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Corel® Painter™ X Reviewer’s Guide
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Contents
1 | Introducing Corel Painter X.............................................1
2 | Customer Profiles.............................................................3
3 | What’s Included? ..............................................................5
4 | Top New Features .............................................................7
Creativity .............................................................................................................. 7
Performance and Productivity .......................................................................... 13
Compatibility...................................................................................................... 15
Learning ............................................................................................................. 16
5 | The Essence of Corel Painter .........................................17
Brushes ............................................................................................................... 17
Brush Controls.................................................................................................... 19
Textures .............................................................................................................. 20
Animation .......................................................................................................... 21
Support for Industry-Standard File Formats..................................................... 21
6 | Summary of New or Enhanced Features ......................23
Introducing Corel® Painter™ X
Art and Passion
Built from the ground up as a digital art studio, Painter™ has set the standard
for professional art software since its inception. Every day, world-renowned
artists, designers, and photographers delve into Corel® Painter™ to explore
their passions and create their personal masterpieces.
Delivering the next-generation art studio, Corel Painter X continues its focus on
the fundamentals of art technique and theory. Corel Painter X offers new
features that help artists achieve the perfect composition, color palette, and
brush stroke. Working closely with our professional customers, the Corel Painter
team explored the relationship between the artist’s hand and the canvas. The
result is a revolutionary new painting system that offers a natural, organic, and
expressive painting experience — right down to the individual bristles on the
brush.
Andrew Jones
This reviewer’s guide walks you through the new features in Corel Painter X,
which blur the lines between traditional and digital painting like never before.
We invite you to discover for yourself why professional artists, designers, and
photographers say there is no substitute for Corel Painter.
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Customer Profiles for Corel® Painter™ X
Commercial Designers
Commercial designers require powerful tools for their craft, which is why many
of the world’s foremost automotive concept designers, industrial designers,
architects, commercial illustrators, and graphic designers use Corel Painter.
Corel Painter X enables designers to vividly capture their creative vision and
handcraft distinctive designs, illustrations, and logos for their clients.
Entertainment Artists
Leading artists in the entertainment industry who work for such companies as
Lucasfilm and Disney use Corel Painter to produce some of the world’s
best-known movies and video games. Professional entertainment artists speed
their production time by using Corel Painter with their natural talents and
traditional techniques to create astounding scenes, characters, vehicles, and
textures.
Bill Hall
Professional Photographers
In recent years, Corel Painter has sparked a new trend in the professional
photography market as photographers explore the creative possibilities of
turning their photographs into paintings. Corel Painter offers photographers
new revenue streams by making it easier than ever to create hand-painted
works of art from their photographs.
Fine Artists
Many fine artists use Corel Painter as their primary art medium. Their works
appear in galleries around the world, demonstrating that digitally created art,
like oils and watercolor, is becoming “just another medium” on the world’s art
scene. With its new features, Corel Painter X continues to blur the lines between
the traditional and the digital painting experience.
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What’s Included with Corel® Painter™ X?
Main Application
• Corel® Painter™ X, Mac OS® and Windows® versions
Content
• Libraries of unique gradients, nozzles, patterns, stock photos, paper
textures, and brushes, including the new RealBristle brush category
Documentation
• Printed User Guide
• HTML Help files
John Derry
• PDF User Guide with advanced topics
Training
• New training videos featuring Painter Master Jeremy Sutton
• Tips & Tricks in Welcome book
• Online tutorials
Minimum System Requirements
Mac OS® version:
• Mac OS® X (version 10.3.9 or higher)
• Power Mac® G4, 700 MHz or greater; or any Macintosh® computer with the
Intel® processor
• 256 MB of RAM (512 MB recommended)
• Mouse or tablet
• 24-bit color display
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• 1024 × 768 screen resolution
•CD drive
Windows® version:
• Windows 2000, Windows XP Tablet PC, Windows XP Home, Windows XP
Professional, or Windows Vista™ operating system (with latest service packs)
• Pentium® III, 700 MHz or greater
• 256 MB of RAM (512 MB recommended)
• Mouse or tablet
• 24-bit color display
• 1024
•CD drive
× 768 screen resolution
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Top New Features of Corel® Painter™ X
Corel Painter X offers a broad range of tools and features that inspire creativity,
increase performance, and further extend compatibility with other industrystandard tools and applications.
