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Company: Corel Corporation

Price: $429

Rating:

Hot: Performance improvements;

Clone Tinting; Sidecar support

Not: AI painting won’t win art prizes yet!

Corel Painter

2021

Review by Erik Vlietinck

Better Optimization Algorithm,

New AI Styles

Tradition dictates Corel to release a new Painter upgrade

around August and sure enough, they were right on time with

Painter 2021. New in Painter 2021 are a new, optimized auto-

matic performance inspection and improvement algorithm,

Apple Touch Bar and Trackpad support on MacBook Pros,

Pencil tilt and Sidecar support on iPads, Clone Tinting, new

AI Style presets, and more.

As its predecessor did, Corel Painter 2021 takes advantage

of the latest developments in processor, GPU, and memory.

The performance optimization is more intuitive and offers

suggestions on how to upgrade system components, as well

as recommendations on which brush categories are most com-

patible with your computer.

What photographers will like most is Clone Tinting for

dynamically adding color and mixing it in with your clone

source. While painting with Clone Tinting enabled, you

can add the currently selected color, or a sampled color, to

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