Corel Painter - X3 Reviewer's Guide

Contents

1 | Introducing Corel Painter X3............................................. 1

2 | Customer profiles .............................................................. 3

3 | What’s included?................................................................ 5

4 | Key features........................................................................ 7

A platform for inspiration, creativity, and reflection ...................................7

The innovator in digital art ......................................................................... 9

Easier to learn and use ............................................................................. 12

5 | Art Gallery......................................................................... 15

Einar Lunden

Introducing Corel® Painter® X3

Corel® Painter® X3 is the ultimate digital art studio.
It gives artists the freedom to create without
boundaries, offering a wondrous collection of
lifelike and expressive Natural-Media

®

brushes,
innovative drawing tools, effects, and media, as
well as endless customization options to tailor the
workspace to their preference.

Changing what’s possible in art

Painter evolves with the help of an Advisory Council,
which consists of working artists in a range of
professions across the globe. These artists actively
participate in Painter’s development, offering
constructive feedback and ensuring that our efforts
are targeted with real users and real-world scenarios
in mind.

With Painter X3, we’ve introduced a brush search
engine that makes it easier to discover brushes. A
simple keyword search will unearth a trove of
suitable brushes, offering the potential to inspire by
presenting complementary choices. A new,
resizable Reference Image panel lets artists create
while keeping an eye on a visual source of
inspiration. And we’ve enhanced the Stroke
Preview panel so that it accurately portrays
brushstrokes.

Ever the innovator, Painter X3 also introduces a new
universal jitter expression, available for various brush
settings. This means that artists can add varying
degrees of controlled randomness to their
brushstrokes, increasing the ability to put their own
unique stamp on their artwork. There are also 25
new, ready-to-use Jitter brushes available in a
spectrum of brush categories. In addition, Painter X3

continues to work in tandem with the latest
developments from Wacom

®

and their multi-touch

pen tablets and displays.

A new, contextual brush controls panel displays
settings and options that are relevant for the
currently selected brush. With upwards of 16,000
available brush settings, this demystifies brush
customization, making it easier to identify which
settings affect a given brush. Painter X3 also
provides new Perspective Guides, which make it
easier to accurately draw toward vanishing points.

We’ve also enhanced layer functionality so that
artists can apply transformations across multiple
layers. And for Adobe

®

Photoshop® users, Painter X3
provides enhanced support for layer preservation,
layer masks, alpha channels, and composite
methods. This ensures that files can be easily
transferred between the two applications. There are
additional notable new features that were previously
included in updates since version 12, such as Flow
Maps for working with watercolors, as well as
changes to make brush management and sharing
quicker and easier.

Built to inspire you to create

Like any work of art, Painter needs to be
experienced to be fully appreciated. Its responsive
brushes, revelatory textures, and depth of color
options are enough to whet the budding artist in
anyone. So please, be our guest and put brush to
canvas — digitally with Painter X3. We’re confident
that you’ll be surprised and inspired by what you
can achieve together.

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Eric Scala

Customer profiles

Photo artists

Photo artists capture a moment with their camera
and transform the image into a work of digital art.
With its powerful image cloning and painting
features, Painter X3 offers photo artists everything
needed to produce visually stunning photo art that
will dazzle clients and bolster their professional
services.

Traditional artists

Traditional artists prefer time-honored techniques
and the freedom of working with a blank canvas.
With Painter X3, traditional artists can combine
classic art practices with state-of-the-art Natural-

®

Media
impressive as that found on any physical canvas.

technology to create digital art that’s as

Illustrators

Illustrators tell visual stories that elicit emotion and
produce an intended result. With Painter X3,
illustrators can vividly express their creative visions
and leave a lasting impression, whether on
storyboards, in magazines, or in books.

Manga and comic artists

Manga and comic artists strive to present emotion,
expressiveness, and even visual motion in static
imagery. With its streamlined tools and colorful
digital media features, Painter X3 helps them
explore the depths of their imaginations to easily
produce storyboards and graphic novels as well as
to draw manga and comic art.

Concept artists

Concept artists are dedicated to bringing incredible
ideas to visual life. Whether they’re creating fantasy
artwork, or developing material for film, television,
video games, or movies, Painter X3 offers the
professional tools needed to turn a creative concept
into reality.

Designers

Designers create art that speaks to a particular
audience. Whether they’re developing a print logo,
working on images for a web page, or creating
industrial designs, Painter X3 provides unique
digital art tools and cutting-edge design options
that will help them stand out from the crowd.

Students and teachers

Painter is an asset for all budding artists and an
important component for art curriculum
worldwide. With digital tools that mimic the look
and feel of their real world counterparts, Painter X3
offers a 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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