Creativity
Corel Painter X delivers an impressive array of new features that provide
unprecedented power to replicate traditional art media — right down to the
individual bristles on the brush.
New! RealBristle Painting System: The new RealBristle Painting System
heightens the responsiveness of the brush for the artist and represents a major
milestone for digital painting. While artists have always marveled at how closely
Corel Painter simulates the look of traditional art media, Corel Painter X takes
realism to a whole new level. With Corel Painter X, artists can now faithfully
replicate the sensation of the interaction between the paint, canvas, and brush.
Unrivaled, the RealBristle Painting System authentically reproduces the natural
movement of the artist’s brush.
Chet Phillips
The RealBristle Painting System.
Image created by Cher Threinen-Pendarvis.
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Give it a try
Using the RealBristle Painting System
1 Choose File menu ` New.
2 In the New dialog box, keep the default settings, and click OK.
3 On the Brush Selector bar, choose RealBristle Brushes from the
Brush Category selector.
4 From the Brush Variant selector, choose one of the following
variants:
• Real Round Bristle
• Real Tapered Wet Flat
•Real Fan Soft
5 As you paint on the canvas, note how the bristles on the brush bend
and splay — just like their traditional counterparts.
New! Divine Proportion: The new Divine Proportion composition tool helps
artists visually arrange their canvas prior to drawing or painting. Widely used
throughout history by artists, designers, and architects, divine proportion is a
ratio of 1:1.61803398874989, or approximately three to five, which is generally
recognized as aesthetically pleasing to the eye.
In 1509, Luca Pacioli coined the term “divine proportion” with the publication of
his widely influential treatise, De Divina Proportione. The book was illustrated
by renowned scientist, inventor, and artist Leonardo da Vinci, who is believed to
have used the ratio in much of his own art, including the Mona Lisa and The Last
Supper.
The ratio, however, first appeared in 300 BC. In Elements, considered the world’s
most important mathematics textbook, Euclid of Alexandria introduced a line
divided into its “extreme and mean” ratio. Over time, the ratio was discovered
to also have significance in nature, music, and art. It has been used by many of
the world’s most recognized artists, designers, and architects, such as Sergant,
Seurat, Michelangelo, and Le Corbusier.
This helpful tool is ideal to assist artists in creating visually stunning
compositions, whether they are painting from a blank canvas or cropping a
photograph before transforming it into a painting. Corel Painter X provides
palette controls for the Divine Proportion composition tool, which allow the
artist to adjust the orientation, size, angle of rotation, display colors, opacity,
and grid levels.
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The new Divine Proportion composition tool can be used to visually arrange the canvas.
Original artwork by Andrew Jones.
Give it a try
Using the Divine Proportion composition tool
1 Choose Canvas menu ` Compositions ` Show Divine Proportion.
2 To access the Divine Proportion palette, choose Window menu `
Show Divine Proportion.
New! Layout Grid: The new Layout Grid composition tool divides the canvas
into equal sections. Similar to the Divine Proportion composition tool, the
Layout Grid helps artists visually arrange the canvas or a photo prior to drawing
or painting. Artists can choose from three preset Layout Grids: the Rule of
Thirds, 3
virtually any configuration of their choice.
× 5, or 5 × 5. In addition, users can customize the Layout Grid to
The new Layout Grid composition tool helps artists visually arrange their canvas.
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Enhanced! Photo Painting System: The enhanced Photo Painting System
makes it easier than ever for photographers to create beautiful paintings from
photos. With Corel Painter X, new controls provide users with more options
when creating an underpainting. In addition, the new Smart Stroke Painting
option uses brush strokes that dynamically adhere to the forms of the original
photo.
To see the capabilities of the Photo Painting System in action, follow the Give it
a try instructions in the next three sections, which describe the Underpainting,
Auto-Painting, and Restoration palettes.
The enhanced Underpainting palette
Historically, an underpainting was used to establish the overall color values for a
painting. Similarly, the Underpainting palette lets users prepare a photo for
cloning — the first step in transforming a photo into a painting. Users can adjust
the photo’s contrast, lightness, or saturation and add a decorative edge effect,
such as a rectangular, circular, or jagged vignette.
