Corel Painter Essentials 5 Digital Art Suite for PC and Mac (Old Version)

I have always loved this software and decided to buy an updated one

My daughter likes it.

Not usable as the serial number included with the software is invalid. Very disappointed.

Corel Painter Essentials 5 has raised the bar on making art using mind boggling algorithms that mimic real watercolor, oils, pencil, and a million other ways of expressing. Attached to this review is a video of creating a watercolor impression of my cat. You will notice that I created a layer over the background and turned on tracing paper. Then I create rough trace of where I would like to paint. After the trace if completed, I created another layer where the actual watercolor painting is done. The rough trace really makes a big difference how the watercoloring is applied. Theres an auto watercolor feature, but I think without a human applied trace the final result may not look so good. At the end I can turn off the tracing layer to see the final result. It does take a bit of work to get the result to where you want it to be--changing brush sizes, amount of brushing applied, etc. all contribute to how you want the final result to look like.

Did not work.

Simple to use, presets offer a variety of painting-quality options. (Works best with higher-resolution files.)

Not what is upped to be.

Best computer paint program.

Easy to learn and use.

If you are looking for a software for pictures and art work Painter essentials from corel is your program. Not only can you do pictures but artists can draw and paint with this program. For 30$ it is worth every penny to have two programs in one.