Corel Painter IX.5 [OLD VERSION]

by Corel

Product 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

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00030CBXQ
• Item model number: PTR9ENGPCM
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 18, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,921 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #93 in Software > Graphics > Illustration

Product Description

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Corel Painter IX.5--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. The newest version of Corel Painter takes digital design to unprecedented levels with the revolutionary Artists' Oils Painting System, Snap-to-Path Painting, Quick Clone for photographers, and brushes that perform up to 10 times faster than in previous versions. Corel Painter enables some of the world's most accomplished creative professionals--including commercial designers, artists and photographers--to extend their natural talents and techniques to create original works of breathtaking digital art.

See the Corel Painter IX.5 product tour

What’s New in Corel Painter IX.5

• Turn Photos into Paintings with the NEW! Photo Painting Palettes Create stunning paintings from photographs, with ease. Includes the Underpainting, Auto-Painting, and Restoration palettes. With the ability to automatically apply random, handpainted stokes to your photograph, it’s never been easier to get started with Corel Painter.
• 11 hours of movie-based training from lynda.com – now included for free with the purchase Corel Painter IX.5! This movie-based tutorial is designed to give new and existing users of Corel Painter a basic understanding of the new and improved features in Corel Painter IX. Enjoy over 50 movies on 2 CDs, hosted by Painter Master John Derry and Tanya Staples. Includes exercise files.
• NEW! Eraser Tool Provides easy access to a standard eraser to erase any medium in Corel Painter IX.5!
• NEW! Rubber Stamp Tool Now you can do point-to-point cloning in Corel Painter IX.5, from this easy-to-access toolbox tool.
• NEW! Cloner Tool The new Cloner tool - conveniently located in the toolbox - provides immediate access to the last-used Cloner brush and brush variant.
• NEW! Corel Paint Shop Pro support Now Corel Paint Shop Pro users can open Paint Shop Pro X files directly in Corel Painter IX.5 (Windows only).
• NEW! Corel Photo Album support Now it’s easy to send images directly from Painter Essentials 3 to Corel Photo Album 6 (Windows only).
• Apple iPhoto support, and support for Mac OS X Tiger (10.4) Work seamlessly with Apple iPhoto (requires changing ‘Preferences' in iPhoto).
• Wacom pen tablet support Extended support for Wacom's new Intuos3, Cintiq 21UX, and the new 6D Art Pen.
• NEW! Art Pen Brush Category These 10 new brushes are specifically designed to work with the new Wacom 6D Art Pen. Perfect for calligraphy!
• NEW! Dual Monitor support on Windows XP and Window 2000 Now Palettes, toolbars and the toolbox can now be moved outside the application window.

Also includes: Airbrush enhancements; Targa channel support; enhanced Photoshop file support; improved zoom functionality; enhanced brush resize functionality; and digital watercolor improvements.

Improved Features

Corel Painter IX adds a range of tools and features that increase performance, fuel creativity and further extend compatibility with other industry-standard tools and applications. With improved Help features, tutorials by world-class digital artists and free access to selected lynda.com training videos, getting started with Corel Painter IX is easier than ever.

Performance and Productivity

Improved Speed
Increasing the overall speed, performance and stability of Corel Painter IX was Corel's top priority. Working closely with Apple, Intel and AMD, Corel engineers created improvements wherever possible. The result: Corel Painter has never been a more efficient and powerful application. This is the fastest version of Corel Painter yet, with some brushes performing up to 10 times faster than in previous versions, and all brushes working, on average, twice as fast. In addition, you can now change the default scratch disk location in the Preference settings.

New Welcome Screen
Getting down to the job at hand has never been easier, thanks to the Corel Painter IX Welcome screen, which launches at startup. Divided into four sections, the Welcome screen gives quick access to recently used files, tutorials, brush and color-management settings, and artwork from renowned Corel Painter masters.

Making on-the-fly changes to brush settings and variables is as simple as dragging a slider.

Brush Control Palettes
Brush Control palettes provide easy access to all brush settings and controls. Making on-the-fly changes to brush settings and variables is as simple as dragging a slider--without any disruption to workflow. For example, the new Boost slider, found in the General palette of the Brush Controls, instantly enhances brush speed. Just drag the slider and see brush performance accelerate.