With Corel Painter X, the Underpainting palette has been enhanced to include
color schemes based on various media styles, such as Impressionist, Classical,
Modern, Watercolor, Sketchbook, and Chalk Drawing. In addition, users can now
choose a color scheme that matches the colors of any opened image.
The Underpainting palette helps users prepare a photo for cloning.
Give it a try
Using the Underpainting palette
1 Choose File menu ` Open, choose an image from the Open (Mac OS)
or Select Image (Windows) dialog box, and click Open.
2 On the Underpainting palette, choose Modern Scheme from the
Color Scheme pop-up menu.
3 From the Photo Enhance pop-up menu, choose Increase Contrast.
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Give it a try
4 Adjust the Smart Blur slider to 36%.
High-contrast areas maintain more detail than low-contrast areas.
5 Next, add a decorative border to your cloned image. From the Edge
Effect pop-up menu, choose Jagged Vignette.
6 Click Apply to set the options that you’ve chosen.
7 Before proceeding to the instructions for the Auto-Painting palette,
click Quick Clone.
A clone of your original image is created.
The enhanced Auto-Painting palette
The Auto-Painting palette lets users transform a photograph into a painting by
automatically applying random paint strokes that vary in stroke type, direction,
and pressure. Users choose the type of brush stroke, and adjust the preset
options to determine how the brush interacts with the canvas.
With Corel Painter X, the Auto-Painting palette has been enhanced to provide
the new Smart Stroke Painting option, which uses brush strokes that follow the
forms of the original photo. When enabled, the Smart Stroke Painting option
dynamically changes brush size, stroke length, and pressure based on the detail
and focal areas of the original photo.
The Auto-Painting palette helps users transform a photo into a stunning painting.
Give it a try
Using the Auto-Painting palette
1 With the clone of your image still open, enable the Smart Stroke
Painting and Smart Settings check boxes on the Auto-Painting
palette.
2 To set the speed of the brush strokes, adjust the Speed slider to 75%.
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Give it a try
3 Click the Play button.
Brush strokes are automatically applied to the clone.
4 When you’re satisfied with the painting, or if you want to adjust the
settings further, click the Stop button.
You are now ready to use the Restoration palette to bring back some
of the photo’s original detail.
The Restoration palette
The Restoration palette allows users to touch up their painting manually with
one of two special brushes that use the original photographic detail to “restore”
image areas, such as facial features.
The Restoration palette is great for restoring original detail from the cloned photo.
Give it a try
Using the Restoration palette
1 On the Restoration palette, click one of the following buttons:
• Soft Edge Cloner Brush — activates the Soft Edge Cloner brush
variant, which restores detail gradually
• Hard Edge Cloner Brush — activates the Straight Cloner brush
variant, which restores detail quickly with a few brush strokes
2 Adjust the Brush Size slider.
3 Paint over the area in which you want to restore detail.
New! Match Palette effect: The new Match Palette effect lets artists match
the color and intensity between two images. If you want to change an image’s
color scheme, you can now open an image that features your desired color
scheme and use the Match Palette effect to bring the desired color scheme to
the image you want to change. The Match Palette effect includes controls for
color, color variation, brightness, brightness variation, and intensity.
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New! Universal Mixer palette: With Corel Painter X, artists have greater
control over color selection when using Artists’ Oils brushes, RealBristle brushes,
or any other bristle-type brush. For multicolor selection, the new Universal Mixer
palette gives artists better control over color blending between the Mixer
palette and the canvas.
Performance and Productivity
Corel Painter X introduces new tools that increase performance and streamline
workflows for creative professionals. This is the fastest version of Corel Painter
ever, as application performance, speed, and stability have improved
dramatically.
Depending on individual system hardware, Corel Painter X users can expect up
to five times faster startup performance. Plus, brush engine performance is 35%
faster, opening RIFF files is two times faster, rendering effects is two times faster,
running scripts is 25% faster, and file saving is now up to 40% faster.
New! Universal binary: With support for Universal binary specifications,
Corel Painter X is optimized for use on both Intel- and PowerPC®-based Mac
computers.
New! Workspace Manager: With the new Workspace Manager, Corel
Painter X makes it easy to share or switch between customized workspaces. For
example, to suit specific workflows in a professional environment, workspaces
may be customized to offer only tools relevant to sketching, photography, and
painting. For learning purposes, the Workspace Manager is also useful for
educators who want to streamline available tools to suit curriculum.
