Corel Painter - IX Reviewer's Guide

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Contents

Executive Summary ......................................................................................3

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Corel Painter IX Customer Profile................................................................3

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What’s Included with Corel Painter IX ........................................................4

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Minimum System Requirements .....................................................................4

Top New Features..........................................................................................5

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Performance and Productivity.......................................................................5

Creativity ....................................................................................................8

Compatibility .............................................................................................13

Learning ...................................................................................................14

Favorite Features ........................................................................................15

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New or Improved Feature List..........................................................................19

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Performance and Productivity.....................................................................19

Creativity ..................................................................................................20

Compatibility .............................................................................................20

Learning ...................................................................................................20

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Art by Corel Painter masters.

Top row (left to right):

Ryan Church,

Chet Phillips, Chris Welch.

Middle row:

Jeremy Sutton, Cher Pendarvis,

Don Seegmiller.

Bottom row:

John Dismukes, John and Joyce Ryan,

Andrew Jones.

About Corel Corporation

Corel provides innovative software solutions and services that help millions of customers worldwide improve their productivity. Founded in 1985, the Company is best known for its leading graphics and office productivity solutions, including CorelDRAW , Corel Painter, and WordPerfect . With its headquarters in Ottawa, Canada, Corel has offices around the globe. For more information, please visit www.corel.com.

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Executive Summary

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Corel Painter IX — the world’s most powerful Natural-Media painting and illustration software — features unique digital brushes, art materials and textures that mirror the look and feel of their traditional counterparts. The newest version of Corel Painter takes digital design to unprecedented levels with the revolutionary Artists’ Oils Painting System, Snap-to-Path Painting, Quick Clone for photographers, and brushes that perform up to ten times faster than previous versions. Corel Painter enables some of the world's most accomplished creative professionals — including commercial designers, artists, and photographers — to extend their natural talents and techniques to create original works of breathtaking digital art.

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Corel Painter IX Customer Profiles

Commercial Designers

Commercial designers require powerful tools for their craft, which is why many of the world’s foremost automotive concept designers, commercial illustrators, and graphic designers use Corel Painter in their digital workflow. Corel Painter enables professional commercial designers to vividly capture every nuance of their creative vision, produce original digital design, and distinguish themselves from the crowd.

Entertainment Artists

Leading professionals in the entertainment industry use Corel Painter to produce some of the world’s best-known movies and video games. Corel Painter IX enables professional entertainment artists to create astounding scenes, characters, vehicles, and animation, using their natural talents and knowledge of traditional techniques.

Professional Photographers

Photographers are discovering how they can use Corel Painter IX to go beyond image enhancement and explore a world of new possibilities. The new Quick Clone feature enables photographers to quickly and easily transform their photos into breathtaking paintings, which can be sold to clients as a digital file or printed on large format artistic media for display.

Fine Artists

A key driver in shaping the digital art movement, Corel Painter empowers a new breed of professional artists who use a computer as their medium. Today, it is common to find digital art created in Corel Painter on display, both virtually and physically, in some of the world’s most prominent museums. Corel Painter IX enables artists to experiment with new techniques without investing the time and money that would be required with traditional media, achieving results that emulate their traditional counterparts.

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What’s Included with Corel Painter IX

Main Application:

Corel Painter IX, Mac and Windows versions

Content:

Libraries of unique gradients, nozzles, patterns, stock photos, paper textures, and brushes, including the new Artists’ Oils brush category

Printed Documentation:

The Corel Painter IX Handbook (in Full and Upgrade versions), including tutorials written by creative professionals

Electronic Documentation:

Help files (HTML), User Guide (PDF)

Training:

lynda.com training videos included on CD

Minimum System Requirements

Macintosh :

Mac OS X (version 10.2.8 or higher) Power Macintosh G3, 500 MHz or greater 128MB of RAM (256MB recommended) Mouse or tablet 24-bit color display 1,024x768 or greater monitor resolution CD-ROM 395MB of available hard disk space

Windows :

Windows 2000 or Windows XP (with latest service packs) Pentium II, 500 MHz or greater 128 MB RAM Mouse or tablet 24-bit color display 1024×768 or greater monitor resolution CD-ROM 380MB of available hard disk space

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(256MB recommended)

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Welcome Screen

Top New features

Corel Painter IX adds a range of tools and features that increase performance, fuel creativity, and further extend compatibility with other industry-standard tools and applications. With improved Help, tutorials by world-class digital artists, and free lynda.com videos, getting started with Corel Painter is easier than ever.

Performance and Productivity

Increasing the overall speed, performance, and stability was a top priority for Corel Painter IX. Working closely with

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Apple , Intel , and AMD, Corel engineers created improvements wherever possible. Corel Painter has never been a more efficient and powerful application.

Improved Speed

This is the fastest version of Corel Painter yet. Some brushes perform up to 10 times faster, and all brushes work, on average, twice as fast. In addition, users can now change the default scratch disk location in the Preference settings.

New Welcome Screen

Getting down to the job at hand has never been easier, thanks to the Corel Painter IX Welcome screen, which launches on startup. Divided into four sections, the Welcome screen gives quick access to recently used files, tutorials, brush and color-management settings, and even artwork from renowned Corel Painter masters.

Brush Control Palettes

New Brush Control palettes provide easy access to all brush settings and controls. Making on-the-fly changes to brush settings and variables is as simple as dragging a slider — without any disruption to workflow.

For example, the new Boost slider, found in the General palette of the Brush Controls, instantly enhances brush speed. Just drag the slider and see brush performance accelerate.

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Frames-per-Second Control

Animators can now test frame rates directly in Corel Painter. With the new Frames-per-Second Control, frame rates can be set and previewed in a range of 1 to 40 frames per second.

Frames-per-Second

Control. (Art by John

and Joyce Ryan)

Rotate/Flip Canvas

Entire images can now be easily rotated or flipped directly in Corel Painter. Image composition is easily verified at the touch of a button.

Customizable Shortcut Keys

Corel Painter now offers creative professionals an unprecedented level of control over their workflow by enabling complete customization of shortcut keys. A handy printable template for keeping a quick reference is included.

Users can create shortcut keys

for commands associated with

the menu bar, palette

menus, and tools.

Multiuser Support

Corel Painter now supports multiple users on both Mac and Windows. User files are stored in the user file directory, ensuring that users in a networked environment can retain individual settings and preferences. In addition, all settings are easily reverted to the default without having to re-install the application.

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