Features: 10/10
Ease of use: 9/10
Quality of results: 10/10
Value for money: 8/10VERDICT
FINAL SCORE: 9/10
actual act of sculpting on paper. This is something
that Photoshop can’t closely replicate, along with the
new Dynamic Speckle tool, which makes it even
easier to create Natural-Media brushstrokes and 131
new brushes.
Painter stands alone from Photoshop with its
unique brushes, but its blending options also set it
apart from the competition. There’s the option to use
blender brushes, such as just adding more water to
your picture, as well as a Gel layer style and
Perhaps the most obvious advantage of Painter is that it feels
closer to real media than almost any other package
A fantastic program to use with
Photoshop, Painter offers things
that few can, which makes it
worth the priceWatercolor and Liquid Ink layer types to produce
even more realism in your pictures. Though it’s not a
case of ease-of-use, Painter feels freer and therefore
more fun to use.
The best thing about Painter though is how it can
be used with Photoshop. Photoshop integration
makes it easy to stretch interconnectivity across the
two platforms and Painter can now use Photoshop
brushes. This is as much a companion to Photoshop
as it is a competitor.PHOTOSHOP INTEGRATION
WHY CHOOSE COREL PAINTER WITH PHOTOSHOP?01
CREATE IN PAINTER
Corel Painter is the perfect program to start
your project. It makes it easy to make preliminary
sketches and it’s great for digital art: but why not use
its vast array of real media brushes for applying cool
effects to your pictures? Here, we’ve used a Doppled
paintbrush to create a metal effect over the wood.03
FINALISE IN PHOTOSHOP
Once you’ve created your picture in Corel
Painter, the best place to make any finishing
touches in Photoshop, using filters such as High
Pass along with adjustment layers. By saving to
PSD, you can edit non-destructively and even take
your project back to Painter for other edits.02
SAVE AS PSD
As well as obviously being able to save to a
JPEG, Corel Painter has a plethora of other file
formats that you can save your work to, including a
PC paintbrush for use in your projects. As well as
this though, you can save to PSD to save your layers
and edit in Photoshop later.