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- Platform: Windows Vista / 7 / XP, Mac OS X
- Media: DVD-ROM
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Product Features
- High-value, build-in content - broad array of pre-installed paper textures and brushes
- RealBristle Painting - Reproduce the movement & feeling of paint on canvas
- Kaleidoscope painting, this exciting new tool allows you to create beautiful kaleidoscope effects on canvas
- Adobe Photoshop support, correctly preserve colours and layers when transferring files
- Mirror painting - every stroke made is copied onto the opposite side of your canvas
- Real Watercolour - blends and dries more realistically than any other watercolour brush
- Real Wet Oil. All of the fun, none of the mess or smell
- Real Dry Media - Realistic chalk, marker, pen and pencil media (within the RealBristle system)
- Smart photo-painting tools - Transform photos into paintings by hand or by Auto-Paint
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Painter 12
Corel Painter 12 is the finest professional digital art software in the market. Internationally recognised for its RealBristle Painting system, it lets users control brush behaviour, pressure and colour intensity more realistically than anything else when paired with a graphics tablet.Painter comes with hundreds of brushes and dozens of paper textures, watercolours, paints, oils, pastels and more. Customers also have the option to create their own brushes at the click of a button, and customise their workspace and colour palette for the best fit.
Painter supports Adobe Photoshop files and should be considered a complement to not a replacement for Photoshop. Painter has a high-performance brush engine and the most realistic digital art tools available. Of key importance, it was developed for artists by artists, with tools that look, feel and move just like the real thing, allowing Painter to deliver the most authentic digital art experience. Start changing what is possible in art.
 The redesigned Corel Painter 12 user interface |
 Water colour settings for enhanced control |
 The new Navigator panel makes it easier to manoeuvre your way around large canvases |
 Creating a new image |
Ideal for:
*Concept artists *Designers and illustrators *Fine artists *Professional photographers *Students and teachers of art and design
Reasons to Buy
1. High-value, built-in contentPainter comes with a broad array of pre-installed paper textures and brushes, such a watercolour media, acrylic paint, oil, pastel, chalk, pencil, market and more. Choose a brush or create your own on the spot to product unique brushstrokes and effects never seen before
2. Exclusive to Painter. RealBristle Painting
Reproduce the movement and feeling of traditional paint on canvas with your pen and tablet! Painter’s RealBristle brushes represent a major milestone for digital painting because they are designed to be as responsive as real-life brushes when used with a graphics tablet, delivering the most realistic painting experience.
3. Adobe Photoshop support
Correctly preserve colours and layers when transferring files between Photoshop and Painter. Plus, the Painter 12 workspace offers brush blending, layers, libraries, docking panels and image set-up options that will be familiar to Photoshop users.
4. Exclusive to Painter. Kaleidoscope painter (New)
Go where traditional painting can’t. This exciting new tool exists only in Painter, and allows you to create beautiful kaleidoscope effects on canvas. Use your choice of media to paint electrifying patterns and colours, and see amazing results when you add a blending tool to the mix. No other painting software in the world can product such a ‘wow’ reaction.
5. Mirror painting (New)
With Mirror painting, every stroke you make is copied onto the opposite side of your canvas. Not only does this new tool greatly increase your precision and accuracy when painting symmetrical objects, it also saves you a lot of time.
6. Exclusive to Painter. Real Watercolour (New)
This unique wet media blends and dries more realistically than other watercolour brush. Control wind direction for drying, and watch colours interact with the paper grain and change pigmentation in the most lifelike way. Also customise your paper texture settings to control how paint flows and pools on.
7. Exclusive to Painter. Real Wet Oil (New)
All of the fun, none of the mess or smell. Add this solvent to your oil paints to transform their look and texture. With 12 new tools, the Real Wet Oil category offers the perfect solution for blending and painting flowing colours. As the most realistic digital oil paint on the market, this new tool helps to further close the gap between traditional and digital painting.
8. Real Dry Media
Realistic chalk, market, pen and pencil media (within the RealBristle system) lets you control opacity, colour intensity, ink deposits and shading simply by changing the pressure, speed and angel of your pen on the drawing tablet – just like in real life.
