Corel Painter X

Painter X is the latest version of Corel's popular painting and illustration software, and now works with Windows Vista. It contains the following features:

• Increased performance of up to 35% faster depending on hardware.
• New RealBristle Painting System heightens the responsiveness of the brush and can now faithfully replicate the sensation of the interaction between the paint, the canvas, and the brush.
• Divine Proportion tool to help visually arrange a blank canvas prior to sketching or painting.
• The Rule of Thirds will help professional photographers compose their photographs.
• New Workspace Manager allows you to easily customize and back up your workspaces as well as export them and share them.
• The Underpainting palette helps photographers create paintings from photographs and includes color schemes based on various artistic styles, such as Impressionist, Classical, Modern, Watercolor, Sketchbook, and Chalk Drawing.
• The Auto-Painting Palette transforms a photograph into a painting by automatically applying brushstrokes while intelligently changing stroke size and direction using new Smart Stroke technology.
• New Universal Mixer palette gives you better control over color blending between the Mixer palette and the canvas.
• Dodge and burn capabilities have been improved with the addition of two new image enhancement tools to the toolbox.
• With improved layer grouping and combining, and enhanced support for layer merge modes, artists can more efficiently work between Corel Painter X and Adobe Photoshop.
• Artists can use the entire Wacom product line—including the Cintiq 21 UX interactive pen display, the Intuos 3 pen tablet, and the Wacom 6D Art Pen.
• New Match Palette effect lets you match the color and intensity between two images.

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