![]() You can choose your brush and paint the photograph yourself, or you can let Essentials paint the photograph for you. The Photo Painting System allows you to take a photograph and turn it into a painting. However, the feature that is going to sell tons of Painter Essential 4 boxes, in my opinion, is the new Photo Painting System. These are just some of the new features added to Essentials 4 making it a fantastic upgrade. Blending brushes were used to blend the lights and darks together. With the help of the layers feature I did a sketch on one layer and the painting on another. It would just be nice to get the blending effect while using the tool, instead of having to use the blender.īelow is a painting I started using as variety of brushes and media. However, going over the colors with the blending tool helped give me the look I was going for. This was the case with several of the tools. I would expect the yellow to pick up a little red as it overlaps. For example, using yellow oil pastel over red oil pastel did not blend the two together. My only complaint is that there are times when the tools don’t interact with each other as one would expect. The more options the better.Īll of these brushes and textures come together to give you a more realistic painting experience on the computer. Paper textures help enhance your artwork by having the tool pick up the texture of the paper or canvas you are working on. Not only are there more brushes, but there are more paper textures also. In addition to those brushes you have new charcoal brushes, a Sargent brush, pen tools/brushes, and the Sumi brush. The “RealBristle†brushes from Painter X are now part of Essentials. This is one feature that I always found lacking in Painter Essentials, and Essentials 4 adds a lot to change that. Speaking of brushes- Essentials 4 is packed with a bunch of new brushes. Painter Essentials keeps track of it for you. This way you don’t have to remember that exact brush you used five brushes ago. One of the best new features is that your brush choices are recorded down the side of the toolbar. Instead of a Brush pallette, the brushes and media are available through a drawer that appears when you choose the Brush Tool. ![]() It is also less intimidating, which is what a program like Essentials should be.Īll of your tools are accessible on the tool bar. The new workspace is a huge improvement over the older versions. The software is also Windows compatible, but we won’t get into that here.īesides the two features I mentioned above, the first thing past users of Essentials will notice is the redesigned workspace. You can use a mouse or tablet pen for drawing in the program. While I’m on the topic of system requirements, the program requires 10.4 or later, a 700mhz G4 processor or faster, and 256mn of RAM. It is a universal binary, and the system requirements in the reviewer’s guide I received state it is compatible with 10.5 “with the latest updates.†I don’t know if my version had the latest updates (non were available on Corel’s website), but I installed it on a machine running Leopard and it worked without any problems that I saw. Is it Leopard compatible? The answer to both of these questions is yes. Probably the two most important features for many Mac users will be: 1. For a list of all the new features in Painter Essentials 4 visit here. Just like Painter, Essentials is a natural media painting program that allows the user to paint and draw on the computer with tools he/she might use in “real life.†Also, like Painter X (which I reviewed earlier this year), Painter Essentials 4 is packed with great new features. It is what I would call the “slimmed†down version of Painter, but still fully usable. Painter Essentials is to Painter what Photoshop Elements is to Photoshop.
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