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

This software exceeded my expectations for such an affordable price.

dont waste your money. does not work. cannot open program. tech support is worthless.

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.

For some reason this item caused my drawing tablet to stop working.

Excellent resource for beginners for use with Wacom Intuos Pro tablet.

Very basic. It was hard for me to use as a beginner. It took me forever to figure out how to see and work with layers. If I was drawing over a picture, I had a hard time figuring out how to use a color. It kept wanting to use the same color underneath rather than a different color.

Girlfriend had a few minor issues with installation on her computer but after restarting the process from frustration it installed with little delay. My only complaint is the initial start up process but the program itself works exactly as expected. Good for beginners and intermediate artists.

PC-based graphic artists have been hit with two frustrations in recent years - Adobes heinous new pricing scheme, and Microsofts slightly less heinous reworking of MS Paint. I had high hopes that this program would help address the first issue. No such luck. But its an awesome Paint program.

My first disclaimer is that I am not any kind of an artist. I dont claim to be a technical expert. HOWEVER, I have - at this point - spent at least 12-15 hours learning how to use Corel Painter Essentials 5 software and have experimented with every feature possible.

My son loves all the options and layers in this program! for the price it has a ton of features. I did recommend to my son after reading reviews that he not opt to install any adware when installing this. so far so good, and he loves it.