Corel Painter Essentials 7 | Digital Art Suite | Amazon Exclusive Includes Free PhotoMirage Express Valued at $49 [PC/Mac Disc] [Old Version]

This program constantly pops up ads on my computer screen, even when the program is not running. It is ridiculous to pay for a software, then have ads install on my PC for it.

This is the first digital painting software Ive ever attempted to use. As a novice, I can say that Corel makes a good product thats relatively easy to pick up on. Yes, theres a learning curve, but its not nearly as severe as something like Photoshop.

Painter Essentials installed effortlessly on my six year old desktop running the latest Windows 10 software. I knew nothing about the program but it comes with a number of tutorials that are quite good. The tutorials give general overviews but also more in-depth specific activities. Painter Essentials 7 lives up to what the Amazon website says and deserves 5 stars.

good software

If you show a product as being able to do something in your advertisement video and it does NOT WORK on the program..... you really shouldnt be in business. And thats sad because Painter has always been my favourite drawing program. I tried contacting Corel to no avail. Painter 7 is missing functions that it shows in the video. Get it together Corel.

Returned.

This software is great for a range of skills - from someone just getting started with digital painting through more experienced painters. Installation is quick and painless, and if you dont have a CD drive it can be downloaded and then you enter the serial codes included in the box to activate.

I have worked with a variety of releases of the Painter program and my daughter had gotten to the age when she wanted to do graphics too. This daughter has artistic talent and she loves to be creative.

I bought this Corel Painter Essentials 7 particularly because it also was sold as coming with the bonus package of PhotoMirage. The product description states, Get PhotoMirage Express with this Amazon Exclusive. Transform any image or art into an animation in minutes, and, Corel Painter Essentials 7 | Digital Art Suite | Amazon Exclusive Includes Free PhotoMirage Express Valued at $49. Therefore, I did not get what I paid for.

I think this is a fine entry-level program for the non-artist or the artist new to digital painting. I am not an artist but play with simple graphics for my own amusement. I had tried at least one previous iteration of Painter and was quickly overwhelmed with the options. This version gets around that by limiting the options and permitted user variations. The most noticeable of that being that users cannot tweak the settings to create their own brushes and then save that brush for later use. A professional artist might find that a limitation but for a casual user like me that is really not an issue, given the huge--HUGE--number of preprogrammed brushes. For those who dont anticipate creating original art but do want to enhance or just plain play with existing images, there is Auto-Paint, which lets you take any picture and convert it into styles suggestive of classical techniques: from Smooth Acrylic to Pastel to French Impressionist to Van Gogh. The program supports Layers, a Tracing function, a Text tool and, of course, painting from scratch. Overall, Painter Essentials is a non-intimidating introduction to painting software for the novice and, compared to expensive fully-featured packages, a fair value.