The new Workspace Manager makes it easy to share custom workspaces.
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New! Dodge and Burn tools: With Corel Painter X, dodge and burn
capabilities have been improved with the addition of two new image
enhancement tools to the toolbox. The Dodge tool lets artists lighten, or
overexpose, specific areas of an image. Conversely, the Burn tool lets artists
darken, or underexpose, specific areas of an image. Artists often use dodging or
burning to prepare a photo for painting.
The new Dodge tool lets users lighten specific areas of an image.
Give it a try
Using the Dodge tool
1 Choose File menu ` Open, choose an image from the Open (Mac OS)
or Select Image (Windows) dialog box, and click Open.
2 In the toolbox, click the Dodge tool.
3 Use the property bar to adjust any of the following brush settings:
•Size – controls the size of the brush
•Opacity – controls the lightness of the brush stroke on the canvas
•Jitter – controls the appearance of random dabs outside the
brush stroke
4 Paint on the canvas in the area that you want to lighten.
Enhanced! Color Management: Corel Painter X includes an enhanced
Color Management System, which ensures accurate color reproduction between
devices and print jobs. In previous versions, users had to consider Color
Management for each new project. Now, they only have to set up their Color
Management options once, and Corel Painter X retains those settings until
further adjustments are made. With support for industry standard ICC4.0 color
profiles, Corel Painter X lets artists focus specifically on their work.
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Compatibility
Corel Painter X fits into the workflow of creative professionals in various
industries. Whether it’s the latest operating systems from Apple or Microsoft,
industry-standard software, or hardware that digital artists rely on every day,
Corel Painter X delivers dependable compatibility.
New! Windows Vista™ support: Corel Painter X is designed to run on the
latest Microsoft operating system, Windows Vista.
Enhanced! Mac OS® X support: As the Mac OS platform has evolved,
Corel Painter has kept pace so that artists can take advantage of everything the
Mac OS has to offer. Corel Painter X supports the latest operating system from
Apple and also provides built-in support for the Spotlight™ software utility.
Enhanced! Adobe® Photoshop® support: With Corel Painter, layer
behavior is very similar to Adobe® Photoshop®, which makes moving files
between Photoshop and Corel Painter simple. Files saved to the Photoshop (PSD)
file format open in Corel Painter, with layer masks, alpha channels, and layer sets
(groups) maintained. For Corel Painter X, enhancements include easier layer
grouping and combining, and improved support for layer merge modes.
Corel Painter X also supports Photoshop plug-ins for Mac OS X.
Enhanced! Wacom® support: Wacom pen tablets and pens have long been
staples in the creative professional’s toolbox. With Corel Painter X, artists can use
the entire Wacom product line — including the Cintiq 21 UX interactive pen
display, the Intuos®3 pen tablet, and the Wacom® 6D Art Pen. In particular, the
new RealBristle Painting System was developed to take full advantage of
Wacom’s 6D Art Pen. Combined with the pen’s six dimensions of control, Corel
Painter X takes realism to new heights.
Corel Painter X and a Wacom tablet bring true expression from the artist’s hand to the canvas.
Artwork by Chet Phillips.
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Learning
With a printed User Guide, training videos from Painter Master Jeremy Sutton,
online Help, and courseware specifically designed for educators, getting started
with Corel Painter has never been easier.
New! Printed User Guide: With Corel Painter X, users get a printed User
Guide which provides information and fast solutions.
New! Jeremy Sutton training videos: A new collection of step-by-step
training videos created by well-known Painter Master Jeremy Sutton is included
to provide guidance and inspiration.
New! “Painter on the ‘Net” tab in Welcome book: The new “Painter on
the ‘Net” tab provides links to Painter community resources online, including
Tips & Tricks, tutorials, and special offers. Launching on startup, the Welcome
book makes it easy for Corel Painter users to get down to the job at hand. In
addition to the “Painter on the ‘Net” tab, the Welcome book also provides quick
access to recently used files, brush and color management settings, and
showcases artwork from renowned Corel Painter Masters.
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The Welcome book
The Essence of Corel® Painter™
Corel Painter X users continue to enjoy many features that have been the
cornerstones of the application for years. The following features let creative
professionals leverage their natural talents and techniques to create original
works of art, distinguishing Corel Painter from other applications.
