawing and sketching. They are available in a variety of brush categories including Acrylic, Blenders, Chalk, Colored Pencils, Pens, Watercolors, and the all new Marker.
• Custom hard media variants give you the ability to create your own variants. The palette provides a preview window and several controls that users can fine tune variants to meet their needs. These include dab profiles, sizes, transition range, stroke width, and tilt angle.
• Customizable rendering markers are all new to version 11 and are specifically designed to emulate real-world rendering markers. As with all Painter media, they take advantage of tablet tilt so that artists can vary the width of the marker stroke by adjusting the angle of their pen. You can even take control of Marker buildup just like the real-world counterparts.
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Article comments
1 - Somnambulist
Very thorough, but man, this reads like a press release, not a review. There was not a single thing with this piece of software that you had an issue with?
2 - Hank Langeman
I don't understand the layering system. When you had objects it seemed to be easier, like in Painter 7.