Corel Painter X Academic [Old Version]

by Corel

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000NA1V96
• Item model number: PTRXENGPCMDVDA
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 9, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,664 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #47 in Software > Graphics > Illustration

Product Description

Painter X the world's most powerful Natural-Media painting and illustration software features unique digital brushes, art materials and textures that mirror the look and feel of their traditional counterparts. Setting the standard for digital painting and illustration, the Corel Painter X digital art studio introduces new composition tools, unparalleled performance, and the all-new RealBristle painting system that models traditional brushes like never before right down the individual bristles on the brush. Increased Performance: # Corel Painter X has been optimized to provide artists with the fastest version of Painter ever Depending on system hardware, brushes perform up to 35% faster New RealBristle Painting System: # The new RealBristle Painting System heightens the responsiveness of the brush and represents a major milestone for digital painting New Composition Tools: # New composition tools help artists and photographers visually arrange a blank canvas prior to sketching or painting, or create an aesthetically pleasing composition from a photo using the Divine Proportion tool and the Rule of Thirds New Workspace Manager: # Corel Painter X allows you to easily customize and back up your workspaces as well as export and share them with your friends and colleagues Enhanced Photo-Painting System: # It's now easier than ever for photographers to create stunning paintings from photographs New Downloadable Training Videos: # Getting up and running quickly with the new training videos by Painter Master Jeremy Sutton

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Too many Bugs for a Stable Release, September 21, 2007

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S. Jenkins "Arshes Nei" (Torrance CA) - See all my reviews
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I am a Painter fan, but I think one should review the product with some honesty.

Painter's Brush engine is rather unmatched in terms of digital painting and graphics. This is one feature that overrides many of the other industry standard programs when it comes to illustrating and painting with digital applications. Painter's brush tracking also helps when one uses a tablet making it a very powerful application. The multitude of brushes that act like their traditional counterparts is one of the reasons a person could experiment without the fear of running out of paint, wasting paper, or supplies.

New Enhanced Brush Ghosting makes it a lot more easier to see the bearing and direction of your brush, especially making effects and strokes. Divine proportions help you with composition. I even like the fact that scripts even allow you to playback your drawing progress, similar to PortalGraphics Open Canvas. You can even create movies and animations. With the combination of Photoshop this is indeed a powerful program.

However, and granted I don't expect every program to be perfect upon release, the GUI (Graphical User Interface) has some major bugs. Scrollbars will disappear, going into the Brush creator will undock your palettes or mess with settings you previously had. Workspaces weren't able to save. Your brush would disappear at times too.

Now there is a current patch for this software at Corel's site, but if you were new to the program and saw such bad interface errors, wouldn't you be upset, given the cost of the software?

The academic version is a very reasonable price with the errors aside, but I can't honestly give this product 5 stars since you're met with such errors right out of the box.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not Disappointed...YAY.!!!!!!, July 13, 2008

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yhalos "Bookworm" (San Juan, PR.) - See all my reviews

After having downloaded the full version product from Corel for a month I was totally so sad to not be able to keep it. I was checking out the software here and I found this great item..The Academic version of Painters X. I LOVE IT !!!!!. I couldn't be happier with this software. I was a little hesitant at first because I did not know what I was getting but when it arrived I was soooooo happy that it actually had everything I needed to create wonderful creations, paintings, scrapbook pages, illustrations, etc. I really recommend this for those who can not dish out the full price for this product. You will not be disappointed.

4 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Prohibited Software, August 3, 2009

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This review is from: Corel Painter X Academic [Old Version] (DVD-ROM)

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