

This article is also published in issue 204 of ImagineFX (opens in new tab), the world's best-selling magazine for digital artists. The application offers a wide range of traditional artists' materials and tools. With the aid of a graphics tablet or computer mouse, the user is able to reproduce the effect of physical painting and drawing media such as watercolor, oil, chalk, charcoal and color pencil. There are also a few non-traditional items, such as the Image Hose, pattern pens, F/X, Distortion and Artist tools for allowing artists to apply less conventional elements on an image.

Painter emulates the visual characteristics of traditional media, such as oil paint, pastel sticks, air brush, charcoal, felt pens, and other traditional artists' materials on various textured surfaces. Many of these emulated media types work with the advanced features of Wacom tablets.

Painter and Photoshop have many similarities, such as layered editing.įor instance, the airbrush tool in Painter responds to pressure as well as tilt, velocity and rotation. The two products have developed as contemporaries, introducing innovations that are now considered standard in bitmap image editing software. #COREL PAINTER ESSENTIALS 5 PEN PRESSURE TRIAL#įor example, "Floaters" were released with Painter 2.5, around the time that Photoshop released "composite elements".#COREL PAINTER ESSENTIALS 5 PEN PRESSURE SOFTWARE#.#COREL PAINTER ESSENTIALS 5 PEN PRESSURE PRO#.