Frames-per-Second Control
Animators can now test frame rates directly in Corel Painter. With the new Frames-per-Second Control, you can set frame rates and preview them in a range of 1 to 40 frames per second.

Rotate/Flip Canvas
Now you can easily rotate or flip entire images directly in Corel Painter. You can also verify image composition at the touch of a button.

Customizable Shortcut Keys
Corel Painter now offers you an unprecedented level of control over your workflow by enabling you to completely customize shortcut keys. Corel Painter IX also includes a handy printable template for quick reference.

Multiuser Support
Corel Painter now supports multiple users on both Mac and Windows platforms. User files are stored in the user file directory, ensuring that users in a networked environment can retain individual settings and preferences. In addition, all settings are easily reverted to the default without having to reinstall the application.

Acting as a "virtual brush diary," the Tracker palette tells the story of an image created with Corel Painter IX brushes.

Tracker Palette Enhancements
The Tracker palette stores historical information about every brush stroke that is applied to the canvas. Acting as a "virtual brush diary," the Tracker palette tells the story of an image created with Corel Painter IX brushes. Brushes used in the last session can be recalled in the next, and favorite brush variants can be locked so that they are always readily accessible.

Iterative Save
Iterative Save lets you quickly save sequentially numbered versions of an image with a simple menu command. The first time you use Iterative Save, "_001" is appended to the file name. Each subsequent time the number increments by 1, and a new sequentially numbered file is created.

Session Memory
When Corel Painter IX launches, it displays settings--such as color sets, paper textures and last color used--from in the previous session. Corel Painter IX also remembers the last folders in which you opened and saved files.

Enhanced Color Handling
Enhanced color sets can be appended to each other, and any color set can be loaded in the Mixer palette.

Enhanced Zoom
Area-averaging zoom control gives you higher-quality zoomed-out views.

Other Improvements

• Choose from a range of cursor icons, including the popular Triangle Cursor
  
• Select your background color as you work
  
• Use Enhanced Selections on layer masks
  
• Hide or display multiple layers with a simple click and drag
  
• Experience more intuitive brush profile icons in the Brush Creator
  

Creativity

Artists' Oils Painting System
The Artists' Oils Painting System is a milestone in the evolution of digital art. This new painting system enables you to apply paint blends created in the Mixer palette directly onto images in the document window. Each brush dab loads the brush variant with a finite amount of oil. As the oil runs out, the brush stroke becomes fainter. Plus, brush strokes interact with any paint already on the canvas just as they would with natural media.

Snap-to-Path Painting
When you need to create a perfect curve or shape, Snap-to-Path Painting is a great time saver. It makes it possible to constrain a brush stroke along a path or a shape by clicking a button or using a keyboard shortcut. With a simple click, you can now create a precise brush stroke that reflects the attributes typically found in a Corel Painter stroke, such as pressure, tilt and bearing.

Digital Watercolor

The wet fringe of digital watercolor brush strokes allows for experimentation after the brush stroke has been applied.

Digital Watercolor has been significantly enhanced in Corel Painter IX. Paint stays wet between sessions, allowing you to start one session where the last one ended. The wet fringe of digital watercolor brush strokes can now be changed dynamically, enabling experimentation after the brush stroke has been applied.

Quick Clone
Quick Clone is ideal if you're a photographer because it enables you to transform your photos into paintings. This new feature speeds up the image-cloning workflow and reduces five steps to one. You can define Quick Clone settings on the General page of the Preferences dialog box.

KPT Filters
KPT filters are renowned, powerful plug-ins that creative professionals rely on to produce stunning effects quickly and easily. Seven powerful KPT filters are included in Corel Painter IX: KPT Gel, KPT Goo, KPT LensFlare, KPT Lightning, KPT Pyramid Paint, KPT Reaction and KPT ShapeShifter. These plug-ins are valuable additions to the impressive array of effects available in Corel Painter IX.

Compatibility

Enhanced Adobe Photoshop Support
Moving between Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter IX is simple. Files saved to the Adobe Photoshop (PSD) file format open in Corel Painter IX, with layer masks, alpha channels and layer sets (layer groups) maintained.

