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

First off, this program (or others like it) is probably responsible for most of the horrible art you see on the internet. Where people do stupid things to stupid pictures and declare it art. So what is it good for? Surprisingly, it is excellent for an author who needs to illustrate but does not have illustration skills.

Wrong Operating System.

I have used both Painter 11 and Painter 12 and find these more intuitive to use than Painter Essentials 5, which is essentially a stripped-down version of the full-fledged Painter programs. Painter 11 and 12 have more brushes, more canvas textures, wet background painting, more options and customizations, and a slew of other niceties that Painter Essentials lack. HOWEVER, Painter is also more than 10 times the price of Painter Essentials. PLUS, Painter 11 and 12 are buggy and computer resource intensive. Painter Essentials, on the other hand, is easy on the CPU, has a much smaller memory footprint, is less buggy, and plays very well with Windows 10.

Corel painter is so much fun. The kaleidoscope and particle brushes are at the heart of whats new and different in painter. User friendly and easy to import/export

Not a lot pot experience with program for comprehensive review. Offers many painting options and features. Im looking forward to learning.

I love to use this program to erase picture backgrounds. It works better than any of the programs I have for doing that.

Tried this out to compare to Photoshop and for some people this is an acceptable product. However, being an illustrator for the past 25 years Ive grown attached to PS and something really must blow me away to switch and unfortunately this product isnt it even though its a fraction of the price.

Useless pos. Seriously. Thought it might offer most of the function of PS Elements with some FDP basics, seems to be none of the above.

I have been using Corel Painter Essentials 5 to turn photos of our family, pets and places of interest around our local community into fun and interesting pieces of art now hanging on our walls (thanks to both PictureItOnCanvas and CanvasPeople... I use whichever service has the best sale going on at any one time).

Fantastic program. Interface a little it more complicated than PS 4...Still great to work with....and cheap!