9. Transform photos into paintings by hand
Let the Auto-Painting palette paint a photo for you using your choice of brush and media. The SmartStroke brush technology following lines and contours in your pictures just like a real artist world.
10. Agile brush control (New)
Change settings, such as brush size, opacity, squeeze and angel, using interactive controls that let you make rapid adjustments from one centralised location. Scalable resizing lets you preserve correct brush proportions, and you can use shortcuts to access brush settings even faster.
System Requirements
WindowsUpgrade Eligibility
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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I've been using Painter since version 1, and in those days it came in an actual paint tin. It's always been quite a quirky tool, aimed squarely at artists and illustrators who were already pretty competent in their respective crafts.
Painter will not make you in to a digital artist - you need to know your medium already, or be prepared to learn its digital equivalent. Although Painter has hundreds of brushes, you will in reality only use a few depending on if you're a watercolour, acrylic, gouache or spray paint artist - or oil, crayon, pastel, you name it. The temptation is to try out every brush but you really need to stick within what you know. Which isn't to say you can't experiment. I tend to use acrylics and sprays with pencils, but the style that comes out is similar to what I'd do with "real" paints.
Painter comes in a hardback book which serves as both a manual and a showcase of other artists' work. These provide some idea of what the software can help you to do but as I hinted above, you have to bring the talent. This isn't Photoshop where a lot of the legwork is done for you and you simply need to know how to use the different filters. With Painter you are the artist, the software is just your tool. Learning to use Painter well takes a LOT of practice and patience but the program is very good at faithfully reproducing the quirks of each medium. It's quite spooky actually.
Having said that, Painter works well with other tools like Photoshop, which is a far cry from the early days. Layers, filters, lots of export options and, one of my favourite features, automatic recording of your strokes. This has lots of practical uses, I'm sure, but if you grew up with Paint With Nancy or Tony Hart then you'll probably get a kick out of pressing play and watching your painting appear stroke by stroke on the screen :)
One more thing: you need a graphics tablet. Don't even think of using a mouse with this. I have a small Wacom tablet WACOM Graphic tablet - Bamboo Pen Graphics Tablet which is fine for the sort of stuff I do, but you might want to invest in something bigger (if you've never used a tablet before, give it time and before long you'll wonder how you coped without one). Avoid any tablets that aren't pressure sensitive.
Painter will not make you in to a digital artist - you need to know your medium already, or be prepared to learn its digital equivalent. Although Painter has hundreds of brushes, you will in reality only use a few depending on if you're a watercolour, acrylic, gouache or spray paint artist - or oil, crayon, pastel, you name it. The temptation is to try out every brush but you really need to stick within what you know. Which isn't to say you can't experiment. I tend to use acrylics and sprays with pencils, but the style that comes out is similar to what I'd do with "real" paints.
Painter comes in a hardback book which serves as both a manual and a showcase of other artists' work. These provide some idea of what the software can help you to do but as I hinted above, you have to bring the talent. This isn't Photoshop where a lot of the legwork is done for you and you simply need to know how to use the different filters. With Painter you are the artist, the software is just your tool. Learning to use Painter well takes a LOT of practice and patience but the program is very good at faithfully reproducing the quirks of each medium. It's quite spooky actually.
Having said that, Painter works well with other tools like Photoshop, which is a far cry from the early days. Layers, filters, lots of export options and, one of my favourite features, automatic recording of your strokes. This has lots of practical uses, I'm sure, but if you grew up with Paint With Nancy or Tony Hart then you'll probably get a kick out of pressing play and watching your painting appear stroke by stroke on the screen :)
One more thing: you need a graphics tablet. Don't even think of using a mouse with this. I have a small Wacom tablet WACOM Graphic tablet - Bamboo Pen Graphics Tablet which is fine for the sort of stuff I do, but you might want to invest in something bigger (if you've never used a tablet before, give it time and before long you'll wonder how you coped without one). Avoid any tablets that aren't pressure sensitive.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
This is my first Corel Painter software and although I have loved painting with oils and watercolors (which is a tough medium for me); I really wanted to see what digital offerings this program had. It downloads quickly and comes with a thorough hardcover 112 page manual. The Menu bar setup is confusing at first, but if you've used any program like Windows Media or Paint, you'll catch on. The Menu bar gives you all the pull down options, a Brush Selector bar, Property bar, Recent brushes bar, Navigator panel, Layers panel, Channels panel, Mixed pad panel, Papers panel, Paper Libraries panel, Toolbox, Brush library panel, Temporal Color palette and Canvas. This sounds like a lot, but they are all described in detail for each use.
