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With 30 mediums and over 400 new brushes, no other software
replicates the traditional painting experience like Corel Painter
8. It unleashes your creative power, increases your productivity
and enhances your compatibility with Adobe Photoshop, giving
you digital tools that capture the subtleties of your artistic
style.
Interactively blend paint colors using the new Mixer and design
custom brushes with the Brush Creator. Experiment with true-to-life
media such as Digital Watercolor, and create original sketches
from photographs. With a redesigned interface, customizable
palettes, and industry-standard layer masks and channels, you'll
work more efficiently, leaving more time to be creative.
Corel Painter 8 is the ultimate
digital sketching and painting application. It's designed
for digital artists, illustrators, pre-visualization artists
and photographers who crave creative freedom, and need the
tools to mimic the output and experience of traditional drawing
and painting media.
Unleash your creative power
- Mix your own colors--blend
colors interactively as you would using paint and a palette
with the new Mixer palette
- Design your own brushes
interactively--the new Brush Creator was developed specifically
to let you design your own custom brushes in a visual, interactive
environment.
- Use the Randomizer to randomly
modify the characteristics of an existing brush; combine
the characteristics of two brushes together using the Transposer;
or fine-tune brushes with the advanced controls of the Stroke
Designer.
- The Brush Stroke preview
lets you interactively view the changes you make to each
brush before you apply them
Create sketches from photographs--use the new Sketch Effect
to easily convert photographs to simple pencil drawings
while controlling the amount of paper grain, the heaviness
of the pencil line and the desired level of detail
- Paint with Digital Watercolor--hand-paint
line drawings, touch up photographs and create simple watercolor
washes with the new Digital Watercolor simplified, transparent
watercolor medium
- Experiment with over 400
new brushes--take advantage of more than 400 new brushes
in over 30 mediums, including acrylics, airbrushes, blenders,
calligraphy pens, chalks, charcoal, cloners, colored pencils,
cont?, crayons, distortion, erasers, felt pens, gouache,
impasto, oils, palette knives, pastels, pencils, pens, photos,
sponges, sumi-e, tinting and watercolor
- Increase your productivity
A redesigned interface for better, faster access--the redesigned
toolbox provides easier access to tools, papers, patterns,
gradients, nozzles, looks and weaves. A context-sensitive
Property Bar puts commonly used controls at your fingertips,
and the new Brush Selector simplifies your brush selection
- Group palettes to customize
your workflow--group and ungroup palettes in any configuration
to match your workflow and reduce the number of palettes
on screen
- Keep track of your brushes--the
new Tracker palette keeps track of your most recently used
brushes so you can navigate between brushes quickly
- Preview brushes--preview
brushes before you paint with a live brush preview
- View brush size as you paint--use
the new Brush Preview Cursor to see the dab size and shape
of the brush you've chosen
- See image information at
a glance--enjoy easy access to important image information,
such as cursor position, color info and unit details, with
the new Info palette
Stay compatible
- Hide and reveal areas of
a layer--use the redesigned Layer Masks to hide and reveal
areas of a layer without making permanent changes
- Create and store masks--use
alpha channels to create and store masks to modify, separate
and preserve specific areas of an image
- Open and save Adobe Photoshop
files--enjoy enhanced support for opening and saving Adobe
Photoshop files, including layer sets, layer masks and channels
- Use the latest operating
systems--take advantage of full compatibility with Mac OS
X and Windows XP
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