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The Astropad people are determined to add features for artists that will complete with dedicated tablets.
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Astropad is branching out and developing tools for Windows as well. There’s also an interesting startup called Astropad, which has created an application that enables iPads to be used as tablets.
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(Source: JPR)Įssentials have Wacom tablet support and Corel strongly encourages users to adopt drawing tablets to be able to draw more freely on the computer.įor those not quite ready to commit to a high-end tablet, by the way, Apple has released its Sidecar feature, which enables Mac users to use an iPad as a tablet. You can see how a tool like this could be used to create a nice banner ad in a few seconds. London sunset created with Corel Essentials 7 auto-paint tool. Truthfully, this seems like an odd feature but for all, I know there’s a cult of mandala makers out there. Corel has also added mirror painting for automatic symmetry while drawing and a Kaleidoscope tool to create mandalas automatically or manually. It has enabled customers to combine AI styles with other features of Essentials like Image Hose and effects. Painter Essentials’ tools include Natural Media tools that behave like real-life paints, chalks, watercolors, etc.Ĭorel has added more brush customization control to Painter Essentials and it has added more control over digital watercolor. After transforming a few photos, many users will be encouraged to start enhancing their photos and creating original works. The best part of Essentials is that it provides the new user with an easy path to success. The Auto-Paint tool isn’t fast, but you can select an image, select a paint style, and let it go and the program automatically goes to the tools that allow the user to roll back the effects and pick up the underlying details for the source photo.

Users can combine paint and photo elements with brushes and cloning tools. They can combine paint styles, stop the process, or use a brush to roll back some of the effects and bring out details. It is a pretty common parlor trick these days, but Painter and Painter Essentials gives users control over the process. With the advent of new AI tools, Corel has added the ability to transform pixels in an image into paint strokes that imitate famous painters or styles. The developers recognized that what most Essentials users are going to want to do is to create a painting from a photograph so the program opens to that feature letting new users try out the Auto-Paint feature.

The new Painter Essentials 7 cuts straight to the chase. Painter Essentials is Corel’s gift to people who like the idea of creating paintings from their photos, embellishing their photos, or combining digital paint and photographic elements but who are daunted by the complexity of imaging tools.
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Most recently, Corel released an update Painter Essentials. In the summer of 2019, Corel released its latest update of Painter, with AI features and added support for modern computers with GPUs and multiple cores. It released the ParticleShop utility which enables Painter’s powerful brushes to be used within Corel’s other imaging tools such as Paintshop Pro, and also Adobe’s tools Lightroom and Photoshop. In 2017, Corel decided to capitalize on the popularity of Painter’s capabilities and effects. Corel’s CAD products have Mac versions as well. As a primarily Windows-centric tool, Painter gave Corel an important product on the Mac and it inspired the company to port its flagship CorelDraw to the Mac. Corel acquired Painter in 2001 and has continued to develop the product.