The Basics section tells you how to create documents, from a blank canvas with options to change document size, resolution type, color of the canvas and texture of the canvas. Corel advises you to start with a photo to transform it into a painting. You can place brush strokes on `layers', meaning you can protect the canvas from an unwanted changes. Remember this is all digital. If you are fond of watercolor or Liquid ink, you can only use one layer unfortunately. However, the watercolor option is very cool, with the color bleeding into the `digital' water, which you can easily control. The mimicking of real paint is remarkable. Mirror and Kaleidoscope painting modes are fun.
The selection, management and creation of brushes are full of possibilities and options. Some of the categories include acrylics, airbrushes, chalk, crayons charcoal, watercolor erasers (these allow you to darken or lighten colors) F/X, Gel, Gouache (combination of watercolors and acrylics - a nice mixed media option), oils, pencil, pens, markers, and on and on.
I found setting up a `rough sketch' was fun, always allowing you to add color, texture while zooming in on certain areas. When you take a break, all your work is easily stored and easily retrieved. The final results can be as detailed or loose as you want. There are examples in the book that show everything from cartoons, to Andrew Wyeth detail to Norman Rockwell precision. Don't be intimidated by these. Your own creativity can be found by experimenting with your favorite topic. Although digital can never replace to true color, texture and warmth a real piece of artwork contains, it sure comes close and this program allows you to get your `design on' for further creativity. I don't see this as a replacement at all - it's a valuable tool for practicing your intuitive talents on a computer. I truly never thought I'd see the day when such precision could be had digitally.
I do want to add that this works best on a computer with high RAM, processing and storage capabilities and the price is a bit high, but I imagine that will come down soon.
The Basics section tells you how to create documents, from a blank canvas with options to change document size, resolution type, color of the canvas and texture of the canvas. Corel advises you to start with a photo to transform it into a painting. You can place brush strokes on `layers', meaning you can protect the canvas from an unwanted changes. Remember this is all digital. If you are fond of watercolor or Liquid ink, you can only use one layer unfortunately. However, the watercolor option is very cool, with the color bleeding into the `digital' water, which you can easily control. The mimicking of real paint is remarkable. Mirror and Kaleidoscope painting modes are fun.
The selection, management and creation of brushes are full of possibilities and options. Some of the categories include acrylics, airbrushes, chalk, crayons charcoal, watercolor erasers (these allow you to darken or lighten colors) F/X, Gel, Gouache (combination of watercolors and acrylics - a nice mixed media option), oils, pencil, pens, markers, and on and on.
I found setting up a `rough sketch' was fun, always allowing you to add color, texture while zooming in on certain areas. When you take a break, all your work is easily stored and easily retrieved. The final results can be as detailed or loose as you want. There are examples in the book that show everything from cartoons, to Andrew Wyeth detail to Norman Rockwell precision. Don't be intimidated by these. Your own creativity can be found by experimenting with your favorite topic. Although digital can never replace to true color, texture and warmth a real piece of artwork contains, it sure comes close and this program allows you to get your `design on' for further creativity. I don't see this as a replacement at all - it's a valuable tool for practicing your intuitive talents on a computer. I truly never thought I'd see the day when such precision could be had digitally.
I do want to add that this works best on a computer with high RAM, processing and storage capabilities and the price is a bit high, but I imagine that will come down soon.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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It had been a long time since I'd used any Corel software; fifteen years, in fact. Since then, the places I've worked have used Paint Shop Pro or Photoshop, so I was very interested to see just how much Corel had come on since my first fumblings with Draw.
