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

This software exceeded my expectations for such an affordable price.

Great piece of software for artists!

Wonderful product!

Purchased it in May 2015 and was told, because I called, that this download was forever mine as they do not send out CDs any longer. Hurricane hits west coast of Florida and I cannot retrieve Corel Essentials. Went to the software library where it failed to upload only a partial ergo another call to an agent who does not live in the U.S and whose speech is difficult to understand. Told me that my 2 year warranty ran out. Oops..nowhere was I told there was a 2 year warranty as it is a download and was told I could use it in perpetuity. Not so. There is nothing on the ad which Amazon has up that speaks of a 2 year warranty. Was told to return it???? How do you return a download. So now I am out $40 and lots of luck to you and yours.

I havent had time to work with Painter Essentials 5 yet, but I would be very pleased if it is as good as version 4.

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 bought, installed and tried to use this, but THEN I got a trial up notice asking me to register & purchase this. It named the wrong title, calling the disc I got Painter 6 when it is 5. Then I input the serial number and clicked to contact Corel, only to get a window saying that my serial number was invalid. Now What???

Contrary to earlier comments; this windows 8 version DOES WORK with windows 10. It installed with no problem, only thing it didnt do that it didnt create a shortcut, so I had to go to Program Files [x86] and launch it from there [or create a desktop shortcut from there] [ I pinned it to the taskbar.] I also installed the hotfix update. Good program for the price.

This software is a glorified version of Paint, as far as Im concerned. It wouldnt install on my Windows 7 PC, though it says it should. On my Windows 8 laptop I had to download it from the code.

If you are looking for a software for pictures and art work Painter essentials from corel is your program. Not only can you do pictures but artists can draw and paint with this program. For 30$ it is worth every penny to have two programs in one.