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Corel Painter IX.5 : Natural Media Painting & Illustration (Win/Mac) | List Price: $429.99
Discount Price: $99.95
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Platform: Macintosh, Windows 2000, Windows XP
Brand: Corel
Binding: CD-ROM
Release Date: 2004-10-17
Features: - A highly-sophisticated painting and illustration application, the fastest version of Corel Painter yet
- Most brushes work, on average, twice as fast; includes more than 30 brush categories plus custom brushes
- Animators can now test frame rates directly in Corel Painter; movies can be saved as animated GIFs, QuickTime movies or AVI movies
- Supporting industry-standard ICC4.0 profiles, this software enables color matching between on-screen and printed colors
- Includes Corel Painter IX, both Mac and Windows versions; libraries of unique gradients, nozzles, patterns, stock photos, paper textures, and brushes; The Corel Painter IX Handbook
COREL HAS THE WORST SUPPORT! [Posted on 2006-09-26]
Great program, support is Crap! Some are lucky and it is a fun program but if you have any issues with your system or program you're on you own! Corel support is a black hole no matter what you put in nothing comes out!
Trial version deeply unsatisfactory. [Posted on 2006-11-01]
I am "using" the trial version as I write. Wonderful new auto-painting, underpainting effects? Try entering those words, or variants, in the online help. Nothing. They can't even be bothered to put that in. Cynical isn't the word. Slow too, on my powerful Mac. AND - the image changes its magnification - size on the screen - randomly!!! No other program does that on my computer. A bug, perhaps? You get a feeling from software, from Corel's home page, from other sources: I don't like it, and won't buy it.
Works Well At Many Levels [Posted on 2007-03-24]
We have used the Painter software with a Wacom pad for many years. It has been a reliable and remarkably intuitive program that can be used at many levels. My wife has used it professionally in her work, and wouldn't be without it.
Our focus has been more in the area of painterly fine art, and it is in this category that Painter has been a stellar performer for us. We used Painter V for many years, but when it wouldn't install on Windows XPMCE, we upgraded to this version of Painter. We have used it now for three months without any problems. We have not had any occasion to want to contact technical support, so we cannot address the problems in that area mentioned by some others.
Our grandson is an art major at our local university. We gave him the Wacom pad and Painter IX.5 for his birthday. He started using it immediately with his Apple laptop, and had produced some very nice work within two days. The point being, it is more user friendly than many other programs out there. Our children and grandchildren both have used it with excitement, and a feeling of accomplishment at their respective levels.
In combination with the Wacom Pad, this program has done a most satisfactory job for our family. All of us recommend it highly.
Complete Garbage [Posted on 2008-10-07]
I have been a Painter user since 1995. I started out with version 3.1 on a Mac Quadra 700. Painter has gone through a few owners in its lifetime. It started with Fractal Design. It then went on to MetaCreations. Then Corel bought it and has magically transformed a once reliable, stable, intuitive art program into a crashy, overly complicated pile of junk.
I'm running 9.5 on an intel Mac Pro and I cannot believe what a nightmare this thing is. Unfortunately, I cannot run my old MetaCreations version 5.5 on OSX because it will no longer support classic applications or I most surely would.
My advice to new artists is to learn Photoshop and stick with it. I never thought the day would come when I would say that, but Photoshop has become vastly improved, while Painter has gone straight in the toilet.
If you don't think it's that big of a deal, imagine learning to play the piano and getting damn good at it. And then suddenly, the only manufacturer of the piano decides he wants to put the keyboard on the bottom of the thing and halfway through the tune you're playing, it quits abruptly.
Don't buy this junk. And I will bet you a dollar to a donut, that their version 10 will not be any better, either.
A major improvement from Corel corporations. [Posted on 2008-10-15]
A major improvement from just Corel Painter 9, there are alot more features on this version than the previous painter 9, why didn't corel make these features with painter 9 I'll never understand, when first clicked on the software there was the introduction page including tips
on what tools to use by different artist.., plus new brushes like the smart brush etc.
I could go on and on about the features that I haven't explored yet or full used but over all this a great software at a slight but resonable low price at amazon.com
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