![]() When the painting’s finished, the Soft-Cloner brush activates itself, allowing you to paint over areas in order to restore details from the photo, especially handy for eyes and faces. Next, watch in amazement, and enjoy a beverage, as the program paints millions of brushstrokes right before your eyes. The insanely simple painting process goes like this: Use the Photo Painting panel to open a photo, pick from 11 painting style presets, and then click the Play button. A welcome screen helps those new to the app get started quickly-you can choose to create a new painting or drawing, open one you’ve already started, create photo art (incredible fun!), pop open a handy QuickStart guide, or visit Corel online.Īs you can see here, the result of a photo painting in Painter Essentials 5 is vastly improved from the previous version (Impressionist style was used here on your author’s cat, Sherlock). Its simplified, floating-panel based interface exudes a friendly and uncluttered feel. The 64-bit and Apple Retina-happy Painter Essentials 5 was rebuilt from the ground up using the new code base of its pro-level sibling, Whether you’re an aspiring artist or a photographer, there’s a lot to enjoy in this new release. It includes a whopping 31 new and useful brushes-including some of Painter 2015’s hot new Particle Brushes-plus two new tools for creating mirror and kaleidoscope paintings, a vastly improved photo painting engine, a powerful brush-tracking utility, real-time effect previews, and more. Targeted toward hobbyists, art enthusiasts and emerging photo painters, Painter Essentials 5 was redesigned to be smoking fast and far easier to use. It costs $49.99.Awakening from seven years of slumber, a new version of Painter Essentials has finally hit the streets. It works with both Wacom-compatible graphics tablets and Windows devices that support the Real-Time Stylus API. Painter Essentials 8 is available now for Windows 10 and macOS 10.13+. The release also adds 23 new brushes across many existing brush categories, including particle and glazing brushes, and pen and pencil presets and improves workflow for managing image layers. The former include complementary colours and monochromatic variations of a source colour the latter include readymade sets of greyscale values, human flesh tones, and pastel colours. Other changes in version 8 include new colour harmonies and colour sets when picking colours. ![]() New colour-picking workflow provides readymade colour harmonies and colour sets The update adds 10 new auto-paint styles, mimicking natural media including acrylic and coloured pencil.Īccording to Corel, whereas auto-paint effects could “change the colour of an image completely” when the system was introduced in Painter Essentials 7, the results are now more faithful to the source image. One Painter Essentials feature that should make use of M1 processors is the AI-trained auto-painting system, which can co-opt the chips’ Apple Neural Engine co-processor via Apple’s Core ML. The release also introduces support for macOS 11.0 Big Sur, plus the option to use an iPad as a secondary display on Mac systems, with support for tilt and pressure when using an Apple Pencil stylus.Ĭorel told CG Channel that it was now working on M1 support in Painter itself, but didn’t commit to a specific release date for an M1-native version of the software. Performance of more processor-intensive brushes is “up to 4x faster” on Apple Silicon machines than the old Intel Macs, although thanks to other development work, Windows users get the same speed boost. Under the hood, the key change in Painter Essentials 8 is support for Apple’s new M1 processors, rolled out late last year in the new MacBooks and Mac mini systems. ![]() New in Painter Essentials 8: native support for Apple’s new M1 processors You also get a standard basic range of image-manipulation tools, plus mirror and radial symmetry painting modes, and the software can import or export layered PSDs in order to exchange files with Photoshop. ![]() That includes both conventional natural media brushes, including oil, acrylic, watercolour, chalk, pastels and markers and newer procedural tools including particle brushes and ‘pattern pens’. The release also adds 10 new AI-trained auto-painting filters, 23 new natural media brushes, and a new colour harmony system when picking colours.Ī capable natural media painting package for under $50Īlthough Corel pitches Painter Essentials primarily as a tool for beginners, it’s actually a fairly fully featured application for creating illustrations or concept art.Īs well as more hobbyist-friendly tools for stylising or tracing photographs, it comes with a good range of brush types from Corel Painter itself. Posted by Jim Thacker Corel ships Painter Essentials 8Ĭorel has released Painter Essentials 8, the latest update to the entry-level edition of its natural media painting software, adding native support for Apple’s new M1 processors.
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