Brushes
Brushes have always been the heart and soul of Corel Painter. There are more
than 30 brush categories, ranging from Crayons, Chalk, and Charcoal to Acrylics,
Watercolor, Liquid Ink, Artists’ Oils, and the new RealBristle. While most brush
categories mirror the look and feel of traditional brushes, others offer users a
one-of-a-kind creative tool.
Heather Michelle Bjoershol
Brushes are organized into distinct categories, each featuring a multitude of variants.
The following brush categories are just a sample of those available to
Corel Painter X customers.
Artists’ Oils Painting System: The Artists’ Oils Painting System enables users
to apply paint blends created in the Mixer palette directly onto images in the
document window. Each brush dab loads the brush variant with a finite amount
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of oil. As the oil runs out, the brush stroke becomes fainter. Brush strokes
interact with any paint already on the canvas just as they would with natural
media.
Artists’ Oils brush stroke
Watercolor: Watercolor brush variants produce natural-looking watercolor
effects. Almost all brush variants in the Watercolor category interact with the
canvas texture. For most of these variants, stylus pressure affects the width of
the brush stroke. As with traditional-media watercolor brushes, greater pressure
on the brush widens a stroke and less pressure narrows a stroke.
Watercolor brush stroke
Chalk: Chalk brush variants produce the thick, rich texture of natural chalk
sticks and cover with strokes that interact with the paper grain. The opacity is
linked to stylus pressure.
Chalk brush stroke
Image Hose: The Image Hose behaves like a brush, but it sprays images instead
of applying paint. Users can also load their own image or select from the library
included in the application.
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Image Hose brush stroke
Cloners: Painting with a cloner brush is similar to painting with any Corel
Painter brush, except that cloner brush variants take their color information
from a clone source, such as a pattern or another image, instead of from the
Colors palette. Some cloner brush variants reproduce a source image directly.
Other cloner brush variants reproduce a source image with low opacity and soft
edges, or use paper grain and specialized dabs, for particular media effects.
Cloner brush
Brush Controls
Brush Control palettes provide quick, 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 Boost slider, found in the General palette of the Brush Controls,
instantly enhances brush speed. Just drag the slider and see brush performance
accelerate.
Brush Control palettes enable on-the-fly changes.
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Textures
In the traditional art world, an artist’s brush or drawing tool produces different
results when applied to surfaces with different textures. Corel Painter allows
users to control the texture of the canvas to achieve the results they would
expect from conventional art media on a given surface. Brushes interact with
paper grain, just as natural tools react with the texture of the surfaces beneath
them. Textures can also be used to create special effects, such as rusted metal on
an intergalactic spaceship or bark on a tree.
Many brush variants allow the paper texture to be seen through the brush stroke.
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Paper texture can help create special effects.
Artwork by Andrew Jones.
Animation
Corel Painter has an impressive array of animation features. The Onion Skinning
feature enables users to view previous and future frames while working on the
current frame. The Rotoscoping feature enables users to paint and modify a
single frame of an existing movie. Animated movies can be saved as animated
GIFs, QuickTime® movies, or AVI movies.
Gitanjali Rao’s “Printed Rainbow” animated film.
Winner of three “Best Short Film” awards at Cannes 2006.
www.printedrainbow.com
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Support for Industry-Standard File Formats
Corel Painter lets users open and save a variety of file formats, including Adobe
Photoshop (PSD), Corel® Paint Shop Pro® (PSP), TIFF (CMYK & RGB), Windows
Bitmap (BMP), PC Paintbrush (PCX), TARGA® (TGA), GIF, JPEG, Mac PICT,
QuickTime (MOV), and Video for Windows (AVI) files. Users can also save files in
encapsulated PostScript® (EPS) format.
1. Rao’s Cannes 2006 awards include the Kodak Discovery Award — Best Short Film; the
Young Critics Award — Best Short Film; and the Rail d'Or — Best Short Film.
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Summary of New or Enhanced Features
The following is a summary of the new or enhanced features in Corel Painter X.
Creativity
•The new RealBristle Painting System faithfully replicates the natural
movement and behavior of the artist’s brush against the canvas.
