Corel Painter Essentials 3 Reviewer’s Guide
Reviewer’s Guide
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Table of Contents
1 | Introducing Corel Painter Essentials 3 ...........................1
2 | Corel Painter Essentials 3 Customer Profiles.................2
Digital Camera Hobbyists .................................................................................... 2
Art, Decor, and Scrapbook Enthusiasts............................................................... 2
Art Students and Teachers................................................................................... 2
3 | What’s Included with Corel Painter Essentials 3?..........3
Main Application ................................................................................................. 3
Content................................................................................................................. 3
Printed Documentation....................................................................................... 3
Electronic Documentation................................................................................... 3
Training................................................................................................................. 3
Minimum System Requirements ......................................................................... 4
4 | Top New Features .............................................................5
Learn to Draw and Paint Digitally ...................................................................... 5
Turn Photos into Paintings .................................................................................. 6
Have Fun with Digital Art ................................................................................. 11
Enjoy Compatibility with Popular Software and Hardware............................ 13
5 | Corel Painter Essentials Brushes...................................15
6 | Summary of New and Enhanced Features ...................22
7 | About Corel ....................................................................24
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Introducing Corel® Painter™ Essentials 3
Corel® Painter™ Essentials 3 is a complete home art studio built on the
award-winning power of Corel® Painter™ IX. It includes everything a new
user needs to get started with digital art and create stunning paintings from
photos.
A key element of Corel’s digital-imaging product lineup, Corel Painter
Essentials 3 offers the new Photo Painting Palettes, which make transforming
photos into paintings as simple as 1-2-3, and art tools that faithfully replicate
real-world paints, brushes, and papers. Home users on both Mac OS® and
Windows® platforms now have everything they need to turn their mouse or
tablet into a paintbrush for creating digital works of art and lasting family
mementos. Easy to learn, Corel Painter Essentials 3 is complete with training
videos, tutorials, and a helpful contextual workspace guide, making it simple
to get started on a digital art project.
Corel Painter Essentials 3 is an ideal complement to Corel® Paint Shop Pro® X
and Corel® Photo Album™ 6. Customers using the Windows platform can
optimize their photo with Paint Shop Pro X, create a personalized handmade
painting with Corel Painter Essentials 3, and then use Corel Photo Album 6 to
easily use their final painted images in creative projects, such as calendars and
greeting cards, that are perfect for sharing! From photo editing and digital
painting to organizing image collections and creating keepsakes and crafts,
Corel’s digital-imaging product family delivers a new world of possibilities
and helps ensure that users get the most out of their digital camera.
Corel Painter Essentials 3 is also highly compatible with other popular
software and hardware, enabling users to seamlessly exchange files with
Adobe® Photoshop® CS and Adobe® Photoshop® Elements. In addition,
Mac OS users can now set their Apple® iPhoto™ preferences to use Corel
Painter Essentials for image editing. This lets users double-click any iPhoto
image to open it for editing with Corel Painter Essentials.
Providing more creative options than ever before, Corel Painter Essentials 3
lets home users create beautiful, handmade digital-art keepsakes that are
perfect for framing, using in crafts projects like scrapbooks, and giving as
special gifts to friends and family.
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Corel® Painter™ Essentials 3 Customer Profiles
Digital Camera Hobbyists
Digital camera hobbyists use their cameras to capture special moments and to
explore their artistic expression. They may also be looking to add flair to
family portraits, greeting cards, or a family tree.
Art, Decor, and Scrapbook Enthusiasts
Art, decor, and scrapbook enthusiasts may enjoy hands-on projects, such as
sketching and painting. Whether they start their art from scratch or work
with photos, users can create stunning images that are perfect for hanging
on the wall or adding their own personal artistic touch to crafts and other
projects.
Art Students and Teachers
Art students and teachers at school or at home are looking for ways to
explore the visual arts without the cost and mess associated with traditional
art supplies. Corel Painter Essentials 3 provides an ideal learning environment
in which the techniques of classical art training apply, while letting users take
advantage of all the benefits their computer has to offer.
