![]() ![]() You may agree or disagree as to whether or not these points are really worth upgrading or purchasing a full version for. Enhanced Layer Workflow – More subtle tweaks to the Layers Panel to make life easier.NEW BRUSHES!!! – That’s right, more brushes!!! Who doesn’t want more brushes?!.Advanced Brush and Tool Controls – A new nugget of goodness along with some tweaks to your eraser, dodge, burn and clone tools.Color Selection – New features and tweaks to enhance the way you choose your colors.Improved Brush Selector – A more PhotoShop like preview of brushes.Interface Advancements – Corel Painter has consolidated a good number of its seemingly endless panels to make functions easier to access.Performance Optimization – Painter can now take advantage of more of your hardware to improve or speedup various aspects of Painter.Here are the main selling points that Corel wants us to focus on and that we’ll go over: I’m not pooping all over this year’s edition, but I would temper my enthusiasm until you have the opportunity to mess around with the demo. Well, that’s not going to happen this year. This is kinda important because we all inherently expect software publishers to give us new, game-changing features that will radically improve the way we work. Since I’ve eliminated those two issues, Corel Painter 2020 has been a much smoother experience.Įnough of my troubles! Let’s go into the review dammit! Selling Points for Corel Painter 2020 Recently, while working on my tribute to pro-wrestler Hana Kimura (It’s posted with my article on Perception and Choice, as well on Deviant Art.), I had discovered that I have had both a defective pen, which was the cause of my hovering issue and an old IBM usb mouse that was causing Painter 2020 to act buggy. I have to physically twist the nip within the pen to get it to behave. It has a common hovering issue while the pen is slightly lifted above the screen. I had to make adjustments to practically all of my software in order to gain some type of normalcy when painting or drawing. As much as I like that tablet, it has given me significance amounts of grief. I believe one of the reasons why my experience with Corel Painter 2020 has been a painful experience has to do with my new Huion display tablet. So my time demoing Corel Painter 2020has been a rollercoaster ride that tends to get stuck at the top of one of the large loops. (Or maybe that’s just an overreaction.) This due to my life-time devotion to Painter. I've only had the briefest encounter with CSP so don't have anything to say about it.This review of Corel Painter 2020 may end up giving me emotional grief. I'll be honest and say it annoys me, but they do work fine. It's when you get into things in dialog boxes that aren't updated yet. All the day-to-day regular use UI is totally modern. I've never felt the need to buy or download extras unlike in Photoshop where the out-of-the-box experience is meager.Ĭorel's been improving the UI for years. I will also say that it's worth more than $50 for someone looking to get an art store's worth of traditional medium feeling brushes. I'd say this is the single biggest disadvantage. I'll say I'm not a huge fan of Corel pricing and have only updated once in 3 years. This may or may not be a good thing for you, but it's probably why some people think it's too complicated. There are multiple brush engines in Corel Painter depending on the medium with different settings for each. It's just a matter of what the program is geared more towards. But don't take this to mean that you can't or shouldn't work with layers and blending modes in Painter like any other program. If you're the type that subscribes to the philosophy that achieving painterly looks in digital is about following closer to traditional techniques then Painter rewards that - especially with it's highest fidelity natural media simulations. If you're a person who needs to tweak every stroke endlessly then be aware that beyond layers and simple masking there's not a lot of support. This also means that Painter hasn't invested in non-destructive workflow features like adjustment layers found in something like PS. If you're into more of a painterly look then it's definitely worth considering. If you're doing more comics style and colouring then Painter probably doesn't have any advantage vs anything else. Corel Painter user for 10 years, but also use Photoshop.
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