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procreate Painter 7 Upgrade

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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.

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. (...)