procreate Painter 7 Upgrade

by procreate

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005NHEG
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 23, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #33,412 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

Painter, the natural-media emulation tool for digital artists, has survived yet another ownership transition and is now up to version 7. The new owner, procreate, seems committed to the software: version 7 includes some important new features, as well as numerous bug fixes.

Any digital artist worth their salt is at least familiar with Painter. Painter has tools like no other image editing application, and it is capable of imitating watercolor, oil, crayons, markers, and pencil to a remarkable degree. Combined with a graphics tablet, a talented artist might never pick up a physical paintbrush again.

Painter 7 raises the stakes in natural-media emulation. The new Liquid Ink technology emulates thick paint on a surface, and the new watercolor layers are so realistic you'll worry that they'll drip down into your monitor.

Other enhancements include a continuous, variable zoom tool, total compatibility with Photoshop (including the ability to open and save layered PSD files), and perspective grids to act as an aid when drawing freehand objects.

Overall, Painter 7 offers numerous new and improved features, making it more than just a worthwhile upgrade. --Mike Caputo

Amazon.com Product Description

Painter 7 captures the thickness of the paint, the angle of the brush, the texture of the surface, and all the other real-world experiences of painting. It has hundreds of brushes and thousands of effects. The new brush library architecture makes it easy to organize brushes, create custom libraries, and share brushes with other users. Painter 7's watercolors are so true-to-life that paints drip and blend together as you apply them. You control how the watercolor diffuses onto the canvas with wetness, dry rates, diffusion, and wind direction features. The realistic new Liquid Ink layer mimics the viscosity and surface tension of a thick, gluey medium like ink or paint. Enhanced Adobe Photoshop compatibility lets you open PSD files and save Painter 7 images as PSD files, which you can open in Photoshop with layers intact.

Painter 7 offers a new continuous and variable zoom that lets you view and work on an image at an arbitrary zoom factor. The shapes-based text tool and the dynamic text feature are now integrated into a single, easy-to-use tool. Access all text options, including font, alignment, point size, tracking, leading, opacity, and curve style from a single drop-down palette. Painter 7 also includes an enhanced interface for CMYK preview and profile selection, updated ICC profiles, and color-managed CMYK import and export. New perspective grids allow you to create 3-D scenes easily with a non-printing array of lines that converge at a single vanishing point. You can turn on vertical or horizontal lines (or both), and modify the location of the vanishing point, horizon line, and ground plane using the Perspective Adjustor tool.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unusable and Bitterly Disappointing, November 28, 2001

By A Customer

This review is from: procreate Painter 7 Upgrade (CD-ROM)

Metacreations introduced bugs in Painter 6 that causes the program to crash about once in 15 minutes or so on my Windows 98 system, taking the system down with it, such that it requires a reset; so after buying Painter 6, I found myself forced to return to Painter 5. I bought this upgrade on the strength of an Amazon review claiming that Procreate had done a lot of bug-stomping. Alas, they didn't fix the system-crashing bug: Painter 7 crashes in the same reset-demanding manner, with similar frequency.

Procreate has also done ugly things to the brush handling. Because of the crashing, I didn't do extensive investigation, but the water color brushes no longer have methods and subcategories available. And when I tried to use an airbrush and paper, I found that the paper's texture information was being blurred at the edges of the airbrush on subsequent passes, giving me not the evenly textured images I'm used to being able to produce with Painter 5, but a 'striped' image in which there are textured strips (in the centers of the brush strokes) and untextured strips (at the edges of the strokes).

I've been using Painter as my main paint application since version 2. I regard what Procreate has done to the brush handling as something approaching vandalism, and I won't be buying any further Painter releases, the behavior of this one being intolerable.

Much later:
I am pleased to report that Corel subsequently debugged Painter. I returned to using it for version 9, and it's now up to 11.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Fasten your seat belts, we're gonna crash!, January 17, 2002

By 

Peter Sock - See all my reviews

This review is from: procreate Painter 7 Upgrade (CD-ROM)

Unless you enjoy restarting your computer every fifteen minutes or so, do not buy this software. I don't know what Corel was thinking, but they destroyed everything that was good about Painter. It crashes all the time, the brush handling is atrocious and the interface is completely unmanageable. (...)