Corel Painter - 12 Reviewer's Guide
Contents
1 | Introducing Corel Painter 12 ..........................................1
2 | Customer profiles ...........................................................3
3 | What’s included?.............................................................5
4 | Key features ....................................................................7
Workflow and customization...................................................................... 7
Progressive digital art capabilities............................................................. 12
Unmatched Natural-Media capabilities.....................................................17
The perfect complement...........................................................................19
5 | Summary .......................................................................21
Introducing Corel® Painter™ 12
Corel® Painter™ 12 is the ultimate digital art studio. Its combination of inventive
drawing tools, image cloning capabilities, virtually unlimited customization
®
options, as well as Natural-Media
achieve total creative expression in a digital realm.
Changing what’s possible in art
With the introduction of new Real Watercolor and Real Wet Oil brushes, Painter™
continues to offer unprecedented realism that is simply not possible with other
software. These new brushes expand on the authenticity of the RealBristle
Painting System, which mimics the bending and splaying of traditional,
real-world brush bristles on the canvas.
Painter also provides unique and progressive digital art capabilities, such as the
new Mirror Painting and Kaleidoscope composition tools. In addition, the ability
to customize practically every detail of the interaction between brushes and the
canvas gives artists boundless creative options.
Seeing is believing
brushes, colors, and textures help you
™
What sets Painter apart from other digital art tools is the unmatched finesse and
responsiveness of its brushes and textures. It gives artists and other creative
professionals a true competitive advantage and helps them differentiate their
artwork.
If you’ve so much as experimented with the brushes in Adobe
®
Photoshop®, you
owe it to yourself and your portfolio to see what Painter can do for you. To
quote longtime Painter user and digital art evangelist, Android Jones, “Painter
has become such a natural form of how I explore my imagination and creativity.
It’s settled into a second nature now, where I’ll dream in Painter.”
We’re confident that if you try it for yourself, you’ll find that the
pressure-sensitive brushes quickly become fluid extensions of your hand, with
brushstrokes that are unrivaled in texture and precision. Maybe you’ll soon be
dreaming in Painter, too.
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Customer profiles
Concept artists
Concept artists working in advertising and graphic design firms, as well as
entertainment, gaming, and manufacturing industries combine Painter with traditional
art and design techniques to create characters, animations, special effects, and complex
sets more efficiently than ever. The results of their work can be seen in movies, video and
computer games, and on television.
Designers and illustrators
Many of the world’s foremost commerical illustrators and graphic designers rely on
Painter for the depth and power of its digital art tools. Painter helps them vividly capture
their creative vision, which can be found in books, magazines, comics, Manga (Japanese
comics/anime), textiles, product packaging, and other publishing, advertising, or
manufacturing projects.
Fine artists
Painter is the primary medium of many fine artists working in entertainment, publishing,
non-profit, and freelance industries. Their works appear in museums, commercial art
galleries, corporate collections, private homes, and entertainment productions — all
proof that digitally created art is a highly sought after medium on the world’s art stage.
Professional photographers
Painter gives professional photographers a clear competitive advantage, offering
distinctive new tools and unrivaled Natural-Media capabilities that help them
enhance their photos to create unique and polished products. With its photo
painting tools, Painter also opens up new art forms and additional revenuegenerating opportunities for professional photographers.
Students and teachers of art & design
Painter is a true asset for all budding artists and an important component for art
curriculum worldwide. Painter’s digital tools mimic the look and feel of their real world
counterparts, providing the most natural way for students to learn traditional art
techniques in an environment that’s very conducive to experimentation without the
cost, toxins, and mess associated with traditional art supplies.
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What’s included?
Main application
• Corel Painter 12, Mac OS® and Windows® versions
Content
• Libraries of unique gradients, nozzles, patterns, stock photos, paper
textures, and brushes
Documentation
• Printed Getting Started Guide
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• HTML Help (Windows
• Online User Guide and Getting Started Guide (PDF)
Training
•Online videos
) and Apple Help (Macintosh®) files
•Online tutorials
Minimum system requirements
Mac OS® version:
•Mac OS® X 10.5 or 10.6 (with latest revision)
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•Intel
•1 GB of RAM
• 300 MB of hard disk space for application files
•Mouse or tablet
• 1280 × 800 screen resolution
•DVD drive
Core™ Duo
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Windows® version:
•Microsoft® Windows® 7 or Windows Vista® (32-bit or 64-bit editions), or
Windows
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XP (32-bit edition), with the latest Service Packs installed
• 1 GHz processor or greater
•1 GB of RAM
• 600 MB of hard disk space for application files
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•Mouse or tablet
• 1200 × 800 screen resolution
•DVD drive
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•Microsoft
Internet Explorer® 7 or higher
1. Additional space may be required for Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0
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