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Powerful Natural-Media Painting and Illustration Software

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Corel Painter IX features unique digital brushes, art materials and textures that mirror the look and feel of their traditional counterparts. The newest version of Corel Painter takes digital design to unprecedented levels with the revolutionary Artists' Oils Painting System, Snap-to-Path Painting, Quick Clone for photographers, and brushes that perform up to 10 times faster than in previous versions. Corel Painter enables some of the world's most accomplished creative professionals - including commercial designers, artists and photographers - to extend their natural talents and techniques to create original works of breathtaking digital art.


Includes

The Corel Painter IX CD includes the following: Corel Painter IX, both Mac and Windows versions; libraries of unique gradients, nozzles, patterns, stock photos, paper textures, and brushes, including the new Artists' Oils brush category; the User Guide in electronic (PDF) format; and access to selected free lynda.com training video content.

The Corel Painter IX Handbook is a unique full-color, spiral-bound guide to Corel Painter IX, executive edited by Cher Pendarvis, author of the Painter WOW! book series. The Corel Painter IX Handbook includes: a foreword by Painter pioneer John Derry; a Painter history, with contributions from Painter founders Mark Zimmer and Tom Hedges; Getting Started information, including an illustrated guide to Corel Painter IX brushes; and professionally crafted tutorials written by Jeremy Sutton, Cher Pendarvis, Don Seegmiller, Chris Welch, John Dismukes, Joyce Ryan, Andrew Jones, Chet Phillips, and Ryan Church.


New Features

Corel Painter IX adds a range of tools and features that increase performance, fuel creativity and further extend compatibility with other industry-standard tools and applications. With improved Help features, tutorials by world-class digital artists and free access to selected lynda.com training videos, getting started with Corel Painter IX is easier than ever.


Performance and Productivity
Increasing the overall speed, performance and stability of Corel Painter IX was Corel's top priority. Working closely with Apple, Intel and AMD, Corel engineers created improvements and efficiencies wherever possible. Corel Painter has never been a more efficient and powerful application.

Creativity
Corel Painter IX significantly narrows the gap between digital and natural media. An impressive array of new features provides unprecedented power to replicate natural media, and dazzling new effects offer more options than ever.

Compatibility
The ability to use Corel Painter in conjunction with other industry-standard software and hardware is greater than ever. New color-management enhancements enable printer colors to be reproduced more accurately on screen and in print. Extended support for Adobe® Photoshop® and Wacom® pen tablets streamlines a professional workflow.

Learning
With improved Help features, a revitalized User Guide, tutorials from leading graphics professionals, free access to selected training videos from lynda.com, and courseware specifically designed for educators, getting started with Corel Painter IX has never been easier!

Product Features

Favorite Features
If you're a long-time Corel® Painter user, you can continue to enjoy the favorite features that have been the cornerstones of the application for years. Whether you're a commercial designer, artist or photographer, the following features let you leverage your natural talents and techniques to create original works of art, and they distinguish Corel Painter from other applications.

Brushes
Brushes are the heart and soul of Corel® Painter™ IX. There are more than 30 brush categories, ranging from crayons, chalk and charcoal to acrylics, watercolor, artists' oils and liquid ink. While most brush categories mirror the look and feel of traditional brushes, others offer a one-of-a-kind creative tool. Brush Control palettes provide quick, easy access to the settings for every brush control. Brushes are organized into distinct categories, each featuring a multitude of variants.

Oil
Oil brushes produce the effects expected from oil paints. All brush variants in this category cover underlying brush strokes, many are capable of multicolored strokes, and others interact with underlying pixels to create realistic effects.

Watercolor
Watercolor brush variants produce natural-looking watercolor effects. Almost all brush variants in the Watercolor category interact with the canvas texture. For most of these variants, stylus pressure affects the width of the brush stroke. As with traditional-media watercolor brushes, increased pressure widens a brush stroke and reduced pressure narrows a stroke.

Cloners
Painting with a cloner brush is similar to painting with any Corel Painter brush, except that cloner brush variants take their color information from a clone source, such as a pattern or another image, instead of from the Colors palette. Some cloner brush variants reproduce a source image directly. Other cloner brush variants reproduce a source image with low opacity and soft edges, or they use paper grain and specialized dabs for particular media effects.

Brush Creator
Corel Painter IX offers a large and varied brush collection. In addition, you can customize your brushes. Brush Creator allows you to create custom brushes by providing three flexible options for designing a brush: a) randomly modify an existing brush, b) combine the characteristics of two brushes, or c) create a custom brush from scratch.

Papers
In the real world, an artist's brush or drawing tool produces different results when applied to surfaces with different textures. Corel Painter allows you to control the texture of the canvas to achieve the results you'd expect from natural media on a given surface. Brushes interact with paper grain, just as natural tools react with the texture of the surfaces beneath them.

Mixer Palette
Colors not found in the Color palette can be created from scratch in the Mixer palette. This innovative feature includes tools, such as a brush and palette knife, designed specifically for painting and color mixing. With an Artists' Oils brush, you can sample and use multiple colors in the same brush stroke.

Animation
Corel Painter has an impressive array of animation features. The Onion Skinning feature allows you to view previous and future frames while working on the current frame. The Rotoscoping feature enables you to paint and modify a single frame of an existing movie. Animated movies can be saved as animated GIFs, QuickTime® movies or AVI movies.

Scripting
Scripts allow actions to be recorded and played back, saving you time when performing the same operation on a collection of images. Scripts can be played back at any resolution, allowing you to automatically re-create high-resolution output from scripts recorded at low resolution. Scripts are also a great educational resource. Viewing a script of an artist's image-creation process is like looking through the artist's eyes.

Support for Industry-standard File Formats
Corel Painter IX lets you open and save Adobe® Photoshop® (PSD), TIFF (CMYK and RGB), Windows® Bitmap (BMP), PC Paintbrush (PCX), TARGA® (TGA), GIF, JPEG, Mac PICT, QuickTime (MOV), and Video for Windows (AVI) files. In addition, you can import and export Adobe® Illustrator® (AI) files. You can also save files in encapsulated PostScript® (EPS) format.

Image Hose
The Image Hose behaves like a brush, but it sprays images instead of applying paint. You can also load your own image or select an image from the library included in the application.

Windows Requirements

• Windows 2000 or Windows XP (with latest service packs)
• Pentium II, 500 MHz or greater
• 128 MB RAM (256MB recommended)
• Mouse or tablet
• 24-bit color display
• 1024x768 or greater monitor resolution
• CD-ROM Drive
• 380MB of available hard disk space

Macintosh Requirements

• Mac OS X (version 10.2.8 or higher)
• Power Macintosh G3, 500 MHz or greater
• 128MB of RAM (256MB recommended)
• Mouse or tablet
• 24-bit color display
• 1,024x768 or greater monitor resolution
• CD-ROM Drive
• 395MB of available hard disk space