The easy to use home art studio
Corel Painter 4 Essentials is photo-painting, drawing and painting software
which is based on the world's most powerful painting and illustration software,
Corel Painter. Easily sketch, paint and turn your photos into paintings
with this creative home digital art studio. A wide selection of brushes, paints,
pens and paper textures lets you add unique touches to photos, create cards and
scrapbooks, and complete other fun projects.
If you want to do more than just edit and print your photos, Corel Painter
Essentials 4 is the ideal way to get started with digital art. Create a painting
from a photo in just three 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:
- 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.
- Choose one of the preset painting styles
from the menus on the Auto-Painting palette to get the look you
want.
- Let new Smart Stroke technology help you create stunning paintings with
brush strokes that follow the natural lines and contours in your photo.
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.
- Choose from dozens of Natural-Media tools
including crayons, pencils, chalk, oil, acrylic and watercolor
brushes
- Select colors from the new Colors Palette
- Mix your own color in the convenient
Mixer Palette
- Draw, paint or do both to create your own
masterpiece
- Select the photo you want to paint
- Choose the painting style you want to
apply
- Let the Smart Stroke painting technology
create a stunning painting
- Touch up your masterpiece by hand if
desired
- Getting started in digital art has never been simpler. Included with
Corel Painter Essentials are inspiring tutorial based videos and companion
guidebook.
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