Corel Painter Essentials 7 | Digital Art Suite | Amazon Exclusive Includes Free PhotoMirage Express Valued at $49 [PC/Mac Disc] [Old Version]

While I have a license of the full Painter software on my desktop - Im running Painter Essentials on my laptop. Started doing that with PE5 and have upgraded each time a new version has come out. PE7 is the latest. It has pretty much every thing that PE6 has - but seems to run just a tad better. I also make use of the PaintShop Pro Ultimate package on my laptop instead of paying for another license of Photoshop. For on the go use - both of these two Corel graphics packages cant be beat for the cost. Highly recommend both.

What a joy to have this at my fingertips.

I think this is a fine entry-level program for the non-artist or the artist new to digital painting. I am not an artist but play with simple graphics for my own amusement. I had tried at least one previous iteration of Painter and was quickly overwhelmed with the options. This version gets around that by limiting the options and permitted user variations. The most noticeable of that being that users cannot tweak the settings to create their own brushes and then save that brush for later use. A professional artist might find that a limitation but for a casual user like me that is really not an issue, given the huge--HUGE--number of preprogrammed brushes. For those who dont anticipate creating original art but do want to enhance or just plain play with existing images, there is Auto-Paint, which lets you take any picture and convert it into styles suggestive of classical techniques: from Smooth Acrylic to Pastel to French Impressionist to Van Gogh. The program supports Layers, a Tracing function, a Text tool and, of course, painting from scratch. Overall, Painter Essentials is a non-intimidating introduction to painting software for the novice and, compared to expensive fully-featured packages, a fair value.

Will not download to computer.

This software has very good instructions on most apps provided. The Painter Essentials offers a fun way to use your photographs, or a serious way to create ads. The Digital Art Suite combines good essential know-how and step-by-step instructions to give you more expressive freedom with your designs, whether it be for a cartoonish family picture or a serious wedding photo.

I highly recommend that you DO NOT purchase the CD version DO get the download. The CD was a nightmare, finally got it to download and couldnt read the serial number. After a week of trying to get the S.N. through a ticket I gave up and ordered the download which went smoothly and the serial number worked fine.

If you show a product as being able to do something in your advertisement video and it does NOT WORK on the program..... you really shouldnt be in business. And thats sad because Painter has always been my favourite drawing program. I tried contacting Corel to no avail. Painter 7 is missing functions that it shows in the video. Get it together Corel.

This is an excellent cost-effective option for anyone who doesnt need the entire functionality of the much more expensive full Painter software. For less than a tenth of the cost (at the time of this review), I feel this has the features that most amateurs and even some avid amateurs need in this type of software.

I used Painter X awhile ago and it was a great program. So for software that’s a tenth of the price, I wasn’t expecting a lot. But I was expecting it to get past the splash screen without crashing.

Fantastic program