Layer behavior in Corel Painter IX is very similar to layer behavior in Adobe Photoshop. New layers are added above the selected layer, layers with different merge modes are collapsible, and it is now possible to hide or display multiple layers by simply clicking and dragging. In addition, Corel Painter IX supports Adobe Photoshop plug-ins for Mac OS X.

Enhanced Wacom Support
Corel Painter IX features support for Wacom's newest pen tablet model--Wacom Intuos3--and the entire Wacom tablet product line. Wacom Intuos3 has touch strips that can be configured to control brush size, zooming and many other functions, eliminating the need for a keyboard while painting. In addition, tablet keys can be used as modifier keys, such as Command, Option, Shift or Spacebar on a Mac; or Ctrl, Alt, Shift or Spacebar on a PC.

Get accurate color reproduction when images are printed.

Enhanced Color Management
Corel Painter IX includes an enhanced Color Management System that ensures accurate color reproduction when images are printed. Supporting industry-standard ICC4.0 profiles, Corel Painter IX Color Management enables color matching between on-screen and printed colors. A color-management tutorial helps you configure your system for optimal color reproduction.

Mac OS X Enhancements

• Support for Mac OS X Adobe Photoshop plug-ins
  
• Improved function inlining and memory usage
  
• Enhanced for G5 (square root function calculations)
  
• Numerous application-specific optimizations
  

Learning

Improved Help
A revised User Guide and Help system provide information and fast solutions. The Corel Painter IX Handbook, which is included with Corel Painter IX Full and Upgrade versions, offers a collection of step-by-step tutorials created by well-known creative professionals.

Free Access to Selected lynda.com Training Videos
Corel Painter IX includes access to a selection of training videos created by lynda.com--one of the world's most renowned graphics training companies--to guide you through the Corel Painter workspace, tools, features and techniques.

Free Academic Courseware
Corel Painter academic courseware consists of complete lesson plans and exercises for 10 classes on a variety of subjects.

Favorite Features

If you're a long-time Corel Painter user, you can continue to enjoy the favorite features that have been the cornerstones of the application for years. Whether you're a commercial designer, artist or photographer, the following features let you leverage your natural talents and techniques to create original works of art, and they distinguish Corel Painter from other applications.

Brushes

There are more than 30 brush categories: some that mirror the look and feel of traditional brushes, others that are one-of-a-kind.

Brushes are the heart and soul of Corel Painter IX. There are more than 30 brush categories, ranging from crayons, chalk and charcoal to acrylics, watercolor, artists' oils and liquid ink. While most brush categories mirror the look and feel of traditional brushes, others offer a one-of-a-kind creative tool.

Brush Control palettes provide quick, easy access to the settings for every brush control. Brushes are organized into distinct categories, each featuring a multitude of variants.

Oil: Oil brushes produce the effects expected from oil paints. All brush variants in this category cover underlying brush strokes, many are capable of multicolored strokes, and others interact with underlying pixels to create realistic effects.

Watercolor: Watercolor brush variants produce natural-looking watercolor effects. Almost all brush variants in the Watercolor category interact with the canvas texture. For most of these variants, stylus pressure affects the width of the brush stroke. As with traditional-media watercolor brushes, increased pressure widens a brush stroke and reduced pressure narrows a stroke.

Cloner brush variants take their color information from a clone source, rather than the color palette.

Cloners: Painting with a cloner brush is similar to painting with any Corel Painter brush, except that cloner brush variants take their color information from a clone source, such as a pattern or another image, instead of from the Colors palette. Some cloner brush variants reproduce a source image directly. Other cloner brush variants reproduce a source image with low opacity and soft edges, or they use paper grain and specialized dabs for particular media effects.

Brush Creator
Corel Painter IX offers a large and varied brush collection. In addition, you can customize your brushes. Brush Creator allows you to create custom brushes by providing three flexible options for designing a brush: a) randomly modify an existing brush, b) combine the characteristics of two brushes, or c) create a custom brush from scratch.

Choose from the brush collection, or design your own.

