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

This is my first experience using the Corel Painter program. I am a novice when it comes to using video and photography editing software, though I enjoy learning new things like this and hope to develop my skills enough that one day Ill be posting more videos and photos with my amazon reviews!

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

This corel is the best in all categories

I have used several paint programs including the Corel Painter X3 which is intended for more serious and professional applications. The Corel Painter Essentials 5 provides a set of nice features for general photos touch-up and artwork painting. I like its simple user friendly interface which requires very little learning to use. The program also works nicely with my Wacom tablet.

Thank you!!

I desire to be a photo artist because I have loved photography my entire life (both in front of the camera and behind it). Corel Painter Essentials 5 caught my interest because it is specially designed for art enthusiasts and emerging photo artists who want to go beyond ordinary and turn everyday inspiration into seriously impressive art. It is advertised as easy to be amazing with award-winning Natural-Media brushes, and time-saving painting tools like Mirror and Kaleidoscope that lets one create one-of-a-kind art with just a few strokes. It says that photo-painting and cloning tools are unmatched, transforming your photos into impressionist, oil and watercolor, etc. Well since I am not an expert at this type of software, I do not know how it compares to others, but I feel that this product will serve me well. I am also an author and look forward to creating my own book covers and artwork for my childrens books.

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.

Its Corel.

good software to work my pictures or get inspire.

It sounded great from the get go but the controls are just sloppy and unresponsive. Wacom users beware because I tried it out using an Intuos and its very very bad control. Sure figuring out the buttons were no problem but the minute you accidentally click something your whole drawing settings are just messed up! Oh and the picture editing is just a stupid idea, I wish they put more effort into the actual painting settings and controls. Editing a picture leave that to another software or your average Iphone editing. Waste of time this software is.