Before the disc even made it into the computer, first impressions were very good. As you might hope from a graphics package, the presentation is gorgeous. It comes with a beautifully produced, hard-backed starter guide containing all you need to get yourself going with the software and a gallery of artists' work to inspire you. There are also two tutorials in the back, with professional artists taking you through their creative process using Painter 12. The disc itself is neatly contained inside the front cover.
Once you've installed the software, it's very intuitive to use if you have any experience with other graphics packages. As this package simulates actual art media, those with real-world artistic experience will probably get more out of this than newcomers. However, there are some useful photo-manipulation tools that will allow complete novices to create interesting artwork from digital images. Even if you don't have any experience, the basic drawing and colouring tools are great fun to play with while you develop your skills and confidence. After that, it's really up to you where you want to go with the extensive toolkit available.
Some of the more complex brushes and workspaces (specially customised tool layouts) did tend to tax our aging laptop, but the software in general works well even at the lower end of the manufacturer's specification.
Whilst this is undoubtedly aimed at the professional artist, it still has a great deal to offer the interested amateur.
Before the disc even made it into the computer, first impressions were very good. As you might hope from a graphics package, the presentation is gorgeous. It comes with a beautifully produced, hard-backed starter guide containing all you need to get yourself going with the software and a gallery of artists' work to inspire you. There are also two tutorials in the back, with professional artists taking you through their creative process using Painter 12. The disc itself is neatly contained inside the front cover.
Once you've installed the software, it's very intuitive to use if you have any experience with other graphics packages. As this package simulates actual art media, those with real-world artistic experience will probably get more out of this than newcomers. However, there are some useful photo-manipulation tools that will allow complete novices to create interesting artwork from digital images. Even if you don't have any experience, the basic drawing and colouring tools are great fun to play with while you develop your skills and confidence. After that, it's really up to you where you want to go with the extensive toolkit available.
Some of the more complex brushes and workspaces (specially customised tool layouts) did tend to tax our aging laptop, but the software in general works well even at the lower end of the manufacturer's specification.
Whilst this is undoubtedly aimed at the professional artist, it still has a great deal to offer the interested amateur.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great package
Absolutely fantastic! Product arrived in no time. No problems loading on windows seven and very stable. Brush realism unbelievable. Read more
Published 21 days ago by kwol
disappointing
I have been using Corel Painter since version 6. I'm an illustrator and depend on this programme to earn a living. Read more
Published 1 month ago by J. Holcroft
Great program
Ive always loved painter. I had painter 9 and im finding painter 12 great! A lot of the buttons have been moved around and the program runs faster than the previous versions.
Published 3 months ago by Actias Silkmoth
not a good experience
Like the earlier reviewer; i am using win6 64bit brand new specific graphics built PC; Its had no problem with Autodesk full range, zbrush, the adobe creative suite, high end... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Pips
Corels Painter
An amazing product! Now I can pick up a paintbrush any time and carry on where I left off, no mess no fuss! Read more
Published 7 months ago by I. Larman
BUGGED!!!
I was really looking forward to this, and when it arrived i couldnt wait to tear it open and get to creating. Read more
Published 7 months ago by D Jones
The best program for digital art
The improvements on the new version are amazing: with a quad core CPU now the bushes are very responsive.
The new Real Watercolor and Wet oil brushes are wonderful. Read more
The new Real Watercolor and Wet oil brushes are wonderful. Read more
Published 8 months ago by William Roverelli
Professional Painters Package
A fantastic program with features that sail way over my head. It has a phenomenally large selection of brushes, pallettes, techniques and mediums that literally would take years to... Read more
Published 8 months ago by J. Morris
Am I in the minority?
Whilst I agree with the other reviews in that this is a feature packed piece of software, it seems to be limited on both my computers by what I can actually do with it. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Witchfinder General
Powerful Professional
It has taken some time to get to grips with `Painter 12' since some 2 months has elapsed after receiving the package as a Vine Voice reviewer. Read more
Published 9 months ago by D. Elliott
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