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

I design printable crafts and draw coloring pages for my blog as well as being an illustrator for mandala themed coloring books. Most of my work is done in graphics programs, and I get asked fairly regularly what programs I recommend.

Purchased it in May 2015 and was told, because I called, that this download was forever mine as they do not send out CDs any longer. Hurricane hits west coast of Florida and I cannot retrieve Corel Essentials. Went to the software library where it failed to upload only a partial ergo another call to an agent who does not live in the U.S and whose speech is difficult to understand. Told me that my 2 year warranty ran out. Oops..nowhere was I told there was a 2 year warranty as it is a download and was told I could use it in perpetuity. Not so. There is nothing on the ad which Amazon has up that speaks of a 2 year warranty. Was told to return it???? How do you return a download. So now I am out $40 and lots of luck to you and yours.

I have only used the application a dozen times, several for personal projects. its very different that I expected. I did not know I would be forced to have a Graphics Tablet w/ Stylus to use this program to its fullest extent. I wish my old Wacom Intuos USB tablet still worked. I grew up on Painter. I remember when it was owned by Fractal Design, and it was an awesome digital paint program for the Mac. I am however happy the program is still a decent cost. Unlike Photoshop which is beyond reach for average digital artists. $30 for Painter Essentials 5 is an excellent deal. I find it more powerful on some aspects and other aspects seem to be lacking. If I am ever able to afford a new Graphics Tablet, I would definitely use this program more.

Contrary to earlier comments; this windows 8 version DOES WORK with windows 10. It installed with no problem, only thing it didnt do that it didnt create a shortcut, so I had to go to Program Files [x86] and launch it from there [or create a desktop shortcut from there] [ I pinned it to the taskbar.] I also installed the hotfix update. Good program for the price.

This corel is the best in all categories

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.

Got this with my new tablet and was looking forward to giving it a go. Unfortunately the colours are all wrong on my main monitor. The canvas is always a pale yellow though it insists that it is in fact white. Switching to a secondary monitor fixes the issue after a moment but its not an issue with the main monitors colour settings as white appears fine in other programs. Furthermore the yellow remains after moving over to the other monitor until after the window-drag has been released. If I had to guess I would say somewhere in the software someone thought they would try to colour correct for the monitor and got it wrong.

Love it!!!! Corel you are the best with your phenomenal product and at very wonderful price for ones the cant afford the cutting edge software. Love you software!

Man I’m highly disappointed I thought I got a steal on this product but to my surprise I was given a beat up box with an empty CD :’(. Would have given it 0 stars if I could

This product is pretty cool thanks