Corel Painter 11 is the latest release of Corel's advanced digital art studio software. By providing the drawing and painting technology, Painter 11 allows artists to pursue their creative endeavors in totally new and inspiring ways.
Corel Painter 11 is aimed at five major groups of users. First are commercial designers who require the tools to create their visions for architecture, graphic design, and illustration. Next are concept artists who need tools to speed their production time as well as have the ability to create astounding scenes for animation, movie, and video games. Photographers have, in recent years, begun using Corel Painter to explore new avenues for creative work, and generate additional revenue. Then there are the fine artists who use digital as "just another medium" within the world of fine art. Finally there are students and teachers of art or design who want the ability to learn their craft without the cost, mess, and chemicals associated with traditional art supplies.
New in Painter 11:
- 40 hard media variants in several categories for drawing and sketching.
- Hard media customization to fine-tune dab profiles, size, transition range, stroke width, and tilt.
- Rendering markers which utilize tablet tilt and build up color as additional strokes are applied.
- A redesigned color palette which is now resizable and with improved controls including keyboard color selection.
- Redesigned mixer palette which is resizable, shows more color swatches, and has a background designed for better color mixing.
- Velocity and tilt control for pen tablet users.
- Improved color management.
- Improved selections tools for more control over selections. Selections more closely mimic Photoshop behavior. There is also a new polygonal selection tool.
- New Transform tool which combines all transform modes and works more like Photoshop transformation.