•With the new RealBristle brush category, artists can choose from
16 new brush variants, ranging from smooth and silky oils to rigid dry
impasto and dynamic fan brushes.
• From the shape of the brush tip to the rigidity of the bristles, the new
RealBristle palette gives artists complete control over the dynamics of
the default RealBristle brushes.
• In addition to customizing the default RealBristle brushes, the new
RealBristle palette lets artists transform the existing Static Bristle,
Camel Hair, Bristle Spray, or Blend Camel brushes into their own
RealBristle brushes.
Micah Henrie
• At the planning stage, artists and photographers can use the new Divine
Proportion composition tool, which is based on a ratio used as an
aesthetic guide throughout history.
•The new Layout Grid composition tool also helps artists and
photographers arrange the canvas prior to drawing or painting.
• The enhanced Photo Painting System makes it easier than ever to
tranform photos into stunning paintings — in three easy steps.
• With new Color Schemes, the enhanced Underpainting palette now
offers predefined styles or lets photographers match colors between
different images.
• The enhanced Underpainting palette includes new industry-standard
Photo Enhancement controls, such as Brightness, Contrast, Hue, and
Saturation, that give photographers precise command when preparing a
photo for Auto-Painting.
• On the enhanced Auto-Painting palette, the new Smart Stroke
Painting options dynamically change brush size, stroke length, and
pressure based on the detail and focal areas of the original photo. With
Smart Stroke Painting, it’s never been easier to turn a photo into a handpainted masterpiece.
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•The new speed control on the enhanced Auto-Painting palette lets
photographers adjust the pace of the brush strokes, enabling better
control over the level of detail in their painting.
• Artists and photographers can easily duplicate the color and intensity of an
image with the new Match Palette effect.
• The new Universal Mixer palette gives artists greater control over color
blending between the Mixer palette and the canvas.
Performance and Productivity
•With new Universal binary support, Corel Painter X is optimized for use
on both Intel- and PowerPC-based Mac computers.
• For professionals and educators, the new Workspace Manager makes it
easy to share customized workspaces, including custom palettes, brushes,
paper textures, and libraries.
• The Corel Painter X toolbox includes the new Dodge and Burn tools,
improving the capabilities of these image enhancement effects.
• The enhanced Color Management System retains settings between
Corel Painter X sessions, so that users can now set it and forget it.
• With enhanced Session memory, Corel Painter X also retains many other
settings between sessions, including grid settings, tracker settings, erasers,
and many more.
• Corel Painter X provides new Secure Saving and Auto-Backup, which give
more assurance that you will not lose your work in case of a power outage
or system crash.
Compatibility
• Corel Painter X is designed to run on the latest Microsoft® operating
system, Windows Vista™.
• In addition to working with the latest Apple operating system,
Corel Painter X includes built-in support for Spotlight.
•With enhanced Adobe® Photoshop® support that includes easier layer
grouping and combining, and improved support for layer merge modes,
Corel Painter X users can more effectively use Painter with Photoshop.
• Corel Painter X provides enhanced Wacom® support so that users can
take advantage of the entire Wacom product line — including the Cintiq 21
UX interactive pen display, the Intuos®3 pen tablet, and the Wacom® 6D Art
Pen.
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Learning
•A printed User Guide provides Corel Painter X customers with
information and fast solutions.
• A new series of tutorials created by Painter Masters helps
Corel Painter X users learn from recognized industry professionals.
• A new collection of training videos created by Painter Master Jeremy
Sutton offers step-by-step guidance and inspiration.
•The new “Painter on the ‘Net” tab in the Welcome book provides links to
online resources for the Painter community, including Tips & Tricks and
tutorials.
•The updated Welcome book also showcases artwork by more than thirty
Painter Masters from around the world.
•A redesigned Painter Canvas eNewsletter provides monthly tutorials
and other great learning resources.
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About Corel Corporation
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industry awards for leadership in software innovation, design, and value, Corel’s products have built a
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Special Thanks
In recognition of the artwork used throughout this document, the Corel Painter team extends special
thanks to the talented artists whose contributions helped make this reviewer's guide possible:
Andrew Jones, Bill Hall, John Derry, Chet Phillips, Cher Threinen-Pendarvis, Heather Michelle Bjoershol,
Gitanjali Rao, and Micah Henrie.
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