![]() ![]() Today, I’m excited to say that Painter is finally able to leverage the power of your GPU to improve brush speed dramatically. This has become especially noticeable as more and more art applications are able to utilize a computer’s GPU (video card) to significantly improve brush performance. Compared to other art apps, Painter can feel a bit sluggish at times. While it can be a benefit to paint with brushes that offer a more complex and organic look, the speed at which you can paint can suffer, especially while painting on large canvases. I’m drawn to Corel Painter because it offers one of the best and most robust digital painting experiences, but such power can be a double-edged sword. When I first discovered Corel Painter, around version 9, it quickly became my art software of choice and I have been using it ever since. Performance gains are hardware-dependent.Significant improvements to color selection.Easier to locate and make sense of advanced brush and tool controls.Some brushes can leverage your GPU to greatly increase performance for large brushes and large canvases.If you wish to use this content in any manner, you need written permission. This content was written by Diane Cipollo. Related Articles Editor's Picks Articles Top Ten Articles Previous Features Site MapĬontent copyright © 2022 by Diane Cipollo. Paint Shop Photo Pro, KPT Collection and Painter Essentials are registered trademarks of Corel Corporation. *Corel provided a review copy to me free of charge.Ĭorel material used by permission of Corel Corporation. Besides the filters that come with Painter Essentials, you also get the Corel KPT Collection of 24 Kai Power Tools plug-in filters. If you find Corel Painter and its high learning curve a little overwhelming, Painter Essentials might be a good place to start. You can also create art from scratch with Natural Media TM drawing and painting tools. With this software, you can turn any source image into a work of art with the Photo Painting filters and Smart Stroke R technology. With this new release of Paint Shop Photo Pro X3 Ultimate, you can discover your creativity with Corel Painter Essentials. The Project Creator makes sharing your photos online with Facebook, YouTube, Flickr R and email easy and you have several options for saving your projects in PDF, JPEG and Microsoft R Silverlight R format.Ĭorel KPT Collection and Corel Painter Essentials 4 Creating slideshows gets more exciting now that you can include HD video clips, soundtracks and professional-looking transitions. Starting from one of the stylish templates, you can create a photo book with customized text captions in a few clicks. The new Project Creator is your starting point for creating and sharing photo projects such as photo books, cards, calendars, collages and slideshows. Paint Shop Photo Pro's On-Image editing and enhanced text engine allow existing text to be reselected for editing and makes applying text to a path easier. Like the Smart Carver tool, the new Object Extractor also works like a paint brush and makes removing objects from their backgrounds very precise. Then it removes the object and corrects the horizontal and vertical aspect ratio. It works like a paint brush as you paint over the object you wish to remove. ![]() ![]() The new click-and-drag Sharpen and One-Step Noise Removal tools make corrections as easy as a click of your mouse.įor those of you who need to remove objects from photos without distorting the image, you will like the new Smart Carver TM. The new Color Balance, Color Vibrancy and Adjust Contrast/Brightness tools help you correct those common problems. The Local Tone Mapping tool makes it easy to enhance the details in your photos. This simple, intuitive interface has some new tools. I also like the enhanced Express Lab, a simplified version of the Full Editor, which loads with only the most common tools for image editing. This tool alone will save me a lot of time. With this batch processing tool in the Organizer, you can convert a group of RAW images into another image format. One new feature that I will be using a lot is the RAW image batch conversion. Another new feature that allows you to save editing steps for later use is the Camera RAW lab that opens from within the Full Editor workspace. With Multi-photo Editing, you can edit one photo, save the editing step sequence and apply the same process to other photos with the same issues. There are several new features to ease your workflow. You get all the new and enhanced features of X3 along with Corel KPT R Collection and Corel Painter TM Essentials 4. If you're a Paint Shop Photo R Pro fan and want to try some other Corel R software, the new Paint Shop Photo Pro X3 Ultimate is the way to go. ![]()
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