Corel Painter - X Reviewer's Guide

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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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