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

great

I have used several paint programs including the Corel Painter X3 which is intended for more serious and professional applications. The Corel Painter Essentials 5 provides a set of nice features for general photos touch-up and artwork painting. I like its simple user friendly interface which requires very little learning to use. The program also works nicely with my Wacom tablet.

Pretty nice basic painting software. Not maintained by Corel. Dont expect updates.

These was an Xmas gift and the person really enjoys it

Not made for Winfiws 7 or higher!

Bought it for a Christmas gift. Love it. Works great with the drawing tablet.

Im somewhat new to actually using painting software. Ive used Photoshop for a couple of years now and am pretty much self taught on how to use it (mostly for photo manipulation) and have been looking for a tool that will artificially paint a photo to give it a painted look without actually having to paint the picture, which is what initially drew me to Painter Essentials.

I really enjoy my Painter Essentials 5. A real value for the price. I have used the full program Painter in the past and find even with its limitations (such as no masks, limited ways of selection from individual layers etc) PE5 it is a good program. Very stable and has many of the basic good brushes. (Would love to be able to add more ). I found auto painting works very well. The buyer should have a basic knowledge of using layers to use this program to its full potential. I found it very compatible to use with work done in Photoshop Elements. Good videos on YouTube, but we could use more with simple basic painting use of the program. A good starting program for painting and a good painting program that does not take a lot of hard drive space up on your laptop. Try it you will like it!

Dont use it nearly as much as my other programs, but still not bad.

Easy to use... Its Windows 95 Classic style, which is a major plus... nothing is hard to find in the program...