Papers
In the real world, an artist's brush or drawing tool produces different results when applied to surfaces with different textures. Corel Painter allows you to control the texture of the canvas to achieve the results you'd expect from natural media on a given surface. Brushes interact with paper grain, just as natural tools react with the texture of the surfaces beneath them.

Mixer Palette
Colors not found in the Color palette can be created from scratch in the Mixer palette. This innovative feature includes tools, such as a brush and palette knife, designed specifically for painting and color mixing. With an Artists' Oils brush, you can sample and use multiple colors in the same brush stroke.

Colors not found in the Color palette can be created from scratch in the Mixer palette.

Animation
Corel Painter has an impressive array of animation features. The Onion Skinning feature allows you to view previous and future frames while working on the current frame. The Rotoscoping feature enables you to paint and modify a single frame of an existing movie. Animated movies can be saved as animated GIFs, QuickTime movies or AVI movies.

Scripting
Scripts allow actions to be recorded and played back, saving you time when performing the same operation on a collection of images. Scripts can be played back at any resolution, allowing you to automatically re-create high-resolution output from scripts recorded at low resolution. Scripts are also a great educational resource. Viewing a script of an artist's image-creation process is like looking through the artist's eyes.

Support for Industry-standard File Formats
Corel Painter IX lets you open and save Adobe Photoshop (PSD), TIFF (CMYK and RGB), Windows Bitmap (BMP), PC Paintbrush (PCX), TARGA (TGA), GIF, JPEG, Mac PICT, QuickTime (MOV), and Video for Windows (AVI) files. In addition, you can import and export Adobe Illustrator (AI) files. You can also save files in encapsulated PostScript (EPS) format.

Image Hose
The Image Hose behaves like a brush, but it sprays images instead of applying paint. You can also load your own image or select an image from the library included in the application.

What's Included with Corel Painter IX

Corel Painter IX - Hybrid CD: The Corel Painter IX CD includes the following: Corel Painter IX, both Mac and Windows versions; libraries of unique gradients, nozzles, patterns, stock photos, paper textures, and brushes, including the new Artists' Oils brush category; the User Guide in electronic (PDF) format; and access to selected free lynda.com training video content.

The Corel Painter IX Handbook: The Corel Painter IX Handbook is a unique full-color, spiral-bound guide to Corel Painter IX, executive edited by Cher Pendarvis, author of the Painter WOW! book series. The Corel Painter IX Handbook includes: a foreword by Painter pioneer John Derry; a Painter history, with contributions from Painter founders Mark Zimmer and Tom Hedges; Getting Started information, including an illustrated guide to Corel Painter IX brushes; and professionally crafted tutorials written by Jeremy Sutton, Cher Pendarvis, Don Seegmiller, Chris Welch, John Dismukes, Joyce Ryan, Andrew Jones, Chet Phillips, and Ryan Church.

Note: The Corel Painter IX Handbook is included only with the Full and Upgrade versions of Corel Painter IX.

Product Description

For more than 13 years, Painter has been the world's pre-eminent Natural-Media painting and illustration software. Corel Painter IX offers the same breathtaking brushes and features that Painter artists have grown to love--but with significantly enhanced speed and performance. All brushes now operate at an average of twice their former speed, and some brushes are 10 times faster. Corel Painter IX also unveils the brand-new Artists' Oils Painting System, a revolutionary Natural-Media painting technology that enables you to sample multiple colors from the Mixer palette and apply them as wet oily paint to your canvas.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

67 of 71 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Stunning improvements, impressive digital art software, January 8, 2005

By 

Joanna Daneman (Middletown, DE USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Corel Painter IX.5 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

If you are an artist who works with "wet media"--oils, watercolor, magic markers, pen and ink or if you are a digital artist who creates only with pixels of light on a computer, you should seriously look at Painter IX. This is without a doubt, digital art software at its very best.

I've used a form of Painter since its very first version, which was called Sketcher. This was back before 1990, I am pretty sure, and Sketcher, which was a Fractal Designs product, came in a snazzy cigar box (because many sketch artists keep their charcoals in this handy container.) The software did grey-scale renderings of drawings into charcoal, pencil or ink and it could be used to sketch on graphics tablets.

