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by John Mello on September 27, 2007
Digital photography has done many things for shutterbugs of every stripe including inducing many of them to become artists, or at least a facsimile of one. To do that, you need a painter program like Painter Essentials ($69), the fourth edition of which was released today by Ottawa-based Corel .
The application, which runs on both PC and Mac platforms, has a number of new features. Here are some of them.
The application, which runs on both PC and Mac platforms, has a number of new features. Here are some of them.
- A bifurcated workspace-one for working on painting and drawing , another for painting photos.
- A new brush draw for making brush selection easier.
- Colors can be chosen from a palette with a single click and mixed on another palette just as artists do.
- An enhanced photo painting system allowing pics to be turned into pseudo paintings faster and easier.
- A new Smart Stroke Technology that paints with brush strokes that dynamically change brush size, stroke length and pressure, based on the detail and focal areas of a photo.
- A RealBristle painting system for improved brush responsiveness.
- A pencils and pen category that can be used for inking comics or doing calligraphy with the program.
- An expanded selection of paper textures.
- A guidebook with step-by-step tutorials, as well as video tutorials.
- Support for up to 32 undo levels.
- Ability to order from within the application hard copies of works created with the program on canvas, watercolor paper or other fine art materials.
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