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Review: Painter Lite offers many of Corel Painter’s features for a fraction of the cost |
January 11, 2013
When I reviewed Corel Painter 12 last year, I enthused about how inspiring it is to use, and how it made me want to paint even though I have no artistic background (or talent, for that matter). That said, Painter 12 currently sells for $299, and that's a discounted price. That's no small sum of money if you just want to play around with some virtual paint. Enter Corel Painter Lite, a $69 version of Painter aimed at budding artists, hobbyists, and anyone who just enjoys painting.
On the surface, Painter Lite looks just like Painter: The sophisticated interface is still there, and you can tear tool dockers out and move them around. If you're using a pen tablet, you can calibrate Painter Lite for your own personal stroke style, just like you can with the full Painter.
Painter Lite’s welcome screen showcases a collection of art created with both Painter and Painter Lite, and makes it easy to get started.
A pen tablet, by the way, is something you really should get if you're serious about digital painting: You can use Corel Painter Lite with a mouse, but it feels a bit like trying to cook dinner with nothing but a spoon. When you use a pen tablet, Painter Lite reacts to your stroke pressure and the angle in which you're holding the pen, making for a natural painting experience.
The most important part of Painter is, of course, the paint brushes. Corel bundled no fewer than 97 different brushes with Painter Lite, including markers, airbrushes, watercolor brushes, special effect brushes, and many others. Notably missing are the Real Watercolor and Real Wet Oil brushes, two extremely realistic brush types that drip, dry, and blend in ways that impressed me when reviewing the full Painter 12. Still, the wide variety of bundled brushes makes it easy to create many different looks, from finely detailed pencil sketches all the way to large, expressive impasto creations.
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Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2024551/review-painter-lite-offers-many-of-corel-painter-s-features-for-a-fraction-of-the-cost.html
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