Painter Essentials is Corel’s gift to people who like the idea of creating paintings from their photos, embellishing their photos, or combining digital paint and photographic elements but who are daunted by the complexity of imaging tools. Most recently, Corel released an update Painter Essentials.

In the summer of 2019, Corel released its latest update of Painter, with AI features and added support for modern computers with GPUs and multiple cores. It released the ParticleShop utility which enables Painter’s powerful brushes to be used within Corel’s other imaging tools such as Paintshop Pro, and also Adobe’s tools Lightroom and Photoshop. In 2017, Corel decided to capitalize on the popularity of Painter’s capabilities and effects. Corel’s CAD products have Mac versions as well. As a primarily Windows-centric tool, Painter gave Corel an important product on the Mac and it inspired the company to port its flagship CorelDraw to the Mac. More importantly, over the years, Corel has made Painter much more accessible.Ĭorel acquired Painter in 2001 and has continued to develop the product. Painter is a survivor, which is a tribute to its appeal for creative users. On the flipside, MetaCreations also left a legacy of opaque interfaces, and mystifying workflows. The implosion of MetaCreations as a company at the turn of the century is a big bang event that scattered innovative modeling and imaging technology throughout the tech universe like seedlings. They were early pioneers in computer graphics software for artists and the work they did lives on at Daz3D, Poser, and most vibrantly at Corel in Painter. The Painter family of products has its origins in MetaCreations, a digital arts development powerhouse in Santa Barbara.

Latest version of Painter includes benchmark tool giving users insight into how brushes work.

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