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| Corel Painter Essentials 4 (Win/Mac) | 
 enlarge | From: Corel
Category: Software
List Price: $99.00
Buy New: $68.99
You Save: $30.01 (30%)
New (19) Used (1) from $68.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  88 reviews
Sales Rank: 1055
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 7.9 x 2
MPN: CRLCD11637WM
Model: PE4ENPCM
UPC: 735163116373
EAN: 0735163116373
ASIN: B000WCQCE4
Release Date: October 16, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: BRAND NEW, Factory Sealed, Never Opened, Never Used, Complete in RETAIL Package. PLEASE SEE MY FEEDBACK RATING FOR PURCHASE ASSURANCE
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| Customer Reviews:
 Love this program January 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Corel Painter Essentials does a great job mimicking natural media. The various watercolor, pen and charcoal tools are particularly excellent. The ability to work in "thin" media and to go back and digitally rework areas is wonderful.
The "thick" media tools (oils and acrylics) are good but not great. Still, they are fun and produce a close-enough approximation to make them worth playing around with. (I don't have a graphics tablet, so I should mention that these tools might be better served by a Wacom tablet than by a mouse, like I have.)
The interface takes a little time to get to know, but once you've been working with it for a while, it becomes intuitive. Artists and illustrators might find this the perfect application to "finalize" their real-world pieces digitally; its touch-up capacities are solid. Or they might find this app shortens the brainstorming process considerably, making the move to the real-world easel that much easier.
This app is good for adults and kids alike.
Nice job, Corel.
lots of depth in this product, but fun to use on any level January 28, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This software installed quickly and easily on my XP pro three year old computer. I bought a Wacom Bamboo tablet to take full advantage of the software's capabilities.
Corel Painter Essentials 4 software has great depth. If you have the skill (and the time) you can do just about anything with this program. My wife tested the software. She really enjoyed the flexibilty and options it offered. Color choice, brush size/effect, layout, were easy to change to get the desired effect.
This is a product you can explore and master over a long period of time, or purchase to do simplier graphics tasks quickly and easily. The price is quite reasonable considering its capabilities.
Highly recommended.
Great for Amateur or Artist January 27, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
Whether you're transforming a photo into a painting/drawing/mixed-media artwork or digitally enhancing your own original scanned art PAINTER ESSENTIALS. There are video tutorials included in the software to help guide you as well as a guidebook, which complements the video with art tips. If your not interested in exploring techniques by hand, the auto-paint will rework images on their own, with little guidance from your. Other options include using photos as the basis for sketches, choosing brush type, media from chalk, pastels, pencil, oils, airbrush, even down to paper types and coarseness or materials. You may approximate different photographic tonalities within the photos or art. You can adjust the pressure of the stylus itself and the software offers a wide variety for your palette, allowing you to mix your own colors.
As an artist I would recommend this product if only for re-inking sketches, coloring and shading your original works. If handles as professionally as more costly software. I would also recommend using Corel Painter Essentials with a stylus and tablet (Wacom for example).
The options are really broad for possible applications.
As someone who lost many pre-digital photos to Katrina, I would recommend this product to rework severely damaged photos.
 Below expectations January 18, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
I will not comment on the tool's reliability, since I have not used it long enough, but I definitely was disappointed by the spin-up phase.
I installed the product on a Pentium 4, 2.53 GHz, 1 GB RAM running Win2K SP4 with plenty of disk space (tens of Gigabytes). In the Installer's Minimum System Requirements window there is no information about the required disk space, but later in the installation process the "Required" disk space column shows values that differ from the reality shown by Windows by the factor of 10 for every disk drive (I have 3).
Actually used disk space after installation on drive "D" - 830 MB.
When I launhed the application, I don't see any tool tips. Help does not have any references to them either. This makes a novice VERY uncomfortable: I have used many complex graphical tools, but I have no idea what here some icons mean. Now I am stuck either learning by reading, or by trial-and-error.
Amazing Power for the Price! January 17, 2008
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I have children 14, 11, and 9, and I was looking for software that would appeal to their creative side. I am a fairly sophisticated software user, and used to do some programming myself, but had never really ventured into these type of painting/art programs.
Bottom Line: I was blown away by this program, totally impressed!!
Why?
#1 It's easy to use out of the box--- many of the controls are easy enough to figure out just by using them, it installs easy on both Mac and PC systems (I installed the program on both an old eMac and a low end Vista laptop successfully).
#2 It's really powerful--- once you really get into the software, it's amazing all the different brushes and textures and effects that you can do to make really impressive art.
#3 The tutorials are first rate--- A thick instruction manual that actually is well written, and actually teaches you about basic principles of art and painting. There are also a whole series of video tutorials included free. You can tell that a lot of hard work and frankly a lot of love went into this, which is a rarity for computer software these days.
#4 It's a great value--- For all you get, the price is very reasonable. And check the company's website, if you're still not sold they were at the time of this writing offering a 60 day free downloadable trial.
One more tip: Get even a low-price graphics tablet to go along with the software--- you'll be glad you did!
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