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

Its awesome. Made my first digital painting thank you and aloha from hawaii

Does what I wanted it for. Converting photos into paintings. Excellent program for this purpose.

Love it!

I bought, installed and tried to use this, but THEN I got a trial up notice asking me to register & purchase this. It named the wrong title, calling the disc I got Painter 6 when it is 5. Then I input the serial number and clicked to contact Corel, only to get a window saying that my serial number was invalid. Now What???

Easy to use... Its Windows 95 Classic style, which is a major plus... nothing is hard to find in the program...

There are no shape tools for making circle triangle and rectamgle if there was i could give 5 stars

Im not sure what I was expecting from Corel Painter Essentials 5, but while this is a fun little program, it seems a bit limited and hampered. I was hoping it was a bit more like Photoshop for photo editing, never having used it before, but thats not really its primary aim (there are some functions there, but there are better products). This is more like a souped of version of Paint where you can take photos and apply different textures and filters to it, as well as touch it up with an abundant selection of different brushes and effects. The interface is also a bit dumbed-down, and its missing some of the higher-end features of the full Corel Painter, and while that might sound off-putting, for those prospective users that are not professional artists and dont have years of experience, that actually works in your favor. There is still a learning curve with the software (Im still trying to sort through a lot of the features and what works well with some images, but not with others), but its nowhere near as daunting as Photoshop (or even the Gimp).

Easy to learn and use.

Much like Adobes Elements programs have very full feature set from their big brother programs, but with a more user friendly user interface, Corel Painter Essentials 5 is the little brother of Corel Painter 2015.

Still just learning the program but it is very impressive so far.