After Sketcher came Painter, which was sold amusingly in a paint can and did color rendering of oil, watercolor, pencil and inks. Eventually, Painter was sold to Corel, who had the expertise in graphics design software to take Painter to a whole new level. While previous versions of Painter had some idiosyncrasies, Painter IX has been revised to match current graphics capabilities of computers, and has been debugged to the point that it is a pure pleasure to use. As a result, professional designers of everything from brochures to fast cars use Painter instead of real media or in conjunction with art media to create some stunning digital creations. In addition, wet media artists now routinely use digital art software to visualize, compose and test designs before doing them by hand. I do this myself; I take photos or sketches and try out palettes to see how a certain color scheme works. Or I cut and paste elements of a composition to visualize the painting before I sketch it on paper. My own medium is watercolor, and I find it a lot more comforting to have a plan of attack before I hit that scary white (and pricey) piece of watercolor paper. Visualizing my composition on the PC screen is a very useful tool.

If you had tried Painter before and were less than thrilled, you should take a look again. If you have never used a digital arts package and want to be serious about digital art, I can't think of another product I'd recommend.

So, let's get a detailed look into Painter IX and see what it does:

Art Media:

1. Literally 100's of brushes that can be modified in size and quality (hairness, spray direction, stroke depth, and "taught" your personal stroke on the graphics tablet.) You can create brushes, and even make "image hoses"--a way to spray a graphic and paint with say, berries, leaves, architectural elements. You can make your own image nozzle out of any graphic element and even have it shaded with a drop shadow. The image hose is a lot of fun--scrapbookers can find a lot of uses for it as it's rather like a digital rubber stamp.

2. 30 plus media, like oil, impasto, charcoal, crayon, ink, gouache, watercolor, airbrush, oil and chalk pastel, pencil, photo filters, and even woodcut and sumi-e. They are realistic to the point where you can smear the oil around--the only thing is you don't smell the turpentine. The texture of canvas or paper comes through under the media according to the amount you choose, and you can light the finished work to highlight texture and shine.

3. Textured papers like canvas and watercolor. You can input your own textures to make a customized paper. There are pattern fills like cloth and pebbles, and you can make patterns to use as background fill. Any image can be captured to make a texture or pattern.

4. Wet media --like ink, wet oils, watercolor. A wet layer allows you to push the paint around as if the surface were wet. It can be "dried."

5. A mixing palette to mix paints as one would on a real palette.

6. Cloning--copying a picture and then rendering it as if you had a tracing paper over top a real picture. You can grab portions of the picture with your tablet stylus and brush them into oils, watercolors, chalk. You can auto-clone and create a sketch from a photo.

7. Photo filters: a good set of filters used to modify digital photos and scans are included.

8. Typical adjustment features to modify color, remove color, change contrast and light/dark.

9. Animation tools and web design tools. Many graphics software packages have these (Adobe Photoshop, Macromedia Fireworks) but these allow you to create web graphics with a handpainted or handdrawn look. For anime artists, this could be a huge plus.

10. A scripting engine that lets you record your own operations and play them back with one click to automate your work or create movies. Scripts are automatically saved --meaning you can recover work if your PC crashes.

The major improvements in Painter IX are noteworthy:

1. A 175 page printed spiral-bound manual to get you started and an online help that looks like a spiral-bound manual with everything from online videos, art examples to inspire you and recipes. The tutorial movies from Lynda.com are included in the license. The learning tools are amazing; the spiral bound manual stays open and is easy to navigate. The online tools are lavish and very helpful, because Painter is powerful and there IS a learning curve to get into the most advanced features.

2. Kai's Power Tools (filters for photography) are included. This popular standalone package of photo adjustment tools has Gel, Goo, LensFlare, Lightning, Pyramid Paint, Reaction, and ShapeShifter.

3. There are many new shortcuts, most welcome of which is Quick Clone, reducing the number of steps needed to clone a picture down to a single click.

4. Mixing oils on a palette is more like real media.

5. The watercolor has been sped up to lightning-fast; it was rather slow in previous versions.

6. I found far fewer bugs or crashes--my graphics card is not particularly new and could be bumped up a bit (I have onboard graphics and I could do with adding a better video card) but I still found Painter IX faster and far easier to use than Painter 8.0. The watercolor function was about 10 times faster, at least.

