Corel Painter Essentials 5 Digital Art Suite for PC and Mac (Old Version)

So much better than the Paint app that comes with Windows 10! I love it!

I desire to be a photo artist because I have loved photography my entire life (both in front of the camera and behind it). Corel Painter Essentials 5 caught my interest because it is specially designed for art enthusiasts and emerging photo artists who want to go beyond ordinary and turn everyday inspiration into seriously impressive art. It is advertised as easy to be amazing with award-winning Natural-Media brushes, and time-saving painting tools like Mirror and Kaleidoscope that lets one create one-of-a-kind art with just a few strokes. It says that photo-painting and cloning tools are unmatched, transforming your photos into impressionist, oil and watercolor, etc. Well since I am not an expert at this type of software, I do not know how it compares to others, but I feel that this product will serve me well. I am also an author and look forward to creating my own book covers and artwork for my childrens books.

First off, it is important to know that I am a complete amateur when it comes to photo editing or drawing software. I know just enough to get by in Adobe Photoshop and have bumbled around in other painting programs over the years. So this is a review coming from someone who isnt skilled or fluent in these types of software.

Not a lot pot experience with program for comprehensive review. Offers many painting options and features. Im looking forward to learning.

good software to work my pictures or get inspire.

This product is NOT compatible with Windows 10, as erroneously noted on Amazon.com

Does what I wanted it for. Converting photos into paintings. Excellent program for this purpose.

very cool

I have used both Painter 11 and Painter 12 and find these more intuitive to use than Painter Essentials 5, which is essentially a stripped-down version of the full-fledged Painter programs. Painter 11 and 12 have more brushes, more canvas textures, wet background painting, more options and customizations, and a slew of other niceties that Painter Essentials lack. HOWEVER, Painter is also more than 10 times the price of Painter Essentials. PLUS, Painter 11 and 12 are buggy and computer resource intensive. Painter Essentials, on the other hand, is easy on the CPU, has a much smaller memory footprint, is less buggy, and plays very well with Windows 10.

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