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What’s Included with Corel® Painter™ Essentials 3?
Main Application
• Corel Painter Essentials 3, Mac® and Windows versions
Content
• Libraries of unique gradients, nozzles, patterns, stock photos, paper
textures, and brushes
Printed Documentation
•The Corel Painter Essentials 3 Getting Started Guide
Electronic Documentation
• Help files (HTML)
• User Guide (PDF)
• 10 Quick Start tutorials (accessible from the Welcome screen)
• Quick Guide palette
Training
• lynda.com training videos included on CD
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Minimum System Requirements
Macintosh®:
• Mac OS® X (version 10.2.8 or higher)
• Power Macintosh® G3, 500 MHz or greater
• 256 MB of RAM
• Mouse or tablet
• 24-bit color display
• 1,024 × 768 or greater monitor resolution
Windows®:
• Windows 2000 or Windows XP (with latest service packs)
• Pentium® II, 500 MHz or greater
• 256 MB of RAM
• Mouse or tablet
• 24-bit color display
• 1,024 × 768 or greater monitor resolution
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Top New Features
Corel® Painter™ Essentials 3 includes a range of new tools and features that
help users get started on their next digital art project. The new Photo
Painting Palettes easily transform photos into stunning paintings, and the
new Artists’ Oils brushes take Painter’s legendary Natural-Media® features
into a new dimension of realism. In addition, to ensure that digital camera
enthusiasts get the most out of their photos, Corel Painter Essentials 3
supports Corel Paint Shop Pro X, Corel Photo Album 6, Adobe Photoshop CS,
Adobe Photoshop Elements, and Apple iPhoto.
Learn to Draw and Paint Digitally
It is now easier than ever for users to start creating breathtaking digital
works of art. The application includes a convenient new Quick Guide palette,
free lynda.com training videos, a printed guide to getting started, and 10
Quick Start tutorials that launch from the new Welcome screen.
New! Quick Guide palette: Providing context-sensitive information
about the options available from workspace items, the Quick Guide palette
makes it easy for users to get started. When users click on a palette, the
toolbox, the Brush Selector bar, or the property bar, the Quick Guide displays
relevant information about the options available, as well as a link to the
more comprehensive Help.
The new Quick Guide palette makes it easy for new users to become familiar
with Corel Painter Essentials 3 workspace items.
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New! Training videos by lynda.com: Corel Painter Essentials 3 includes
10 new training videos created by lynda.com, one of the world’s most
renowned graphics training companies, to guide users through the Corel
Painter Essentials workspace, tools, features, and techniques. In addition,
users can sign up to download 10 more free training videos.
New! Welcome screen: Getting started with digital art has never been
more straightforward, thanks to the new Corel Painter Essentials 3 Welcome
screen. The Welcome screen gives users quick access to recently used files,
tutorials, and settings. It also showcases original artwork from renowned
Corel Painter Masters to inspire users to explore the application and create
their own works of art.
The new Welcome screen makes it easy to get started.
New! Quick Start tutorials: These short, instructive tutorials guide users
through basic tasks, such as transforming a photo into a painting, in a few
easy steps.
Turn Photos into Paintings
With Corel Painter Essentials 3, it’s never been easier for users to turn digital
photos into stunning paintings.
New! Photo Painting Palettes: Right out of the box, the new Photo
Painting Palettes let users create beautiful paintings from digital photos. The
three Photo Painting Palettes are the Underpainting palette, the AutoPainting palette, and the Restoration palette.
With the Underpainting palette, users can prepare a photo for painting and
add beautiful effects and borders, such as a vignette. The Auto-Painting
palette lets users transform a photo into a painting by automatically applying
random paint strokes that vary in stroke type, direction, and pressure. The
Restoration palette allows users to touch up their painting manually with one
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