Corel Painter Essentials 4 (Win/Mac)

Corel Painter Essentials 4 is the simple-to-use home art studio that makes it easy for you to draw, paint or turn your photos into paintings. Two new workspaces put the tools you need at your fingertips, whether you're turning a photo into a painting, or drawing and painting on a blank canvas. Plus, Corel Painter Essentials 4 includes an incredible selection of brushes, paints, pens and paper textures for adding unique touches to photos or creating cards, scrapbooks and other fun projects.

Based on the world's most powerful painting and illustration software, Corel Painter, it's the ideal way to get started with digital art! Create a painting from a photo in just 3 easy steps. Sketch or paint on a blank canvas to produce an original image, and add creative elements to any digital project. With handy tools, brushes, paints and effects, you'll find new ways to work with photographs and express your vision.

Create a painting from a photo in just 3 steps

1. Open the photo you want to paint in the Source Image palette. Your photo will be saved with the Painter Essentials file format, so it's easy to return to a project later.
2. Choose one of the preset painting styles from the menus on the Auto-Painting palette to get the look you want.
3. Let new Smart Stroke technology help you create stunning paintings with brush strokes that follow the natural lines and contours in your photo.

FEATURES:
Discover a completely redesigned workspace that improves color selection and helps you explore different brushes, media and paper.

• Photo Painting
  
  • NEW! Redesigned Workspace
    Work within a tailored environment that includes all the tools you need to paint your photos.
  • NEW! Smart Stroke Technology
    Quickly achieve impressive paintings or sketches with intuitive tools. Built into the Auto-Painting palette, Smart Stroke technology paints with brush strokes that follow the shapes and contours in your original photo. It dynamically changes brush size, stroke length and pressure, based on the detail and focal areas of the original photo.
  • NEW! Updated File Format
    Quickly return to a project for further editing. Corel Painter Essentials 4 now saves the source image with your painting so you can continue working at any time.
• Drawing and Painting Tools
  
  • New! Brush Drawer
    Easily select brushes by previewing brush stroke samples and quickly access your most recently used brushes. You can also easily add your favorite brushes to the Brush Drawer column.
  • New! Mixer Palette
    Get the exact color you want every time. In addition to the traditional Color Wheel, the new Mixer palette simulates the traditional experience of mixing colors on an artist's paint palette, making it easier for you to blend colors and get precise results.
  • New! Colors Palette
    Pick a color with a single click.
  • New! Tablet Support
    Easily navigate with a tablet thanks to redesigned workspaces that feature larger icons, buttons and sliders.
  • New! Magic Wand Tool
    Easily select specific portions of a photo or painting.
  • New! Paper Selector
    Enjoy quick access to a greater selection of paper textures that accurately reproduce the feel of using traditional art materials. You can even control the texture of the canvas to achieve the results expected from using traditional media on a given surface, like pencil on watercolor paper, felt pens on cotton paper, or chalk on the sidewalk.
  • New! 32 Undo Levels
    Go back to earlier versions of your work to view or undo portions of your painting.
  • New! Online Print Services
    Order prints of your artwork on canvas, watercolor paper and other fine art materials directly from the File Menu.
• More Natural-Media Tools
  
  • New! RealBristle Brushes
    Authentically reproduce the natural movement of your brush, right down to the individual bristles.
  • New! Pens
    Expand your artistic range with Scratchboard and Smooth Edge Calligraphy tools, which are perfect for inking comic books or doing calligraphy.
  • New! Charcoal Brushes
    Apply realistic charcoal drawing effects to your artwork with new brushes that range from pencils to hard or soft charcoal sticks. As with other dry media brushes, the opacity is linked to pen pressure.
  • New! Sumi-e Brushes
    Create flowing sumi-e-style brush strokes. Sumi-e is a style of painting that is characteristically Asian, and has been practiced for well over a thousand years. Literally ink painting, it is an art form that strives to distill the essence of an object or scene in the fewest possible strokes.
  • New! Sargent Brush
    Paint in the style of Master Artist John Singer Sargent.
  • Enhanced! Brush Ghost
    Receive unprecedented visual feedback of brush stroke behavior and enjoy better control as you apply brush strokes.
  • New! Nozzles
    Apply special images to your canvas with handy Effects brushes, such as Nozzles. These are special image files that work with Image Hoses to "paint" images instead of colors. Each nozzle file contains multiple images.
  • New! Pattern Pens
    Apply unique patterns to your images, and vary the size and transparency of the pattern.
• Learning Resources
  
  • New! Tutorial-based Guidebook
    Learn to use Painter Essentials 4 while completing fun, instructional projects.
  • New! Video Tutorials
    Access video tutorials from Painter Master John Derry directly from the application.
  • New! Sample Files
    Quickly find sample files for the guidebook and video tutorials right in the File Menu.
• File Compatibility
  
  • New! Universal Binary Support
    Painter Essentials 4 is optimized for use with Intel processors. Enjoy improved performance with PowerPC processors and Mac OS.
  • New! Windows Vista Support
  • Enhanced! Support for Wacom Products
    Use Painter Essentials 4 with any product in the entire Wacom line, including Graphire pen tablets, Cintiq 21 UX interactive pen display, the Intuos 3 pen tablet and the Wacom 6D Art Pen.
  • Enhanced! File Compatibility
    Easily share files with major photo-editing applications, such as Adobe Photoshop Elements, Adobe Photoshop, Corel Paint Shop Pro and Corel PhotoImpact.

System Requirements

Windows version:

• Windows Vista or Windows XP (with latest Service Pack)
• Pentium III, 700 MHz or greater
• 256 MB RAM
• Mouse or tablet
• 24-bit color display
• 1024 x 768 screen resolution
• CD-ROM
• 1 GB of HD space for installation

Mac OS version:

• Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5 (with latest revision)
• Power Macintosh G4, 700 MHz or greater
• 256 MB RAM
• Mouse or tablet
• 24-bit color display
• 1024 x 768 screen resolution
• CD-ROM
• 1 GB of HD space for installation

Adobe Acrobat Reader is required for components of Corel Painter Essentials 4.

Safari Web browser on the Macintosh and Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (or greater) on Windows are required for components of Corel Painter Essentials 4.

Training Videos
Adobe Flash Player version 7 or higher

Product information is advisory only. Specifications and compatibility should be checked with the manufacturer before order. Images are for illustrative purposes only.