Overview

Setting the standard for digital painting and illustration software, Painter X introduces new composition tools, unparalleled performance and a new RealBristle™ Painting System that models traditional brushes like never before — right down to the individual bristles on the brush.
Choose from more than 30 brush categories, including Crayons, Chalk, Charcoal, Acrylics, Watercolor and the new RealBristle
Make on-the-fly changes to brush settings and variables
Control the texture of your canvas to achieve realistic results
Create animated movies and save them as animated GIFs, QuickTime® movies or AVI files

Features

• Corel Painter X offers a broad range of digital painting, sketching and illustration tools that inspire creativity, increase performance, and further extend file compatibility with other industry-standard tools and applications, such as Adobe® Photoshop®.
• Increased Performance
• Painter X is optimized to provide artists with the fastest version of Painter ever. Depending on system hardware, brushes perform up to 35% faster, while opening and saving files is up to 200% faster!
• New! RealBristle™ Painting System
• This new painting system heightens the responsiveness of the brushes and represents a major milestone for digital painting. You can now faithfully replicate the sensation and interaction between the paint, canvas and brush.
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• New! Composition Tools
• Divine Proportion and the Rule of Thirds help you visually arrange a blank canvas prior to sketching or painting. This is ideal for helping you create stunning compositions, whether you're painting from a blank canvas or cropping a photograph before transforming it into a painting.
• Widely used throughout history by artists, designers and architects, divine proportion is a ratio of approximately 3 to 5, which is generally recognized as aesthetically pleasing to the eye. Corel Painter X provides palette controls for the Divine Proportion composition tool, which let you adjust the orientation, size, angle of rotation, display colors, opacity and grid levels.
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• New! Workspace Manager
• Easily customize and back up your workspaces, as well as export and share them with friends and colleagues.
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• Enhanced! Photo-Painting System
• It's now easier than ever to create stunning paintings from photographs. Major improvements offer greater control when underpainting, and new SmartStroke™ technology uses brush strokes that dynamically adhere to the lines and contours in the original painting.
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• Enhanced! Underpainting
• This palette includes color schemes based on various artistic styles, such as Impressionist, Classical, Modern, Watercolor, Sketchbook and Chalk Drawing. You can also match your Underpainting palette to that of any open image.
• Enhanced! Auto-Painting Palette
• Automatically apply random paint strokes that vary in stroke type, direction and pressure. Choose the type of brush stroke and adjust the preset options to determine how the brush interacts with the canvas.
• New! SmartStroke™ Painting
• Create brush strokes that follow the lines and contours in your original photo. By enabling Smart Strokes, you can dynamically change brush size, stroke length and pressure, based on the detail and focal areas of your original photo.
• New! Universal Mixer Palette
• For multicolor selection, this palette gives you better control over color blending between the Mixer palette and the canvas.
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• Enhanced! Dodge and Burn Tools
• These new image enhancement tools make it easier than ever to prepare your photos for paintings. The Dodge tool lets you lighten, or overexpose, specific areas of an image. Conversely, the Burn tool lets you darken, or underexpose, specific areas of an image.
• Enhanced! Adobe® Photoshop® Support
• Maintain layers when transferring files between Corel Painter X and Adobe Photoshop. Improved layer grouping and combining, and enhanced support for layer merge modes, help you work more efficiently.
• Enhanced! Wacom® Support
• Use the entire Wacom product line with Corel Painter X, including the Cintiq® 21 UX interactive pen display, the Intuos®3 pen tablet and the Wacom® 6D Art Pen.
• New! Match Palette Effect
• Match the color and intensity between 2 images. Just open an image that features your desired color scheme and use the Match Palette effect to bring that color to the image you want to change.

System Requirements

• Mac OS X (version 10.3.9 or higher with latest revision applied)
• Macintosh® computer with a 700 MHz or faster Power PC® G4, Power PC G5 or Intel® processor
• 256 MB of RAM (512 MB recommended)
• Mouse or tablet
• 24-bit color display
• 1024 × 768 screen resolution
• 280 MB hard disk space
• CD-ROM drive