Summary: If you think you'd like to do digital art, this is the one package I'd recommend.

Minimum computer requirements:
· Macintosh: Mac OS X 10.2.8 or higher, 500 MHz, 128 MB RAM (256 recommended), 1024x768 monitor resolution, 395 MB disk space.

· Windows: Windows 2000 or XP, 500 MHz Pentium II (or higher), 128 MB RAM (256 recommended), 1024x768 monitor resolution, 380 MB disk space.

Recommended:

A graphics tablet is a must--you can use a mouse, but you won't get the benefits of real media feel without a tablet. The package can use various tablets, but is optimized for the Intuos (WACOM) line of tablets.
Update your graphics card and graphics memory if you have an older PC.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Unique app that is creatively inspiring, though perfornance issues remain, March 14, 2006

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MartinP "MartinP" (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Corel Painter IX.5 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

Painter occupies a very particular niche in the world of digital imaging software. Though the latest versions of Photoshop sport an excellent brush tool and ample brush controls, there is nothing to match the power and possibilities of Painter's brush creator. And Painter is truly unique in its emulation of natural media, ranging from thick impasto strokes to naturally drying watercolor, and oil paints that stay wet as long as you please. There is a mixer palette which works exactly like an actual one: new colors can be mixed on the fly as if mixing actual pigments rather than colored pixels. Of course, the digital environment also offers possibilities not available in the real world, and apart from the natural media Painter therefore offers a whole array of fantasy and pattern brushes, as well as distortion filters and blender. As all these can be adjusted and turned into new brushes according to taste, the possibilities are truly limitless. Layering options are numerous, and come with an array of blending methods more extensive than that in PS. Selection possibilities are excellent too, with highly accessible options for saving and reloading particular complex selections. There are some nice filters as well, including a particularly fine bevel tool that allows detailed control of complex bevels. There are, of course, many plug-ins available that can be added according to budget and taste, such as the KPT filters. Painter includes the usual vector pen and shape options, which are excellent for making precise selections or creating smooth shapes.
This is, as the name suggests, a painting program. It is not primarily an image editor. It can be used a such, but obviously yields to Photoshop in that regard. It appeals strongly to the individual creativity of the user, and can be inspiring to work with. If you are familiar with PS, you'll have to get used to the Painter interface, which puts similar functions in different places than PS. There are some nifty solutions, such as the possibility of creating a custom box of drawing tools: simply drag the thumbnail of the desired brush into the work area. On the other hand, some options on offer seem superfluous or even confusing. E.g., the "paint outside"/"paint inside"/"paint everywhere" switch achieves something just as easily done by inverting or discarding a selection. As usual with such high end programs, the array of options is apt to make for a cluttered workspace. Fortunately, palettes are all floatable and collapsible.
Downsides? Well, yes. Apparently recent versions of Painter have gained speed compared to earlier ones, but the program still seems to have some serious memory management issues. On my PC (1.6Ghz P4, 1Gb RAM, 250 GB harddisk, nVidia GeForce FX 5950 256 MB videocard, Windows XP Home SP1), routine operations like loading a selection or changing the zoom level, and even saving, regularly lead to program freezes that can last for some time (as in: go downstairs, make yourself a cup of coffee), though on the plus side I've experienced no actual crashes. Some brush types also tend to be excruciatingly slow to respond, especially with large brush sizes, which rather detracts from the natural painting feel.
Still, Painter remains a more than worthwhile addition to any collection of digital imaging tools. Make sure you also have a drawing tablet, or you will not reap the full benefits of Painters possibilities.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars 2K Pro and your set, XP is shaky at best., January 2, 2006

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Shawn R. Olszewski "Door to Door Wasabi Sales" (Roaming North America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Corel Painter IX.5 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

We want patches! Runs great, the program is amazing really but I had it running for all of 2 days on my XP machine. I've repaired, uninstalled, reinstalled, fiddled with the registry, nothing has helped. It's been solid on my 2k laptop though. So if you're still running 2K Pro this is a 5 star program but be ready to battle on XP Home. Next attempt is to see if it likes XP Pro any better.