Corel Painter 11- a Boon for Art and Paint

Corel Painter 11 has spotlighted the art media and tools other than the normal paint and brushes that it takes its name from. There are at least 30 new tools in the Corel Painter 11, all Real Hard Media, which allows this honored natural media program that is meant for Windows as well as OS X to make re- creations with pens, chalk, pastels and other tools that are meant for drawings that are almost uncanny in their resemblance to the actual art.

Wacom has hardware like Intuos and the Cintiq Graphics Tablet in which you can directly work on the display screen with a pen. When you use the Corel Painter 11, you will find the Hard Media tools that are there in this application will adjust to the angle of the pen. This allows you to draw your details using the point of an ordinary 2B pencil. You can fill up the larger areas by just scribbling with this pencil in strokes that go back and forth. The Painters markers in Corel Painter 11 are very realistic and just like the ones that are available from art stores. So like the art stores markers you can build up a layer by a number of strokes when you want to darken the area in your artwork. There is also customization options that will allow you to play around with the hard media in the application and create your own hard media right from scratch.

Corel Painter 11 has Photoshop-like features that are additional and will support the format for a PNG file. There is also a tool that allows you to select a polygon and also another that allows you to rotate, skew or scale the elements in your artwork. However in spite of all this Corel Painter 11 remains what it is, which is being specialized in natural media and does not aspire to be a replacement for Photoshop. This fact is acknowledged in this Corel Painter 11 version by allowing images in the two different programs to move between the two while still retaining their colors as well as the layers. Management for color has been strengthened, so the colors always remain accurate and the Corel Painter 11 can save images in a number of formats and also print them out in the media required.

Corel Painter 11 has an interface that has been fine tuned. You can resize the color wheel and the mixer when you want to blend paints. There are critics however who feel the entire interface in Corel is cluttered and could do with a thorough overhaul. But all said and done, you can produce traditional and realistic art with the Corel Painter 11. So, if you are one of those who use Corel Draw products frequently, and are quite adept at using a virtual pen or paintbrush, you would benefit largely if you do upgrade to Corel Painter 11.

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